Hi All, In desperate need of someone's help in finding a relation of mine who was killed in ww1. I know nothing about him except that he was 2nd Lt . A H M Henderson who served with the KOSB. He was killed on Gallipoli 13/7/1915. I know his mother was Australian with the last name of Millen born in Victoria in the Bendigo area. I have spent hours searching the internet but keep running into brick walls Regards John
John try this. Do you know which Btn he was with, as i typed in KOSB and up came a page with all the Btns, i think if you search through it you very well may come up with the answer you want. Kings Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum. The Barracks Berwick-Upon-tweed TD15 IDG England Tel#01289307426 Fax 01289331928 E'mail kosbmus@milnet.uk.net Website http://www.kosb.co.uk/museum.htm This came from the British Archives if you go to that site their will be more you can search for or your relative. Good Luck Regards Cobber
Thanks Cobber, I ended up going to the CWGC. I ended up with info that will help my tree. His name was Andrew Hubert Millin from Galashield, Scotland.. He was very young for an officer as he was only 19 when he was killed. I gave up on his war record as each goverment site gave me the run around referring back to the site that told me to come to this site Thanks again for your help John
John A. Hubert M Henderson is listed on the Galashields War Memorial http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic294.html He was born 1895/6 and his birth details which will include the names of his father and mother, including her family name, can be seen at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk There is a fee (minimum 6.00 GBPounds) but they do accept credit cards which lets you view and download the Birth Register page. Scottish records are especially good because they also show when the child's parents married and where. You can then look for the marriage register entry (if they married in Scotland) which will name the parents of both parties to the marriage. So you are back to the Grandparents in two downloads. Ken
Thanks for your reply Ken. I agree that Scotlandpeople is a good site for finding BDM, prior to 1855. You could put in the surname and parents name and find the children. Now you have to know the childs first name which most researchers don't and thats why they are using the site. I was lucky enough to find my info while searching the net. John
Hi John The leading sites for WW1 research, at least over here in the UK but with a lot of Australian users, are the Great War Forum: www.1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums and its associated site The Long, Long, Trail: www.1914-1918.net I probably spend as much time there as on WW2 forums. Tracing individual servicemen is not my speciality, but the latter site in particular gives detailed instructions on how to do this, so that is where I would start if I wanted to . However, they do suggest that its difficult to get very far without a service number. Adrian
Hi Adrian, Thanks for your reply. I have put my question on the great war forum site. There was a person who said he had a book about KOSB and those who served in it in ww1. He has not answered as yet. The CWGC did not give his service number. Regards John
Did English officers have service numbers. I just found another relation who was an officer with 9 Battalion East Surrey Regiment who was KIA but there is no service number on CWGC
Hi John British Army officers did not have service numbers in WW1 Your man Andrew served with the 1/4th (Border) Battalion KOSB which was one of the Territorial Battalions of the Regiment (part-time soldiers who trained about once a week in their local area) He attended Edinburgh University as a Student of Medicine 1913-1914 and was a Cadet Sergeant and Honourary Lieutenant in the 1st Highland Cadet Battalion of the Royal Scots 1911 -1913. Joined the 1/4th KOSB as a 2nd Lt. in May 1913. Missing in action, along with so many others of the 1/4th and 1/5th (Dumfries and Galloway) Battalions on an attack on the Turkish positions at Gallipoli. The Borderers were too "successful" in going beyond their objective and were badly shelled by the supporting French artillery. Andrew is listed in the University Roll of the Fallen, with a photo, so if you would like a copy, e-mail me. I've sent a PMessage. Ken
Forgot to say Service records for British soldiers are often not available. The records were lost/damaged in the WW2 air raids on London. They can be accessed via "Ancestry" but unlike the Australian records they are not free - there is a charge for every page you view!!! Ken
G'day John, have a read of this. Your man is mentioned on page 24 so either Control F "Henderson" or read the preceding pages for context etc ... or both! http://www.archive.org/stream/warrecord00browuoft/warrecord00browuoft_djvu.txt Hope this is of interest.
