Hi everyone I'm new to the list so I'm posting my interest in this area. I'm researching my wife's paternal family, the Derbyshires who originate in Lancashire. I have Thomas Ward DERBYSHIRE, born in Liverpool in 1874. He joined the 12th Lancers, the regiment then being posted to the Hartley Wintney area where in 1898 he married local girl, Annie HULFORD. After being discharged from the army he and his family settled in this area. Both he and Annie died in 1955. They had the following children - Elsie Ann b 1899 Thomas Walter b 1904 Richard William b 1908 Daisy Lillian b 1909 Sidney George b 1911 (my wife's father) Francis J b 1913 Sidney George (George) joined the army as a boy soldier in 1926 and enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps in 1929. He served in Shanghai, Egypt, Palestine, was part of the BEF in WW2, North Africa, Greece and Crete where he captured in 1941. He spent the rest of the war as a PoW. I'd like to make contact with anyone researching this family which I have traced back to 1764 in Lancashire. Best wishes Peter