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« Reply #63 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 15:10 GMT (UK) »
My Mum was the D.E.H. May and on her birth cert is gives her name as Doris Elizabeth Hedges May
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« Reply #64 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 15:21 GMT (UK) »
My Mum was the D.E.H. May and on her birth cert is gives her name as Doris Elizabeth Hedges May
Does it mention on her BC her father occupation?
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« Reply #65 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 15:33 GMT (UK) »
Occupation Corporal 2nd West Riding Regiment
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« Reply #66 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 15:38 GMT (UK) »
What shame there is no regiment number, we can't find any army records for him in this regiment under any of his names

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« Reply #67 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 15:43 GMT (UK) »
He was stationed in Gibralter at one time as one of my Aunts not mentioned in previous message was born there her name was Alfreda and was born in 1923, my grandfather joined the prison service in 1928 first prison Wakefield, then Dartmoor, and ended up at Parkhurst IOW which is how my grandparents ended up there
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« Reply #68 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 16:00 GMT (UK) »
Hi

I have found your aunts birth record, can you confirm that she is no longer with us, before I post the details, as we not allowed to post anything  on living people.
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« Reply #69 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 16:02 GMT (UK) »
Yes she died in the 1980's I think, have sent for that  Civil Service Evidence of Age not sure what it will tell us but hopefully something interesting
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« Reply #70 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 16:13 GMT (UK) »
Alfreda E H
b 1923
Station Bostandjik
Country Unknown
Page 615
GRO Army Births Indices (1881-1965)

I have a not got a clue where Bostandjik is, I googled it, and it mention something about a cemetery in Turkey??????????
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« Reply #71 on: Tuesday 06 March 12 16:16 GMT (UK) »
I know that my grandfather was definetly on Gibralter, as my Mum used to talk about living there and as far as I knew Alfreda was born while they were there
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