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middlesex regiment 19th Battalion
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Libby22 | Report | 24 Feb 2009 00:22 |
According to this site there is/was a surname Calashaw. |
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Lesley | Report | 23 Feb 2009 15:07 |
Hi Pamela , |
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Nannylicious | Report | 22 Feb 2009 01:14 |
My grandfather came from Edmonton (Middlesex) and so I fully expected him to have joined the Middlesex Regiment. However, I found his records in the Durham Light Infantry. The reason for this distribution of men out of their local area was after the terrible losses during the first 2 years of WW1 when whole towns and villages lost all of their menfolk as casualties of a particular battle. To avoid this happening again, men from a particular town were sent to join several regiments in other parts of the country. As different regiments fought in different places in France, the losses did not impact quite so badly on any one town/village in England. Having said that, thousands and thousands still lost their lives. |
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Nannylicious | Report | 22 Feb 2009 01:11 |
My grandfather came from Edmonton (Middlesex) and so I fully expected him to have joined the Middlesex Regiment. However, I found his records in the Durham Light Infantry. The reason for this distribution of men out of their local area was after the terrible losses during the first 2 years of WW1 when whole towns and villages lost all of their menfolk as casualties of a particular battle. To avoid this happening again, men from a particular town were sent to join several regiments in other parts of the country. As different regiments fought in different places in France, the losses did not impact quite so badly on any one town/village in England. Having said that, thousands and thousands still lost their lives. |
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Lesley | Report | 19 Feb 2009 19:25 |
yes I have tried ancestry . |
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Heather | Report | 18 Feb 2009 21:29 |
Sorry, I meant pension records. But there are so many Charles Waltons my eyes arent up to it :) |
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mgnv | Report | 18 Feb 2009 21:28 |
Heather - Ancestry's only done A-N of the surviving WW1 service records, so Walton'll not be there yet. |
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Heather | Report | 18 Feb 2009 21:20 |
Have you looked for service or pension records on ancestry? Shame its such a common name. Where did you get his regiment from? His marriage cert? |
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Lesley | Report | 18 Feb 2009 13:02 |
Hi |
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Heather | Report | 18 Feb 2009 12:45 |
Are you talking about WW1? Can you give more details, when was he born/where, who did he marry? |
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Lesley | Report | 18 Feb 2009 12:42 |
Hi |