ABERDEEN-L Archives

Archiver > ABERDEEN > 2006-07 > 1152530098


From: "Elaine Smith" <>
Subject: RE: [ABERDEEN] CRIMEAN WAR
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:14:58 +0100
In-Reply-To: <30526584.1152520082969.JavaMail.root@web10sl>


Hello Grahame,

You could try the National Archives and see if he was discharged to
pension...'the majority of records of men discharged to pension between 1760
and 1913 are preserved in the record series WO97'

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/army/step4.htm

Once you have read the page, try going to 'search the archives' at the top
of the page and choose the catalogue. Put your guys name in and an
approximate dateline and see if anything comes up (remember try various
spellings of his name if not immediately successful)
If you find him you can then order copies online. I've used this service
when looking for a relative who had received a pension and though I didn't
get the right man, I was sent copies which toldl me the date of enlistment,
age, birthplace, occupation, places of service and date of disharge.

Also, Genuki have a good info on military records at
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/BritMilRecs.html

Regards
Elaine

>From: <>
>To:
>Subject: [ABERDEEN] CRIMEAN WAR
>Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:28:02 +1000
>
>Hello Everyone
>
>I was wondering if any one would know where to find enlistment records for
>men who joined the Crimean war 1850/54 period.
>
>I am trying to Find my Great great grandfather George Jaffray who spent
>9months in the crimean war but cannot find any records of him being
>inlisted.
>
>He was born around 1835/37 in Aberdeen Scotland.
>
>I would appreciate a prompt reply please.
>
>Regards
>
>Grahame James

_________________________________________________________________
The new MSN Search Toolbar now includes Desktop search!
http://join.msn.com/toolbar/overview

This thread: