60 Auchinraith Road Blantyre

[Montrose Budie]

Hello Annette
Thanks for the help from the 1915, records. My Dad is causing me all sorts of problems now, I have his regiment numbers and they match up with the records (from the burned records) that I had researched and sent to me in Australia several years ago. Now I find out that the John Morton in Auchinraith Road, Blantyre is listed as born in England so I am really not sure what is going on. My Dad was born in Blantyre and lived in Springwell Terrace, High Blantyre at the age of 2 years.
Are you talking about the photo's of the Scottish lads away at war that I have on my tree at ancestry??? If so yes they are mine.
cheers
Margaret

Hi Margaret

If there are discrepancies between the army records and what you are finding from your own research I wouldn't be that worried.

For many folk in that country directly to the south of Scotland, the term 'England' encompassed Scotland!

On a more serious note, the exceptionally high numbers of records created by army service during WWI put tremendous pressures on the existing systems, both civil and army, so that it's understandable that errors crept in.

mb

[Margaret]

Hi Annette
I havent been on TS for quite awhile and now realize how great it is to be able to chat about a problem and all the help one gets.
My reasoning for my Dad's differences on his papers is that he enlisted without his Mum's permission the first time and when she found out she went down to the Enlistment Office (guess that is what it would have been called) and said you are not having my boy he is only 16 years old...so home he went but not for long..so maybe he gave some wrong information as well...I have letters written by him to his family and the signature looks very like his one on his records so I am going to stick with the idea that yes they are my Dad's records that I have
Once again thanks for you help
cheers
Margaret

[Margaret]

HI MB
Thanks for your advice, as you see from my reply to annette I have decided to go with the thought that yes they are my Dad's records, his number is correct and talking to a friend he tells me that no two soldiers had the same number.
cheers
Margaret

[Currie]

Hello Margaret,

Before 1920 many British Army soldiers shared the same number but not within the same regiment. It would be pretty unusual for two soldiers to have shared the same name and number unless the name was a very common one.

There are links on this Long, Long, Trail page to information about numbering and renumbering. http://www.1914-1918.net/insights.htm

All the best,
Alan

[Margaret]

Thanks Allan
I have just found my dad's badge from his Returned Services Ass...in New Zealand and I do have the correct number thank goodness. Now that school holidays are over will have time to look at the web site you send...many thanks for your help
cheers
Margaret