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Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« on: Saturday 02 July 16 14:40 BST (UK) »
Any help,please, finding my grandfather, George Henry Wood  living in Selby Yorkshire. I have this on his marriage cert in 1917." 397735 Sapper Royal Engineers Foreman on Railway" but I have been unable to find an army record for that number. Thank you.
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Re: Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 02 July 16 14:46 BST (UK) »
Roughly 70 percent of service Records were lost in a fire in WW2, so thus may well be the realm you are unable to find them. Alternatively, if he remained in the army after 1920 the records will still be held by the MOD.


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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 02 July 16 14:51 BST (UK) »
Did he survive the war do you know?

He possibly worked on the railways before the war
Nursall   ~    Buckinghamshire
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Re: Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 02 July 16 17:11 BST (UK) »
Thank you both, I know he fathered a child in 1920 but that's all.

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Re: Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 02 July 16 17:40 BST (UK) »
Do you know what year he was born? I have found 1 possible born 1899

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Re: Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 02 July 16 17:55 BST (UK) »
There's no MIC for him so didn't serve overseas.
Foreman on the railway must be what he did prior to joining.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 02 July 16 20:58 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jim1 on Saturday 02 July 16 17:55 BST (UK)
There's no MIC for him so didn't serve overseas.
Foreman on the railway must be what he did prior to joining.

They also maintained railways during WW1, to enable supplies to get through.

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 02 July 16 21:15 BST (UK) »
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They also maintained railways during WW1, to enable supplies to get through.
That would still be classed as service in a theatre of war so he would have qualified.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Help finding Sapper Royal Engineers
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 03 July 16 08:07 BST (UK) »
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397735 Sapper Royal Engineers


Might that be 197735? http://goo.gl/4fT3jq


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