tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24168881960164953482024-03-13T19:58:11.830+00:00Blackmore Area Local HistoryA record of history & heritage: buildings, people & landscape in this corner of Essex.Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.comBlogger1165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-721673592240886342023-06-30T07:38:00.001+01:002023-06-30T07:38:45.290+01:00William Byrd @ Stondon: This Evening. Our Special Talk to commemorate Byrd<a href="https://williambyrdfestival.blogspot.com/2023/06/this-evening-our-special-talk-to.html?spref=bl">William Byrd @ Stondon: This Evening. Our Special Talk to commemorate Byrd</a>: Fri. 30 June: 7.30-9.30pm The Life and Times of William Byrd: A Local Histo Tickets, Fri 30 Jun 2023 at 19:30 | Eventbrite A final opport...Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-18532775272963091212023-03-19T07:15:00.000+00:002023-03-19T07:15:01.385+00:00Blackmore: Dedication of Memorial to American Airmen<p> Three years ago today the postponement of the dedication of a Memorial in St Laurence Church, Blackmore, was announced. 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The event will be held on Friday 30 June at St Peter & S...Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-16196475617261543652023-02-18T14:17:00.001+00:002023-02-18T14:17:47.726+00:00William Byrd @ Stondon: William Byrd Festival 2023 at Stondon Massey Church<a href="https://williambyrdfestival.blogspot.com/2023/02/william-byrd-festival-at-stondon-massey.html?spref=bl">William Byrd @ Stondon: William Byrd Festival 2023 at Stondon Massey Church</a>: Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-79135165962569082782019-09-24T00:00:00.000+01:002019-09-24T00:00:02.532+01:00Aeroplane Crash In Blackmore, 24 September 1944<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Four American airmen who were
killed when their aeroplane crashed in a field in Blackmore on 24 September
1944 are to be commemorated on a Memorial to be placed in St Laurence
Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be a visible and permanent
reminder of the brave contribution made by 30,000 American Army Air Force
personnel stationed in Essex between 1943-45.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neil McCarthy wrote in the
September 2019 edition of ‘Church Matters’, the parish church magazine, “It was
on the evening of 24 September 1944 that a Martin Marauder B26, attempting to
reach its base at Matching Green while returning from France in appalling
weather, disintegrated on impact in a field adjacent to Fingrith Hall
Lane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two other planes in the same
homeward-bound squadron also crashed elsewhere in Essex that night in almost
identical circumstances as the Blackmore crash”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See also: <a href="https://blackmorehistory.blogspot.com/2008/12/blackmore-notes-and-queries-3-americans.html">https://blackmorehistory.blogspot.com/2008/12/blackmore-notes-and-queries-3-americans.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“For the first time, in 2016,
the names of those onboard B26 aircraft, no 42-95823, “Baby Doll III”, were
able to be known and honoured in the place where they died”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The unveiling date of the
Memorial has yet to be announced as Faculty (the permission to make changes to
the church structure) has only recently been granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wording, as commissioned, on the wall
mounted plaque reads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To the glory of
God and in commemoration of<o:p></o:p></div>
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The United States
Army Air Force Stationed at Essex Airfields<o:p></o:p></div>
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During World War
II who died so we would remain free<o:p></o:p></div>
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This plaque is
dedicated to the memory of<o:p></o:p></div>
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FIRST LIEUTENANT
RICHARD E. BAEHR<o:p></o:p></div>
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FIRST LIEUTENANT
FRANK I. YAWITZ<o:p></o:p></div>
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STAFF SERGEANT
EDWARD G. DEMYANOVICH<o:p></o:p></div>
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CORPORAL JOHN M.
