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No problem Ann

Unfortunately many records were lost in WW2. The only way of finding out is if you don't mind supplying his name and service number then I can have a look round for you

The Town Hall was used for volunteers to sign up and be attested during WW1

May 21 1916 the actual date

The 2/6th, along with the 2/5th, 2/7th & 2/8th Royal Warwickshire were originally raised in the opening weeks of the war as reserve battalions for the 1/6th battalion etc However the war office decided to send them to France in the newly created 61st Infantry Division. They went on active...

Yes, it is members of the 3rd Birmingham City Battalion Springfield College Moseley. Approximately between February and April 1915

Just looked at picture. Yes she does look like Angela Merkel lol

Sorry I've not posted for quite a long time This is a cropped photograph that I have of some members of the 1st Birmingham Battalion (14th Royal Warwickshire) on the platform of Sutton Park Station with family and friends prior to the battalion's departure to continue their training at...

Hello all I'm still alive and kicking. Sorry haven't been active on the Forum. I will try and be more active Regards Terry

Have you researched the names? If not I'd be happy to help Terry

Sorry for not responding. I seem to look at the Facebook pages rather than actually visiting the actual forum. I will make amends

Then there is the family published on 8 September 1916 in the Birmingham Daily Gazette

found this in the Birmingham Daily Post published on 11 August 1916

I have taken this from the 19th Division HQ War Diary and it is the last but one page from a narrative of events undertaken by the Division from the 9 to 19 April 1918. Regards 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...

Several Warwickshire County cricketers served in the Birmingham Pals plus these two former Villa players who served in the 3rd Birmingham Battalion.

Yes Steve it was the 1st Birmingham Battalion Sports Day in Sutton Park

Taken from the Birmingham Daily Post 6 August 1916

Ghosts One evening, ere the final fall of dark, I walk'd awhile alone in Sutton Park And view'd, with pleasure subtly mixed with pain, The old familiar land-marks once again. There, there before my memory-clouded eyes, I saw the shades of yesterday arise. Beneath the pallid summer-evening moon...