nat roll of honour question

[westmorland]

Hi there,

regarding the national roll of honour, , if i was looking for a soldier who was born in Birkenhead liverpool, would i look for him in the liverpool roll, or the roll where he was living while he was serving, manchester, salford etc?


many thanks

[liverpool annie]

Hi  westmorland !

There isn't one for Liverpool I'm afraid ! .... but there is for Manchester 

What name are you looking for ?

Annie 

[westmorland]

hi Annie,

Thomas Dawson,

[liverpool annie]

Theres a T Dawson in the Machine Gun Corps - who came home ! ..... what else do you know about him ? maybe we could look somewhere else ! 

http://www.rootschat.com/links/053g/

Annie 

[failsafe]

As Annie said
he was a private in the Manchester Gun Corp and was gassed at the Somme in May 1918,
following which he was invalided back home to barracks where he stayed until he was demobbed. If this is the same T Dawson you were looking for he lived at 36 Stott St
Hulme, Manchester. He was awarded the Victory & General Service medals
have a good day
failsafe
 

[westmorland]

hi to you both. many thanks for that info. just wondered if he didn't serve abroad would his name not be in the roll?

he was born 1878, so he would have been about 36-7 years old, would that have been to old for the mgc?, he was born in liverpool but think he was living in manchester from about 1920 till he died in 1940.

he was in the 2nd cheshire regiment as a private in 1902, and i have a photo(which i have put on rootschat before to clean the picture up) of him in uniform and the collar badges are of the north staffordshire reg, and the uniform is ww1 and after 1908.

have checked the nat arc medal index for cheshire and north staff reg for thomas dawson. got 6 cheshire possibles and 1 north staffs and they all survived the war, not sure what i can really do next though.

cheers to you both

[westmorland]

hi, just been looking at his marriage certificate and it says that his wife at the time(1902) was living in hulme, so i suppose at some point he could have moved to hulme?

[failsafe]

It is more than probable that he may be the person you are looking for
particularly with the address on the marr. cert. If it is the same one he served abroad
France, Ypres, Polygonoweld, Arras and as I said the Somme.

If your not sure a check in the local newspaper of the day may prove useful.

But I think in all probability this is your man.
failsafe
 

[westmorland]

cheers for that, what i need to do now is find out who was living at that address at that time,

keeping my fingers crossed.

will get back to you on this one

many thanks