MYERS<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of the 391st Bombardment
Group who were killed<o:p></o:p></div>
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When their
aircraft crashed in a Blackmore field<o:p></o:p></div>
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On 24th September
1944<o:p></o:p></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-73952657967271670352019-07-02T00:00:00.000+01:002019-07-07T21:52:36.014+01:00Blackmore: Church Restorations etc<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An extract from The Essex Review, Volume 11, 1902</span><br />
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<span class="Bodytext28pt">Blackmore<span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">—The
renovation of the church of St. Lawrence, which has occupied four years,
is at length completed, and the restored building was publicly dedicated by the
Bishop of St.. Albans on 9th June. The improvements include the entire
re-framing of the roof of the nave, the re-building of the north arcade,
re-erection of the north wall, renewal of the aisle roofs, and alterations in
the chancel, new oak choir stalls, pulpit, lectern, and screen. A new organ and
three painted windows have also been placed in the church. All the bells have
been re-hung, and the tenor bell is re-cast. The unique spire and timber tower,
which Mr. Chancellor has described as “the glory of Blackmore Church” (see </span><span class="Bodytext2Italic"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">E.R.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
viii. 65> </span><span class="Bodytext2BookmanOldStyle"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">86</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">), have been practically
rebuilt, the old wood being utilised: as far as possible. A reference to the
illustrations in Mr. Chancellor’s article above referred to, will show its
peculiar three-storied character, which, with the dormer windows in the roof of
nave, rendered the old priory church “a magnificent piece of carpentry.” Its
dilapidated condition may be surmised from the fact that £2,500 has been
expended on the restoration,, which has been carried out under the direction of
Mr.Chancellor, in accordance with the historical associations of the ancient
building. A strip of land has been given by Mr. T. R. Hull for enlargement of
the churchyard. Altogether the sums given and collected are noteworthy in so
small a parish, and are due chiefly to the untiring efforts of the Vicar, the
Rev. W. L. Petrie</span></div>
Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-66969806596024010322019-07-01T00:00:00.000+01:002019-07-01T00:00:08.351+01:00Blackmore: Church Restorations etc. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Bodytext275pt"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An extract from 'The Essex Review', Volume 1, 1892.</span></span><br />
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new organ in the Baptist Chapel was opened on April 27th, 1892, under the
presidency of the Rev. G. Stevens, pastor.</span></div>
Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-17149369106381841842019-06-22T06:52:00.001+01:002019-06-22T06:52:24.617+01:00Essex Parish Registers Indexed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Essex Record Office has announced that Parish Registers in their keeping have now been indexed making it even easier to search entries and ancestors: <a href="http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/time-for-an-index-essex-record-office-in-partnership-with-ancestry-com/">http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/time-for-an-index-essex-record-office-in-partnership-with-ancestry-com/</a></div>
Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-59470901144110167372019-06-01T06:52:00.000+01:002019-06-01T06:52:51.198+01:00Henry Fitzroy. Born Blackmore. June 1519<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII, in Blackmore a display has been mounted around the eight sides of the Font in the Priory Church of St Laurence telling his story and connection with the village. The display will remain in place throughout the month following its 'unveiling' at the Blackmore Village Fayre over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. For those unable to see this in person, the eight panels are repeated below.</span></div>
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Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII
was born at Blackmore Priory in June 1519.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Aragon, was one of the King’s mistresses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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probably gone unrecorded”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Bessie became
visibly pregnant Thomas Wolsey discreetly dispatched her to Jericho House in
Blackmore, the home of the prior Thomas Goodwyn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Bessie made her final appearance at court
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There is no surviving record of Henry Fitzroy’s
baptism anywhere. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is possible that the
ceremony was held here at Blackmore around this Font.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cardinal Wolsey was a godparent. He was absent
from Court from 19 June to 29 June 1519.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wolsey had been godparent for the boy’s half-sister Mary, the only
surviving child born of Queen Catherine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Henry VIII is alleged to have been a frequent visitor
to Jericho House where Bessie stayed after Fitzroy’s birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The King is said to have given orders not to
be disturbed hence the expression used in Court, “He has gone to Jericho”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Priory was one of the King’s “Houses of
Pleasure”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The present Jericho Priory was rebuilt
c.1712.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bessie Blount may have later had
a daughter by the King around 1520 at Blackmore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was married off to Gilbert Tailbois (or
Tailboys), who hailed from a rich Lincolnshire family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may have married in April 1522 because
“the king began to be conspicuously generous to Gilbert Tailboys”.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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Blackmore Priory was dissolved in 1527 because of its
immoral goings-on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that year there
were only four Canons in residence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From “the records of the dissolution … it does
appear that the prior was somewhat more worldly than he should have been”: its
debts ran to one third of the annual income. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps
the expenditure was higher than usual, sheltering a future King?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cardinal Wolsey was granted the income from
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Much admired and spoilt by Henry VIII, Henry Fitzroy
was, by the age of six, created Duke of Richmond with the titles Earl of
Nottingham and Duke of Somerset. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
placed Henry Fitzroy in an honoured position because the title held precedence
over all other Dukes except potential legitimate sons of the King. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By doing so, Henry VIII had elevated his
son’s position in society such that he would be a more eligible bachelor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the age of eight Henry Fitzroy was Admiral
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Thomas Howard was the 3<sup>rd</sup> Duke of Norfolk,
a very powerful and ambitious man in the court of Henry VIII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He brought about the marriage to Henry VIII
of his nieces, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard and for good measure his
daughter Mary was married to Henry Fitzroy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Henry Fitzroy died in 1536 of tuberculosis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was 17 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His body was buried at Thetford Priory but later
transferred to Framlingham Church in Suffolk, where it lies in an ornate tomb
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-27068416426849198352019-03-31T09:38:00.000+01:002019-03-31T09:38:10.480+01:00Blackmore: Copyhold Farm. Reader's Request For Information<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello I am trying
to find out some details of the Tucker family and Copyhold Farm,
Blackmore. The 1901 Census shows them as
living in Cornwall. The 1911 in
Hertfordshire. In 1903 there was a birth
at Copyhold Farm, and two deaths one in 1905 and 1906. I think that they may have leased the farm but
any information that you may know would be greatly appreciated. As I live in Western Australia, it is
difficult for me to visit the Essex Records Office and I find their website
