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If you copy the url, you'll see the number 272210 near the end. I tried changing it to 272209 to see if it'd give me the previous page, but it gave me the same one again. However, changing it to 272208 gave the previous page.
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Thanks Mary
lol Shona - maybe you could find out more about John Hamilton as well!!!!!!!
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John Claud Hamilton?
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Indeed, though no one knows where his middle name came from - only used by his wife on official documents. I believe she thought it was part of his given name, but he never used it as far as we know.
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Merry is he the one that went to Canada? Julie
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No, though we think he had a sister who went to Canada or US.
We know a lot (probably too much lol) about him from about 1917 onwards, but before that he 'didn't exist'. We think he may have used an alias when he joined the British army (he was from Cork) during WW1. After that, most of the time he was in the merchant navy (and we are gradually learning, also in jail from time to time). When he wasn't doing either of those things he lived in lodgings in Southampton after he separated from OH's nan (because he sold her furniture to pay for his drinking). He died in the early 60s (no fixed abode) and his Catholic remains were donated to medical science by his daughter (she wasn't his next of kin, but no one bothered about that) to save paying for a funeral. Oxford Uni paid for a funeral a year after his death.
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Merry,
I've been taking a look at JCH's medal record card. The card states that he forfeited his medals and it was said (somewhere) this was because he never saw action and was in the UK throughout the war. Is there proof of this? I think it's rather odd to have a medal card filled out with all the wrong info. Perhaps the medals were forfeited for another reason. Perhaps they got wind of his criminal activities? If he really did go to France, he arrived there on 12 May 1915. This suggests that JCH may have been part of the 9th (Scottish) Division. The 9th trained at Salisbury (Aug 1914) and Bordon (Sept 1914) and crossed to France between 9-12 May 1915. |
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There are some references given where it says that the medals were forfeited - BW & V M forfeited auth min 3 EF/2/7087. Any idea what that means?
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