Swanage Nominal Roll Additions

ADDICOTT, John James - Leading Aircraftman No.1412643 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Technical Training Command No. 2 Wing. Born at Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales son of John James Addicott, a colliery worker in 1911, and his wife Selina Davies.
He married Ellen Louisa Redout at Wareham, Dorset in January 1934, and in 1939 was working as a bus conductor and living at The Bungalow, Swanage. His death on 3rd February 1944 aged 37 was registered at Bridgend, Glamorgan, but no cause known. He was buried in grave B. Cons. 839.

CARTER, Neville Jack Hussey - Sergeant No. 1317161 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Born at Dorchester, Dorset on 3rd November 1920, son of Frederick William Carter, a Superintendent of Police at Poole, Dorset in 1939, and his wife Nellie Louisa Hussey. In 1939 Neville was a police constable at Dorchester boarding at H/Q there. On 11th November 1942 he was flying a Hurricane Mk. 1 from 56 Operational Training Unit at Tealing, Angus, Scotland when his plane collided with Hurricane V7080 over Balado Bridge, Kinross, Scotland and Neville was killed aged 22. He was buried in grave A. Cons. 786. His probate to his father on 16th April 1943 was for £272. 14s. 11d.

DENNESS, Bernard - Flying Officer No.135674 218 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Born at Wareham in December 1921, son of Sidney Harold Denness, a builder and contractor, and his wife Beatrice Mary Walberton. On 5th March 1944 he was the navigator on a Stirling bomber returning from a special operations sortie. The plane suffered engine failure and, attempting a forced landing, at RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire, it overshot and Bernard was one of the crew killed; 2 survived according to RAF records. He was buried in grave B. Cons. 843.

GOSLING, Eric John Harvey - Ordinary Seaman No. P/JX 183908 HMS Abel Tasman. Born at Oulton Broad, Suffolk on 10th November 1919, son of Frederick John Gosling, engineer on fishing boat 'Blue Haze' in 1921, and his wife Emily Harvey of Brigham, Devon. On 13th June 1940, he was serving on HMS Abel Tasman, previously a Dutch Coaster of 314 tons, under the command of Lt. Edward (Terry) Mudie. She was taken over by the Admiralty to assist with evacuation of troops from France. Having sailed from Poole on 11th June, she got lost in fog, and attempting to return to port hit a mine and sank and all 12 crew were killed. Eric was buried in grave B. Cons. 99. His brother Private Frederick George Gosling died serving with the Suffolk Regiment in Burma, now Myanmar, on 5th October 1943 aged 23.

HOMER, Michael Giles - Flying Officer D.F.C. No.33409 242 Squadron R.A.F. Born at Stroud, Gloucestershire about March 1919, son of George James Homer, a Lloyds Bank manager, and his wife Millicent Jacob. Educated at Wellington College 1933 - 36, then in January 1937 to R.A.F. College, Cranwell from where he passed out as a Pilot Officer on 17th December 1938. On 12th April 1940 he was flying a Hamden bomber on an anti-shipping strike with 44 Sqn., pressing home the attack despite intense anti-aircraft fire, and then getting his damaged plane back to base at RAF Waddington - for that he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Promoted to Flying Officer on 17th June 1940, he volunteered in August 1940 for Fighter Command and was posted to 242 Sqn. at RAF Coltishall, Norfolk. On 27th September 1940 whilst on a patrol, his Hurricane P.2967 was shot down in flames by a Me Bf109 at Milstead, near Sittingbourne, Kent. He was buried in grave A. Cons. 792. His brother Gr. Capt. John Wood Homer was killed with the RAF at Karachi, Pakistan in July 1944.

LAMB, Adeline - Nursing Sister 2/RES/L/694 Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. Born at Tower Hamlets, London about March 1887, daughter of Charles Lamb, a cabinet maker, and his wife Georgina Lewis who died in 1910. She attended Cranbrook Road School, Tower Hamlets 11th February 1895, and immigration records suggest she was nursing in Bermuda in 1924/25. She died at Shenley, Hospital, Radlett, Hertfordshire on 29th December 1941 aged 54, but no cause of death is stated. She was buried in grave A. Cons. 790. Her probate to Sarah Maud Roake (niece ?) wife of John Roake on 11th November 1942 was for £2,858. 0s. 6d. It gave her address as 'Happy Landings', Swanage.

