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When I checked my Royal Warwicks database against the Birmingham Roll of Honour I found 2825 men. However, a further 381 men who are Brummies according to CWGC and SDGW are not in the Birmingham Roll.

The important thing Ancestry have done with these is give you any info. on the reverse of the card which appears in a small minority of cases. The NA archive ones don't. Incidentally Ancestry digitalised the cards in the hands of the Western Front Association who inherited them to prevent their...

You have a problem with the BEF. On a narrow original definition it means the six divisions of the British Army and their support troops sent to France/Belgium in August 1914 or soon afterwards. On a broader definition it means everyone who served on the Western Front. Start looking on the Long...

Clifton records Are you looking at Service records or pension records on Ancestry.?If you can download some sample pages and post here help will be forthcoming

Driver - i.e. of horses pulling something. ASC = Army Service Corps whose main task was transport support. 5th A Aux is more of a mystery - Aux is Auxiliary. 5th A might be 5th Army.

Unit number.Bombardier. D possibly battery letter. 199th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

Bingley Hall and the suffragettes Prime Minister Asquith came to Birmingham to speak at the Bingley Hall - I think it was 1909. Two suffragettes got on the roof and shouted down from a skylight. They were removed with difficulty to Winson Green where they became the first suffragette prisoners...

Pte Ernest Wright Soldiers died in the Great War.... Born Cheadle Staffs Enlisted Coventry Killed in Action Not on the Birmingham or Coventry Rolls of Honour

Service numbering All numbers are unique to a battalion. All Territorials were re-numbered in 1917. If someone transferred to another battalion/regiment they would be given a new number.

Mothers I have found my Bham Libraries booklet of 1997. I also saw John Mayall et al there. Arthur Brown - Sunday 23.3.69. Derek and Doms never played. Edgar Broughton were regulars. I also saw Chicken Shack, Fleetwoood Mac, Colosseum,Al Stewart, Yes and Pink Floyd. Tom Paxton held at the...

The problem with Cromwell's account is that it smacks of the contemporary view led by Churchill that Dunkirk was a miracle and a triumph when in fact it was a total disaster. That view is understandable in terms of national morale. There is no acknowledgement of the plentiful examples of the...

Ramsay put out a public call for help - everyone with a boat—any kind of boat—was asked to help rescue the troops. The response was instantaneous and overwhelming. A makeshift flotilla of 850 ‘Little Ships’- yachts, lifeboats, fishing boats, and anything else that could float rushed to the...

Mothers I was a regular in the late 60s and early 70s. Fantastic place for live progressive music. It was in Erdington High Street above a furniture shop. A few years ago a big 'reunion' meeting was held in Erdington Library on an anniversary of its opening. Birmingham Public Libraries also...

Peel statue Hence the old saying. Why is the Town Hall like an orange? Because it has Peel outside? Later replaced by Queen Victoria. Going from memory I think Peel ended up in a parl!

Percy John Johnstone His service number of 2576 suggests a pre-war Territorial. But why enlist on September 1 1914 if already a Territorial? This may be because on August 28th the Warwickshire Territorials in camp at Chelmsford were asked to volunteer for foreign service so the decision would...

First World War soldier again I should have added that he did not serve abroad in 81st Provisional Bn which was home service only Territorials formed in 1915. He would have transferred into another RWR Bn, probably one of the four front-line Territorial Bns - 1/5th. 1/6th. 1/7th. 1/8th.

First World War soldier If you post his Royal Warwickshire Regiment service number there is a good chance I will be able to give you the battalion.

The site has allowed me to log-in using the details I gave them, it says I am logged in, but wont allow me to post any threads. I think I'll give up, I've never had this problem with any other site. It is not totally obvious. When logged into the Great War Forum the list of topics appears. A...

Bargees Tend to be recorded on census returns if tied up to a wharf on census day. Less likely to be recorded if in transit. Some canal workers in the Birmingham area worked day boats and would live on land. Birmingham Reference Library has listings of canal boats under the Canal Boats Act...