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Lyn Tucker<o:p></o:p></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-38383184738311727792019-03-24T07:44:00.001+00:002019-03-24T07:44:49.760+00:00Ancestry DNA Result<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The results are in. My wife bought me an <b>Ancestry DNA</b> kit for Christmas, perhaps to settle a query as to how much local heritage I have. Knowing that on all four sides of my family my relations were born within the last 200 years, probably, not further away from where I live in the Colchester area, Middlesex and Cambridgeshire there was always a question as to whether my family jumped the English Channel in 1066. The results are as expected except an indication of Norwegian or Swedish heritage.</span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-48857794568782685952019-03-19T19:39:00.001+00:002019-06-16T18:08:15.756+01:00High Ongar: Wheatsheaf Pub Demolition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The public house formerly known as The Wheatsheaf, for some while derelict, is currently being demolished. This photograph taken just after 7.00am today.<br />
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-2649644068329631272019-02-23T10:50:00.001+00:002019-02-23T10:50:42.451+00:00High Country History Group: High Country History Group Programme 2019<a href="https://highcountryhistorygroup.blogspot.com/2019/02/high-country-history-group-programme.html?spref=bl">High Country History Group: High Country History Group Programme 2019</a>: The High County History Group meets on the fourth Thursday evening in the month at Toot Hill Village Hall, starting at 8pm. The programme for 2019 has just been published online.Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-81078586168499011862019-01-05T11:07:00.001+00:002019-01-05T11:07:53.057+00:00Blackmore: Village Hall Golden Anniversary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-72655499339764357692018-12-22T08:33:00.000+00:002018-12-22T08:34:35.675+00:00Blackmore. Festival of Nine Lessons with Carols. 22 December 1968<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fifty years ago, on Sunday 22 December 1968, Revd. Monty Knott led a traditional Carol Service at Blackmore. This is the Order of Service.</div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-86255403774941561492018-11-21T06:30:00.000+00:002018-11-21T06:30:08.123+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one names. (21) Arthur John Nash<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Arthur John Nash <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
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War Memorial: Pte. A. Nash Essex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) as A J Nash
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Regiment. 2<sup>nd</sup> Battalion. Service No: 27552 [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Son
of Mrs Eliza Chumbley, Blakmore, Ingatestone, Essex [source: Essex Regiment
Museum database]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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High Ongar in 1882, he was the son of Eliza Nash, who was probably widowed
soon after his birth, and who in 1884 married William Chumbley of
Blackmore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Nash was baptised 6<sup>th</sup> August 1882 at High Ongar. He was the
son of John Henry and Eliza Nash. The father’s occupation is blank which
suggests a death [ERO D/P 68/1/11].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Thomas, the son of William Thomas and Eliza Chumbley was baptised at High
Ongar on 30<sup>th</sup> November 1884 [ERO D/P 68/1/11].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hind St. Poplar, London, Middlesex, England<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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H. Nash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 24 . Railway Engine Stoker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Poplar, Middlesex, England.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 23. [Born] Ongar, Essex, England.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1891 Census.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ongar St.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thomas Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agri. Lab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Born] Chigwell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Eliza Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 33.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Arthur Nash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scholar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Walter Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Wm. Jeremiah Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Emily Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 0.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 40.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lab [agr mach].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Bethnal Green.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Eliza Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 43.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">William Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Emma Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Alfred Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bertha Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Leonard Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Stanford Rivers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bertie Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Blackmore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Head. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Married 27 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 49.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Farm Labourer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Bethnel
Green.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 53.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar
Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Single.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 26.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Farm Labourer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Farm Labourer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High
Ongar Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bertha
Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daughter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 15. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Servant Domestic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] High Ongar Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Leonard
Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Stanford Rivers
Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Herbert
Chumbley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son. [Age] 10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Born] Blackmore Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bertha
Chumbley married Alfred Godding, another victim of the First World War also
commemorated on the War Memorial at Blackmore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">23<sup>rd</sup>
October 1916<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Age:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">34<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Where died:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Killed
in action France 23.10.1916<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[source:
Essex Regiment Museum database]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Place of Burial or
Commemoration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Memorial:
Thiepval Memorial. Pier & Face 100<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">List of Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ancestry.com,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Essex Record Office, Essex Regiment
Museum, Western Front Association.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-77872434706155095452018-11-20T06:30:00.000+00:002018-11-20T17:21:36.359+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one names. (20) Ernest Charles Martin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ernest Charles Martin<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
and inscription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore
War Memorial: Pte. E. Martin Essex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Church
Window: Ernest C Martin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) as E C Martin
[ERO A10815]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 426.1pt;" valign="top" width="568"><div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rank: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Private<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regiment: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Essex
Regiment. 11<sup>th</sup> Battalion. Service No: 14241 [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 426.1pt;" valign="top" width="568"><div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Service Details:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Born:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holloway, Middlesex, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Enlisted:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warley, Essex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Residence:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blackmore, Essex [Military genealogy.com]<br />
No military record found 100114<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Medal
cards of two Ernest Martins exist, but both show that they were demobilised
at the end of the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An Ernest
Charles Martin was discharged due to sickness 6/1916, and so cannot be a
candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 426.1pt;" valign="top" width="568"><div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Personal and family
information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore Ernest Martin baptised 9<sup>th</sup>
August 1886 (born 15/12/1880). His parents were Charles, an agricultural
machine owner, and Emma [ERO D/P 266/1/11].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1881 Census. Blackmore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Charles
Martin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Engine Proprietor & Driver
(Agric). [Age] 47. [Born] Gt Baddow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Emma
Martin. Wife. [Age] 42. [Born]. Ripley, Surrey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Henry
Martin. Son. Ag Lab. [Age] 18. [Born] Gt Baddow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Cornelius
Martin. Son. Scholar. [Age] 13. [Born] Writtle, Essex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Walter
Martin. Son. Scholar. [Age] 10. [Born] Writtle, Essex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Arthur
Martin. Son. Scholar. [Age] 5. [Born] Writtle, Essex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ernest
Martin. Son. [Age] 3m. [Born] Blackmore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">No
record of family on 1891 or 1901 census in Blackmore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Charles
Martin, Proprietor of steam thrashing machines Kelly's Directory 1890 and
1906<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 426.1pt;" valign="top" width="568"><div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">27<sup>th</sup>
September 1916<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Age:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">35<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Where died:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Wounded
9/15. Killed in action. France. 27.9.1916. No known grave. [source: Essex
Regiment Museum database]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 426.1pt;" valign="top" width="568"><div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Place of Burial or
Commemoration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Memorial:
Thiepval Memorial. Pier & Face 10D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 426.1pt;" valign="top" width="568"><div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">List of Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Commonwealth
War Graves Commission, Essex Record Office, Essex Regiment Museum. Soldiers
who Died in the Great War.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-23022911017237138122018-11-19T06:30:00.000+00:002018-11-19T06:30:07.118+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one names. (19) Herbert Charles Game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Herbert Charles Game<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
and inscription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore
War Memorial: Pte. H. Game E. Surrey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Church
Window: Herbert C Game<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) as H C Game
[ERO A10815]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rank: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Private<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regiment: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">East
Surrey Regiment. 9<sup>th</sup> Battalion. Service No. 1040. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Service Details:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Medal rolls: E Surrey R Pte 1040 K in A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Victory/British
E 263 B p. 145<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">15
star E/1/4 B1 p. 56<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">First
served [1] France 25/8/1915.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
contact address.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Personal and family
information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Charles,
the father of Herbert Charles, was born Q3 1868 Cockfield [FreeBMD], and was
living there in 1881 [census].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
married Martha Kate Campen Q1 1890 in Cosford RD, which includes Cockfield
[FreeBMD].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martha’s birth was also
registered Q3 1871 Cosford.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
1911 Census records: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Charles
Games. Head. Married. [Age] 43. “Farm Labrour”. [Born] Suffolk Capfield.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Martha
Kate Games. Wife. Married 21 [years]. [Age] 41. [Born] Suffolk. Capfield<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Herbert
Charles Games. Son. Single. [Age] 19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cow Boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Suffolk.
Capfield<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Robert
Henry Games. Son. Single. [Age] 17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cow Boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Suffolk.
Capfield<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Jane
May Games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 12. School. [Born] Suffolk Capfield<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Alfred
Thomas Games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son. [Age] 8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Born] Blackmore Essex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ross
Cocksedge. Nephew. Single.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age]
22.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Horseman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Suffolk Shimpling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Capfield read Cockfield, near Lavenham. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
1910 Electoral Roll for Blackmore has Charles Games as a voter living at
Swallows Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Colin
Game (a descendant) says that Jane May Games should read Iona May Game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Herbert
Game is a name occurring more than once. Another, Herbert Game (H C Game’s
uncle), fell in the Essex Regiment. He was born Cockfield, in Suffolk; lived
at Brentwood; and, enlisted at Warley. A/Sgt Game was killed in action in
France, aged 38, on 15<sup>th</sup> October 1916.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the son of Robert and Sarah Ann Game
and husband of Alice Louisa Game of Farnborough in Kent [source: Essex
Regiment Museum database].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">16<sup>th</sup>
August 1916<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">25<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Where died:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Killed
in action at the Battle of the Somme [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Place of Burial or
Commemoration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thiepval
Memorial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pier and Face 6B. [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">List of Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Commonwealth
War Graves Commission, Essex Regiment Museum, Free BMD, Colin Game a descendant
of the person commemorated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-74270142171476573762018-11-18T06:30:00.000+00:002018-11-18T06:30:08.965+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one names. (18) William Edward Rudling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">William Edward Rudling<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
and inscription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore
War Memorial: Pte. W. Rudling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Church
window: William E Rudling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) as W E
Rudley, (probably on account of the fact that it was several years after the
conclusion of the Great War that the Hospital was built) [ERO A10815].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rank: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Private<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Suffolk
Regiment. 2<sup>nd</sup> Battalion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Service No: 27046. [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Service Details:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Born:
Blackmore, Essex <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Enlisted:
Epping [SDGW] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Medal
card: Victory/British K/1/103 B15 p. 2956 [Ancestry.com]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Personal and family
information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brother
of Mr. A. Rudling, of 10, Elm Park, Brixton Hill, London. [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The name does not appear on the 1881 census
for Blackmore, or having been born in Blackmore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps a later resident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">William Edward Rudling was baptised on 27<sup>th</sup>
April 1879 at St Michael’s Church, Thorpe-le-Soken (Tendring district),
Essex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His parents were William (a
painter) and Sarah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The priest records
