Client Testimonials

Please find below recent extracts from correspondence with clients. The name of the soldier researched is also noted.

Raymond Watts wrote: Your prompt investigation and report detailing and interpreting Walter Crook’s Career in the RAMC from 1906 to 1919 was outstanding.  When I started to read through his service record images I realised how much time it would have taken me to understand the content.  Then there is so much information in the relevant War Diary images that I am very pleased that you interpreted them for me. With your interpretation I can see what is communicated. That might not have happened otherwise and would have certainly taken me many hours. I will be contacting you again with regard to other family members and have already lauded your service to my friends and family. Walter Crook, 1 Field Ambulance, RAMC

Carol Grant wrote: Thank you ever so much for the report. I have read most of the pages of the war diary and was very moved by what the poor lads went through, how they struggled to carry on without supplies.   It was nice to finally find out about my Great Great Uncle Albert as none of my family actually knew anything about him apart from his name. Once again thank you for your help. Albert Verity, 1 Field Ambulance, RAMC

Yvonne Goold wrote: I am delighted with all that you sent – I have looked at the contents of the disc, read a few pages from the War Diary and found them fascinating. I am more than pleased with the way you have presented the summary re. my fathers wartime service. Thank you very much.
Frank Collins, 1st Manchester Regiment & 6th (Reserve) Battalion Machine Gun Corps

JB from Wales wrote: Jeremy’s extensive knowledge and expertise in accessing the Kew Archives (which I wasn’t immediately able to visit myself), saved me so much time, expensive train fares and fruitless online searching; and he came up with some fascinating and surprising new details about my grandfather’s WWI army service, which I might never have discovered alone. Definitely recommend in future!
Robert Hunter, 17th Manchester Regiment & Special Brigade, Royal Engineers

Tim Parry wrote: First rate investigation, resource and result. You have put flesh back on bones from a distant past and “resurrected” my Grandfather who was born in 1890 and died in 1967. He was an old, sometimes irascible man with strict views – now I can understand the constant pain and suffering – and lack of mobility – he suffered most of his adult, family life. I would have loved him even more and would relish his humour, wisdom and insight were he to come through my front door right now. Thank you Jeremy, you have made a very worthwhile contribution to my life and I am 60 years old!
Captain William Jepson, RAMC

Judith Pike from Frenchay wrote: I was both amazed and delighted by the huge amount of detail you have unearthed. Your information has opened up that era in a fascinating way I never expected to happen. I would like to say a big thank you for your diligence in researching my grandfather, and of course, initially finding out so much about his brother Alfred. Thank you for all you have done to bring real colour into our family history.
Geoff Hedditch from Echuca, Victoria, Australia wrote: Our whole family is so delighted that you have been able to give us so much information about our long lost Uncle Alfred. Keep up the good work.
Corporal Alfred Ernest Flux, “Y” 61st Trench Mortar Battery, RFA – further details of this soldier and his family plus my discovery of his wartime graffiti under a church on the Somme can be found HERE.

Mark Boyden wrote: Having recently discovered my Great Uncle’s First World War medals I contacted Jeremy Banning to assist me with undertaking research into his experiences on the frontline in France.  Thanks to his expert knowledge and range of contacts, Jeremy has been able to discover detailed information about my relative’s unit (RAMC) and its movements form disembarkation in 1914 to the end of hostilities in 1918.  As a result I now have a real insight into part of my family’s history that I would not otherwise have been able to discover on my own.
Hugh Shields MM, 16 Field Ambulance RAMC

Phil Gaskell wrote: I would like to express our heartfelt thanks for the work you have done on our behalf. My wife is especially pleased that you have filled in so many gaps in the details of her grandfather’s service in the Great War. What you did far surpassed our expectations – especially as it took place nearly 100 years ago and so many records have now been lost or destroyed. I am now looking forward to going through the war diaries you so kindly sent me.
Alfred Love MM, 22nd Brigade, RFA

Jane Ward wrote: My dad was a little overwhelmed by the research that you did for us. Thank you very much for the exceptional research that you did into my Granddad, Albert Germany.  I have had the original photograph of him in uniform reframed to preserve it together with his papers and your research so that he will not be forgotten, and my children will be able to read about him later together with my dad’s experiences of WW2 as a boy.
Albert Germany, Royal Marine Artillery

Terry Davidson wrote: I really appreciated your help in finding out my Grandfather, Leonard Foster’s service history, and I am sure there are many people like me trying to find out what members of their family did in the services during the wars. I will certainly recommend you to anyone I come across who is looking for similar information.
Leonard Foster, 14 Field Ambulance RAMC & Royal Engineers