Any help with Fold3??

[Dazscuba]

Looking at a chap and he has something on Ancestry but when you try to open it it’s says it’s on FOLD3.  Does anybody have this and can they tell me what may be on there if anything please? Not asking for you to post an image.

Ancestry.co.uk

[ss002d6252]

It's a dependent pension claim by their mother.
 

Interestingly it shows two men (not seen that before) - Joseph, #13952, KIA 20/5/16 and Albert V, KIA 4/4/18.

 

Craig

[John(txic)]

I've got some good news and some bad news....

 

As it's on Fold 3 you will need to purchase an extension to your Ancestry subscription. 

 

The good news is that if you're a member of the Western front Association you have free access to these records as a benefit of membership.  (The WFA saved them from being destroyed)

[Dazscuba]

Craig, he had a brother that died in 1916 cheers

 

John, sorry not a member of WFA

[David Tattersfield]

17 hours ago, ss002d6252 said:

Interestingly it shows two men (not seen that before) - Joseph, #13952, KIA 20/5/16 and Albert V, KIA 4/4/18.

Just a slight tangent - the recording of more than one serviceman on a ledger is occasionally to be found. It will be in the 'dependents' cards where this will be seen when one mother (for example) has two or more sons who were killed and she is claiming a pension. Although I've not undertaken a scientific investigation, I've come across one ledger where there's a claim by Mrs McKenchie for her three sons (Alexander, Malcolm and John) who were killed in the war. 

 

Sorry to go 'off subject' in the reply but I thought it may be of interest. 

 

Dazscuba: hope you may join the WFA on the back of this resource. 

 

Regards

 

David

[Dazscuba]

David very interesting thank you 

 

Daz

[rolt968]

6 hours ago, David Tattersfield said:

Just a slight tangent - the recording of more than one serviceman on a ledger is occasionally to be found. It will be in the 'dependents' cards where this will be seen when one mother (for example) has two or more sons who were killed and she is claiming a pension. Although I've not undertaken a scientific investigation, I've come across one ledger where there's a claim by Mrs McKenchie for her three sons (Alexander, Malcolm and John) who were killed in the war. 

 

Sorry to go 'off subject' in the reply but I thought it may be of interest. 

 

Dazscuba: hope you may join the WFA on the back of this resource. 

 

Regards

 

David

Also apologies for also drifting off topic. You beat me to it David.

 

I found a dependent ledger entry for two brothers in my first set of searches. They are commemorated on a war memorial which also commemorates three brothers from another family. Nothing has turned up for the three brothers yet.

RM