Pleased to meet you Carol. Yes, the Borrills from Hull are related in some way and they have very similar names which often cause me confusion when searching for my line! The Hull Borrills suffered some losses in WW1 I think.
As you will see from this thread, the photo is causing me a few headaches but I do believe I will get there in the end, especially with the help of all of these very knowledgable folk on here.
What would be brilliant though, is if another Borrill descendant had their own copy of this photo passed down to them - but their's had the names written on it!
Geoff-E - nice work! You have solved three puzzles for me! One of the older Borrill daughters, Emma Jane Borrill b. 1875 married a Knaresborough man - James Henry Cooper in 1898. I was strugglng to find a link between her and the family in Louth but now that you have found her parents, William & Hannah, in Knaresborough, this is the missing link, as it were. Also, you have provided proof that William was still alive in 1911. Lastly, I always wondered how my g. grandmother, Florence Borrill (daughter of Will & Hannah) in Louth, met my g. grandfather, who was from Knaresborough. I think it's likely that she met him when visiting her sister in Knaresborough! You did well to find him with such a bad transcription error. `Bovill' indeed!
So well done and thank you.
Ady, on the WW1 section identified the soldier's uniform as 1st South Midland Brigade Royal Field Artillary. I've studied Roland Borrill's service records and he was certainly enlisted in that regiment. Before I rename my soldier though, I need to fathom out if his brothers were in the same regiment. I still have my heart set on this being John Thomas Borrill though because I am sure that the young girl is my g. grandmother, Florence and she was 16 yrs younger than Thomas but about five years older than Roland. So currently, I am studying the service records of Borrills who served in WW1. If only I could find service records for John Thomas apart from that single Attestation sheet. It woud surely list his army career and possibly tell me if he enlisted in the S. Midland RFA when he returned form Africa/Australia.
If a soldier had earned medals for his service in a foreign army, would he be allowed to wear them on the uniform of the regiment he'd joined in this country? Is it feasible that John T Borrill had come back from Africa and this was his WW1 enlistment photo?
