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2nd Lt Frank Bray. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D1...

From medal card on www.ancestry.co.uk Address: 6 Hillfield Park, Muswell Hill, N10

From London Gazette www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29367/supplements/11310 Second Lieutenant on probation (16 Nov 1914)

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His probabtionary appointment appears to be from 1915 but even then it seems odd that he would have made it all the way through the war without a further promotion unless he had to resign his commission or remain in the UK. There is no obvious candidate on the Commonwealth War Graves site. The 3rd Battalion was the Regimental Depot and Training Battalion and never left the UK, which makes it seems odd as well that he would have had a Medal Index Card as he would not have served in a Theatre of War. There is a Battalion Diary of sorts which makes limited reference to Frank. 28-12-1915 Second Lieuts Blackman and Bray reported their arrival. qrrarchive.websds.net/PDF/ES00319151202.pdf 5-5-1916 2nd Lieut. Bray returned from Sick Leave. qrrarchive.websds.net/PDF/ES00319160401.pdf 13-6-1916 2nd Lieuts O'Hara and Bray left for Hythe. qrrarchive.websds.net/PDF/ES00319160602.pdf (That unfortunately is where the transcription ends)

My ancestor was private Frederick Henry Ashworth of the East Surrey’s. Can you confirm if this is him?

John Alfred Whittard Bigger. Fourth of seven children born to William Grimshaw Bigger [b.1861 d.1922] a doctor and Emily Philadelphia Bigger nee Whittard [sic] [b.1862 d.1941]. Born in the First quarter of 1893, baptised on 22nd February 1893 at the Parish Church of the Immanuel, Streatham, London. The 1901 census records him living at “Aberfoyle” the family home overlooking Streatham Common, London, with his parents and older brothers Walter [b.1889], William [b.1891] and younger brother Charles [b.1899]. The household also comprised four live-in domestic servants. The 1911 census records him living at with his parents at “Aberford” 512 High Road, Streatham, London. Also in the household are his older sister Kathleen [b.1888], brothers Walter & William – both now Medical Students, and two cousins. The family now has only three domestic servants. John’s occupation is recorded as being in the “Woollen Trade”. His medal record card shows that he joined the 5th East Surrey Regiment as a Private and was later commissioned into the 4th East Surrey Regiment. It further shows that he first served in India. London Gazette entry – February 1917 – Special Reserve Officers Cadet Unit, to be 2nd Lieuts. with effect 25th January 1917 .... J A W Bigger, East Surrey Regiment. His entry in the National Probate Calendar reads “Bigger, John Alfred Whittard of The Croft, Commonside East, Mitcham, Surrey. 2nd Lieut. H>M Army died 8th May 1917 France on active service. Probate London 23rd May to William Grimshaw Bigger, physician and surgeon. Effects £1327 9s 6d.