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I know he married in 1912, Bethnal Green, his occupation in 1911 was 'clerk' but that may well have changed...the dates and lace fit.

Err yes, quite possibly. How did you find it?

Is this him ?

Name: Charles Ling
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1890
Age at enlistment: 25 yrs, 3 months
Document Year: 1915
Regimental Number: 9792
Regiment Name: East Surrey Regiment


says his occupation was omnibus conductor

and he was married

My Great-Grandfather, Charles Hector Ling, served in the Great War and lived to tell the tale though suffered shell-shock for the rest of his life, according to my father father who got the tale from 'Little Grand-dad', Charles's son. However, there is no trace of any Charles Ling in the Military Records of Genes Reunited. Is there another way of figuring out where he served or what rank he became and so on?

I have his year of birth as 1889, give or take a year. He was 22 as of the 1911 census but I don't know if that was before or after his birthday for that year so I have always put a one-year leeway on 1889.

Also, is there a reason some birth records may not be on this site? Charles Hector Ling (born in Surrey according to his own writing in the 1911 census) seems not to be in the birth records either.