on my dad's marriage certificate he is listed as electrical cable maker in the 231st battery, but his address is at camis eskan in Cardross Scotland this was a house used as a military hospital can anyone shed some light on this he is William Nelson electrical cable, maker gunner 231st battery 74th heavy anti-aircraft regiment R.A
Hi Alan FMP has come up with 59 possible hits on RA Attestations. Have you got anything else that could help narrow things down? Did he have a middle name? What was his age? Where was he born? Gus
hi, Gus, he was born in 1919 no middle name but I think his father was from Kilmarnock, I am working with only a marriage certificate which puts his address at the marriage as camis eskan thanks for the input alan
Hello and welcome to the forum Why not apply for copy service records? (You will need a copy death certificate for that.) Request records of deceased service personnel Armed with those, and depending on the level of your interest in his service, you can then get relevant copy War Diaries to follow his service. Good luck with your research.
Hi DBF is right. You will need to get his Service Record. Some info on 74 HAA Regt here 74th (City of Glasgow) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Wikipedia Hope this helps Gus
My dad was 231 battery, 74 HAA. Walter McFarlane. They were detached to 89th HAA in 1943 with 8th army and continued with them into Italy. Disbanded August 1944 and my dad was posted to a LAA regt that finished up in Germany.
The occupation of electrical cable maker on his marriage certificate could be his civillian occupation before his call up & not his role in the RA. Local Registrars certainly included this on certificates for duration only men. I have examples of a WW1 soldier in the Royal Defence Corps who died in service at a Military Hospital in Reading & a WW2 RA Gunner who died in a road accident UK in 1940, who both have their civillian occupations on their death certificates. Registrars do most things by requirement of law, so I assume the occupation section of the certificate was intended to record the persons primary occupation or trade, despite their wartime employment.
