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ALBERT BAGSHAW,CAMERON HIGHLANDERS 1915 - 1919

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Christine

Christine Report 30 Jan 2013 19:43

PLEASE COULD ANYONE TELL ME HOW I WOULD FIND ANY INFO OF MY GT.GRANDFATHER BEING IN THE CAMERON HIGHLANDERS FROM 1915 TO 1919 HIS NAME WAS ALBERT BAGSHAW D.O.B 1976 YORKSHIRE BORN.

CHRISTINE

Mike *

Mike * Report 30 Jan 2013 19:47

Please check your dates.

Couldn't be born 1976

Mike *

Mike * Report 30 Jan 2013 19:49

Name: Albert Bagshaw
Residence: 22 Elm Terrace, Rotherham
Document Year: 1915
Regimental Number: 3231
Regiment Name: Cameron Highlanders


Gee

Gee Report 30 Jan 2013 19:53

Hi Christine

Welcome to the GR Community Boards

Can you tell us a little more please, it might enable us to help you

x

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Mike *

Mike * Report 30 Jan 2013 19:57

Only military death I can find for 1917 ( no idea if same man as above, although the enlistment above WAS done in Sheffield)



Albert Bagshaw
Birth Place: Sheffield
Residence: Walkley, Yorks
Death Date: 11 Oct 1917
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Sheffield, Yorks
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Battalion: 7th Battalion
Number: S/3549
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

rootgatherer

rootgatherer Report 30 Jan 2013 20:53

Name: Albert Bagshaw
Residence: 22 Elm Terrace, Rotherham
Document Year: 1915
Regimental Number: 3231
Regiment Name: Cameron Highlanders
Number of images: 12

Demob 31 March 1920

Age at enlistment 38 years 10 months.

Year of birth 1876

Next of kin, son Harvey (could be Harry?) Bagshaw of same address (aged 13)

His military record is on Ancestry.


EDIT

Guess the son's name is actually Harry.

1911

Name: Albert Bagshaw
Age in 1911: 34
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1877
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Stain Cross, Yorkshire, England
Civil parish: Bolton upon Dearne
County/Island: Yorkshire-West Riding
Country: England
Street Address: 20 Elm Terrace Bolton On Dearne
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Hair Dresser
Registration district: Doncaster
Registration District Number: 512
Sub-registration district: Barnbrough
ED, institution, or vessel: 22
Piece: 28178
Household Members:
Name Age
Albert Bagshaw 34
Sarah Ellen Bagshaw 34
Harry Bagshaw 9
Aloise Bagshaw 7 <<<< Alvin

Married 10 years, 6 children born 2 living 4 had died.


Looks like Sarah Ellen had died and that's why Harry is his NOK

Deaths Sep 1912 BAGSHAW Sarah E 35 Doncaster 9c 735

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Christine

Christine Report 30 Jan 2013 21:32

thank you rootgatherer and mike .
a slip of the finger with the date .
the info is right ,His regimental number was the thing I wanted .
thanks again
christine

rootgatherer

rootgatherer Report 30 Jan 2013 21:40

Pleasure to help Christine.

Respect due to an almost 39 year old widower with children enlisting so early in the war.

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Christine

Christine Report 3 Feb 2013 17:27

ROOTGATHERER, Thanks again for your help, I have know go the images off ancestry and am going to seen them to a cousin of my mothers who once asked if I had anything,!
thanks for your last comment, I had not thought about his age and children before I know he got a housekeeper and he later married her and had 3 more children
Regards
christine