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It is slightly more confusing because the medal card for Thomas Norman Howard JOHNSON lists him as a Private and with two Service Numbers

Gloucestershire Regiment 5479

Devonshire Regiment      33633

It looks as if he must have enlisted again at the outbreak of WW1 following his short spell in the Grenadier Guards in 1913 - but as yet I haven't located these later enlistment papers. 

Is there anyone with a better knowledge of Military research able to offer advice?

The baptism of Frank Comer DURSTON and siblings can be found on our site in the Parish of South Brent  which of course later became Brent Knoll.  According to FreeBMD there was a marriage registered during  the Dec qrt of 1873  in the Registration District of Axbridge of a Charles DURSTON and an Ann COMER who might be his parents.  According to the censuses Ann DURSTON nee COMER was born in Lympsham and you can find details of their marriage in the Lympsham transcriptions.

FreeBMD shows the death of a Charles DURSTON in 1882 aged 39, and the marriage in 1888 of an Ann DURSTON (presumably his widow) to a John CHAMPION.  They can be found on the 1891 census with Frank Comer DURSTON described as a son.

You may already have seen this but The Western Daily Press of the 7th June 1933 carried this item:

Death Abroad - Many Somerset families have suffered bereavement by the death at Hangatiki, New Zealand of Mr Frank Comer Durston (51), a Government surveyor in that colony. He married Miss Mary Corner, a niece Robert Board, C.C. of Bumham-on-Sea, and his widow survives him. The deceased was a son of the late Mr. Charles Durston, of Vole, East Brent, Somerset.

The Maria Board listed in the 1881 census in Berrow is the widow of Henry Board.  I do not have his parents names but estimate that he was born around 1830.  He died 27 February 1870.  In his Will he names a brother John Board of Kenn as an executor.

Maria is the daughter of Richard Hodges of Berrow and then Burnham.  Maria and Henry were married in Berrow on 25 March 1851.  They had 9 children in total.

Jenny Hodges

Thanks Tony - you are quite right of course - I should have written Jane COULTER - I don't know where the Ann came from!! 

Unfortunately there is a burial of a George SPERRING in West Harptree in 1804 but without an age given who might be a child