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Hi,
can anyone tell me what the TNA codes 159/21 and 159/83 are, I've got them on the name of one C HUDSON ROYAL ENGINEERS TELEGRAPH DEPT here, and I can't access anything on TNA page ?

Thanks.

WO100/159 pages 21 and 82 (not page 83!) are simply the relevant medal roll entries for this particular man.

andy1972 wrote: Hi,
can anyone tell me what the TNA codes 159/21 and 159/83 are, I've got them on the name of one C HUDSON ROYAL ENGINEERS TELEGRAPH DEPT here, and I can't access anything on TNA page ?

Thanks.

Thanks. I thought it may have been a TNA reference for more info.
Again, Thanks.

Charles Hudson was a thirty one year old Lime Man, from Burton, Staffordshire, upon joining the Royal Engineers on the 4th of February 1901, at Lichfield, he served in South Africa from the 5th of March that same year until some point in the following year, before returning home and being discharged at Aldershot the 29th of August, that year, 1902.

Thanks Frank, can I ask WHERE you get the info. I need a man with the same name (Charles William Hudson) born in Hull (sculcoates) in 1877. All I know is he has a QSA with 5 bar's and received a pension afterwards.

Thanks

Charles Hudson was very clearly a completely different man, if you only have a name and no idea whatsoever that the man you are looking at even served in the Army let alone the Anglo Boer War, you need to find some evidence of actual service, more than just a photograph of someone wearing a medal or a reference in a newspaper.
If as and when you do, without knowing a particular regiment/corps, you would have to go through WO96, WO97, WO363 and WO364 carefully and look at each man with that particular name in turn.