George, John Leslie John Leslie George John was born on 9 May 1895 – he was the son of John and his wife Lizzie Anne. The family lived in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where John Leslie and his five sisters were born. His father was a railway clerk, then a goods manager and his final promotion to station-master of Stamford… Read More
Greenwood, Walter Reginald Alfred William Greenwood In 1911 Alfred lived in 15 Sheepmarket with his father Alfred James and his mother Eliza . Alfred James was a foreman and he was a grocer’s errand boy. He had 2 brothers Walter aged 10 , George aged 7and a sister Susan. All three boys would go to war. Alfred was… Read More
Gutteridge, Frederick Frederick Gutteridge Born in Deenethorpe, Northamptonshire 1899, Frederick moved to Stamford in 1910 with father James (a farm labourer), mother Elizabeth and 11 siblings. In Deenethorpe they lived with Elizabeth’s brother and his wife but came to live at 12 Lumby’s Terrace, Stamford when the twelfth child was a few months old. Frederick was still at… Read More
Greenaway, Charles William Charles was born 1n 1895 in Hornsey, Middlesex. His parents were George & Julia Louisa (nee Pritchard) Greenaway. His father was a cheesemonger in1895 when he married, in 1901 he was a carman in London and in 1911 he and Charles’ mother were caretakers at Tickencote Hall in Rutland. In 1911 Charles and his brother… Read More