Author Topic: Help with dates in service records (Read 909 times)

Emma-Jane · « **on:** Monday 19 October 15 10:50 BST (UK) »

Good Morning

I am trying to decipher what look like dates in service record entries for 1936. They may not be dates at all though... they may be something else, like entry numbers for some kind of records?

One entry has the date 12.8.35 with (80/35) in brackets underneath it. I can't figure out what it might mean. The date I am trying to pinpoint is written only as 105/36 for something I know happened in 1936 but not what exact date.

Any help much appreciated. The records are for the 17th/21st Lancers in India.

Many thanks

Emma-Jane (confused as always)

km1971 · « **Reply #1 on:** Monday 19 October 15 12:47 BST (UK) »

HI Emma-Jane

What is the title of the page with the entries?

105/36 could be 10th of May 1936.

Ken

ScouseBoy · « **Reply #2 on:** Monday 19 October 15 12:48 BST (UK) »

105/36. Could mean. 105 days

Emma-Jane · « **Reply #3 on:** Tuesday 20 October 15 08:15 BST (UK) »

Thank you for replying, both

The page it's on is the one listing next of kin and home and abroad service as well as marriages and birth of children.

The line reads:

"Appointed guardian Mrs E Thompson (17/21st PTO 105/36)"

There was nothing on the next page that might suggest PTO meant that...

A guardian would have been appointed as my grandmother died 22/9/1936 so I would think the guardian (her mother) would have been appointed shortly before her death.

Maybe it is a reference to some other document I don't have.

Oh well

thanks so much for looking at it

Emma-Jane

km1971 · « **Reply #4 on:** Tuesday 20 October 15 09:15 BST (UK) »

PTO may be Part Two Orders and 105/36 means it was number 105 of 1936. Just a guess. You need someone with a knowledge of post WW1 soldiering.

Ken

Emma-Jane · « **Reply #5 on:** Tuesday 20 October 15 11:58 BST (UK) »

Ahh that makes more sense. Thank you so much, Ken.

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