Thank you Eve for your reply, Would this mean his appointment may be recorded within the London Gazette? If only I could register as a researcher, but this seems impossible with an address and postcode outside of the UK! The Civil Service List are the records searchable on the National Archives website? I have received printouts from records from there in the past but usually become lost trying to find the sets of records applicable. Cheers from Bob Campbell [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 10:57 AM To: Bob Campbell via ; Bob Campbell Subject: Re: Frederick William Campbell army pensioner, postman and messenger at war office > Am attempting to piece together the last years of my great grandfather > Frederick William Campbell.... > Here is what I know so far, > He was discharged from the army as a Chelsea Pensioner in 1907 > At Shepherds Bush in 1911 he is aged 44 both a pensioner and a postman > Described as a widower he later remarried the widow householder in the > 1911 > census > The marriage in 1915 shows him as a messenger for the War OFFice at age 48 > The 1922 marriage of his son has his occupation also as a messenger for > the > War Office > His 2nd wife died in 1932, still living at Shepherds Bush, Frederick would > be 65 and was still described as a Messenger in the War Office. > My questions being would there a record of him in either or both in the > Post > Office or Army records? Civil Service list should include him and state salary. > Would a Post Office employee be a messenger for the War Office? Probably went from one to the other, with his Army service to recommend him. He would be about on the age limit for call-up, but to be on the safe side, he may then have joined the Civil Service - and working for the War Office would be in a reserved occupation. > Frederick may have died at Kensington in 1938 but the age stated appears > incorrect! Remember the man who knows the correct age is in no position to say. The informant may have looked at him and guessed/ EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society