Please go easy on me here, I'm new to the site - I actually teach English to the military overseas ..
I've been doing a lot of research on the web as I never met my grandfather, who was marked on my mother's Clonmel birth certificate as 'Private, National Army'. It seems that there was a brigade in Clonmel in 1944 as I found this on http://home.adelphia.net/~dryan67/orders/eire.htmlan:
First Division: HQ Cork
1st Brigade: HQ Clonmel
10th, 13th, 21st Battalions
Not knowing if my grandfather was English or Irish, I now think that he was an Irish Reservist . But where do I look for further information on him? I'm ideally looking for some sort of military records to discover his place of birth/date of birth which I would presume would be held in an archive somewhere??
If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.
Thanks
Kira (specialist English teacher with a focus on the military/aviation & on travel in W.Africa but not geneaology!!!)
I've been doing a lot of research on the web as I never met my grandfather, who was marked on my mother's Clonmel birth certificate as 'Private, National Army'. It seems that there was a brigade in Clonmel in 1944 as I found this on http://home.adelphia.net/~dryan67/orders/eire.htmlan:
First Division: HQ Cork
1st Brigade: HQ Clonmel
10th, 13th, 21st Battalions
Not knowing if my grandfather was English or Irish, I now think that he was an Irish Reservist . But where do I look for further information on him? I'm ideally looking for some sort of military records to discover his place of birth/date of birth which I would presume would be held in an archive somewhere??
If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.
Thanks
Kira (specialist English teacher with a focus on the military/aviation & on travel in W.Africa but not geneaology!!!)
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