Osman

[ean]

I am carrying out some family history for a cousin and wonder if any one can help with some information about the following person, please.
Stanley Edward Baker Osman. A serjeant (sic) in the R.A.S.C. Service number 5178860. Date of death 22 November 1944 and buried at the Rowalpindi War Cemetery. Aged 36 therefore born about 1908.

[aland]

Is this the S E B Osman that is on the UK Army Roll of Honour ?

Have you tried applying for the service record? if you are tracing this for a cousin it may be preferable for them to apply as they are closer next of kin. Have a read through this link www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo/Personnel/ServiceRecords/MakingARequestForInformationHeldOnThePersonnelRecordsOfDeceasedServicePersonnel.htm about applying, you will need to follow some of the other links too for application forms, please note that not all records survive.
If you can get to your library or county records office you can search free on ancestry for medal rolls and ww1 records only (not ww11 records).
Hope this helps.

[ean]

Possibly. A bit more back ground. Betty Swift married Charles Lionel Sparke June 1942, he was in the RAF and was killed December 1942. S E B O was married to a Betty Sparke in 1942, her second marriage, possibly. S E B O and B S had a child towards the end of 1944 named Betty A, S E B O may well have not known this as he was killed in India in November 1944.
The relationship I am looking at is the first marriage Sparke/Swift and Sparke is the line.
I know that there is no relationship link from Osman to Sparke but it may well be that B S had some photographs of C L S which she passed on to her daughter.
I have managed to obtain quite a lot about S E B O from the FindMyPast website.
The hope is to find Betty A Osman.
Thanks for your suggestions aland

[aland]

You say, S E B O was married to a Betty Sparke in 1942, her second marriage, possibly. Do you have the marriage certificate for this?

I don't know if you have this already but I think this is your Betty,

Betty A Osman
Mother's Maiden Surname: Sparke
Regd in Dec q 1944
Regd in Bury St. E.
Regd Essex, Suffolk
Vol 4a
Page 1322a

I suggest you send off for the birth cert, this may give you the fathers name.