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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 5 Apr 2016 12:05

Thanks for that Gwyn - should have check more carefully rather than relying on the A2/M2/M20 memory ;-)

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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 4 Apr 2016 23:34

Glad you sorted him.

Shorncliffe Barracks are on the edge of Folkestone, which used to be covered by Elham registration district.

Thanet is north Kent.

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 31 Mar 2016 23:01

Thank you Chris. That sort of sorts that one out! I'd have him dying in Thanet reg 1931 and assumed he'd continued in the army (Shorncliffe Barracks is in that reg district).
He's too distant a twig to purchase the death cert.

GEORGE O
Last name MOCKFORD
Gender Male
Birth year 1885
Age 46
Death quarter 4
Death year 1931
District THANET
County Kent

The newspaper article certainly sounds like him, occupation, and residence in 1911.

Thank you for your time :-)

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Chris Ho :)

Chris Ho :) Report 31 Mar 2016 18:03

Military Campaign Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1949 (Ancestry)

(also on above, Campaign. India 1849-1866)


WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 (Ancestry)

Chris :)

(looks like 'Returned and Scrapped' on your one!)

(him below?)

17 January 1913 - Cambridge Independent Press - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

BURWELL MAN'S MEAN THEFT
Money Stolen Under Guise of Friendship. At the Newmarket Police Court Tuesday. George Owen Mockford (28) single man carpenter, living with his father near the old toll gate on the Cambridge-road, in the parish of Burwell, next to the ...”

(stole a shilling from Israel Hayhow, fruiterer, High St. Newmarket)


http://www.familytreeforum.com/showthread.php/71697-Dicipher-a-Military-record-card

(refers to the medals being returned (Kings Regulations para 992, 1923). There is ... If after ten years they were still unclaimed, they were then broken up and scrapped)

(above from google, also other queries)

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 30 Mar 2016 20:23

Handy to know - thank you Kay

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Kay????

Kay???? Report 30 Mar 2016 19:56

No card image on FMP, but NArchives gives this info for G.O. Mockford.


9256 Serjeant.
70676 Serjeant,
5820697 Corporal.

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 30 Mar 2016 17:34

Could someone have a look at the image for this please?

British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920
George O Mockford
Regiment or Corps: Suffolk Regiment
Regimental Number: 9256, 70676, 5820697

The remarks are bugging me.
I'm guessing the IGS is Indian General Service medal with clasp and Malabar but have no idea what the other remark is about.

Thank you

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