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Roger

If you do not have a sub to Ancestry, do not spend money on credits for this record, i can download the images and send to you.

When you return from holiday just send me a PM i will sort them out


George

Many thanks. Off on holiday shortly so will wait to explore this link when I have time to make the best of 'pay-as-you-go'! Hope we can find a living relative.

Roger

Yes, the link posted by George is the right one

I think this is the George Fry that Annielaurie found

Link to Ancestry details

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1114&iid=MIUK1914A_084437-01581&fn=George&ln=Fry&st=r&ssrc=&pid=337589

George

Yes, well done, Annielaurie. A link to this information would be much appreciated. My main objective is to see if there are any living relatives of George Fry who might like to see copies of a couple of letters he wrote in 1915. I wonder if someone is research this family tree?
Roger

Well done - but I can't see it! Can you copy & paste the link please?
What is the address?
Jan

There are WW1 records for a George Fry, Band Corporal (and temporary Sergeant) 4 Bn Essex Regiment on Ancestry. His address is given and wife is mentioned, but no name given!

Would add that he was with my grandfather when he was killed on the 22 August 1915. Can't be the one Jan suggested - he was already deceased.

All I have is the heading on the letter he sent to my Grandmother as follows: Band Sergeant G Fry, (Late Corporal) 86 B Company, 1/4 Essex Regt. 161 Bridgade 54 Division, M.E. Force. No other clues.

Not sure if this is relevant! I assume you are sure of initial?

Name: Bertie Robert Fry
Residence: Hornchurch, Essex
Death Date: 4 Apr 1916
Death Location: Home
Enlistment Location: Ilford, Essex
Rank: Private
Regiment: Essex Regiment
Battalion: 4th Battalion
Number: 3472
Type of Casualty: Died
Theatre of War: Home

Re-reading it, I am not sure if this G. Fry actually died.
Where have you come by the name please?
Jan

There's this but wrong regiment:

Name: George Frederick Fry
Birth Place: Bromley-by-bow, Essex
Death Date: 12 Aug 1915
Death Location: Gallipoli
Enlistment Location: Finsbury
Rank: Private
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Battalion: 7th (Service) Battalion
Number: 10529
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Balkan Theatre

Jan

It isn't his grandfather - '...who was with my Grandfather...'.
Jan

he isnt listed on the CWGC site

Dont you know his christian name ?

As he was your grandfather then the child you are descended from will have his name on their birth cert surely??

Unless you know what his first name was, and when and where he was born, no-one can search for info

If you find those details, you can look for contacts yourself in 'search all trees'

Looking for any living relatives of the above who was with my Grandfather when he died in Gallipoli in 1915.