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Fielden Or Fielding ?


Peter Bennett

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This man is recorded on CWGC as Fielden but SDGW and his medal (currently on an auction site) say Fielding.

Which is correct.

Name: FIELDEN, HAROLD

Initials: H

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

Unit Text: 2nd/4th Bn.

Age: 23

Date of Death: 26/11/1917

Service No: 202372

Additional information: Son of John Sutcliffe Fielden and Alice Fielden, of 4, Lilybank Terrace, Lineholme, Todmorden.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 6 and 7.

Memorial: CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL

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I'd suggest Fielden. Here's the GRO details for his father (it was easier to search that name rather than Harold's)....

Birth....

Name: John Sutcliffe Fielden

Year of Registration: 1869

Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep

District: Todmorden

County: Lancashire, Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire

Volume: 9a

Page: 215

Marriage....

Name: John Sutcliffe Fielden

Year of Registration: 1893

Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar

District: Todmorden

County: Lancashire, Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire

Volume: 9a

Page: 294

Regards

Steve

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Interesting that with such a clear MIC the person who impressed the name of the medal managed to get it wrong.

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Fielden is a popular name in this area. Indeed just visited a French Cemetery to photograph a Fielden's headstone. He lived locally.

BernardP

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Fielden is a popular name in this area. Indeed just visited a French Cemetery to photograph a Fielden's headstone. He lived locally.

BernardP

Bernard, presumably it definitely read Fielden ?

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Hi Chaps

Been away for some time, a pretty busy!

Fielden is a Todmorden name from the 18th century, coming from the town of Felden in Germany. The family were big in the rag trade, textiles and that sort of thing. Not your rough sort of mill owners, but very worker orientated, giving lots to the community and setting up benefits which were unheard of in those long gone days.

I did some family research on the family, a cricketing friend of mine is a Todmorden Fielden.

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Peter

Encl is a picture of Rifleman Fielden's headstone from Villers Faucon Comm Cemetery & Extn. His history is below. 4 other soldiers named Fielden and who had a connection with Littleborough, died in WW!. As yet we do not have pictures of all of their headstones

Bernard

Rifleman Charles Fielden

By Saturday 15 December 1917 Mrs Lovett, 42 Elim Terrace, Gale had received official confirmation of the death of her son Rifleman Charles Fielden, Liverpool Rifles on the 30 November 1917.

Rifleman 51456 C.Fielden, 1st/5th Batt The Kings (Liverpool Regiment) died Friday 30 November 1917, his name inscribed on Littleborough Cenotaph and the Holy Trinity War Memorial and St.James’s (Calderbrook) Church Roll of Honour and War Memorial. Prior to enlisting he was employed at the Sladen Mill. Littleborough. In the memorial columns of the Rochdale Observer Saturday the 29 November 1919 in his memory Rifleman Charles Fielden, 1st/5th King’s Liverpool Regiment remembered by his loving mother and stepfather

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