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john burnett
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife
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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:15 am Post subject: Service Numbers |
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Can you tell from a service number when a person joined the Army?
I am looking into 2 men
1) 4th Battalion Royal Scots Queen's Edinburgh Rifles : number 2429
2) 4th and 5th Battalion Royal Scots Queen's Edinburgh Rifles: numbers 3897 and 20/001 |
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kinnethmont
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Is 2429 James Boyd? He enlisted on 10th November 1914
Is 3897 Alexr. Deans? Same date in 1915.
If not can you give the names? _________________ Jim
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
www.kinnethmont.co.uk |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7779 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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John - there is information around but it can be a "black art"
There's some useful stuff at http://www.1914-1918.net/renumbering.htm
and at http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/army-service-numbers-1881-1918-index.html
be warned this one can take a while to load but that may be my gas-fired broadband.
The second man you mention looks like
Medal card of Sinclair, John
Corps Regiment No Rank
Royal Scots 3897 Private
Royal Scots 201001 Private
The first one MIGHT be
Medal card of Burnett, Frederick J
Corps Regiment No Rank
4th Royal Scots 2429 Private
4th Royal Scots 2429 Private
but there are other possiblities. _________________ Ken |
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john burnett
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife
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Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:14 pm Post subject: Service Numbers |
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Jim and Ken thanks for your replies.
Ken, you are correct in identifying these men. They are my grandfathers. FJ Burnett was 36 at outbreak of war and John Sinclair was 17. Trying to see when they joined the Army. |
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