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There's a death for a W Binch on the CWGC site with the same regiment number.

Rose

Hi Devon & Rose

aww ty u two xxxxxxxxxx

its def mistranscribed entry

this is the copy from national archives i actually paid £3.50 for it lol cus he was my great great Uncle

Description Medal card of Binch, Wallis
Corps Regiment No Rank
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment 31355 Private
Highland Light Infantry 202804 Private

Date 1914-1920

Looks like Walter on the image. Look at the last letter. Looks like an R and not the S that was used in the word Notts.

Rose

lol does ya head in sometimes dont it

ty anyway much appreciated xxxxxxxxxxxx

oh another mistranscription then ...good old Ancestry lol

hi devon thats his brother Wallis ty anyway xxxxxx

Im looking on Ancestry...just typed in the name

hi devon dweller i cant find that how do i get the record up plz? ive typed in walter binch and just got official no F23268

there is a medal card for Walter Binch
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment R, Highland Light Infantry
Regimental number: 31355, 202804

ouch im getting confused lol

was looking at the other war for him that seammen record was from 1887 he was born 1873

yep can name them lol.

my great grandad was born Alonzo Walter Binch but he dropped the Alonzo sometime before 1901 he was born in 1872

my great great grandad was Walter Binch born 1837 so i doubt that seamens record is his either cus he'd have been 50

my rellies are so naughty at hiding lol
angie
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Are you willing to list names?

Rose

It didn't matter where you lived. I have 5 brothers all serving in different regiments and my Grandfather born in London served in the Seaforth Highlanders (I doubt he'd ever been to Scotland in his life lol)

If he was born in 1872 wouldn't he have been about 42 in 1914?

(unless you mean the 1837 man)

ive looked again and found only 1 possible but ive discounted it before as 1, he would have been only 16 yrs old 2, it says this Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Series Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services
why would he be a seanman when his brothers either derved with the sherwood foresters or leicestershire or lincolnshire regiments and ive got him down as being born in radford nottingham (off his birth cert) but on the record it says born new basford nottingham should i just buy it do ya think?

ive looked at all of them seamens medal cards medical cards prisoner of war and i just cant find him on any of then (even dropped his first name as he did himself in his later years) but still nothing its so weird maybe he was ill and couldnt join up aint got a clue

thank u for that crimean war info xxxxx ill go look at them dates

Do you mean medal cards? Im not sure if being a wheelright would keep him out of the war.

For the 1837 man...there was the Crimean war 1854-56

hi Devon Dweller

Yep looked for a medical record on the national archives site but cant find him ive brought all his brothers medical cards but he simply isnt showing which i find really strange. Do ya think its cus he was a wheelright? (lol i know that sounds daft but maybe they needed wheels a lot lol i feel dumb just saying that)

Hi Hooch

Not everyone recieved a pension..have you looked for a medal card?

The one born in 1837 was too early for WW1 there were plenty of smaller wars going on but the only way to find out is a trip to Kew Im afraid.

Not being into wars (i know i should be seen as my grandparents great grandparents faught them for us) but ive never really been into war and didnt take a blind bit of notice when i was at school.

Can someone explain this to me seen as im thick on war issues

How would someone get out of being in the war? or why can't I find someone serving as a army person? I can find his brothers serving but not my great grandad he was born in 1872 so was he too young? Or did he simply not become a soldier?

he couldnt have been too old as his elder brothers ive found but not him which i find really weird as my grandad served also would my great great grandad born in 1837 have been in any war or would have any army records? if so which years so I can go look.

Thank u in advance this has been bugging me for ages xxxxxx