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Army enlistment age or Home Guard

madeline (View posts)
Posted: 12 Jul 2005 1:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 6 Nov 2008 3:49PM GMT
Surnames: crudge
could someone kindly help or tell me how i would go about trying to find if my father was in the last war, he was born in 1892 and was in the first world war and survived. What age did they stop enlisting men? Also where would i find any details if he was in the home guard, his name was wilfred f crudge. Thanks for any help. regards madeline

Re: Army enlistment age or Home Guard

Joan (View posts)
Posted: 12 Jul 2005 4:11PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 6 Nov 2008 3:49PM GMT
hello, Madeline,

It would be useful to know what district it would have been likely for your father to have been in the Home Guard as there may well be local records your could look at.

Joan

Re: Army enlistment age or Home Guard

madeline (View posts)
Posted: 12 Jul 2005 7:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 6 Nov 2008 3:49PM GMT
Hi Joan
Thank you for replying, my father lived in north london,my mother and the rest of the family were evacuated to the north of england and i understand that my father used to come and go. In the first ww he was in the middlesex reg but that was before he married. Would he have been too old to be called up ?
Regards Madeline

Re: Army enlistment age or Home Guard

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 8:31AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 28 Jun 2010 10:08AM GMT
Surnames: leach
Just wondering if Joan is realated to the Leach family as my father said he had a relation in the the home guard.

Re: Army enlistment age or Home Guard

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Information from Home Guard personal records and enrolment forms are only available to those who served, or to next of kin, from Army Personnel Centre, Historic Disclosures, Mailpoint 400, Kentigern House, 65 Brown Street, Glasgow, G2 8EX, telephone 0845 600 9663.

The National Archives have a useful guide:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?s...
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