Bushnell's of Berkshire

[otterlady]

My grandfather William was in the royal berkshire regiment but on the 30.11 .1918 got married in Builth Wells to my grandmother Gertrude Emma Weston who had no rank or profession on the marriage certificate she lived in glanirfon llanganten her father was a farm labourer, would she have been a land girl she originated from Gibraltar. Could any help give me any advice. Thanks

Sheila

[HeatherLynne]

Hi Sheila,   not sure what information you're looking for, can you be a bit more specific please?

Heather

[otterlady]

Hi Sorry wanted to know what the royal berkshire regiment was doing in builth wells at the end of the war, and would my grandmother been a land girl has she has no occupation on her marriage certificate and she was 28 and single when she got married.

[Vicwinann]

Hello,
If she was a land girl, it would most likely have said so on the marriage cert. What makes you think that she was?  Many country women worked as farm labs of one sort or another, (over 260,000 of them in 1917) but official WLA women were a tiny minority of those at that time.
If she was born in Gibraltar it sounds as if her father might have been a soldier at one time and had returned to his former occupation.
There are, however, several Gibraltars in the UK. Sounds as if she was among the great many young women of the time who were "at home". Have you found her or her father on censuses?  In 1911 she would have been 21.
As for what the Royal Berks Regiment might have been doing in Builth Wells, Powys? A question to that effect to the knowledgable on the Armed Forces board of this site might come up with an answer.
Actually, William Bushnell might simply have been on leave or hospitalised when he met your grandmother.
Yours
Vicwinann