Family Tree of Pete Bradshaw and Wendy Offen, Durham, England
Herbert James Archer
1897
Male
Person 00099504
Born 29/09/1889 at Preston Brockhurst (RC)
Father: John Archer (1839)
Mother: Elinor Davies (1846)
GRO ref 6a/690 Wem District Dec 1889
Christened 08/11/1889 at Moreton Corbet, Shropshire (H)
1891 at Preston Brockhurst (C)
1
02/10/1894 at Preston Brockhurst (S)
started at Moreton Corbett school
1901 at Moreton Corbet (C)
11
after 1910 at Shropshire (F)
gardener (to Corbets?)
1911 at Chepstow, Wales (C)
domestic gardener at Sedbury Park Gardens, 21, boarding, from "Shropshire (Wem)"
1915 ()
father died
around 1916 at Salonika (FS)
Probably enlisted in Mounted division of Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, based in Scotland. Served in Border Regiment
and Northumberland Regiment:
9th Battalion Border Regiment Pte 26030 (9th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), Formed at Carlisle in September 1914 as part of K3
and came under orders of 66th Brigade in 22nd Division. Moved to Lewes and Seaford. Moved to billets in Eastbourne in
November 1914. February 1915 : became Divisional Pioneers in same Division. Moved to Seaford March 1915 and on to Aldershot
May 1915. Landed at Le Havre 4 September 1915 but soon to Salonika, arriving 7 November 1915.)
then 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pte 44823 (Salonika Jan 1916; Hindenburg Line Jun 1918)
Awarded only Victory medal and British war medal therefore served abroad after 1915
Married March 1928 at Jesmond, Northumberland (RS)
to Clara Ashton (1896)
GRO ref 10b/184
- St Barnabas?
December 1928 at Newcastle ()
in electoral register at Stotes Hall Cottage on Jesmond Dene Road
1929 at Newcastle ()
in electoral register at Stotes Hall Lodge
1939 at Newcastle upon Tyne (C)
cemetery gardner, with Clara at 123 Grosvenor Road
1947 at Newcastle ()
wife died
around 1960 at Newcastle (F)
cemetery gardener
Died March 1974 at Newcastle upon Tyne (FR)
1b/589
living at Maywood Close with daughter and family
Children
Jean Archer (1931)
Last updated 18/11/2023
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