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Re: Whereabouts of Robert SHERWOOD in 1939 Register
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 25 March 21 17:41 GMT (UK) »
Hi Keith

I wonder whether Robert was in the Young household:

67 Gates Green Road, Beckenham, Kent

When I last looked at the 1939 Register there were three redacted entries for this address.  I had assumed they were the two young daughters (both deceased) of the Youngs plus another who is still alive and whose mother was also present in the household.  I will ask the living relative where they were living at the time.

Was Robert not still at school?  He would have turned 17 in February 1939.  Was he a boarder?

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Gaie

Added:  Again, when I last looked the entry for Ronald was redacted !  ;D
Sussex, Burwash/Somerset/South London: PANKHURST/FABLING/GREEN/KING/PARROT/POPE/PEMBROKE
Notts/Leics/London: POLLARD/BELAND/FELLS/MORRISON/MARYSON/CLARKE
Northants: MARRIOT/T
Suffolk: LINGLY/LINGLEY/LINDLY/LINDLEY/ SEAGER /SIGGER/SEGGAR/VINCE
Gloucs: WINDOW Glamorgan: JENKINS Cardiganshire: JONES
Poland: OZIEMKIEWICZ France: LINETTE

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Re: Whereabouts of Robert SHERWOOD in 1939 Register
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 25 March 21 21:29 GMT (UK) »
Hi again, Gaie!
Reading between the lines - and under the lines too - I think you probably have interesting info on that 1939 Register redacted entry in Beckenham.  Will PM you shortly...
Keith
RHCS apparently couldn't wait to get his call up papers once war had broken out, so could have been simply anywhere in the kingdom on the night of 29th September.

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Re: Whereabouts of Robert SHERWOOD in 1939 Register
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 25 March 21 21:53 GMT (UK) »
I see that Robert died in 2002

SHERWOOD, ROBERT  HAROLD CHARLES    1922 
GRO Reference:  DOR  Q3/2002 in KINGSTON UPON THAMES  (2401B)  Reg B75  Entry Number 100

but presumably you know that already.

He left a will.

I see he got a mention in The Gazette, in 1941 - left hand side.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35303/supplement/5852/data.pdf

Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Whereabouts of Robert SHERWOOD in 1939 Register
« Reply #21 on: Friday 26 March 21 00:38 GMT (UK) »
Girl Guide,
Thanks so much for looking all that up for me.  The date of his Officer's Commission with the Camerons was something I certainly did not know about, as being as early as this.  And at 19 years old, too, he'd done really well.  Maybe this is why within the regiment they referred to him affectionately as "Wee Bobby"...
Keith