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Military records
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Wesley | Report | 16 Mar 2009 23:56 |
upon joining like in the welsh reginments there are a lot of jones's williams etc so they either used there middle names like my grand father who was with a lot of david williams 's so he is known as howard as he was during the war so under certain circumstances there may of been names the same or surnames where it was esier to use service numbers instead of names hope this was in some way helpful |
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Charlotte | Report | 15 Mar 2009 21:52 |
Thanks Maggie |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 14 Mar 2009 21:12 |
When you are adopted as an 'older' child -you can change both names. |
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Charlotte | Report | 14 Mar 2009 19:20 |
Hi |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 14 Mar 2009 18:10 |
I have one where the father died and then the mother remarried when her son was just three years old,so for most of his life he was known by his step fathers surname of Brown. In those days there was no formal adoption process,so when he joined up, his records were in his birth name, but it said "formerly known as Brown" |
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Netty | Report | 14 Mar 2009 18:09 |
Hi Charlotte, try here : |
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Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) | Report | 14 Mar 2009 17:52 |
I read a book recently about boy soldiers. A few of them joined up under a different name and a different age - usually to escape detection. |
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Charlotte | Report | 14 Mar 2009 17:39 |
Does anyone know why some people are listed with an alias name and their proper name, I have found instances of this on a service record and in the CWCG lists of war casualties. I am trying to follow a family line where there is a story of a name change. So the presence of Aliases really interests me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |