Hello Terry, Thanks so much for the information. I will see if I can find out more about him.in the 1918 absent voters book there is a Cecil Aldridge A1298 serving in the 20th Bn KRRC with the address 2 back 25 Bristol Street. The photo above looks like a pre-war Territorial Camp so he may have decided to join another regiment during the war. I found no Cecil Edward Aldridge serving in the Royal Warwickshire.
Terry
in the 1918 absent voters book there is a Cecil Aldridge A1298 serving in the 20th Bn KRRC with the address 2 back 25 Bristol Street. The photo above looks like a pre-war Territorial Camp so he may have decided to join another regiment during the war. I found no Cecil Edward Aldridge serving in the Royal Warwickshire.
Terry
He was born 31/08/1884 and if it is any help his wife was called Elsie and he had three children when he went into the Army - Frank b 1910, Frederick G b.1911 and Lillian b.1914.After another search I found the 1918 record but cannot find him. How old would he have been in WW1?
I thought he was, but in the 1911 census he is living at 4 Court Parker Street, Clarke Buildings, Waterworks Road, Edgbaston, I was always led to believe that they had always lived in Grays Road almost from the time they were married. Any help? If Mike reads this any chance of a map view of Parker Street?Sorry we posted at the same time as I amended my previous post. Are you sure he was at Gray's Road in 1918?
Many thanks MikeBob.
Bit of confusion here over the address. will give you 2 maps. The c1889 map shows court 4 in one part of Parker St, and the c1955 map does not label court 4, but does show Clarke buildings . the electoral roll for 1920 shows court 4 in the same position as in the c1889 map, which corresponds in shape and position to the Hamilton square marked on the c1955 map
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Very many thanks, I had always believed/assumed from family stories that Grays Road had always been there home, oh the travails of family histories, if only we had asked all the questions while they were alive. To try and find his wife's family, I actually paid a 'professional' genealogist, quite expensive who produced a family tree which was extremely incorrect, unfortunately it had been money up front and she had the affrontery to argue about facts that I knew were incorrect.I have drawn a blank on the 1918 and 1919 absent voters register but they were still at 4 court 12 Parker Street in 1920. I did find Parker Street in 1918 but he wasn't listed on the register.