Could he have changed regiments? One of my grandfather's cousins
served in three different regiments in the First World War and had
three different regimental numbers? Perhaps one of Wilfred Beavan's
service numbers could have been for a different regiment. The CWGC
record says he was in the "Royal Field Artillery" but Ancestry says
"Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery." Were the "Royal
Horse Artillery" and the "Royal Field Artillery" two different
regiments in WWI? If so that might explain the difference in service
numbers.
Roy
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Martin Briscoe
<mbriscoe(a)mbriscoe.me.uk> wrote:
There is a conflict between the CWGC record which has service number
as
220070 and Ancestry's Soldier's Who Died In The Great War which has 220670.
Ancestry often have it mistranscribed but his medal card is written 220670
on the card itself.
It is important because it might make finding his service record more
difficult though I can't see it on Ancestry.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William