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Davison, Stephen

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Name: Stephen Davison

Regiment/service: Yorkshire Regiment

Paul Allen writes:

Stephen was the youngest of five children of Martha (‘Pattie’) and Stephen Davison, who was variously employed as a ‘coal porter, labourer’, and by the turn of the century as a ‘greengrocer’, the family living in Scarborough at 54 North Street. [1]

The four brothers, Fred, Valentine, Albert and Stephen Davison, each served in the army: the Royal Engineers, Machine Gun Corps, the Leicestershire Regiment and the Yorkshire Regiment respectively. Albert Davison was killed in action but the other three brothers survived to return to Scarborough following their demobilisation in 1919.

[1] At the time of the 1901 Census the Davison family were residing in the house in North Street and consisted of Stephen (the eldest son of Rouse and Hannah Davison), aged 42 years, Martha, 39 years, Frederick, 16 years, employed as a ‘joiners apprentice’, Valentine, 15 years, employed as a ‘painters lad’, Amy aged 13, Albert aged 10, and Stephen aged 9. All were born in Scarborough except for Martha Davison, who was born in the Lincolnshire village of Glentworth.

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Davison, Valentine

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Name: Valentine Davison

Regiment/service: Machine Gun Corps

 

Paul Allen writes:

Frederick was the second of five children of Martha (‘Pattie’) and Stephen Davison, who was variously employed as a ‘coal porter, labourer’, and by the turn of the century as a ‘greengrocer’, the family living in Scarborough at 54 North Street. [1]

The four brothers, Fred, Valentine, Albert and Stephen Davison, each served in the army: the Royal Engineers, Machine Gun Corps, the Leicestershire Regiment and the Yorkshire Regiment respectively. Albert Davison was killed in action but the other three brothers survived to return to Scarborough following their demobilisation in 1919.

[1] At the time of the 1901 Census the Davison family were residing in the house in North Street and consisted of Stephen (the eldest son of Rouse and Hannah Davison), aged 42 years, Martha, 39 years, Frederick, 16 years, employed as a ‘joiners apprentice’, Valentine, 15 years, employed as a ‘painters lad’, Amy aged 13, Albert aged 10, and Stephen aged 9. All were born in Scarborough except for Martha Davison, who was born in the Lincolnshire village of Glentworth.

Paul Allen

Davison, Frederick

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Name: Frederick Davison

Regiment/service: Royal Engineers

 

Paul Allen writes:

Frederick (‘Fred’) was the eldest of five children of Martha (‘Pattie’) and Stephen Davison, who was variously employed as a ‘coal porter, labourer’, and by the turn of the century as a ‘greengrocer’, the family living in Scarborough at 54 North Street. [1]

The four brothers, Fred, Valentine, Albert and Stephen Davison, each served in the army: the Royal Engineers, Machine Gun Corps, the Leicestershire Regiment and the Yorkshire Regiment respectively. Albert Davison was killed in action but the other three brothers survived to return to Scarborough following their demobilisation in 1919.

[1] At the time of the 1901 Census the Davison family were residing in the house in North Street and consisted of Stephen (the eldest son of Rouse and Hannah Davison), aged 42 years, Martha, 39 years, Frederick, 16 years, employed as a ‘joiners apprentice’, Valentine, 15 years, employed as a ‘painters lad’, Amy aged 13, Albert aged 10, and Stephen aged 9. All were born in Scarborough except for Martha Davison, who was born in the Lincolnshire village of Glentworth.

Paul Allen

Goodrick, Edith M

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Name: Edith Mary Goodrick

Ranks: Sister and Staff Nurse

Service no: tbc

Regiment/service: Territorial Force Nursing Service

 

Paul Allen writes:

Edith Goodrick served during the conflict as a Sister and Staff Nurse with the Territorial Force Nursing Service.

She was the sister of William Goodrick, who was killed in the war, and Arthur Goodrick, who also served in the war and survived.

At the time of the 1901 Census of Scarborough’s population the Goodricks resided at 69 Eastborough, the family consisting of Richard, 38 years of age, employed as a postman, Jessie, 37 years, Edith Mary (18), Jane Beatrice (16), Alfred (Arthur?) (14), Thomas (12), John Richard (10), Alice (7), Robert Edward (4), William (2), and Jessie, aged 5 months. All were born in Scarborough.

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Goodrick, Arthur E

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Name: Arthur Edward Goodrick

Rank: tbc

Service no: 86038

Regiment/service: Royal Field Artillery

 

Paul Allen writes:

Arthur Goodrick, a former Scarborough postman, served during the war (Regimental Number 86038) with the Royal Field Artillery and although wounded during September 1916 he survived the war together with his sister Edith Mary who served during the conflict as a Sister and Staff Nurse with the Territorial Nursing Service.

He was the brother of William Goodrick, who was killed in the war.

