H.G.(Fred) Burgess. WW1

Early Life Trayton Charles Douglas Burgess was Fred’s proper name but he seems to have been known as Fred and he even enlisted in the army with this name. It is not clear where the initials H. G. arise. Fred was born in Kensington, London in the first quarter of...

Frederick George Cole WW1

Early Life Frederick George Cole was born in 1891 and was living with his parents Alfred, a farmer, and his mother Emma (née Roberts) at 17, West Street, Abbotskerswell. The 1891 census indicates Alfred was born in South Brent and Emma in Christow, where Frederick was...

George Pickersgill Cable WW1

Early Life George was born on the 5th Dec 1891, the son of Baron Ernest Cable (1st Baron Ideford) and Lilian Sarah Sparkes whose family home was Lindridge, Bishopsteignton from 1913.  The birth was registered in Newton Abbot, George was educated at Harrow College...

Arthur Apps WW1

Early Life Arthur Apps was born in 1898 in Bishopsteignton and lived in Radway Hill, Bishopsteignton with his father John and his mother Emma Apps (née Parish). From the information supplied by the 1911 census Arthur Apps was 13 years old at the time of the census. At...

John William Cawcutt WW1

Early Life Private John William Cawcutt M2/181850 of the Royal Army Service Corps served in BE Africa and was the son of John William and Jane Cawcutt (née Hallaway). He was born in Reading in 1885. In the 1891 census his parents were “poor law schoolmasters and...