Jewsbury, Richard Harry. London Rifles/Royal Engineers

[sadbrewer]

Help if possible on my Grandmothers brother....Richard Harry Jewsbury. (Uncle Dick)

The family angle is well sorted but in the absence of a military record we just have a long list of dates and locations without knowing why he might be there....or where and why he might have been inbetween. 

 b 25/9/1876 West Bromwich d 1965 Church Crookham.
In the early 1890's Richard was a boy copier for the Patents Office.
He was living at 45 Canterbury Road, Peckham.
1895 Risen to Clerk ( Abstractor Class)
1897 Feb 17th  he joined the Ist London Rifles. No. 4338.
1899 Oct 25th leaves and joins The Royal Engineers, as an Assistant Clerk.
1900 Directory shows him to be at the Clerical Establishment, War Office, London.
1902 Masonic Records show him to be in Hong Kong.
1910/11 Married to Janet Mary Kerr and living at Wellington Lanes Barracks, Aldershot. He is a Quartermaster Sgt.
1914 May 2nd joins Masonic Lodge in Bermuda as Sgt Major.
1915 June 1st, arrives in Glasgow from Bermuda.
1916 Army List as Superintending Clerk
His medal card shows him to be Warrant Officer 1st Class No 3943. Awarded only the British War Medal.
1919 Ist October...Masonic Lodge , Hong Kong, Warrant Officer 1st Class.
1921 May 21st arrives back in the UK.
1921/2 I did find a record of him being in Belfast...can't find it again.
1923 Barracks at Hertford.
1924 In his own house, Endwell, Atbara Lane, Church Crookham, Aldershot.
1939 Discharged from the Army with Service No 1850771 and becomes a civilian employee                of the Army.

1965 dies at home.

Any other information on him would be most appreciated...he became a member  of the Crookham Rifle Club, Crookham Operatic Society and The Crookham Volunteer Fire Brigade.
   One surprise we had was on being sent the attached photo that shows him wearing his Boxer Rebellion and India General Service medals.

 

Apologies photo out of order with the caption.

 

 

Edited 6 October , 2019 by sadbrewer

[Mark1959]

FWR have a few transcribed records putting an RH Jewsbury RE as a Superintending Clerk in Belfast in early April 1915. WO Class 1

1915 army list shows seniority date of 9/4/15.

 

If he did not leave the army until the late 1930s the MoD may still have his records.

Edited 7 October , 2019 by Mark1959

[sadbrewer]

On 07/10/2019 at 01:08, Mark1959 said:

FWR have a few transcribed records putting an RH Jewsbury RE as a Superintending Clerk in Belfast in early April 1915. WO Class 1

1915 army list shows seniority date of 9/4/15.

 

If he did not leave the army until the late 1930s the MoD may still have his records.

 

Many thanks for that Mark.

   Any ideas what the Engineers might have been sent to do in Hong Kong and Belfast?

[clk]

Hi,

 

On 07/10/2019 at 01:08, Mark1959 said:

If he did not leave the army until the late 1930s the MoD may still have his records.

 

Mark is right, the MoD do appear to have what's left of his service record.

 

There's some info on how to go about getting a copy here, and a helpdesk phone number here.

 

Regards

Chris