FMP help please

[Merry]

All very interesting how this is coming together. Maybe one day something might turn up with an alias that is his real name!! On the other hand it bothers me that as he had such a bad relationship with his Scottish father, why choose a Scottish surname for the alias (if indeed he used one)?

[Shona]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Could it be Clasp and Roses?

Might do, but I thought in WW1 this was awarded for being at Mons in 1914. If the enlisted date of 26 December 1914 on the Silver War Badge record is correct, then he won't have been at Mons.

[Shona]

Originally Posted by Merry

All very interesting how this is coming together. Maybe one day something might turn up with an alias that is his real name!! On the other hand it bothers me that as he had such a bad relationship with his Scottish father, why choose a Scottish surname for the alias (if indeed he used one)?

The Silver Ward Badge states that he served with the '6B Res Bde' of the RFA.

The 6B Reserve Brigade were a home-based unit based at Piershill Barracks in Edinburgh.

What do we think to the enlistment and discharge dates? They haven't been disputed have they?

[Merry]

I don't think we can say anything about the enlistment date, but the discharge date of 3 Dec 1917 I can check a little.......I will have to look at his bundle of letters - I thought some of them were written after that, but I may well be wrong - they were certainly all written whilst he was in the army.

[Shona]

Hmmm - looks like the brigade was in Glasgow in 1914.

[Shona]

From Family Search:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KMQH-K4G

1913
David John Hutton, alias Hamilton, Tullamore Prison, Offaly, no fixed abode, born 1895 Cork, offence - false answering on attestation.

[Shona]

Also from Family Search:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KM7H-125

1913
John Hamilton, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, age 18, born Cork, 1895.

[ElizabethHerts]

Shona, you're doing a great job.

I turned up this one:

Name: David Hutten
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: Apr - Jun 1895
Event Place: Cork, Ireland
Registration Quarter and Year: Apr - Jun 1895
Registration District: Cork
Age:
Birth Year (Estimated):
Mother's Maiden Name:
Volume Number: 5
Page Number: 127
GS Film number: 101065
Digital Folder Number: 004193979
Image Number: 00446

No parents given.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FBFC-9PV

[ElizabethHerts]

Hmm, there is a marriage for this chap:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYFW-HZV

Name: David John Hutton
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: Jan - Mar 1918
Event Place: Armagh, Ireland
Registration Quarter and Year: Jan - Mar 1918
Registration District: Armagh
Age:
Birth Year (Estimated):
Mother's Maiden Name:
Volume Number: 1
Page Number: 45
GS Film number: 101264
Digital Folder Number: 004199366
Image Number: 00022

Edit: I think there are two men with the same name!

[ElizabethHerts]

This is interesting:

Name Meaning for "Hamilton"

Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from what is now a deserted village in the parish of Barkby, Leicestershire. This is named from Old English hamel ‘crooked’ + dun ‘hill’. Hamilton near Glasgow was founded by the Hamiltons and named after them. In Ireland, this name may have replaced Hamill in a few cases. It has also been used as the equivalent of the Irish (Cork) name
Ó hUrmholtaigh