McMULLAN, Rev'd Hugh - Squadron Leader No. 44188 Royal Air Force Chaplain. Born in Ireland 18th July 1890 son of Hugh McMullan, a gardener who died in 1944, and his wife Mary Ann Anderson (K/as Annie). It seems he served as 2nd. Lt. 10. 1915 in Lancashire Fusiliers and was a Lt. in 10. 1918 in 2nd Battalion. He married Edith Maud Anderson at Edmonton, Middlesex in Apr- June 1917. In 1926 he was Vicar of St. Paul's Church at Molesey, Surrey, and in 1939 was Vicar at St. Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich, Norfolk, then a retired Captain in Lancashire Fusiliers. He died on 5th August 1947 (cause not known) and was buried in grave A. Cons.1287. His probate to his widow Edith and Anor. on 1st December 1947 was for £1, 463. 11s. Their address was 14 Warbrond Street, Swanage.

MORGAN, Frederick Walter - Able Seaman No. P/J 91729 H M Trawler Star of Devoron which was launched in 1915 and taken over by the Royal Navy in May 1940. He was born at Southampton, Hampshire on 19th May 1901, the son of Frank Morgan, a Corporation Tram Driver, and his wife Ellen Evelyn Pinney. He married Hester Maud Paynter at Wareham in December 1925 but died when his trawler was sunk by German aircraft off North Shields on 30th September 1941, aged 37. He was buried in grave A. Cons. 789. His probate to his widow Hester on 26th January 1942 was for £375. 5s. Their address quoted there was 72 Steer Road, Swanage.

PEARCE, Frederick John - Private No. 5574124 Gloucestershire Regiment. Born at Hendon, Middlesex on 29th January 1914 son of John Pearce, a builder's labourer who had served in the Middlesex Regt. in World War 1 and who died in 1949, and his wife Florence Annie Walsh. In 1939 the family was living at High Street, Swanage and Frederick was working as a lorry driver. He married Margaret Churchill registered at Poole in October 1940. He died on 20th May 1944. I did not find the cause of death, but Army records suggest he was a casualty, so maybe injured in action and brought home? He was buried in grave B. Cons. 934

ROAKE, Reginald John - Flying Officer No. 83264 144 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Born at Watford, Hertfordshire about May 1918, son of Capt. John Roake M.C. and his wife Sarah Ann Lamb. Was commissioned a Pilot Officer on 4th August 1940, promoted Flying Officer on 10th August 1941. Was the pilot of Handley page Hampden Mk1 No AE304 - PL-T from RAF Luffenham, Oakham, Rutland at about 20. 55 hours on a raid going to Berlin when two engines failed on take-off and the plane crashed killing all four crew. Reginald was buried in grave A. Cons. 791. Probate granted to his mother Sarah on 18th March 1942 was for £502. 4s 8d.

TYRRELL, Thomas William - Gunner 1654411 Royal Artillery. Born at Swanage on 29th June 1912, son of Walter Tyrrell who died in December 1916 and his wife Mary Brown. In 1939, the family ran a restaurant in High Street, Swanage. Thomas married Joan Mary Barnes Boxall at Poole in January 1940. Thomas was serving in the British Army of the Rhine on 18th January 1946, but taken to The Morriston Emergency Hospital at Swansea, Wales on 16th February 1946 and he died there, cause not known, on 20th March 1946. He was buried in grave A. Cons. 1278, and his probate to his widow Joan on 26th June 1946 was for £2,779. 3s - their address then was 72 Victoria Avenue, Swanage.
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Burials from C.W.G.C. at Swanage Northbrook Cemetery

BOWER, George - Private No. 28198 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, previously Royal Field Artillery No. 141519. Born at Swanage, in April 1888 son of George Bower a quarryman who died in 1890, and his wife Frances Mary Meader (K/as Fanny). In 1911 he was living with his widowed mother at Mill Pond Terrace, Swanage and working as a quarryman like his father. Discharged from the Army on 5th March 1919, he died of unknown causes on 15th June 1920 and was buried on the 19th in grave D. 'C'. 56.

