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Drummer Edward Frank Brooks was actually born Frank Edmund Ashley, but he enlisted under a fictitious name in 1916 as, ...
25/11/2022

Drummer Edward Frank Brooks was actually born Frank Edmund Ashley, but he enlisted under a fictitious name in 1916 as, been born on the 31st of August 1901 he was still 15 years old which made him under age. He was born in Dagenham and lived with his parents at 206 Gascoigne Road. The name he made for himself was a concoction between his father's first name Edward, his own first name and his mother's maiden name, Martha Brooks. I couldn't find where he was posted but it did die at Fulham Military Hospital due to an unspecified illness, which could have been influenza. Rest in peace little drummer....

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Colour Sergeant Frank Harvey Wyld of the Royal Marines spent most of his life serving this country. He was born on the 1...
25/11/2022

Colour Sergeant Frank Harvey Wyld of the Royal Marines spent most of his life serving this country. He was born on the 13th of February 1890 in Rochester and just two days after his 14th birthday in 1904 he joined the Royal Marine at their base in Chatham. He fought in Europe during WW1 and came back safe. In 1921 he married Dora in St Margaret church in Barking. He was ready to do his duty once more but on the 26th of February 1940 he suffered a cerebral aneurysm and passed away at the Royal Naval Hospital in Gillingham. He had just turned 50.
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Charlie Edgard Rowley was born the 14th of September 1898, the son of Harry, a custom officer, and Alphonsine, a French...
16/11/2022

Charlie Edgard Rowley was born the 14th of September 1898, the son of Harry, a custom officer, and Alphonsine, a French born but naturalised English subject.
He lived with his parents and older sisters in Barking, Essex until 1915, when he joined the Royal Engineers and was posted in France. But in June 1916 he was gassed during an attack and was hospitalized for quite sometime. After his recovery he was offered a post in Royal Flying Corp which he joined in 1917. He was promoted as Liuetenat. But on the 19th of January 1918, during a flight training in Stockbridge, Hampshire, he lost control and crashed. He was 19 years old.

Arthur Sydney Claude Smith was born on the 10th of February 1893 in Plaistow, Essex, and worked as a footman. On the 8th...
16/11/2022

Arthur Sydney Claude Smith was born on the 10th of February 1893 in Plaistow, Essex, and worked as a footman. On the 8th of March 1915 he enlisted in the 1st Life Guards which was a special unit attached to the Household Cavalry regiment. To enter this regiment you would actually have to submit references. His were excellent, as his former employers all found him hardworking & honest. He was deployed in France for two years until a tragic accident happened. On the 29th of April 1917, while resting on the camp , he was observed picking up a German nose cap ( bomb), which exploded in his hands killing him and injuring two others. A court of inquiry was launched, which practically blames him for interfering with the bomb.... however Sydney was a bomb disposal expert and he had been injured only a few days prior, which is the reason he was at camp. To me it sounds like he knew what it was but his reflexes were impaired by a previous injury. To add to the insult, his mother was asked to provide evidence of his death in order to receive a war pension, when in fact she hadn't even been told when her son had died ( see photos of letters). Sydney was left to lay at St. Sever Cemetery in Rouen, France. He is remembered in his family grave in Barking, not sure for how long as you can see the stone is leaning badly.

If you ever wondered what the grave of an undertaker looks like, this might be the answer...This spectacular pink & gold...
24/10/2022

If you ever wondered what the grave of an undertaker looks like, this might be the answer...This spectacular pink & gold family grave belongs to the Crook family. James Crook senior ( 1791-1839) aside from being " builder of Kilburn", came also in partnership with an undertaker, and eventually owned the whole business. On his death in 1839 his eldest son, also James, took over and by the time he died in 1894 this was the biggest funeral director in Kilburn. This James had also been a sanitary inspector for the district and was involved in local government. He was standing for election when he suddenly died 2 days before the ballots. As a matter of interest, if you had chosen a first class funeral in his establishments, for the equivalent of £722 in today's money, you could have had a first class funeral which included: a glass hearse, mourning coach, a pair of horses, polished elm coffin complete with velvet pall.....how did we get to £5k these days?....

Augustus Percival Calland was born in a very wealthy family in Worthing, Sussex, in 1815. Records shows they were land...
18/10/2022

Augustus Percival Calland was born in a very wealthy family in Worthing, Sussex, in 1815. Records shows they were land owners with properties spread in Wales and Kent as well as Sussex. After graduating from Oxford University Augustus spend quite a long time in Ramsgate, where he meet his first wife, Hannah Matilda Gibson. They married in 1840 and had several children until she passed away in 1862. At this point Augustus seems to have a nervous breakdown as the very next year he was admitted at West Mailing asylum, a sort of rehab for the wealthy. He must have recovered thought, and he 1871 he remarried Ellen Sarah Kirkaldie, from Ramsgate as is previous wife. He was 56, she was 18...I'm not sure why this makes me think of the song Babushka....The couple moved to London, in Marylebone and seems to only had one child, Gladys, who passed away only aged 3. Despite being a wealthy man Augustus only left the equivalent of £27k on his passing in 1901, unless he had already distributed his wealth to his own children. Despite being so much younger, Ellen followed him in 1906.

Oswald Harraden was born in Herne Bay on the 27/08/1857. His mother Rosalie was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, to Samuel ...
17/10/2022

Oswald Harraden was born in Herne Bay on the 27/08/1857. His mother Rosalie was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, to Samuel Harraden, an East India agent from Cambridgeshire. It seems like the couple moved a lot and eventually Oswald was put in a boarding school in Islington, London. In 1875 he decided to take a job on board a ship called Melbourne which was sailing to Victoria. Things didn't seem to have worked out as a few months after a warrant was issued against him in Victoria for deserting...read the rest by following the link in my bio 🖤

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