1549771 Charles GILLAM, 4 HAA Regiment RA - Any Info / Photo pls

This is the card he completed to apply for his medals post war. He would have obtained a blank card from his local Post office.





Gillam, C - Forces War Records - UK, WWII, British Army Medal Cards, 1939-1945 - Forces War Records



His Royal Artillery Tracer Card is not online but those for near numbers to him 1549768, 1549777, 1549778 & 1549781 all show joining dates of 16th Feb 1940.


Travers

 

This post is not intended to dispute the information on enlistment dates supplied by Travers, but the year of enlistment appears to differ from the year of attestation. I've no doubt there is an explanation for this. Was there a waiting period between attesting and enlisting? The attestation dates for the service numbers listed by Travers are shown below :-

1549768 Gnr. Charles Ernest White


1549771 Gnr. Charles Gillam


1549777 Gnr. Arthur Ingram

1549778 Gnr. Humphrey Goudie Hunter

1549781 Gnr. John Mahon

 

Hi David

Hadn't realised that the attestations on FMP & the tracer cards on ancestry contradicted each other. Have revisited the tracer cards & Feb 1940 is what they show. Example below.
Image from Ancestry.co.uk

I wonder if the index entry at FMP for the attestation is giving the date of the first entry in that particular attestation book rather than the actual year of that soldiers attestation.

Seems to be usual for there to be no tracer card for soldiers transferred out of the R.A.

Travers


Edit: Found another couple where the event date on the FMP index entry is wrong so must be an indexing error, although most seem correct.