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excellent stuff RB, I can't thank you enough for your help

Pension Record:
William Chiddicks
Document Year: 1919
Regimental number: 220766
rank: gunner
address of NOK, wife: 55 Victoria Rd, Barking
Reg: RGA
enlisted 20/11/1915
transferred to Class Z Army Res 17/2/1919

heigh 5' 11"
wt 151 lbs

served France June 1916 to Mar 1917 (Etaples)
then England to present time (Catterick, Woolwich etc)
occ before joining: Rope Runner
Disability: Bronchitis and Nephritis

thanks RB and Ann............will try the ancestry free trial in the next month or so

really appreciate your help RB

I thought you meant you already had it -sorry! I'd get it from Ancestry if I were you - free, if you use the free trial, and you'll get more!

John Chiddicks
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1887
Age at enlistment: 21
Birth County: Essex
Document Year: 1908
Regimental number: 449

This is the only other relevant info:
John Chiddick, Barking age 21 occ:Fireman
add: 118 Axe st Barking
Attested for 1 year from 15/5/1908
Disch 31/3/1909

thanks RB, I am gathering info and hopefully will do a blitz on ancestry and get the best out of the 14 day trial sometime in the future.

Ann- I'm not sure exactly what the origins one will offer me, but at £6, plus a further £10, I am reluctant to try that, if ancestry has potentially more info

Are the ones on Origins for the Militia? Is the info you got on a form headed Territorial Force, Attestation? The records on Ancestry should have more than just the attestation.

Paul, I'll have a look and get back to you. By the way, Ancestry do a 14 day free trial.

do these pension records have much worthwhile information in them??

Also found John Chiddicks pension records

Regards Vera

thanks rutland belle and thanks vera, 118 axe street is correct in barking as i have the census details which gives this address............i am just considering whehter to join ancestry or not re: these military records, or whether the one available on origins would have more information

Paul Have found his pension records... states next of Kin Mother Jane, 118, Looks like Axe Street, Barking.
Regards Vera

Yes Paul you do get the Military Records. WW1 are not complete as some destroyed in London bombing in WW2, they are known as the 'Burnt Documents'

i didnt realise that ancestry had attestation records as well, with a normal subscription does that include these records???

thanks for all your help

John and William are both on my tree, William being my great-grandfather, unfortunately i dont have an ancestry subscription so i am not aware whats available on there

thanks for the info

Sorry to come in late with the ancestry stuff. B****y Genes wouldn't let me post. It happens when the've got some of their dodgy banner adverts running.

However, you should check first to see if he appears on ancestry first as the WW1 records have some attestations

There are 2 on ancestry.

john chiddicks born barking c1887 (fireman).

William chiddicks born c1895 (sawyer).

I paid the money (£6 I think it was) and then found that the attestation was a further £10 and it is posted to you. However, it gives me my grandfathers address when he joined up, a description of him, all his family members and addresses, his army record, his previous employer and address of employer. To me it is worth a fortune as I now know that he knew about his elder brother, I know he worked for his cousin he was skinny as a rake and got kicked out of the army for felony. (we're guessing he probably nicked supplies from the quartermasters stores, he was like that!)

I have just done a search on origins network under the surname that I am researching, Chiddicks, and there appears to be one entry under this category on this site. I don't want to subscribe unnecessarily to the site for one piece of info, has anybody any experience of these types of records and are they likely to yield any useful information

Thanks

Paul