Timeline for What can I assume from consecutive regimental numbers?
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| Oct 19, 2016 at 16:18 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | That's a decent hit rate! Curious how '49, '51, '53 attested in August but the earlier '41 didn't attest until September. Maybe the clerk was behind doing the numbering, so the papers got out of sequence. Or maybe the attestation can be one day and the numbers aren't assigned until later. I have an idea I saw that happen once - guy attested one day, went home, gets called up later to be put into uniform and it's only at that point that his number is assigned. Which is another reason why consecutive numbers might not have been next in the queue. But given the coincidence of names here... | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 10:40 | comment | added | user104 | Update: there aren't many soldiers around that number sequence who have surviving records. 24441 attested in September 1915. 24449 in August 1915 (ditto 24451 and 24453). 24431 to 24437 (with gaps) attested in September 1915, except 24434 who was July 15. So I'm going to settle on an attestation date probably between July and September 1915, so they weren't in the initial wave of eager volunteers but signed up in the wake of the National Registration Act but before the Derby Scheme and later conscription. | |
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| Oct 18, 2016 at 19:47 | history | answered | AdrianB38 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |