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Jean Spooner: we lived on Ball Street and went to school St. Ann's Junior. Click here to follow this comment link
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The Great War
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The Labour Corps is formed Formed in January 1917, the Corps grew to some 389,900 men (more than 10% of the total size of the Army) by the Armistice. Of this total, around 175,000 were working in the United Kingdom and the rest in the theatres of war. The Corps was manned by officers and other ranks who had been medically rated below the "A1" condition needed for front line service. Many were returned wounded. Labour Corps units were often deployed for work within range of the enemy guns, sometimes for lengthy periods. In April 1917, a number of infantry battalions were transferred to the Corps. The Labour Corps absorbed the 28 ASC Labour Companies between February and June 1917. Labour Corps Area Employment Companies were formed in 1917 for salvage work, absorbing the Divisional Salvage Companies. In the crises of March and April 1918 on the Western Front, Labour Corps units were used as emergency infantry. The Corps always suffered from its treatment as something of a second class organisation: for example, the men who died are commemorated under their original regiment, with Labour Corps being secondary. Researching men of the Corps is made extra difficult by this, as is the fact that few records remain of the daily activities and locations of Corps units. - This would explain why the War Graves Commission only record James Genn as being with the Essex Regiment. |
GENN, James Edward
Rank: Private Service No: 375385 Date of Death: 9/11/1918 Age: 38 Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment transf. to (456989) Labour Corps Grave Reference: Z. N. 52. Cemetery: LUTON CHURCH BURIAL GROUND Additional Information: Husband of May Edith Genn, of 35, Ball St., The Well's Rd., Nottingham - They married in 1910. 1911 Census they were living with his in laws in Frant. Website story James Edward Genn was born in Boughton, Nonchelsea in Kent in 1881 to James Billet Genn & Eliza, nee Potter. Christening 01 Nov 1883 Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, England In 1901 he 20 years old & is living in Kent with his mother, father, 5 brothers & 1 sister. His widowed grandmother, Lucy Potter, is also living with them. He is working as a bricklayer's labourer, the same occupation as his father. His 16 year old brother Frederick is a farm labourer. In July 1909 James Edward marries May Edith Gibbons & 2 years later in 1911, the census tells us they are living with her parents James & Grace Gibbons in Lacey's House, Linton, Maidstone. His father in-law is an Army pensioner. James Edward is working as a gardener & groom. No service record can be found for James Edward, but Wardown Park Museum hold records of when it was used as a military hospital & among these there is a record of him sadly dying in hospital of pneumonia in November 1918. He is buried in the cemetery on Crawley Green Road. Sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Not recorded on Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour No record of war medals being awarded - probably due to not serving overseas. No service record found (burnt records?) |
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NORTH, WILLIAM
Rank: Gunner Service No: 94779 Date of Death: 3/11/1917 Age: 35 Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery 188th Siege Bty. Grave Reference: XXX. J. 13A. Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Family History He was the son of Pottinger and Annie North and the brother of Sophie, Thomas Henry, Alfred and Ernest North. In 1911 they lived at 42 Gordon Road Nottingham. He was the husband of FC North of 29 Ball Street Wells Road Nottingham. Employment/Hobbies He was a warehouseman at Boots Remembered on:
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THORPE Harry
Rank Bombardier Service No 89345 Family History Harry married Florence Mabel Bartle in St Matthew's church, Carlton Road, Nottingham, on 9 November 1913 and they had a son, Donald Kenneth on 5 July 1914. At the time he enlisted in 1915 they were living at 38 Ball Street, Nottingham although army records show that correspondence was later sent to his widow at Rose Villa, Hendon Street, Wells Road, Employment/Hobbies In 1911 he was a warehouse clerk. When he attested in 1915 he gave his occupation as insurance clerk. Date of death 10 Apr 1917 Extra InformationNottingham Evening Post notice (abridged), 12 April 1917: ‘Thorpe, on the 10th, Bombardier H Thorpe, died at Fulham Military Hospital. Interred General Cemetery. Father, mother, sisters, brother Frank in France. Remembered on: St Ann's Nottingham - Parish and Congregation War Memorial as Thorpe H Extensive details at: Sources: Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
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Augustus John Frederick Turner
Rank Private Service number 71344 Date of death 20 Aug 1917 Age at death 31 Employment/Hobbies He was a printer's cutter in 1911. Family History Augustus John Frederick Turner was born in 1886 the son of John, a plumber’s labourer (b. Nottingham 1853), and Mary Turner (née Shelton b. Nottingham1858). Married in 1878, they had eight children: Beatrice b.1878, Amanda b.1883, Grace b.1885, Augustus b.1886, Charles b.1888, Stella b.1890, Dorothy b.1893 and Henry b.1895. In 1901 they lived at 9 Pethryn Terrace Hartley Road Radford Nottingham. Augustus was the husband of Eliza Turner and the father of Ethel Maud Turner. In 1911 they lived at 7 Ashover Terrace Manning Street and later at 37 Ball Street (both St Ann’s Nottingham). Military Unit 15th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) Remembered on |
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WARRENER, Harry
Rank: Private Service No: 120215 Date of Death: 14/02/1919 Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 15th Bn. Grave Reference: 5114 B. Cemetery: NOTTINGHAM GENERAL CEMETERY Additional Information: Address on conscription 48 Ball St Wells Road Father's name on death cert G Warrener of 18 Abbey Grove Husband of Florence Warrener, of 30, Florence St., Nottingham. (Florence advised the war office (30th July 1919) that she had moved from Ball St to 30 Florence St, Meadows Died of pneumonia Occupation: railway shunter/porter Remembered on: St Ann's District Virtual Memorial War Memorial as Harry Warrener Sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |
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William James Lee Residence Place: 22 Ball St, Wells Rd, Nottingham Birth Date: abt 1882 Age on Enlistment: 33 Enlistment Year: 1915 Regimental Number: 72779 Regiment Name: Royal Garrison Artillery Occupation: clerk Discharged: 1918 |
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Frank Edward Newton Residence Place: 55 Ball St Wells, Nottingham Birth Date: abt 1898 Enlistment Age: 17 Enlistment Year: 1915 Regimental Number: 1955??LC Regiment Name: Durham Light Infantry Died 1978 age 76 (Victoria Australia) Occupation: salesman |