First post/query on this site. My wife's grandfather, James Spilsbury, is listed as being a member of the 4th Battalion, the Manchester Regiment for 7 years prior to WWI. This information is from his WWI records when he joined the South Lancashire Regiment in 1914.
He was born 1888 in Ardwick and is on the 1901 census aged 14 living in Gorton and was 26 years old when joining up in 1914, so his Manchester Regiment service is a 7 year period between 1901 and 1914.
Where would he have served and where can I apply to obtain his service record?