Jack Payne No1551853 Gunner

[EssexPoacher]

My wife’s niece has asked me to see if I can find details about a person she believes to be her Grandfather.
Her Grandparents married in 1942 and her Grandmother remarried in 1960.

Details on the marriage certificate are.
Southport Registry Office
21st Oct 1942
Name is Jack Payne aged 26 years. No Fathers Name
His Rank/Profession - No 1551853 GUNNER. - Maritime A A - Regiment R A - (Hotel Porter)

Residence at time of marriage - Southport
Home address Catherine Wheel Hotel, Henley-on-Thames

If the details on the marriage certificate are correct, Jack was born 1916.
There are 2 births in 1916 where the mothers surname is the same as the child. Both in London.

Unable to locate him in the Forces War Records

Not certain when or where he died.

Thanks

[steviebyday]

on his attestation 1938. don't know what this means S.W.B. 15-3-45.

[retiringtype]

I took SWB to mean a transfer to the South Wales Borderers.

[Bertieone]

Was the Grandmother widowed when she remarried?

[EssexPoacher]

I can't find a death for the first husband in the area. I'm waiting for the for niece to get back to me.

[daggers]

SWB can also mean Silver War Badge, issued in WW1 to men invalided out of the service after wounds or illness. I do not know if the same applied in WW2.
D

[Bertieone]

SWB can also mean Silver War Badge, issued in WW1 to men invalided out of the service after wounds or illness. I do not know if the same applied in WW2.
D

Kings Badge, WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Badge

[steviebyday]

Jack Payne married Frances. E. Hulse, 1942.
think these might be the children.
Laura born 1944.
Christine born 1948.
Thomas, W. born 1950.

[alex69]

Some background on the RA Maritime Regiment

http://www.thornburyroots.co.uk/war/maritime-regiment/

https://wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/ ... p?pid=1554

Alex