Hi Patricia - here is a link to Canadian Immigration records...hope it helps. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/index-e.html Anne in Hamilton, Ontario -----Original Message----- From: Patricia Andrew Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:52 PM To: DERBYSGEN@rootsweb.com Subject: [DBY] my errant grandfather - military service My paternal grandfather was, in many ways, not a good man. An alcoholic and wife beater, for starters. Still, he's mine and I want to know more about him. He and his brothers in Salford, Lancs all joined up in 1914 and were assigned to the British Army Service Corps. In 1916 he came home on leave. A family blowup prompted him to take his three younger children away from their mother and park them with his mother. He then emigrated to Canada with his oldest son and joined the Canadian Army. I have his attestation papers for that. In them, he swore he had never served in another country's armed forces. The Canadian officials apparently ignored the fact that he had a piece of shot in one eye. You don't get that being the town postman. He also listed his mother as his wife. So I wonder how he managed to leave the British Army and emigrate from England. Could a British soldier just quit in the middle of a war? Did he go AWOL? Did he and his son need to get passports to be accepted into Canada? I understand much of the British records from WWI were destroyed in WWII bombing. I have searched the British medal rolls records but found no definitive answer there. And I don't know where else to look. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DERBYSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message