British Army WW1 service records 1914-1920 with a signature dated July 1887?

[Keith_history_buff]

On 15/07/2022 at 21:36, Keith_history_buff said:

There is one implication here that very few people pick up on,

I would argue that the percentage of surviving WW1 records is lower than the figure that is often banded about. If you can come up with a good figure for the amount of "record sets" that have survived, the fact that they are not exclusively WW1 records will result in a lower record set count in respect of WW1 records.

[Keith_history_buff]

Within the WO 363 records, I came across the following:

Albert James Harbour enlisted on 12 February 1877 at the 39th Brigade depot. He was discharged on 12 June 1883 from the Gordon Highlanders. One more instance of a service record that does not pertain to 1914-18.