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From: "Ros Jarvis" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] GRANDFATHER
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:50:04 -0000
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to everyone who has been mailing about this

I do have the CD Rom of the national roll for birmingham and had not found
the H Jarvis who lived in Cherrywood road - significant because that is
where my father and mother were brought up and I can remember going to see
his mother (Henry's widow) at 5 back of 55 cherrywood road!!!

Points to consider
1 I have 2 lively octogenarians and a nonegenarian (?spelling?) (my
mother's family) who I have just phoned and they say they lived at 2 back of
38 Cherry wood rd and my father's family lived on the main road on the
opposite side. My uncle's first guess was 35 - but he says it could easily
have been 41 - definitely an odd number. The only point of contention is
that this was Bordesley and the item you have says Small Heath - however
there is about 1 mile in it. Cherry wood road was demolished years ago and
is now an industrial estate.

2 he is a sergeant and I really don't see him as that - also he must have
joined up earlier than I thought to have been invalided out and gone back.
But this is my father's childhood memories I am using conveyed to me in my
childhood.

3 my father says he was 4 when his father died - my father was 4 in 1916

4 the main discrepancy is his memory that he didn't have to join up and
and in fact did so later in the war AFTER his brothers were killed

5 But the south staffordshire regiment goes with the writing on the back
of the marriage cert - S Slaff.

6 his educational level seems inconsistent with the rank of sergeant - or
am I mistaken here??

to Forrest Anderson - Are you taking this from the CD rom or from a
book??? - I got my cd from archive books - if yours is the same could you
tell me the page no please - if not yes please I would like the full
details.

I am so uncertain as to how military stuff fits together that anyone who
feels like telling me
1 do this
2 now do this
will earn my everlasting thanks

thanks for all the help so far

Regards

Ros



----- Original Message -----
From: "Forrest Anderson" <>


> Birmingham is one of the places covered by The National Roll of the Great
> War 1914-1918. Originally a 14-volume work, it gives short details (about
> 9 lines) about men and women who served in the forces or did war work.
> Unlike most Rolls, it also lists those who survived, which can be jolly
> useful. Although it has its limitations (and some errors), the
> information to contains, especially the addresses, can be

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