BROWN, Edward Barnes - Sergeant No. 334085 Dorset Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Born at Langton Matravers, Dorset in October 1888, son of Edward Barnes Brown, a house painter and plumber, and his wife Mary Ann Corben. He died at Brook Hospital, Woolwich, Kent, cause not known, and was buried in grave A. 141. He held the Territorial Efficiency Medal.

BURT, Horace Christopher - Cadet Royal Air Force previously Private No. 767077 28th City of London (Artists' Rifles) Regiment which he joined on 5th October 1917. Born at Swanage about August 1899, son of Henry Charles Burt, a baker and grocer at I Victoria Terrace, Swanage and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Hopkins. He died on 4th July 1918 at 6. 40 p.m. on 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford of Haemorrhagic Pupura, aged 18 and was buried on 9th July in grave D. 'U'. 103.

CASEMENT, John Charles - Driver No. 29011 'A' Battery, 80th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. Born at Douglas, Isle of Man in about November 1890 son of John Casement, a fisherman, and his wife Eleanor Vondy (K/ as Ellen ). Enlisted at Douglas on 11th September 1914 but died of a cerebral haemorrhage at Swanage Cottage Hospital on 1st November 1914 aged 24. He was buried in grave B 'U'. 107. His parents were living at Athol Cottage, Shaws Brow, Douglas, Isle of Man.

CHALLIS, Walter - Driver No.122391 22nd Reserve Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Born at Soham, Cambridgeshire in 1897, son of Thomas Challis, a wood sawyer, and his wife Adelaide Parr who died in 1909. In 1911 the widowed Thomas and family were living at Qua Fen Common, Soham. Walter died at Swanage Military Hospital on 17th July 1916 cause not known and was buried in grave A. 'U'. 112.

COFFIN, William Percy - Boy 1st Class No. J/ 21399 HMS Invincible at Scapa Flow. Born at Swanage on 30th July 1897, the son of William George Coffin, a builder's labourer and his wife Ada Frances Golding (K/as Annie). He joined the Royal Navy on 13th November 1912 as a Boy Sailor and joined HMS Invincible on 3rd August 1914. He died of an inguinal hernia at Mount Stewart Hospital, Isle of Bute on 28th June 1915 and was buried in grave B. 'U'. 114. His parents were living at 3 Queens Street, Swanage.

CORBEN, Frank - Stoker -1st Class No. PO/ 152277 HMS Victory. Born at Herston, Swanage on 2nd November 1873, son of James Hayward Corben, a stone quarryman who died in 1908, and his wife Maria Collins who died in 1903. Frank enlisted in the Royal Navy on 2nd January 1893 and had a long career. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis at Haslar Royal Naval Hospital, Portsmouth on 28th August 1918 aged 44 and was buried in grave E. 'C'. 89. With both his parents dead, his next of kin was his sister Julia, the wife of Richard Morris, living at 4 High Street, Herston, Swanage.

FORD, Thomas Frederick - Battery Sergeant Major No.39750 103rd Battery Royal Field Artillery. Born about 1887, I have struggled to pin down his parents - was it Thomas Hooton Ford a cycle maker in Nottinghamshire and his wife Annie Elizabeth? Thomas married Ellen Vatchell at Wareham in April 1917, but died at No. 2 Camp, Swanage on 2nd September 1917, cause not recorded. He was buried in grave F. 'U'. 28. Later his widow Ellen remarried at Wareham in January 1919 to William C. Lewis.

FRAZER or FRASER, Roderick - Driver No 36778 2nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery or Royal Horse Artillery. Born about 1883 at Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland son of Roderick Fraser, born 1844 a coach black smith who died in 1898, and his wife Elizabeth Littlejohn born 1844 who died on 13th May 1905. Roderick enlisted 5th April 1905 when he was living at 6 Minister Lane, Aberdeen with his widowed mother and older sister Helen born about 1878. He was then a wood carver's apprentice. Roderick died at Swanage Military Hospital on 9th May 1916 of pulmonary tuberculosis, and was buried in grave No. B. 'U' 109. With both his parents having died, his next of kin was his sister Mrs Helen Littlejohn Jack living at 124 Warwick Road, Aberdeen. She had married James Jack at St Nicholas, Aberdeen in 1903.

