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Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 1:23AM GMT
Classification: Query
Wow cool cheers infosending1,

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 1:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
sadly not able to get a marriage cert cos it need a full date

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 1:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
No it doesn't, don't believe all the guff that you read from officials.

Those documents are public records, you have a legal right to view them, and if people needed such precise particulars in order to access them, nobody would ever be able to access them.

Some local registration authorities say that for birth certificate applications you need to supply the exact date of birth and other specific pieces of information, but you don't, that only applies, for privacy reasons, to births which took place within the past 50 years.

Otherwise, all you need to supply for applications for any kind of certificate, is sufficient information for them to be able to identify the correct record.

Just fill in the information that you have, and ignore the blather, you've got more than enough information for them to identify the correct record, and if they couldn't, they would refund your fee.

Anyway, that is the full and exact GRO marriage registration information, so they certainly can identify the correct record.

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 1:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
You try it, cos its not letting me.

Am just getting this

Form Errors
Date of marriage must be a valid non future date in the format dd/mm/yyyy

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 2:22AM GMT
Classification: Query
[ Page 6182...
REGULAR ARMY...EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS (CADETS).
ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.
The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts....4th Oct. 1941: —

Page 6183...John Burdett CLARK (212605). ]

So going back to my intial post about my grandfather's Unform, which Army would it mean he would have been in? Indian or British?

Also would you maybe know what the number in brackets means please?

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 2:28AM GMT
Classification: Query
Yeah sure thing, just give me your credit card and personal details and I'll give that a crack for you. :):)
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RTFM :):)

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/most_custome...

" Q4. If I don’t have the index reference number what will happen?

If you do not have the GRO index reference you may still apply online for any event which took place on or after 1st July 1837 to 6 months from the current date (for marriages this period is extended to 18 months) provided you have sufficient information to identify the entry.

A 3 year search for the index reference will be carried out.

You should supply the exact date of event if you have it.

IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE EXACT DATE, ENTER 01/01/YYYY AND WE WILL SEARCH THE SPECIFIED YEAR AND ONE YEAR EITHER SIDE.

If you do not provide an index reference number, your application will take up to 15 working days to process. There is a separate policy for events which have taken place in the last 50 years and full identifying information must be provided (see Q7 under “Important information on delivery times and policies.” "

If that doesn't work, phone them, or email them.
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/contact_us.a...

Or pay an outfit such as ancestry an inflated fee to apply on your behalf.
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If I had been setting up that system, I would have just provided a simple tick box, tick if you don't know the full date, and a facility to include as much of the date that you might know, such as the year, but I suppose that would have made it too easy to use.

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 2:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 19 Jun 2015 2:47AM GMT
An emergency commission was a wartime commission, as opposed to a normal peacetime commission which would have been granted to a career officer.

After the war, most of the officers who held emergency commissions would have returned to civilian life, but some would have applied to remain in the army as peacetime career officers.

Regular Army is British Army....Royal Regiment of Artillery aka the Royal Artillery is British Regular Army. The numbers in brackets is his army service number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Indian_Army_r...

The artillery units in the Indian Army were called the Regiment of Artillery...the British regular army artillery units were called the Royal Regiment of Artillery, although strictly speaking the regular artillery is a Corps of artillery which comprised many regiments and sub units.

Confused yet. ? :):)

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 2:58AM GMT
Classification: Query
Ah, ok got it now ...... lol


was overlooking this bit > [ If you don't have the exact date, enter 01/01/YYYY and we will search the specified year and one year either side. ] < in to GRO FAQs

I'm silly

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 3:04AM GMT
Classification: Query
cheers for all the help & info

Re: Army Unforms

Posted: 19 Jun 2015 3:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
No prob, it's what these forums are for,...and we can't let officialdom always get the better of us.

Got any more mysteries that you want unravelling. ? Oh no. ! :):)
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