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Old 26-03-2017, 11:13 PM
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This is the likely individual:

William Griffiths, 27, son of William and Marth(a) Griffiths, 4 Walker's Terrace, Havelock?, Bedlington. Coal Miner (Hewer) Ancestry page


Curiously, a set of service papers exist for a 30 year old (in 1915) William Griffiths from Bedlington. He joins the Tyneside Scottish but he is discharged in Feb 1915, 'not likely to become an efficient soldier', cause is a compound fracture of the fibula and tibia, and caries. Initially I wondered if it could be the same man, as there does not appear to be any other options for a second William Griffiths in the 1911 census. I then noticed this chap was married Jan 1911. As the census, which was taken on the 2nd April 1911 has him as single, this must be a different man. BUT........Going to the actual marriage index his marriage is actually in 1912. So the army service papers have the wrong year for his marriage.

So.. the possibility that these papers are the same man as the medal is back on. Could he be recovered from a broken leg in time to join the 7th Btn and be shipped off 21st April?? that seems unlikely, but if so why is there not a second William Griffiths in the 19111 census?


Some of the Ancestry users are linking the 1911 census Griffiths with the army service papers Griffiths in their family trees.
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