by Mike Jones » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:58 pm
Hello Joan,
I was wrong on that one, I was sure that this William Henry Round was going to be your grandfather. Born in Worcester, it seemed too much of a coincidence. If only, the information in a full service record would have answered all your questions. The next move will have to be to contact the Regimental Archives at Norton Barracks. There is an E/mail link to them from the home page of this website. I know for sure that your g/father was issued with a Silver War Badge. The information that goes with this award has some good information in it. It will tell you when he enlisted, his age, the number of the badge and lots more. The Archives have to make a £5 charge for looking out this information. It took a lot of gathering and two years to index it all, so a fiver is a bargain.
There are many pension records at Kew in London, they are listed under the reference "PIN26". I am not sure if these are ALL the records or just some of them but they are not on line. You could also contact the Veterans Agency, they do have pension payment records for the Great War.
Happy hunting Mike
Mike Jones