Kenneth Stevenson Ludlow

Census Address: 39 Broad Street
Place of Birth: Stamford
Date of Birth: 1895
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Brian and Kenneth, two brothers  were the children of Arthur William Ludlow and Mary Ann Martha Alderman who married in 1894. Kenneth was born in 1895 and Brian in 1900. Their father was an accountant for a timber merchant, he  then set up on his own as a corn and flour dealer. They lived in Adelaide Street before moving to 39 Broad St where, in 1911, they had 8 rooms and employed a domestic servant.
The boys went to St Martin’s School where they both seem to have done well. In 1911 Brian aged 11 years was still at school but Kenneth aged 15 years had left to become a clerk in an engineering firm, no doubt Blackstone’s.

Kenneth Ludlow

Kenneth Ludlow

In 1914, Kenneth was employed at Blackstone’s and had joined the Territorials. He was on camp with them at Bridlington when war broke out. He was approaching his 19th birthday and was called up to the 4th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment training in several places before embarking for France in February 1915.
He was wounded three times. The third time he was throwing bombs when a piece of barbed wire penetrated his eye. He was sent home and his right eye was removed at North Evington Hospital in Leicester. He could not return to the regiment but after the War received all three medals, the British, the Victory and the 1915 Star.
In the 1920s their parents retired to 41 Queen’s Walk and Arthur died in 1926. Kenneth had married Florence Robinson of Bourne in 1918 and their son Maurice was born soon after. They had another son Peter, when Maurice was 14yrs old. On his death in 1961, Kenneth’s address was also 41 Queen’s Walk and his son Maurice’s occupation was a designing engineer.