Montague in 1911 was 11 – he was born in Stamford in 1900. He was the elder son of Walter Edward and Emily (nee Weldon) Shelvey . His father, a maltster, was born in Stamford, his mother in Ryhall, Rutland. His only sibling was Walter Cecil, aged 6 and the family lived at 51 St Leonard’s Street.

In 1901 the family was already living at 51 St Leonard’s Street. They had a boarder, Albert E Constable, who was a shunter on the railway.

The only probable reference to Montague’s war service is in ‘Stamford and the Great War’- a ‘Private M Shelvey was mobilised as a member of the Sherwood Foresters’. No official records have been found as yet.

In 1927 he married Winifred Mabel Holywell in Stamford. Winifred died in Bourne in 1930

His second marriage was to Winifred Edith Sutton in Surrey in 1943. She died in Lambeth in 1982.

In 1942 Montague’s mother, who was still living at 51 St Leonard’s Street, died. Probate records named him as a beneficiary. He was then a motor driver of a brewery delivery vehicle. His father died in 1950. Montague died in Stamford in 1978