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To give you an idea of what I am up to this is a pen-picture I developed based on what I researched, assisted by you guys.

Having looked at your write up on Gunner Goddard you obviously don't need any guidance round Ancestry etc.

There are no attestation papers/service records on FMP for 6085 Adams but there are for 6082 Edwin Jukes & 6083 George Smart and both were born in Gillingham. They can also both be found on Public Family Trees on Ancestry when one realises Edwin added a year or two on to his age when he attested. George died in 1951 in Salisbury but Edwin outlived him dying and being buried in Gillingham in 1957 - so a wander round your local graveyard may be profitable.

Cognito - meant to add last night that the South Africa service dates & clasp entitlement for Edwin Jukes & George Smart were identical to those of Frederick Jasper Martin and one can say all three lasted the course.

Before they returned a second Volunteer Active Service Company (VASC) would have been sent out in early 1901 to replace them which would also potentially have contained men from the Gillingham L Company as this press clipping from the Western Gazette of 18 January 1901 shows:



Then in early 1902 a third VASC would almost certainly have proceeded to SA - well that is the way things worked in South Staffordshire.

As Dave said IY service records can usually been found on Ancestry, but if you have trouble finding them there it is also worth looking on FMP for them - in my looking on FMP for men born in Gillingham, Dorset I noticed attestation papers/service records for some of the IY men Dave identified.