the place of residence as ‘Thorp’ [ERO D/P 8/1/6].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
1901 census lists William Rudling, age 22, as a grocer’s assistant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gives his birthplace as Thorp-le-Soken,
and lived in Church Street with John Martin (also born Thorpe-le-Soken) and
family, in what is now Longbeam Cottage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1911:
Living in Blackmore, age 30 (so was 8 years older than in 1901!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">16<sup>th</sup>
August 1916<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Age:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">38<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Where died:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Killed
in action in the Battle of the Somme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Place of Burial or
Commemoration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thiepval
Memorial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pier and Face 2A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">List of Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ancestry.com,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Essex Record Office, Soldiers who Died in
the Great War,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-29151769596904205742018-11-17T15:19:00.000+00:002018-11-17T15:19:21.087+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Last Chance to See Moving Tribute<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Poppy Trail and Display in the churchyard of St Laurence, Blackmore, has attracted many visitors over the last fortnight. Many have commented that it is a "moving tribute" to those who served in the First World War, whose Centenary of its ending was marked on 11 November. Photographs taken this afternoon. This is the last opportunity to see the work before it is dismantled on Wednesday 21 November. Can be seen during the shortening daylight hours.</span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-59341666946816990332018-11-17T06:30:00.000+00:002018-11-17T07:58:43.534+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one names. (17) Albert Edward Barker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Albert Edward Barker<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
and inscription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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War Memorial: Pte. A. Barker Essex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Church
window: Edward Barker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) as E Barker
[ERO A10815]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rank: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Private<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Essex
Regiment. 2<sup>nd</sup> Battalion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No. 32975 [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There
are several men by the name of Albert Edward Barker who served in the Essex
Regiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blackmore’s fallen victim
is: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Albert
Edward Barker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Essex
Regiment 2<sup>nd</sup> Battalion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Born:
Romford<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lived:
Blackmore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Enlisted:
Epping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Killed
in action. France. 10.10.1917<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">No
Known Grave<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Source: Essex Regiment
Museum database]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Personal and family
information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Son
of Edward and Amy Barker; husband of Lily Quilter (formerly Barker), of 2,
Marion Villas, Oldchurch Rd., Romford. [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1911
Census.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Romford born man was an
off licence holder in Camberwell, South East London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife, Lily, three years older than him,
aged 32, assisted him in the running of the business. At that time they had
two children, Lilian Amy, aged 7, and Edward Leslie, aged 5, who were both at
school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Staying with them on the night
of the census was a visitor and monthly nurse, Emma Langstone, aged 64, from
Maldon Essex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family were all born
in Romford.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1881
Census. Records Lilly Langstone b. 1879 Dagenham, daughter of George &
Emma, living Chigwell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Listed
(erroneously) as absent voter at The Bull on the 1918 Electoral Register
(because he had died) [ERO C/E 2/1/1].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Baptism
of daughter at St Laurence Blackmore: 31<sup>st</sup> January 1913.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doris Emma, daughter of Albert Edward
& Lily Barker, Licensed Victualler [ERO 266/1/17]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kelly’s
Directory 1914 records the landlord of The Bull Blackmore as Albert Edward
Barker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1917 we find the landlady
as publican: Mrs Lily Barker.
[http://www.deadpubs.co.uk/EssexPubs/Blackmore/bull.shtml].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given the trade undertaken in the 1911
census this appears to be the link between the man and Blackmore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">After
Albert’s death Lily remarried and moved presumably from Blackmore back to Romford.
Her surname was Quilter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">10<sup>th</sup>
October 1917 [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Age:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">38<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Where died:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Died
at Peolcappelle. [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Place of Burial or
Commemoration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Commemorated
on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">List of Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Commonwealth
War Graves Commission, deadpubs.co.uk, Essex Record Office, Essex Regiment
Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-74352901216916769802018-11-16T06:30:00.000+00:002018-11-16T06:30:09.316+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one names. (16) Ernest Maynard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ernest Albert Maynard <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
and inscription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore
War Memorial: L/Corp. E Maynard Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Church
window: Ernest A Maynard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) as E A
Maynard [ERO A10815].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rank: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lance
Corporal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regiment: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bedfordshire
Regiment "A" Coy. 8<sup>th</sup> Battalion (formerly 27282
Essex)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Service No: 33237 [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Service Details:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Enlisted:
Warley. [WFA] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Medal
card shows roll ref for Victory/British medals as K/2/104 B11 p. 744.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No reference to L/cpl rank. [Ancestry.com]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Personal and family
information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
Baptism Register [ERO D/P 266/1/11] confirms that Ernest Albert Maynard was
baptised on 4<sup>th</sup> May 1890. His parents were George, a builder, and
Emma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ernest
Albert Maynard is recorded in the Sunday School ‘Scholars’ Admission Book’,
baptised May 4 1890 [ERO D/P 266/28].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
the 1901 census Ernest Maynard was living in the Chelmsford Road with his
parents, George and Emma, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and 4 older
children: Fred W, Joseph H, Eleanor and Edgar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
1911 census his parents lived in Chelmsford Road, Blackmore. George, a
bricklayer born Blackmore was aged 62, and Emma, his wife of 40 years, born
Mile End, was 58 years old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In
the 1911 census Ernest Maynard (then aged 21) was a “domestic gardener”
living with his sister Gerlinda [Gertrude] Sankey (aged 26) and her husband,
William Sankey (aged 28, a “groom domestic”) at Ivy Cottage, Stondon
Massey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Sankey is recorded on
the War Memorial as coming through the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ernest Maynard worked in the garden at Stondon Massey Rectory before
going to war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">George
Maynard died, aged 63, and was buried at Blackmore on 20<sup>th</sup> March
1912 [Burial Register –original in Church Safe]. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Revd.
