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Offline Danibagz

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Re: Captain mystery
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 11 November 25 16:13 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for your time on this everyone, it's been driving my dad and me potty 😂

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Re: Captain mystery
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 11 November 25 16:26 GMT (UK) »
The Surrey History Centre holds some documentation on the Queen's Own (West Surrey) Regiment. Might be worth a call.

You can obtain his service record from the MOD but be prepared for a lengthy wait.

Without knowing which battalion he served with  I can't say much about his war. If he was with the 1st or 2nd Battalions he would have spent most of his time in India and Burma. The TA battalions were in North Africa and Italy.

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Re: Captain mystery
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 11 November 25 16:31 GMT (UK) »
Given his age at the start of the Second World War (48) I think it unlikely that he would have been given a platoon to command. It is more likely that he would have had a training or administrative role, possibly as a quartermaster or motor transport Officer (MTO).

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Re: Captain mystery
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 12 November 25 13:14 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Danibagz on Tuesday 11 November 25 13:47 GMT (UK)

He was a grenadier guard in ww1 (reg no 15650)
Danielle

So, do you have his Great War service record? As I understand it, the records of the Guard regiments were separate from those of regular regiments, and have therefore all survived.

Junior officers suffered the highest army casualty rate during WWI. I believe I once read that regular soldiers of the Grenadier Guards were favored as replacements.
BRENNANx2 Davidstown&Taghmon,Ballybrennan; COOPER St.Helens;CREAN Raheennaskeagh&Ballywalter;COSGRAVE Castlebridge?;CULLEN Lady's Island;CULLETON Forth Commons;CURRAN Hillbrook, Wic;DOYLE Clonee&Tombrack;FOX Knockbrandon; FURLONG Moortown;HAYESx2 Walsheslough&Wex;McGILL Litter;MORRIS Forth Commons;PIERCE Ladys Island;POTTS Bennettstown;REDMOND Gerry; ROCHEx2 Wex; ROCHFORD Ballysampson&Ballyhit;SHERIDAN Moneydurtlow; SINNOTT Wex;SMYTH Gerry&Oulart;WALSH Kilrane&Wex; WHITE Tagoat area

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Re: Captain mystery
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 12 November 25 20:40 GMT (UK) »
Wex, as I noted earlier, nothing turns up for David S[tanley] Jones with the number 15650.  As far as I am aware the records retained by the Grenadier Guards have all been transferred to TNA and have been indexed although not necessarily digitised. However nothing comes up on Discovery for any of the permutations of David / Stanley / Jones or the number 15650 in WO437 (the Gren Gds muster books). The actual service records of former Guardsmen form part of the large tranche of documents sent to TNA as part of the MOD transfer, and have not yet been accessioned.

I'm not entirely sure where the OP found that number for his great great grandfather so it's hard to advise on where else to look. It may be easier to get his WW2 record with the Queen's Own West Surreys, and work back from there.

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