"Syd and Judy Hockey" <syd@sydandjudy.freeserve.co.uk> > have just found my G.G.Grandfathers CHELSEA HOSPITAL > records and it states his date of discharge as 2574. That is exactly >how it > is wrote. Can I take it that it means 2-5-1874. I do hope you do not I have no idea. See: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/BritMilRecs.html British Military Records