[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Mark2009

Hello Retlaw, my wife has a relative who she has located in her family tree research as follows -Riley Oldham dob 23/9/1896. Parents were Riley and Eliza Oldham. I have located a Riley Oldham on the 1918 absent voters list- 40198
Pte.
4th Res. Batt. East Lancs

I wonder please if from your research you would be able to say whether or not these were the same person and if you had any further informatjon about him?

Many thanks
Mark

Pte. 40198. OLDHAM. Riley. 4th Reserve East Lancs. 4 Fern Gore, Oswaldtwistle.
Riley also served as Pte. 31054. Loyal North Lancs.
Just one thing the AVL-18 for Greater Accrington has hundreds of errors.
There never was a 4th Reserve East Lancs, the two reserve Battalions for the East Lancs Regiment were the 3rd E.L. & the 10th which became the 47th Reserve 10th Brigade in 1916. The 40198 No. suggests early 1918 for the East Lancs.