Guest Posted 1 March , 2009 Share Posted 1 March , 2009 Here you go Maldon Cheers Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 1 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 1 March , 2009 Here you go Maldon Cheers Mike Brilliant! - thanks Mike - now, anyone any idea about regiment??? Help me! Regards. SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 2 March , 2009 Share Posted 2 March , 2009 There's not much to go on Maldon. Maybe some clever pal can see a clue on shoulder or some other mysterious pointer. Cheers Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 3 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 3 March , 2009 There's not much to go on Maldon. Maybe some clever pal can see a clue on shoulder or some other mysterious pointer. Cheers Mike. Yes, I agree with you Mike. The original is no clearer. Apart from the shoulder badge I wondered if the tunic type and lanyard helps? Frustrating to have a name and image but no ID! SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 5 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 5 March , 2009 Got my piece published in the Essex Chronicle newspaper today with an appeal for information on the remaining 6 names. I hope this will generate some links to resolve the mystery. Will keep you posted. Sorry that nobody has had any thoughts about the George Boreham picture (see this thread). All the best. SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPAE Posted 5 March , 2009 Share Posted 5 March , 2009 Just over a month and 6 from the original 14. Good to see you made the newspaper. Avatar successful too! Looking forward to the next twist in the tale. Good Luck, Phil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 8 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2009 Amazing what a bit of publicity in the local paper can do. Although no firm leads on the 6 missing men yet, loads more information on the other 244! Am visiting someone tomorrow night who has letters and papers relating to one of the chaps. Exciting stuff. Regards to all. SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 8 March , 2009 Share Posted 8 March , 2009 well done Maldon. Am about to place an advert ( again ) too. In different paper. Cheers Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 8 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2009 well done Maldon. Am about to place an advert ( again ) too. In different paper. Cheers Mike. Thanks old friend - good to hear from you. What paper/what's the story? Regards. SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 8 March , 2009 Share Posted 8 March , 2009 The Perthshire Advertiser, just the usual, any photographs of Kenmore aberfeldy etc etc. Have tried before in smaller journals with a small amount of success. You don't get if you don't ask Cheers Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 8 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2009 The Perthshire Advertiser, just the usual, any photographs of Kenmore aberfeldy etc etc. Have tried before in smaller journals with a small amount of success. You don't get if you don't ask Cheers Mike Good luck Mike. Let us know how you get on. I am visiting a contact tomorrow night - and it's Essex Regiment (9th Battalion) a chap called Private Samuel Charles BASHAM(12240) who is burried at Avesnes-Le-Comte (died 16/3/17), so the newspaper stuff does pay off sometimes. By the way, didn't Robbie Burns mention your place! SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 9 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 9 March , 2009 Just got back from a fantastic interview with a descendant of one of the Maldon men: Private Samuel Charles BASHAM (12240) Essex Regiment (9th Battalion) DoW 16/3/17. I knew a bit about him already - his parents, their jobs (mariner and a pea sorter), home address and then surprised the chap by telling him that (acording to CWGC)Samuel was married. However, he then produced a fantastic picture of him in uniform and taken in France and a remarkable letter to his sister from the front dated just the day before his death. He also had a newspaper cutting reporting his home leave in 1916 after 10 months at the front and having escaped death on a number of occassions (including having had his rifle shot out of his hands). Amazing stuff! I have seen the official records for Samuel (but no medal card seems to survive) but what about this personal stuff! Regards SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 9 March , 2009 Share Posted 9 March , 2009 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...;resultcount=86 You will get S C Basham's MIC here for a couple of quid Maldon Cheers Mike edit Well done for finding the information. Excellent. I await a reply from the Perthshire Advertiser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 10 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 10 March , 2009 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...;resultcount=86 You will get S C Basham's MIC here for a couple of quid Maldon Cheers Mike edit Well done for finding the information. Excellent. I await a reply from the Perthshire Advertiser. Thanks Mike (as usual) really good of you. Anoying that it has apparently been missed of off Ancestry. Good luck with the Perthshire Advertiser. If it's anything like the response I have had through my local paper, it will be really worthwhile. "Fair fa' your honest sonsie face"! SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambo Posted 14 March , 2009 Share Posted 14 March , 2009 SPN I have been researching a man whose parents came from Maldon Thomas Hugo French RFC his paretns lived in Utling Hall in Maldon and I wondered if he is listed on tne memorial there. I have a fair bit on him if you're interested Regards John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 15 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2009 SPN I have been researching a man whose parents came from Maldon Thomas Hugo French RFC his paretns lived in Utling Hall in Maldon and I wondered if he is listed on tne memorial there. I have a fair bit on him if you're interested Regards John Thanks John. No he isn't on the main memorial or any of the plaques in town but then Ulting is a fair way out. There is a French mentioned but he was Oxley Albert whose dad was a fishmonger. They were based in High Street but the family later moved to Tonbridge, Kent. Not come across a link between Gerald Pearson RFC and Maldon have you? Regards. SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambo Posted 15 March , 2009 Share Posted 15 March , 2009 No but I'll keep a look out Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 15 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2009 Thanks to contact through this forum, had some fantastic information and photos linked to Ben Cobey (maldon born lad of Le Cateau fame). As the book now exceeds 100 pages in text alone I think I am going to soon go to proof stage for publishing. My only regret is the remaining six unidentified names. I have an appeal out for anyone who visits the Newspaper Library at Collindale because there is a short run of Maldon newspapers for the Great War period, but no takers yet. There will be a big "thank you" in the book to "my many pals on the Great War Forum". Kind regards to all. SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 16 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 16 March , 2009 Of the 248 Maldon casualties two of them were apparently awarded the "Medaille Militaire". By a strange coincidence their names are adjacent to each other on the memorial but they are apparently unconected: Alfred Edward EVES (L/22734) RFA died 12/6/1918 Edward Arthur FINCH (218969) RN died 24/1/1918 Does anyone know anything about this French award and why these two received it? Regards. SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzy Posted 16 March , 2009 Share Posted 16 March , 2009 Have you checked the overseas death indexes for the names you require also if not already check parish registers and the probate indexes. good luck with your last few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 16 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 16 March , 2009 Have you checked the overseas death indexes for the names you require also if not already check parish registers and the probate indexes. good luck with your last few. Thanks for your encouragement Izzy. Nothing in the local death records. Regards SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzy Posted 16 March , 2009 Share Posted 16 March , 2009 when checking parish registers check the marrige and birth as these are often overlooked. Are you publishing a book or putting it on a data base ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 16 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 16 March , 2009 when checking parish registers check the marrige and birth as these are often overlooked. Are you publishing a book or putting it on a data base ? Thanks Izzy - have gone through all BMD for the area. Yes a book - 30 years in the making! SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Nixon Posted 20 March , 2009 Share Posted 20 March , 2009 Good luck with your research, maldon. I'm from Chelmsford originally, and know Maldon well. Two of your men are connected to my Chailey 1914-1918 research: Hugo Frederick Grantham and his father Frederick William Grantham. Frederick and Hugo had connections with Barcombe in Sussex and were related to William Wilson Grantham and William Ivor Grantham who appear on my site. I am in touch with a Grantham relative in New Zealand and can probably put you in touch. Please drop me a PM if you're interested. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen p nunn Posted 21 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 21 March , 2009 Good luck with your research, maldon. I'm from Chelmsford originally, and know Maldon well. Two of your men are connected to my Chailey 1914-1918 research: Hugo Frederick Grantham and his father Frederick William Grantham. Frederick and Hugo had connections with Barcombe in Sussex and were related to William Wilson Grantham and William Ivor Grantham who appear on my site. I am in touch with a Grantham relative in New Zealand and can probably put you in touch. Please drop me a PM if you're interested. Paul Thanks Paul - this is an exciting development. Will be in touch. SPN Maldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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