GALSWORTHY, Ernest Charles - Driver No.128625 43rd Reserve Battalion Royal Field Artillery previously Royal Fusiliers. Born at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire on 3rd February 1878 son of James Galsworthy, a gardener, and his wife Grace Cobley who died in 1914. Ernest married Lydia Ellen White at Fawley, Hampshire on 20th November 1900. He died at Military Camp at Swanage on 8th March 1916, cause not known and was buried in grave B. 'U'. 130. In 1921 Lydia was living at 11 Bond Street, Southampton.

GENTLE, James Albert - Sergeant No. TR/9/ 28262 4th Battalion Training Regiment. Born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire on 4th May 1865 son of John Gentle a newsagent who died in 1895, and his wife Eliza Shenton who died in 1900. He enlisted in 1885 No.1279 in Worcestershire Regiment, later No. 9730 and served in 2nd Boer War in South Africa 1899 to 1902, but is also listed as a postman at Evesham, Worcestershire from May 1893 to December 1906. He married Louisa Maria Mason at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire on 21st July 1894, and in 1911 he was an Army Pensioner and shopkeeper living at 117 Second Avenue, Trafford Park, Manchester. He died at No. 5 Camp, Swanage on 1st November 1916 from Heart Failure aged 49 and was buried in grave A. 'U'. 47 on November 5th. His son Thomas Henry Gentle died aged 19 in the Battle of Arras, France in May 1917.

GRADDEN, Edward - Battery Quarter Master Sergeant No. 51578 3c Reserve battalion Royal Field Artillery. Born at Aldershot, Hampshire on 5th February 1867 where his father Edward was a Gunner with Royal Horse Artillery, and he died in 1906. His wife was Mary Anne Reilly and she died in 1912. Edward Jnr. enlisted in the Royal Artillery aged 15 in 1882 and served in Burma (now Myanmar) and in the 2nd Boer War in South Africa 1899 to 1902. He had married in about 1892 Mary Josephine Fitzgerald and in 1911 the family were living at 3 Main Street, Hackenthorpe, Near Sheffield, Yorkshire where Edward was a timekeeper for a manufacturing company. By 1918 they had moved to 2 Victoria Villas, Coleman Road, Aldershot, no doubt as he had re-enlisted but he died at Army camp at Swanage on 26th May 1918 from a self-inflicted wound as a result of temporary insanity He was buried in grave F. 'U'. 27.

GREEN, Frank Edward - Private No. G/25976 2nd Battalion Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Born at Bradford Peverell, Dorset in 1896, son of Charles Green, a farm labourer, and his wife Mary Ann Dicker. In 1911 he was living with his parents aged 16 at Bradford Peverell working as a farm labourer like his father. He died of sepsis from wounds received in action in France at Alder Hay Military Hospital, Liverpool on 19th April 1919 aged 28, and was buried on 25th in grave D. 'C'. 81.

HARRIS, William - Private No. 309578 Tank Corps Depot previously enlisted at Birmingham in Worcestershire Regiment No. 32937. Born in 1875 at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire son of William Harris, a coal haulier in 1911 when family were living at 13 Dixon Street, Blakenham, Wolverhampton, and his wife Marguerite Harris. He married Ella Da Feu at Coventry, Warwickshire in October 1911, but died at the Military Hospital, Swanage on 5th November 1918, and was buried in grave No. 5. 25.

HORTON, George - Private No. 8986 13th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. Born at Wellington, Shropshire in 1865 son of Richard Horton, a brick maker in 1871 who died in 1875, and his wife Jane Moreton who died in 1905. In 1901 Jane, brother Thomas and George (a brass caster) were living at Northwood Street, Birmingham. He died at Wareham Field Hospital of a cerebral haemorrhage on 5th September 1915 and was buried in grave B. 'U'. 74.