 

At the time of the 1901 Census of Scarborough’s population the Goodricks resided at 69 Eastborough, the family consisting of Richard, 38 years of age, employed as a postman, Jessie, 37 years, Edith Mary (18), Jane Beatrice (16), Alfred (Arthur?) (14), Thomas (12), John Richard (10), Alice (7), Robert Edward (4), William (2), and Jessie, aged 5 months. All were born in Scarborough.

Paul Allen

 

Pottage, John

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Name: John Pottage

Rank: Private (assumed, to be verified)

Service No: SE 11204

Regiment/Service: Royal Army Veterinary Corps (att Royal Field Artillery)

 

Paul Allen writes:

Despite being aged over 50 at the outbreak of war, Tom Pottage’s father, John Pottage, enlisted into the army soon after the outbreak of war and served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps (Regimental Number SE 11204) in France on attachment to 280 Brigade, the Royal Field Artillery.

Unlike his son, John survived to return to Scarborough following his demobilisation in 1919.

John Pottage was a well-known Scarborough cab driver who, by 1918, resided in the town at 59 Seaton Terrace, Hibernia Street.

John Pottage and Clara Fox were married in Scarborough’s St Mary’s Parish Church on 16 January 1895. At the time of the 1901 Census the family were still living at 6 Wrea Lane and consisted of John, aged 34 years, cab driver, Clara, 29 years, Tom (recorded as ‘Harry’) (5), Emma (‘Minnie’?) (aged 4). All were Scarborough born. The family was later augmented by Clara (1902), John (popularly known as ‘Jack’, born 1905, died 1969), George (born 1909, died 1983), and Frederick Albert (born 1910, died 1992), and Frances (1914). Jack Pottage served in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War, when he was torpedoed twice whilst on convoy duty.

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Bielby, John W

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Name: John William Bielby

Rank: Sergeant

Regiment/service: Yorkshire Regiment, 1st/5th Battalion

 

Paul Allen writes:

Tommy Bielby’s memorial also contains the name of Tommy’s younger brother John William Bielby.

More popularly known as ‘Jack’, he also served in the war, first as a Private [Regimental Number 1972] and eventually a Sergeant in the Scarborough-based Territorial Force 1st/5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. A veteran of the 5th Battalion’s so called ‘Baptism of Fire’ at St Julien (April 1915), Jack served throughout the remainder of the war with this unit until his de-mobilisation during 1919.

Married at Scarborough’s St Saviour’s Church on 25 August 1918 to Florence ‘Flo’ Clarkson (the youngest daughter of Hull confectioner J R Clarkson), Jack died in Scarborough at his home at 19 West Square (probably as a result of the effects of severe gas poisoning received during the war) on Tuesday, 11 May 1948. Aged 55 years at the time of his death Jack was the father of John Bielby. He was cremated at Hull following a service at St Saviour’s Church, which took place during the morning of Friday, 14 May 1948.

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Barker, John T (2)

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Name: John Thompson Barker

Rank: Private (assumed, to be verified)

Regimental No: 30495

Unit: Yorkshire Regt, thence Labour Corps

 

Paul Allen writes:

Jack Barker’s 40-year-old ex-Grenadier Guardsman father, John Thompson Barker, also enlisted into the Yorkshire Regiment, at the Regimental Depot at Richmond, on 16 June 1916. He served (with Regimental Number 30495) as a labourer on ‘Home Service’ with the 202nd Agricultural Company of the Regiment until 1917 when he was transferred to the Labour Corps.

Unlike his only son, he survived the war to return to Scarborough following his ‘demob’ in December 1918.

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Sails, George T B

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Name: George Tyco Brooksbanks Sails

Rank: Private

Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers

Unit: 19th (Service) Battalion

Regimental No: 472947

Joe Sail’s elder brother, George Tyco Brooksbanks Sails, was born and grew up in Scarborough during 1876. He was married in Scarborough to Edith May Allison on 26 December 1907.

Residing in Doncaster at 41 Cooper Street at the outbreak of war in August 1914, George was the father of three children (Scarborough-born (1909) George Edgar, Kenneth Allison (18 February 1911) and Doncaster-born Edith Mary (4 July 1914). George was employed as a tailor in civilian life and, although aged over 40, he enlisted into the army during 1916 to eventually serve on the Western Front with the 19th (Service) Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers (Regimental No 472947), employed as a ‘Company tailor’.

Considered as unfit for front line service by the start of 1918, George was transferred to the Labour Corps and was discharged from the army on 21 February 1919, when he had returned to his family at Doncaster, where another daughter, Marjorie, was born during 1932. Sadly, a year after the birth of his daughter, George Sails passed away at the relatively young age of 57 years at Doncaster, possibly as a result of his military service.

(Most of the above information has been gleaned from George Sails’s service record courtesy of Ancestry.com).

Paul Allen

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