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Originally Posted by steve2qec

Hello Walter, just spoken to my father-in-law and it seems that one of his uncles (Thomas) did indeed live in Gt Harwood. He was already in the East Lancs Regt prior to WW1 (in 1911 census his address is Fulwood Barracks) could you post what info you have on Thomas then I can rule him in or out? Cheers, Steve

The Thomas Shearon in my records is from the Gt Harwood R-O-H.
Gunner 92004 R.F.A. 1 of Queen St Gt Harwood.
Now we have an anomaly, there is a Thomas Shearon in documentsonline, he is shown on his medal card as
A/Cpl. 10624. East Lancs Regt, enlisted 15-01-1912
discharged 03-08-1916.
He is not shown in the East Lancs records.

The batch of numbers which 10624 would be in was used by the 1st & 2nd Battalions.
You say he is in the 1911 census at Fulwood, is so he could have been nearing the end of his first term of service, many men signed on for a 12 year stretch, serrving 5, and the rest on reserve, at the out break of war he would be recalled to the colours, and dispatched to the front.
In the 1911 census does it say where he was born.
This man is a puzzler, and without his service records we may never solve it.
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