GWF1967 Posted 19 January , 2023 Share Posted 19 January , 2023 23 minutes ago, charlie962 said: Because? #4817 should read # 48175. See the post by @Dave66above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 19 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2023 www.forces-war-records.co.uk/records You could be right I will keep that one open. Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Davies Posted 19 January , 2023 Share Posted 19 January , 2023 Father Thomas Skelly, Mother Elisabeth, brothers, William and James? Richard is listed as step son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 19 January , 2023 Share Posted 19 January , 2023 45 minutes ago, GWF1967 said: #4817 should read # 48175. See the post by @Dave66above. Understood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 19 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2023 4 minutes ago, Bob Davies said: Father Thomas Skelly, Mother Elisabeth, brothers, William and James? Richard is listed as step son. Yes that's him on the 1911 census info. Mother Elizabeth married Thomas Skelly when Richard was about 11years old. William and James were step brothers ,Thomas was his stepfather. His biological brother Henry was with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Aldershot at the 1911 census. Biological father unknown. Mother was probably a single parent. He has been challenging to decipher. Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Davies Posted 19 January , 2023 Share Posted 19 January , 2023 1 minute ago, BJB said: He has been challenging to decipher. Barbara Thanks for the reply, I am drawing a blanc at the moment, do you have a street address for him perhaps after the war and a date of death? Reason I ask is there are a number of Morrisons on Fold 3 pension records, non of which I can match him up to as yet. Regards, Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 19 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 19 January , 2023 2 minutes ago, Bob Davies said: Thanks for the reply, I am drawing a blanc at the moment, do you have a street address for him perhaps after the war and a date of death? Reason I ask is there are a number of Morrisons on Fold 3 pension records, non of which I can match him up to as yet. Regards, Bob. I have nothing on him after the 1911 census. His address at that time was rural Stiles, Antrim. there was no Irish census in 1921 (the "troubles") so he disappeared. The next address I have for his mother is 1930, 34 Wensley Street Belfast. She travelled to to Australia to visit her son Henry in 1930, returning in 1933 to the Wensley Street address. She died June 1935 in Belfast, same home address. There is a family story of him going to London and joining the merchant navy. No date and I have found no evidence of this. I have searched Cooke, his birth registry, Skelly his stepfather's name, and Morrison which he started using between 1901 and 1905. The family is convoluted. Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 22 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2023 Could this possibly be a Royal Marine Light Infantry uniform? Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Davies Posted 22 January , 2023 Share Posted 22 January , 2023 10 minutes ago, BJB said: Could this possibly be a Royal Marine Light Infantry uniform? That I do not know, have you found a likely candidate? Our learned friend @FROGSMILE will give us the best answer, though he has already suggested RGA . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 22 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2023 On 18/01/2023 at 14:09, FROGSMILE said: Many soldiers wore a variety of watch fobs during the war and it would depend upon the nature of his unit. If it were mixed, with men from diverse backgrounds, little attention would be paid as many wouldn’t know the significance of it. It would also depend upon the attitude of the officer commanding the unit and the policy he chose to exercise through his sergeant major. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 22 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2023 I have found a possible candidate in the 1921 census at the Simonstown Naval Base in Capetown SA. Then I found a military record, poor quality but right age, right birthplace, mother Elizabeth, enlisted 1914 in Belfast. Ticks a few boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6RRF Posted 22 January , 2023 Share Posted 22 January , 2023 25 minutes ago, BJB said: Could this possibly be a Royal Marine Light Infantry uniform? Barbara I'm open to be corrected, but that shoulder title looks more convincingly like RMLI rather than RGA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Davies Posted 22 January , 2023 Share Posted 22 January , 2023 (edited) 19 minutes ago, BJB said: I have found a possible candidate in the 1921 census at the Simonstown Naval Base in Capetown SA. Then I found a military record, poor quality but right age, right birthplace, mother Elizabeth, enlisted 1914 in Belfast. Ticks a few boxes. I had found a Richard Morrison, living at 51 Utility Street Belfast listed as R Marines service number 16832. Attached is a RMLI chap showing his shoulder title. Courtesy of 'Lives of the First World War' Edited 22 January , 2023 by Bob Davies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 22 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2023 9 minutes ago, Bob Davies said: I had found a Richard Morrison, living at 51 Utility Street Belfast listed as R Marines service number 16832. That’s the same reg # on the 2 documents I found. What was this document? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Davies Posted 22 January , 2023 Share Posted 22 January , 2023 1 minute ago, BJB said: That’s the same reg # on the 2 documents I found. What was this document? A pension record from 'Fold 3' via ancestry.co.uk Date of discharge is 10-1-24. That is all the details on there, other than a lot of official scrawlings which mean nothing to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 22 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2023 Thank you. that’s the same # and discharge date I have. I am having trouble finding that card but will follow through with the address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Davies Posted 22 January , 2023 Share Posted 22 January , 2023 28 minutes ago, BJB said: Thank you. that’s the same # and discharge date I have. I am having trouble finding that card but will follow through with the address. Courtesy of Ancestry/fold 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJB Posted 22 January , 2023 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2023 15 minutes ago, Bob Davies said: Courtesy of Ancestry/fold 3. Thank you Bob. I think the next step for me is chasing a SA marriage. A new area for me. But will wait for the uniform guru to offer his thoughts. Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 22 January , 2023 Share Posted 22 January , 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, 6RRF said: I'm open to be corrected, but that shoulder title looks more convincingly like RMLI rather than RGA It’s a distorted view of the title. It could be RMLI, hard to be 100% sure what it is. Edited 22 January , 2023 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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