Edward Reeve, Rector of Stondon Massey, was a keen recorder of events during
the First World War. He wrote [source: ERO T/P 188/3]:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">7<sup>th</sup>
February 1916<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Gardeners of military age who can pass the
medical tests will now of course be unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>William Penson, gardener at Stondon Rectory, went in November 1914 to
do his part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was engaged for some
five months at Stratford, and then proceeded for a rather longer period to
Chelmsford where he was employed in guarding Marconi Wireless electric
apparatus, and in patrol work of divers kinds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More recently he has been removed to
Manningtree. His place has been filled by Ernest Maynard, a Blackmore lad who
has been learning under him, but he too will now be in request for home
service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">7<sup>th</sup>
March 1916<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Our younger garden helper, Ernest Maynard,
has now been called up, and is to join his company for duty on March 15<sup>th</sup>
at Epping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">6<sup>th</sup>
July 1917<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We have received news of the death of Ernest
Maynard killed on the French Front, formerly a helper in the Rectory
Garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appears that he was
attached to a Machine Gun which was doing good service when a shell burst
among those manning it, killing most of them instantaneously.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reeve
kept a number of letters relating to local men serving on the Western Front. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Two
letters relate to Ernest Maynard [ERO D/P 98/28/18]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A black edged letter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Fingrith Hall
Road, Blackmore. July 13 [1917]<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Rev Reeve<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Dr Sir. so sorry to
write to tell you the sad news of the death of our dear brother Ernest
Maynard who was killed in action June 27. Mother has received a very nice
letter referring to his noble death also that he was buried in a
cemetery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yours truly J H Maynard”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">a second letter, dated 8<sup>th</sup> August 1917<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Dr Sir. Thankyou
very much for letter received so sorry but we were unable to answear before
as Mother was waiting the captains letter so I have enclosed same My brother
was in the Essex drafted to the Bedfords and he was also a Lewis gunner
untill he met his death again thanking you for your kind letter. Yours truly
J Maynard”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reeve
noted on the letter, “He was hit by a shell and died instantly. Buried at the
British Cemetery at Philosophe. G W Brewster. Captain”. [ERO D/P 98/28/18]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Revd.
Reeve records that Ernest Maynard “joined at Epping in March [1916] the 12<sup>th</sup>
Essex” [ERO T/P 188/3 f745]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Following
the War Revd Reeve wrote of the deliberations of names to be included on the
War Memorial at Stondon Massey:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The six names are all that we could fairly
include, though Ernest Maynard, a Blackmore lad who worked in the Rectory
garden here up to the time of enlisting, was well known, and almost eligible;
and Fred Garnham, who fell in the Mons retreat, had been brought up in the
village, but had married and joined from Radley Green, Writtle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>R J Ellis was living at Norton [Mandeville]
when he died, but was included as being a true Stondon lad, and with his old
parents still in the parish” [ERO T/P 188/3 f860-863]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">His
name is not recorded on the Essex Regiment Museum database. [Essex Regiment
Museum].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Following
the war his mother always laid a wreath at the War Memorial every Armistice
Day to his memory [Mary Coller]. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">27<sup>th</sup>
June 1917<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Age:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">27<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Where died:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Killed
in action<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[WFA]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Place of Burial or
Commemoration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I.
