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occupation at marriage 1918
« on: Sunday 27 October 24 08:20 GMT (UK) »
The groom was born in Keighley but married in Portsmouth in 1918 - was he a captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery?  Don't think he would be a captain....does the RGA stand for anything else?

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Re: occupation at marriage 1918
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 27 October 24 08:22 GMT (UK) »
Corporal  :-\
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Re: occupation at marriage 1918
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 27 October 24 08:32 GMT (UK) »
I did wonder corporal but kept seeing that final letter as an i.

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Re: occupation at marriage 1918
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 27 October 24 08:35 GMT (UK) »
Corporal, Royal Garrison Artillery, I think.

The Royal Garrison Artillery was part of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the Royal Field Artillery & the Royal Horse Artillery.

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Re: occupation at marriage 1918
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 27 October 24 08:36 GMT (UK) »
Just looked up RGA and they also used the term Bombardier, doesn't help though.

So we are going with a really badly written corporal, I think.

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Re: occupation at marriage 1918
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 27 October 24 08:47 GMT (UK) »
Definitely Corporal, you only have to compare the o with the a in bachelor.
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: occupation at marriage 1918
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 27 October 24 09:15 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: chempat on Sunday 27 October 24 08:32 GMT (UK)
I did wonder corporal but kept seeing that final letter as an i.

What you're seeing as a letter i is actually a colon : (indicating an abbreviated word).

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Re: occupation at marriage 1918
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 27 October 24 09:40 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Bookbox on Sunday 27 October 24 09:15 GMT (UK)
Quote from: chempat on Sunday 27 October 24 08:32 GMT (UK)
I did wonder corporal but kept seeing that final letter as an i.

What you're seeing as a letter i is actually a colon : (indicating an abbreviated word).

Thank-you.  (Why bother for 3 or so letters...)

Added: But the abbreviation is of the 'ora' so strictly should come before the l - or am I still mis-reading it?
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