[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Turtle

How did you find that info, Retlaw? I'm on Ancestry, and found some records, but that is amazing! Incidentally, he was underage when he joined up. He travelled to Lincolnshire thinking he wouldn't be found out as easily as if he joined up in Lancashire. He hated working in the cotton mill so much that becoming a soldier seemed like a better life. Sadly, that proved not to be the case.

Now that would be telling.
Young Richard might have been under age when he enlisted, but he was of military age when he got to France.
Did you know his older brother John Thomas also served in the Lincolns. Pte. 1848. 11th Lincs, looks like they enlisted around the same time from their numbers on the form which lists all his kin the bit thats missing after Army Form is W 5080.