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Identifying Uniform: Can Anybody Help?

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Sophie

Sophie Report 8 Jan 2008 16:52

Margaret

Ive checked Ancestry but with no key fact about which grandad he was or when and where he was born....its harder to find.....

Plus the photo taken is outside.....

Researching:
Woods, Davies, Green, Watts, Pratt, Tipping, Aldwin, Seaborne, Jones, Watkins, Quinn, Johnson, Greer, Welsh, Stevens, Kehoe, Ford, Pearce, Hazle, Godwin, Sarney, Read, Murphy, Leonard, etc Hillingdon Area, Middlesex, London, Liverpool, Ireland, Scotland (Dundee/Glasgow), Buckinghamshire

Mummy Bear

Mummy Bear Report 8 Jan 2008 17:41

Sophie

I'm still thinking about this ...

I've been back on TNA for his medal index card which the info we know - driver in artillery

there are now 7 William Watkins and another 7 with middle initial

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/search-results.asp?searchtype=browserefine&query=first_name%3dwilliam%7clast_name%3dwatkins%7ccorpname%3dartillery%7cscope%3ddriver&catid=10&pagenumber=1&querytype=1&mediaarray=*

and 12 William H Davies
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/search-results.asp?searchtype=browserefine&query=first_name%3dwilliam%20h%7clast_name%3ddavies%7ccorpname%3dartillery%7cscope%3ddriver&catid=10&pagenumber=1&querytype=1&mediaarray=*

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Sophie

Sophie Report 8 Jan 2008 17:44

Oo thanks Mummy Bear...Ill have a lil gander now... x

Researching:
Woods, Davies, Green, Watts, Pratt, Tipping, Aldwin, Seaborne, Jones, Watkins, Quinn, Johnson, Greer, Welsh, Stevens, Kehoe, Ford, Pearce, Hazle, Godwin, Sarney, Read, Murphy, Leonard, etc Hillingdon Area, Middlesex, London, Liverpool, Ireland, Scotland (Dundee/Glasgow), Buckinghamshire

Poirot

Poirot Report 8 Jan 2008 18:36

Sophie has already sent me the photograph and his buttons and cap badge have been touched up by someone using yellow paint ? or ink of some sort, making it impossible to identify his regiment.

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