Middlesex Regiment: Arthur Parker

[Peter Hyde]

Hello
I have hit a brickwall.
Arthur Parker (no middle name on birth cert or marriage cert)
Born 18/aug/1900 Deptford
Photo of him in Middlesex Regiment uniform
Probable Medal card shows Regt No. 242833
No attestation or service record found.
Married 1919, widowed 1925 by which time he is apparently in the Merchant Navy
Any suggestions of where to look next would be appreciated

PeterH
South Australia

[PaulineJ]

So which way are you trying to take him?
What PARTICULAR records are you hoping to locate.

[Peter Hyde]

Hi Pauline
I would like to find any record of his service in the Middlesex Regiment - I assume his service record might have been burned in the blitz
Peter

[MaxD]

You may well be right about his record not surviving, it certainly doesn't seem to appear. 

The one for whom you find the medal card also has no service record.  All one can glean from that is that man served overseas with 1/8th Battalion Middlesex. Similar numbers suggest he entered service in early 1917.

A possible scenario is that your man didn't serve overseas.  Although the rules did get bent, he was only just 18 when the war ended, under the official age of 19 for overseas.  Thus he would have no medal card either.  The Middlesex had UK based two Graduated Battalions (for young soldiers) and one Young Soldiers Battalion (recruits).

MaxD

MaxD

[Peter Hyde]

Thanks Max - where on his medal card do you see that he was in the 1/8th Battalion?
Cheers
Peter

[MaxD]

Apologies I should have said medal roll rather than inferring card.

The hieroglyphics on the middle left of the card are the reference to his entry in the Middlesex Regiment roll, on Ancestry at:  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01nty/

MaxD