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War Office : Service Records
held at the National Archives, Kew

Women's (later Queen Mary's) Army Auxiliary Corps:
WO 398/10/6 Baker, Edith. Born: Rushden: 18 January 1897.

Edith E Baker, 5 Sussex Place, Rushden

Women’s Legion – Cookery Section - June 29th 1917

Employment as an Army Waitress
WO 398/128/15 King, Elizabeth. Born: Rushden: 16 August 1897

Royal Hospital Chelsea
Soldiers Service Documents All born in Rushden
Ref: Surname Forename Served in Discharged
Year
WO 97/978/14 BAKER Joseph 89th Foot Regiment 
aged 17
1831
WO 97/622/135 COOPER Thomas 48th Foot Regiment 
aged 21
1833
WO 97/1105/166 PACK John Northamptonshire Militia 
aged 54
1828
WO 97/104/29 PAILTHORPE William 11th Dragoons 
aged 42
1819
WO 97/118/119 SERGEANT John 3rd Dragoons 
aged 39
1798
WO 97/1120/15 SERJEANT Barnett 14th Foot Regiment
2nd Royal Veteran Battalion
1797

German Record cards of Prisoners of War: WWII
WO 416/13/226 Austin Harold Born: Rushden: 28/8/1914
WO 416/23/108 Bayes Albert Born: Rushden: 6/2/1906
Royal Armoured Corps 251787
WO 416/44/239 Bryant Edward Ernest Born: Rushden: 09/06/1918
Service: British Army
WO 416/102/25 Dowsett George Born: Rushden: 24/08/1918
WO 416/109/134 Edwards Ernest Arthur Born: Rushden: 9/7/1916
WO 416/210/165 King Thomas Jack Born: Rushden: 27/10/1919
Service: British Army

National Archives' reference ADM 188/807/80234

John Henry Hooton - Enlisted January 1918 for 12 years.

5 feet 3¾ inches, chest 36, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion.

Served on ship Powerful.

Admitted to hospital, Plymouth, in February 1918.

Record J 80234.

see also: Naval Service 1900-1925 (refs)

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