A mate asked me to help out with research into his Grandfather. First stop service records but we need a date of birth or Army Number. Can any of you lovely members help us out please. Cheers. Here's a photo of the chap in question & his grave, which I think my mate said was in Chigwell. London born & bred . Died 18th May 1990 aged 79. Thanks in advance or any help. As Service Dress he's going to be Pre-war enlistment , don't know whether he was Reg or TA.
Hi, It looks like a Royal Artillery cap badge to me. If he first served in RA then his DOB ought to be recorded in his RA Attestation record in the RA Attestation registers on Findmypast. Steve Y
Yeah I know he RA I put that in thread thread title . I have asked another member to look him up in Attestation records.. Tricky Dicky has also got me a DoB now. 11 June 1910 also his middle name is Edward.
George Edward SELLWOOD Born : 11th June 1910 Died : 2 Q 1990 Redbridge, Essex.? I can't find him in the R.A. enlistment books? Only George Thomas and George Henry James Sellwood
Thanks for helping chaps, passed info onto my mate who is very grateful. Service records will be applied for soon .
Guy, would you be so kind to look for Edward Sellwood in the enlistment books, please. The MoD told my mate there were no records for this George Sellwood. Recently a relative of his said he dropped George & was known as Edward. I know it's 6 years in from me asking originally.
Hi No one of that name in the attestation records- Sellwood Alfred Morris — — 1939 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Charles 1905 — 1923 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Daniel Victor — — 1940 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Edgar Robert — — 1937 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Ernest Albert — — 1941 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Ernest Leslie — — 1940 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Geo. Thomas — — 1940 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood George Henry James — — 1939 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood John Henry — — 1938 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood John Robert — — 1940 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Leonard Walter — — 1940 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Ralph — — 1941 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood Walter John — — 1938 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain Sellwood William Foster 1903 — 1922 Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942 Great Britain None in tracer cards either - Alfred Sidney Selwood 1 May 1939 395/99 Field Regt RA View Record Arthur Selwood 13 Dec 1939 143/21 Lt Anti-Aircraft Regt RA View Record Charles David Selwood View Record Clifford Selwood 28 Nov 1940 226 Trg Regt RA (Lt Anti-Aircraft) View Record Clifford Thomas Selwood 4 Sep 1941 226 Trg Regt RA (Lt Anti-Aircraft) View Record Frederick William Selwood View Record Frederick Tom Selwood 16 Sep 1940 2 Searchlight Regt RA View Record George Alfred Selwood 13 Jan 1937 45 Searchlight Regt RA View Record George Arthur Selwood 15 Apr 1937 41 Searchlight Regt RA (TA) View Record George Frederick Selwood 10 Apr 1947 General Service Corps View Record George Selwood 20 Nov 1947 General Service Corps View Record H H W Selwood View Record Hugh Cecil Selwood 21 Feb 1946 52 P T W General Service Corps View Record Harry Edward Selwood 10 Mar 1948 View Record Joseph Walter Selwood 6 Jun 1947 Royal Army Temperance Association View Record Reginald Clande Selwood 29 Jul 1940 354/27 Anti-Aircraft Bn RE (TA) View Record Willie Selwood 27 Nov 1942 30 Bn W Yorks Regt View Record Arthur William Sellwood 15 Mar 1940 3 Maritime Anti-Aircraft Bty RA View Record Alfred Orford Sellwood 31 Dec 1942 4 Trg Regt RA (Field) View Record Cyril William Sellwood 14 Nov 1940 The Wiltshire Regt View Record Dannie Victor Sellwood 12 Sep 1940 3 Trg Regt RA (Field) View Record Dennis James Sellwood 4 Jul 1946 39 Trg Regt RA (Sigs) View Record Edgar Robert Sellwood 21 Sep 1937 View Record Ernest Leslie Sellwood 27 Feb 1941 72nd Coast Training Reg View Record George Henry James Sellwood 8 Apr 1940 Z Bty RA 101 Anti-Aircraft Regt RA View Record John Robert Sellwood 20 Feb 1941 X List Iv Field View Record John Sellwood 6 Apr 1944 Survey Training Regiment School Of Arty View Record Leonard Walter Sellwood 16 Jan 1941 9 Trg Regt RA (Field) View Record William Reginald Sellwood 10 Sep 1948 Field View Record J R Sellwood 8 Anti-aircraft Reserve Regiment View Record Frederick Charles Sillwood 25 Feb 1941 24 Trg Regt RA (Hvy Anti-Aircraft) View Record George Daniel Sillwood 12 Dec 1940 24 Trg Regt RA (Hvy Anti-Aircraft) View Record William John Sillwood 8 May 1941 210 Trg Regt RA (Hvy Anti-Aircraft) regards Robert
Ok, wow , thanks for being so thorough. Back to square one. My mate says thank you for looking. A thought. Did the Army Cadets exist back then ? That photo is definitely him in a RA uniform. If he there are no records of him all I can think is he was a Cadet & didnt actually join up.
He might have been a 'Badgie', a boy trumpeter. They enlisted at fifteen and transferred to adult service at seventeen and a half or eighteen.
Well he didn't join the Gunners as an adult that's for sure. Thanks for suggesting that. I've told my mate.
He is shown as being at home with his wife when the 1939 Register was taken on 29th September. The territorial Army had been mobilised during August & September so its probable that he was not in the TA. No note is made against his entry to say that he is for example a reservist awaiting recall into the army. There is also no Royal artillery Tracer card on ancestry for any combination of his names.
