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help needed- ww1 pensions records.

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:) still smiling :) Report 16 Jan 2008 11:26

My relative Frank Reginald Gannaway brn. soutwark 1895 was blinded in ww1 i wanted to find his pension record.

i have found one for a Reginald Gannaway brn 1898. however on the record it mentions degeneration of the eyesight.

on his brother sydneys pension record it gives his enlistment papers aswell with next of kin as his father. i can't find this for frank/reginald to confirm it is him.

is there anywhere else it would be? also i'd like people's opinions on whether they think this likely to be my frank with just middle name and different year of birth.

thanks for reading.x

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:) still smiling :) Report 16 Jan 2008 11:52

well their mother died in 1897 so in 1901 census the 5 children are in four different locations but the two youngest sydney and frank are together. all the children were born in London. its quite strange actually thier mother dies 1897, on 1901 census two youngest are with a Mary Gannaway in Southampton realtionship to head both as son. but i can find no remarriage for their father. (the only one to a maryi have ordered and it's not him)

i don't know why they would be so far apart. up until then i hhave only seen them together.

thanks for replying. :)

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 16 Jan 2008 11:52

One gives his father as next of kin and the other gives his mother.

Do you know the parents names.

Father of Sydney is given as Charles Henry.
Mother of Reginald is given as Ada.

Kath. x

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:) still smiling :) Report 16 Jan 2008 11:55

oh i couldn't see a next of kin on reginalds.

sydneys father is correct. mother should be emily. although emily died when they were children.

thanks kath. i don't think it can be him then.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 16 Jan 2008 12:02

Next of kin for Reginald is written in the left hand margin of image 1608, (about the sixth page).

Kath. x

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:) still smiling :) Report 16 Jan 2008 12:04

o yes found it thanks. obviously wasn't using my eyes. trouble is i KNOW he was injured and discharged in ww1. is there anywhere else i might find his records?

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 16 Jan 2008 12:05

There are these two births, so I think the army pension you found may be for the second one:-

Name: Frank Reginald Gannaway
Year of Registration: 1895
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: St Saviour Southwark
County: London, Surrey
Volume: 1d
Page: 60

and

Name: Reginald Bertram S Gannaway
Year of Registration: 1897
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Camberwell (1837-1919)
County: London, Surrey
Volume: 1d
Page: 956

Kath. x

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 16 Jan 2008 12:09

I can only think of the National Archives but I don't know what records they have.

Kath. x

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:) still smiling :) Report 16 Jan 2008 12:13

ok well thanks kath. will investigate a little more. thanks again. x