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From: Iain Kerr <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Capt. Robert Cecil GORDON-CANNING.
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 20:08:21 +0100
In-Reply-To: <010401c0be8f$5ed39820$e55d5cca@w6f5z4>


At 21:47 06/04/01 +1000, Norman Archibald wrote:
>Hello Listers,
>I am seeking any information on Capt. Robert Cecil GORDON-CANNING, a
>decorated soldier of WW1.
>Robert was a Captain in the Royal Hussar`s during W.W.1
>I am particularly interested in his personal details, such as where he was
>born, his parents and the unit he served with and his war record.
>As i understand it, one of the areas he served in was the middle east and
>because of this he became an active Arabist after the war, as well as a
>member of the fascist party of Sir Oswald MOSLEY.
>TIA. from Norman A.

Norman,

You should be able to glean some detail;s of his military career from Army
Lists of the years of his service.

For more personal details, you will need to research his personnel records.

The surviving records of all officers and soldiers who joined the British
Army and who were discharged after 1922 are stored in the Ministry of
Defence Record Office CS(R)2b at Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex UB3
1RS. This includes territorial, volunteer, militia and home-defence forces
and some colonial forces. The MOD Record Office also held the WWI records
that have been progressively released to the Public Record Office over the
past six years.

Information on the service records of the individual may be obtained by
application to: Ministry of Defence Records Office CS(R)2, Bourne Avenue,
Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RF, United Kingdom. {Telephone ++44 (0) 208 573
3831}. They will send you an application form that will require a search
fee of £25 per person being enquired after. Payment of the search fee does
not guarantee a successful result. The MOD now requires applicants to
certify that they are the individual concerned or their next of kin,
together with a copy of the death certificate, as appropriate. The form
asks for details of the other kin between the enquirer and the
subject. This recent preoccupation seems to have arisen out of concerns
caused by the Data Protection Act 1999, required by European Union
legislation. There is reportedly a long delay in getting the response, the
result will now be a statement of service and not copies of the original
documents.

Yours aye,

Iain Kerr in Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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