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Help please
« on: Sunday 03 May 20 00:32 BST (UK) »
Hi
Could someone please help decipher the regiment for Alexander Martin.

Many thanks

Maisie
Nicoll, Dundee
McGill, Ayrshire
Frew, Ayrshire
Wyllie, Ayrshire

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Re: Help please
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 03 May 20 00:52 BST (UK) »
The writing is lovely and neat, but some of the letters/words are not clear possibly due to the copying process.

Is this viewable online anywhere, so we can have a look to see if it is any clearer?

Can you tell us date, place and what document this is from, so we have a context, which might help in interpretation?

See how you go here first, but if no one can solve the puzzle, the experts in the armed forces boards might be able to work this out.

Added: I love your name. My beautiful golden retriever is called Maisie.  ;)

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Re: Help please
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 03 May 20 06:15 BST (UK) »
Best I can do:

...private Majors Company ^7th [E?]^ N.B.M. [?] Janet Harley...

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Re: Help please
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 03 May 20 06:21 BST (UK) »
Looks like it was from Scotlands People - Enlargement attached

Looks like 7 Reg N B M


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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 03 May 20 06:26 BST (UK) »
That is a lot clearer Kay.  :) I agree with 7th Regt

Can you work out what the bit after Janet Farley says?

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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 03 May 20 06:27 BST (UK) »
Looks like 7 Reg N B M

I agree, Kay.  The interlineation is probably 7th Regt

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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 03 May 20 06:30 BST (UK) »
Hopefully this is the later bit

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 03 May 20 06:31 BST (UK) »
Could the last be - in this parish??

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« Reply #8 on: Sunday 03 May 20 06:32 BST (UK) »
Sorry Horsley, I was fiddling around with superscripts on the iPad (which takes some time), and noticed you had posted while I was fiddling.  :)