S. 19. Cemetery: Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">List of Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ancestry.com,
Mary Coller “Blackmore My 1920s Wonderland”, Church Safe with grateful
acknowledgment to the Vicar and churchwardens, Commonwealth War Graves
Commission, Essex Record Office, Western Front Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-64641843711501579512018-11-15T06:30:00.000+00:002018-11-15T06:30:03.079+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one names. (15) James Roast<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">James Roast <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
and inscription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore
War Memorial: Pte. J. Roast Essex;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Church
Window: James Roast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War
Memorial Tablet inside All Saints Church, Doddinghurst<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore &
Doddinghurst) [ERO A10815]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rank: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Private<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regiment: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Essex
Regiment 13<sup>th</sup> Battalion. Service No: 23706 [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Service Details:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Born:
Norton Mandeville, Lived: Kelvedon Common, Enlisted: Epping [Essex Regiment
Museum] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Medal
card: Victory/British K/2/102 B9 p. 450 [Ancestry.com]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Personal and family
information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Son
of James and Sarah Ann Roast, of Blackmore House Cottages, Hook End.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Son
of James & Sarah Ann Roast, Blackmore House Cottages, Kelvedon Common,
Brentwood, Essex<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[source: Essex
Regiment Museum database]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Birth
registered Q4 1891 Ongar. [Ancestry.com]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">James
Roast was baptised on 20<sup>th</sup> December 1891 at All Saints Church,
Norton Mandeville. His parents were James, a groom, and Sarah Ann.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family lived at Norton Mandeville [ERO
267/1/7].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1881
Census. No Roast in Blackmore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1891
Census. James and Sarah Ann living at Norton Mandeville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1901
Census.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore
House, Coachman House<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">James
Roast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 42.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gardener
Domestic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Writtle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sarah
Ann Roast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Age] 40.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born] Norton
Mandeville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sidney
R Roast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gardener Domestic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Born]
Norton Mandeville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Edith
Roast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Born] Norton Mandeville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">James
Roast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Born] Norton Mandeville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thomas
Roast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Born] Norton Mandeville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lily
Roast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Born] Norton Mandeville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Arthur
Roast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Age] 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Born] Blackmore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Kelly’s
Directory 1908 lists a J Roast (father) as gardener to Captain Pigott.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1911
Census.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Forest
Hall, Ongar, Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">James
Roast (age 19) is a Groom domestic at the home of Stephen H King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">28<sup>th</sup>
April 1917<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Age:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Wounded
7/1916. Killed in action. France. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Arras
Memorial, France. Bay 7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">List of Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ancestry.com,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Essex Record Office, Essex Regiment
Museum, Ron West: who has researched those commemorated on the Doddinghurst
War Memorial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-59081830704704919232018-11-14T06:30:00.000+00:002018-11-14T17:19:50.465+00:00Blackmore. Remembrance 100. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one names. (14) Gerald Wellesley Pigott<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Gerald Wellesley Pigott <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
and inscription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore
War Memorial: Sec Lieut G.W.Pigott R.F.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Church
Window: 2nd Lt Gerald W.Pigott<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Doddinghurst
War Memorial Tablet, All Saints Church<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore), out of
sequence at end of Blackmore list and misspelled G W Piggot. Not duplicated
on Doddinghurst list [ERO A10815].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Rank: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Second
Lieutenant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regiment: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Royal
Field Artillery. 127<sup>th</sup> Battery. 29<sup>th</sup> Brigade Regiment<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Service Details:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">On
15 August 1914 he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[London Gazette] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">PIGOTT,
GERALD WELLESLEY 2<sup>nd</sup> Lieut 127<sup>th</sup> Battery Royal Field
Artillery, only child of Lieutenant-Colonel Wellesley George Pigott, of
Blackmore House, Co Essex, J. P., commanding 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade
(now on active service), by his wife Helen Louise, only dau. of the late
Captain Thomas Donaldson 3rd KO Hussars, by his wife Helen Louisa Elizabeth,
eldest dau. of Richard Andrew Hyacinth Kirwan, of Bawnmore Co Galway JP and
grandson of the Rev Wellesley Pigott M. A., Rector of Fugglestone cum
Bemerton (fourth son of Sir George Pigott 1st Bart); born South Weald co.
Essex 3 Sept 1896; educated West Downs, Winchester (1905-10), Wellington
College (1910 --13) and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Feb-Jul 1914);
gazetted 2nd lieutenant 3rd Battalion Essex Regiment 15 Aug1914; transferred
to the Royal Field Artillery, 15 Jan 1915; and posted to the 127th battery at
the front in March; served in France and Flanders, and was wounded at Brielen
during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 13 May 1915 by shrapnel, which struck him in
the head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was taken to the dressing
station, and from there conveyed to the no. 2 Clearing Station at Bailleul,
where he died 14 May 1915.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buried at
the British Officers Cemetery Bailleul; unm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Officer Commanding the 29th Brigade RFA wrote "he was such a
good lad, and had the making of a most capable officer, and he will be
greatly missed", and the Officer Commanding 127th battery "I am
sure if your boy had lived he would have made a very good soldier; he was
very keen and had plenty of pluck" [De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Medal
card: </span><span style="font-family: "wingdings 2"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: "Wingdings 2";">ø</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Victoria, British
RFA Off 132 p.188<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 star RFA Off 132 p. 17D<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IVX/2164 d/21.4.21 NW/7/84443<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Reverse:
App for medals 8/3/21 [mother] Mrs HL Pigott New Brockenhurst. [Ancestry.com]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Personal and family
information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Son
of Lt. Col. Wellesley Pigott, O.B.E. (The Rifle Brigade) and Helen, of The
Weirs Cottage, Brockenhurst, Hants. Educated at West Downs (near Winchester);
Wellington College, Berks and R.M.A., Woolwich. Born at Pilgrims Hatch,
Essex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Ancestry.com]<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1901
Census.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Gerald
Pigott, age 4 born South Weald, living with his mother Helen (aged 38, born
Dublin, Ireland) at Blackmore House, Lt. Col. Pigott absent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">1911
Census.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Student
at Wellington College, Easthampstead, Berkshire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Following
Gerald’s death his father, Wellesley G Pigott, related to Revd. Edward Reeve
(Rector of Stondon Massey) that the War Office could not allow his son's body
to be brought home for burial in Doddinghurst churchyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A memorial service was held instead on 21st
May 1915 with Revd. Adams (Doddinghurst Rector) and Revd. Reeve officiating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery
(Nord).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore
House by Brentwood Essex<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">May
18<sup>th</sup> 1915<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mr
dear Reeve<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I
expect that you have heard that Gerald has died of his wounds in
Flanders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had hoped to have been
allowed to bring his body home and lay it to rest in Doddinghurst Churchyard
but we hear from the War Office that as he died in the zone that this is not
allowed so we must let him rest where he is at present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are having a memorial service on Friday
at 3.30pm in Doddinghurst Church and we both much hope that you will take
part in the service. I have mentioned this to Mr Adams and he fully concurs
and asks me to write to you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yrs
sincerely<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Wellesley
G Pigott<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
further letter, black edged, was sent to the Rector of Stondon Massey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Blackmore House.
