ha-ha that's a good one Viktoria - I know exactly what you mean...you can't help the slight disappointment before the smile arrives when you discover these things. With my GGRandfather he was "A huge strapping bloke, over 6ft tall....." from family stories..but these army records have actually proved he was in fact 5ft 4 weighing 112lbs lol.
The best bit is that I was given a contact last year from someone on RC (Alan Gleaveson) who helps with WW1 records. I have asked him about this final letter I have from the army asking his whereabouts to his wife in 1919. Alan has just confirmed the letter was purely administrative as his file was never closed so the army needed to see if he was alive, dead, missing etc....so he wasn't actually serving in 1919 and after being discharged 3 times for the same reason, he would have NEVER served again after 1915 so all the stories about serving in Ireland are highly likely not to be true : )
Thanks for sharing your story - one day I hope to find a similar ending for my GGrandfather on my Mums side - he was always a policeman....but all records I have show him as a coal miner...but on his Daughters wedding cert he states policeman (He died 3years later and was a coal miner 5years prior).so maybe he wasn't a poiceman as we think?....ha ha
