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107. BSM. Voyzey, Alfred George

Battery Sergeant Major

Date of Birth: 1870, Chudleigh, Bideford, Devon (CENS)
Occupation: Locomotive Driver
Previous Serv: 1st Glamorgan RGA Vols
1908 Serv. No: 107
Awards: TFEM (Oct '13).

Personal Details

WORKING NOTES

Born Q3 1870, Bideford, Devon. Parents - James & Mary

1871 - 16 Hart St, Bideford. 7mo. W parents and 5 older sibs (dad-Railway Labourer)

1881 - Plasmarl. 11yo. Scholar. W parents & 2 older sibs

1887 - Married Mary Elizabeth Willis, Q4, Swansea

1891 - 9 Rees's Row, Llangyfelach. 20yo. Occ-Points Shunter, Steel Wks. W wife Mary, Selina and Wm Geo

1901 - 6 Rosebery Ter, Llangyfelach. 32yo. Occ-Engine Driver. W Lizzie, Selina, Geo, Rachel & Emma

1911 - 6 Fawe St, Morriston. 40yo. Occ-Engine Driver, Tin Plate Works. W Mary, Wm Geo and Emma

1921 - 16 Rosebery Ter, Plasmarl. 50y10m. Occ-Locomotive Driver, Morriston Tinplate Co. Widower, w dau Selina and her family

1929 - Died aged 59, Q3, Swansea

Address:
Morriston

Military Service

No SR

TFEM awarded to ex-BSM Voyzey by Col Henry (CDL 25 Feb 1914)

For 30 years he was in the 1st Glamorgan Volunteers and for a long time was Battery Sergeant Major of the Ammunition Column of the 1st Welsh Howitzer (Swansea) Brigade

Sources: (TFEM)

Explanation Of Abbreviations

Awards

  • 14/15 – 1914/15 Star
  • BWM – British War Medal
  • VIC – Victory Medal
  • SWB – Silver War Badge
  • TFEM – Territorial Force (1908-1921)
  • TEM – Territorial Efficiency Medal (1921-1930)
  • TFWM – Territorial Force War Medal

Gallantry

  • MID – Mention In Dispatches
  • LG – London Gazette
  • MM – Military Medal
  • DCM – Distinguished Conduct Medal

Sources

  • ROLL – Medal Roll for British War Medal and Victory Medal (Ancestry.co.uk)
  • MIC – Medal Index Cards (Ancestry.co.uk)
  • SR – Service Record (Ancestry.co.uk)
  • SR-F – Service Record (FindMyPast.co.uk)
  • SR-NA – Service Record (National Archives) – officers
  • COMM – Commission letters (National Library of Wales)
  • SWB – Silver War Badge Records (Ancestry.co.uk)
  • PENS – Pension Records (Western Front Association/Fold3)
  • CWGC – Commonwealth War Grave Commission
  • RAA – Royal Artillery Attestations 1883 -1942 (FindMyPast.co.uk)
  • NEWS – Newspapers
  • CENS – Census Records (Ancestry.co.uk & FindMyPast.co.uk)
  • BFB – Briton Ferry Boys at the Front Fund Committee Records (swansea.gov.uk)
  • FAM – Family Records
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