Brentwood Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">May 22<sup>nd</sup>
1915<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">My dear Reeve<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Thank you so much
for your very kind letter which we both appreciate very much. We also wish to
thank you for taking part in the service yesterday and for helping to make it
such a beautiful service as it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have attended many services that have been beautifully rendered but I don’t
think I ever was present at one that was so much what one would have wished
from every point of view and one felt that every one in the Church was there
from a sense of real affection for him. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We have had full
details of his last hours, he was struck in the head by a shell bursting just
above him and was rendered unconscious at once and remained so until his
death 21 hours after so we have the great consolation of knowing that he
never suffered and never even knew that he had been hit. The doctors say that
had his life been spared he would probably have been blind for life and very
likely his brain permanently injured as well so it is much best as it is.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With renewed thanks
from us both.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yrs very sincerely<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Wellesley G Pigott<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">[ERO T/P 188/3]<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Gerald
Pigott’s photograph appeared in Essex County Chronicle, 21<sup>st</sup> May
1915, under the heading “Essex Black Week: Sad Losses: Photographs. First
Battalion Essex Regiment Officers”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was described as “Only child of Col. and Mrs. Wellesley Pigott. Blackmore
House, killed in action.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">14<sup>th</sup>
May 1915<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Age:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Where died:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Gerald
Wellesley Pigott was killed in action in the second battle for Ypres. 14th
May 1915. Aged 18.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was killed by a
shell that exploded near him at Brielen. [http://www.123people.co.uk]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Place of Burial or
Commemoration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Buried
at the British Officers Cemetery Bailleul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">List of Sources: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ancestry.com,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Essex Record Office, London Gazette. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Andrew Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01575233143253116499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416888196016495348.post-67658919858379361042018-11-13T11:00:00.000+00:002018-11-13T11:00:05.917+00:00Blackmore. Remembering Herbert Game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Herbert Game <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">War Memorial: Place
and inscription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">St
Martin’s Chelsfield, Kent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sergeant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Essex
Regiment. 11<sup>th</sup> Battalion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Service No. 16778<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Born
Cockfield, Suffolk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lived,
Brentwood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enlisted, Warley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acting Sergeant at time of death [source:
Essex Regiment Museum database].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Son
of Robert and Sarah Ann Game; husband of Alice Louisa Clark (formerly Game),
of Melrose, Chelsfield Lane, Green Street Green, Farnborough, Kent. [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Herbert
Game married Alice Louisa Symons, aged 25, the daughter of Henry Herbert
Symons, a Coast Guard Officer from Falmouth, at Blackmore, on 6<sup>th</sup>
October 1909.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was 29.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[ERO D/P 266/1/12].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their son Albert Edward Game was baptised
at Blackmore on 11<sup>th</sup> September 1910. [ERO D/P 266/1/11]. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“In
1913 he was living in Green Lane Cottages, Ongar Road, Brentwood, the
birthplace of my Father”. [Colin Game, descendant]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I
do not believe he ever actually lived in Farnborough, Kent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Herbert's wife certainly did live there
from about 1915 when she moved from Essex. I think she moved there (at about
or after Herbert enlisted) to be with her parents being pregnant at the time
with Herbert's last child. Her father was in the Navy and moved around
coastguard stations”. [Colin Game, descendant]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Date of Death: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">15<sup>th</sup>
October 1916<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in action in France [source: Essex Regiment Museum database]. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Commemoration:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Memorial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pier and Face 10 D. [CWGC]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Commonwealth
War Graves Commission, Essex Regiment Museum, Essex Record Office, Colin Game
a descendant of the person commemorated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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