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Is this possible
« on: Monday 25 November 13 00:27 GMT (UK) »
Woud some one of Russian birth who was only resident in Britain since 1900 be called up to the British Army in WW 1.
According to an oral statement (transcripted) made by a relative my Grandfather served during this time ? ???


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« Reply #1 on: Monday 25 November 13 03:28 GMT (UK) »
Had he maybe become naturalised some time between 1900 & 1915?

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« Reply #2 on: Monday 25 November 13 03:51 GMT (UK) »
May be he was a British Subject by birth, through his father being a British Subject ?

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Re: Is this possible
« Reply #3 on: Monday 25 November 13 09:12 GMT (UK) »
Are his war details on ancestry?  A lot aren't due to being destroyed in WW2 but it may have details in there

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« Reply #4 on: Monday 25 November 13 09:33 GMT (UK) »
Hi Maureen

Maybe he volunteered?

Have you checked The National Archives for a naturalisation record?

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Re: Is this possible
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 06:19 GMT (UK) »
Hi All,

His father was Russian as was he so nothing going on there.
1911 Census England states him as a Russian Resident.
I can't find naturalisation papers for him or a legal change of name.
Name was changed to BROWN along the way (I think this happened when they settled in Scotland  circa 1918 ) from BROHM/N.
Five children(born in Yorkshire) have a variation of BROMM on birth certs and two were born 1915 /1917.
So unless he wanted to get away for a while can't see him as volunteering.
So I am wondering if the bit about him in the Army is fiction.

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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 07:33 GMT (UK) »
Military Service Act 1916 may have caught up with him after 1917.....lots of Russian emigrants served in Labour Corps battalions.

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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 12:21 GMT (UK) »
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I have NOT found the written source but an elderly rellie says he was of the understanding that British Subject goes down paternal line for THREE generations so what was the GRandfather?   

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Re: Is this possible
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 12:40 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: majm on Tuesday 26 November 13 12:21 GMT (UK)
Hi

I have NOT found the written source but an elderly rellie says he was of the understanding that British Subject goes down paternal line for THREE generations so what was the GRandfather?   

Cheers JM

This was codified in various pieces of legislation of the time including the Naturalisation Act of 1870
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