Military Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Alfred Brookes

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

gibbo1958

gibbo1958 Report 14 Mar 2014 16:00

Trying to find Alfred army records born Alfred H Brookes 1897 Birmingham could have been in the Warwickshires been told he was a Vimey ridge i just cant seem to pin him down anywhere on ww1 records .
Thanks DAVE

Researching:
Brookes , Eccles Birmingham Gibson , Connaughton Ireland Healey Plymouth

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 14 Mar 2014 18:46

Not seeing a birth for him

Are you sure about the birth year and location and his middle name,

The only birth that fits with Birmingham is for a Alfred Herbert Brookes in Aston Warwickshire

Or a Alfred Henry Cheltenham Gloucestershire



Roy

gibbo1958

gibbo1958 Report 14 Mar 2014 19:00

Ok it looks like it is Herbert not Henry sorry about that i was going on info given me by mouth .As he was born in ASTON

Researching:
Brookes , Eccles Birmingham Gibson , Connaughton Ireland Healey Plymouth

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 14 Mar 2014 19:11

Dave,
to pin him down Who did he marry? was it Elizabeth Jones?, If so then it's probable that he is the one born Aston Warwickshire because their is a marriage that fits in the June quarter 1918 and so a good chance his military details are recorded on the marriage cert under Occupation

Edited


Roy

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 14 Mar 2014 20:11

Just be aware that abt 60/70% of service records for WW1 where distroyed in WW2 bombings but most of the medal cards survived because they where stored at a separate location so with a regiment and regimental number it's possible to find his medal card, and also look on Ancestry to see if his service record or pension records survived



Roy

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 14 Mar 2014 20:26

Medal cards listed on the National archives web site

5 for the name Alfred Brookes Warwickshire regiment with no middle name and one has a middle inital "C"

13 for a Alfred H Brookes none in the Warwickshire regiment

and 197 with verious middle names

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/medal-index-cards-ww1.htm

Roy