HEALEY, Arthur - Driver No. 39491 22nd Battalion Royal Field Artillery. Born at Whittington, Derbyshire in 1886, son of Thomas Healey, a labourer at a coal mine who died in 1886, and his wife Elizabeth Bennison who died in 1906. In 1911, he was serving with 62nd Battalion R. F. A. in India, but died at The Cluny Red Cross Hospital, Swanage on 6th November 1915 - cause not known. He was buried in grave 129 on the 10th Nov.

LEWIN, Percival Lionel Thomas - 2nd Lieutenant 66th Squadron RAF. He was born on 12th June 1897. I could not find his family as he came from Johannesburg, South Africa but enlisted to join the RAF on 27th January 1918. By 20th February 1919 he was in Italy on flying training but first taken to hospital with flu and pneumonia, followed by admission to several hospitals before ending at RAF Auxiliary Hospital, Swanage where he died on 9th September 1919. He was buried on September 13th in grave F. 50. His probate to his sister Millicent M. Liddell via her Attorney/Bank manager Douglas Cunningham on 1st November 1920 was for £268. 7s. 5d.

MORRIS, Cecil George B. - Lance Bombardier No.137119 Royal Garrison Artillery. Born at Langton Matravers, Dorset in January 1899 son of Richard Morris a Gas Stoker at Gas Works in 1911, and his wife Charlotte Milford who died in January 1902. His father Richard remarried in September 1904 at Swanage to Julia Corben and they were living at 4 New Cottages, High Street, Herston, Swanage. Cecil died of unknown causes at the Burden Military Hospital, Weymouth on 6th January 1919 and was buried on the 10th January in grave D. 'C'. 151.

NAYLOR, Arthur Harry Whiting - Private No. 05544 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Depot. Born at Nantwich, Cheshire on 16th September 1891, son of Thomas Naylor, a railway engine driver in 1901 who died in 1904, and his wife Eliza Ruth Whiting who died in 1893. He married Edith Sarah Rolins at Wareham in April 1918 but died at Swanage on 20th February 1919 cause not known. He was buried in grave B. 'U'. 114.

NORMAN, Charles George - Gunner No. 291 Dorset Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. Born at Abercynon, Glamorgan, Wales in 1899 son of Albert George Norman, a stone cutter who died at Swanage in 1910, and his wife Minnie Welch who died in 1911. On the 1911 census widowed Minnie was living with Charles at 1 Kingsley Court, Priest's Road, Swanage. Charles died on 13th March 1916 at the Christian Hospital at Melcombe Regis, Weymouth and was buried in grave A. 'C'. 136 on 19th March.

PARSONS, William Arthur - Gunner No.301 Dorset Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. Born about 1882, but I failed to find his parents. He married Daisy Hill at Wareham in the last quarter on 1911, and he died at home from unknown causes on 28th December 1919 aged 37. He was buried in grave D. 'C' 13 on the 31st. His widow Daisy was living at Bell Street, Herston, Swanage.

PITCHER, Ernest James - Chief Petty Officer Victoria Cross and D.S.M. No. P/227029 HMS Attack Royal Navy. Born at Mullion, Cornwall on 31st December 1887, son of George Pitcher Divisional Carpenter H M Coastguard (1891) and Naval Pensioner in 1911 who died in 1915, and his wife Sarah Maria Baverstock. Enlisted in Royal Navy on 21st July 1900 and had a long and distinguished career. Serving on HMS Pargust (a disguised merchant ship - 'Q' ship) he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in the London Gazette on 20th July 1917. He then joined HMS Dunraven, another 'Q' ship on 28th July 1917. In an action with a German submarine, he and his gun crew exhibited extreme bravery to save their ship. Ernest was elected by the crew to receive the Victoria Cross under Rule 13 of the Royal Warrant of 29th January 1856. The action was described as the greatest by any 'Q' ship fought by a ship's company of heroes against an enemy submarine in W.W.1 (CWGC). Ernest married Lily Ethel Louisa Eyers at Wareham in September 1918, but Ethel died in 1938. In 1939 he was living at 4 Richmond Road, Swanage, but died of bronco-pneumonia and tuberculosis at the R N Auxiliary Hospital, Sherborne, Dorset on 10th February 1946, and was buried in grave F. 'U'. 122. His probate to his daughter Ruth Mary Dunraven Pitcher on 13th May 1946 was £1,115.11s.1d. He had also been awarded the Croix De Guerre and Medaille Militaire.

