1918 RMLI research help
 

is there any way that i can find further information on the person stated below - like service records, ships served on, exact cause of death?

Private JOHN CARROLL

PLY/18749, 1st R.M. Bn. R.N. Div., Royal Marine Light Infantry

age 18

died of wounds on 03 September 1918

i have tried the The National Archives(Kew) website and have turned up nothing... not even a medal card. the above information is all that i know of his millitary sevice and was found on the cwgc website

any help will be much appreciated

regards jon

Jon, Ancestry have a Royal Naval Division casualty database contact someone on forum who has a membership and they may be able to tell you more.

Also, write a nice letter to the Fleet Air Arm Museum regarding your man and see what happens :D

thank you, i'll write to the Fleet Air Arm Museum and see what happens.

regards jon

PLY 18749 Pte John Carroll Died of Wounds on 3/9/18. He embarked for France on 26/3/18, his mother was Elizabeth Carroll of 4 Weir View, Lucan Co Dublin. He was born 28/4/1898 at Lucan in Co Dublin.

Not much i'm afraid but it's a little more than you already had.

OC14

Jon, try putting your details into the Commonwealth War Graves Commision Site.

Pete.

Yep thats him- thanks for that information.

but if you notice it says (on the site) that he was born in 1898, and yet it says he died at the age of 18 in 1918? The 1901 census has his date of birth at around 1898 too (yet his date of birth is 1900 in the 1911 census).

so what would you say the story is here?