See also

John W SHELDRAKE (1889-1917)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • 12 Mar 1889

  • Hapton

  • Census:

  • 1891 (age 1-2)

  • Hapton1

  •  

  • Address: The Street, Hapton

    living with parents Thomas (47, agricultural labourer) and Sarah (45), and siblings Edward (14, agricultural labourer) and Emma (11, scholar)

  • Education:

  • 24 Oct 1898 (age 9)

  • Gissing School2

  •  

  • moving from Tibenham School

  • Census:

  • 1901 (age 11-12)

  • Tharston3

  •  

  • Address: The Street, Tharston

    errand boy, living with father and stepmother Thomas (60, horseman on farm) and Esther (24), and stepsiblings George H (5), Mary A (3) and Edith M (10mths)

  • Census:

  • 1911 (age 21-22)

  • Forncett St. Mary4

  •  

  • lodger in the household of James LONG (50, farm labourer)

  • Attested (Military):

  • 7 Sep 1914 (age 25)

  • Norwich, Norfolk5

  •  

  • Service Number 14849, 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

  • Millitary campaign:

  • btw 7 Sep 1914 and 29 Aug 1915 (age 25-26)5

  •  

  •  

  • at home

  • Military Service:

  • btw 30 Aug 1915 and 2 Oct 1917 (age 26-28)

  • British Expeditionary Force in France5

  • Joined (Military):

  • 1 Mar 1916 (age 26)5

  •  

  •  

  • transferred to the Royal Engineers - Railway Troup as a Sapper

  • Joined (Military):

  • 11 Sep 1917 (age 28)5

  •  

  •  

  • transferred back to the Norfolk Regiment

  • Death:

  • 2 Oct 1917 (age 28)

  • France5

Sources

1.

1891 Census. RG12 1546 48 5. Cit. Date: 1891.

2.

Education. Gissing School Admissions Register. Cit. Date: 24 October 1898.

3.

1901 Census. RG13 1862 125 2. Cit. Date: 1901.

4.

1911 Census. RG14 PN11459 RD230 SD3 ED5 SN110. Cit. Date: 1911.

5.

Service record. Service Record of John W Sheldrake. Cit. Date: 7 September 1914.

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Tharston Past

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