SCOTT, Percy William - Gunner No.79483 17th Division Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery. Born at Sutton, Surrey on 21st July 1890, son of Edward Scott, Inn Keeper of the Prince of Wales Inn, Outwood, Redhill, Surrey in 1911, and his wife Mary Jane Roots, when Percy was working as a domestic gardener. He enlisted at Guildford, Surrey on 19th January 1915 but died on 21st February 1915 at the Cluny Red Cross Hospital, Swanage and was buried on the 24th in grave B. 'U'. 57. Cause of death not known.

SELLS, Clement Perronet - M.C.- Captain Royal Army Medical Corps attached to RAF and previously attached to 1st/8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. Born at Golders Green, London on 6th September 1889 son of Vincent Perronet Sells, a Lecturer at Oxford University in 1891 who died in 1907, and his wife Annie Bertha Clements who died in 1909. Educated at Magdalen College School and Merton College, Oxford then Middlesex Hospital. Enlisted in R.A.M.C. in September 1914 and saw action in France suffering Trench Fever, and invalided home in October 1916. Returned to the fighting and awarded a Military Cross for gallantry with the Middlesex Regiment, gazetted in the King's Birthday Honours List 3rd June 1918. Clement married Mary A. Jones at Hanover Square in last quarter of 1918, but was again hospitalised on 17th March 1919 - 'severe effects of earlier Trench Fever' before he finally died at Swanage Military Hospital on 4th July 1919. He was buried in grave F. 'U' 52. His probate granted on 1st September 1919 to two Rev'd gentlemen was for £15,224. 1s. 3d.

STOCKLEY, Abraham Aaron Foyle - Gunner No. 73399 258th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Born at Corfe Castle, Dorset in July 1878 son of John Stockley, a china clay cutter/miner who died in 1887, and his wife Mary Marsh who died in 1915. He enlisted at Plymouth on 5th April 1916, but it seems was badly gassed whilst serving in Europe, as his wife wrote to the Army authorities in December 1919 saying he had been suffering gas effects on his chest and lungs since being demobbed. He had married Florence Maud Dacker at West Ham, London in September 1917, and they were living at 5 Mansell's Lane, Swanage. He died at the Cottage Hospital, Swanage on 19th April 1920, and was buried on 23rd in grave F. 'U' 24.

TAYLOR, Arthur - Stoker 1st Class Royal Navy HMS Vivid. Born at Crewkerne, Somerset on 30th March 1887 son of George Taylor, a stone mason, and his wife Eliza Ashley who died in 1910. In 1911 Arthur was living with his brother Thomas at Kingscroft, Kings Road, Swanage and working as a bricklayer. He married Alice May Selby at Wareham in April 1914, but died at home at 'Eridge', Richmond Road, Swanage on 7th December 1919, cause not known. He was buried on 11th December in grave A. 'U'. 56.

WASLEY, Francis - Gunner No. 212516 45th Reserve Battery Royal Field Artillery. Born at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire in 1879 son of Francis Wasley, a house painter who died in 1909, and his wife Susan Knowles who died in 1908. He married Emily Boyd at Reading, Berkshire in January 1903, and in 1911 they were living at 13 Foundry Street. Reading where he worked as a Brewer's Labourer. He died of pneumonia at the Camp Hospital, Swanage on 28th February 1917 aged 38 and was buried on March 4th in grave E. 'U'. 99A.

WRIGHT, Horace - Private No.308009 Tank Corps, previously Private with Scottish Rifles No.14438. Born about 1890 but I cannot find his birth or parents or his enlistment into the Army. He was serving in France on 21st December 1915 but died at Swanage Military Hospital on 27th October 1918, no cause of death found, and was buried on 2nd November in grave No. F. 'U'. 26. His widow Edith nee Shepherd, born 1888, was living at 105 Latimer Road, Eastbourne, later in 1921 at 103 Latimer Road, but I failed to pin down their marriage.