Genealogy Forum UK

Thanks Adrian, I've copied your notes and answers and will filter them through into their relevant places in my program, when I work out how they will best serve their purpose, and print out in context. May I just say, for a budding enthusiast you are very well informed, and generous, which I am tru...

Hi Adrian Thank you so much, it has been a great help. It's all starting to make sense now, and I can add some notes where the dates are a bit confusing. Do you mind if I use your notes until I'm sure I am recording it correctly? One last question, I promise, would the Reception Depot be based at Ca...

Hello Adrian Thank you for all the facts you have already given to me, and I do hope you can explain some of the service notes that aren't quite clear to me, hope you don't mind. I notice that John's date of enlistment is in May 1916, but not "mobilied" until 8 May 1918, does that mean he ...

Hi Cid, thank you for your reply, I'm so sorry that the information I provided is so convoluted, and hope this is a bit clearer. The William you found is my g.grandfather's brother, but while I was searching for him, I found another William who is listed on the War Memorial at Twechar, and recorded ...

Whilst researching my g.grandfather's brother William Clenaghan, 5286 Irish Guards, b. 1881, I stumbled upon a website honouring the men who had fallen and who were commemorated on War Memorials in the the Dunbartonshire area, which included details of a soldier, "William Clenaghan, Dorsets&quo...

Hello Adrian Thank you for explaining further, of course that makes perfect sense NOW, any death related to the influenza pandemic would have been notifiable to the health authorities, I had totally overlooked the doctor's role. Also for the Regiment Conduct Sheet, another thank you, I would probabl...

Hello Adrian Thank you so much for taking the time to provide this vast amount of information - wow! I am wondering if there is an element of truth regarding the AWOL story that has survived for 90 years, the comment does suggest the army locally were aware very quickly that John had died that day, ...

Hi I've just started to delve into my Irish roots and I'm having serious trouble locating a website where I can search all BMD records to find relatives. There are lots of English ones and a good Scottish one where you can search to get the volume and page numbers of the certificates but I can't fi...

Please find links/info to Rudyard Kipling's account of the Irish Guards in the Great War, two volumes, freely available to download. The 2nd volume also contains a list of all casualties of the conflicts between 1914-1918. (Note: The site requires you to create a free user account. To download, scr...

Hello Ron Thank you for your kind offer, and sorry for delay in getting back to the forum. John Clenaghan was born in 1883, in Lanarkshire, he was a Gunner in RGA 2nd Seige Battery, died July 1918. If it isn't too much trouble, could you also check for his brother William Clenaghan, born 1881, died ...

My great grandfather was in RGA, 2nd Siege Battery during WW1. Family lore is that he was absent without leave when he died at home in July 1918. He is recorded on the Roll of Honour at CWGC and Scottish National War (RGA) Memorial, on the War Memorial of his home town, and buried in a grave marked ...