Foreigners' Great War Memorial, Yokohama, Japan

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On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

George Crellin CARTWRIGHT Captain 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Captain George Crellin Cartwright, 4th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment attached 2nd Battalion was Killed in Action on the 25th September 1915 aged 33. He is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, France. The additional information on his CWGC webpage is that he was the son of George Frederic B and Elvira Lousia Cartwright, of Ravensview Drive, Portland Heights, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/251227/GEORGE CRELLIN CARTWRIGHT/

The 1915 UK Probate Calendar records that George Crellin Cartwright of 72 Carlisle-mansions and 34 Bishopgate both in Middlesex, captain 2/4th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment died 25 September 1915 in France on active service. Administration with will was granted at the London Court on the 2nd November 1915 to Mary Baker Willcox, (wife of Francis Wallace Willcox).  https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Cartwright&yearOfDeath=1915#calendar

The birth of a George Crellin Cartwright, mothers' maiden name Crellin, was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Solihull District of Warwickshire in the April to June quarter, (Q2), of 1882. On the 1891 Census of England & Wales the 9 year old George C. Cartwright, born Acocks Green, Warwickshire, was recorded at 116 Steven Street, Stretford, Lancashire. He lives there with parents George F, (aged 38, a Traveller in Paint Varnish, born Birmingham), and Elvira L, (aged 35, born Washington USA), and 2 siblings, both born Warwickshire. By the time of the 1901 Census of England & Wales his parents and two brothers were recorded living at 86 Downs Park Road, Hackney. Father George gives his occupation as Tea Merchant. But there is no obvious candidate for George.

There is no obvious match for the parents, but there are numerous appearances for what is most likely Elvira in the passenger lists. In 1909 a 52 year old Elvira L Cartwright arrived at Honolulu, having sailed from Yokohama aboard the SS Siberia. Her final destination was London to join family. She gives her next of kin as her son Vernon H. Cartwright of 13 Ashburnam Mansion, Chelsea, London. (One of George Crellin Cartwrights brothers on the 1891 and 1901 censuses is a Vernon Harold Cartwright). https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9Z-338N

I suspect the 21 year old Crellin Cartwright who arrived at Ellis Island, New York on the 13th August 1903 was our fallen soldier. Normally resident London, he had sailed from Liverpool aboard the SS Majestic. Crellin was a student who was heading for New York. He had been to the States before and was neither an Anarchist or a Polygamist !

An obituary appeared in the Proceedings of the A.I.E.E. (November 1915 pages 258-259)

GEORGE CRELLIN CARTWRIGHT, Captain of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment of the British forces in France, was killed September 26. 1915, while gallantly rallying a company which had suffered the loss of nearly all its officers. Captain Cartwright was born in England in March, 1882. He was graduated from the Central Technical College of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and served in the 2nd Scottish Horse in the Boer War, receiving the Queen’s Medal. After the close of the war he came to New York and joined the student course at the Schenectady works of the General Electric Company. After completing the course in the shops he took a position in the Foreign Department of the company, going to Japan for three years. After returning to New York in 1910, he went to Rio de Janeiro and represented the General Electric Company in Brazil for one year. While in Rio he met the late Dr. F.S. Pearson, and accepted a position in the London office of the F.S. Pearson Engineering Corporation in charge of engineering and purchasing work. From 1911 until the outbreak of war he remained in London, associated particularly with the work in connection with the Barcelona, Spain, power transmission – the Ebro Irrigation and Power Company installation.

Applying for a commission on the outbreak of the European war, he was gazetted Second Lieutenant, and was promoted to Lieutenant in April, 1915, and to Captain in July. Shortly before his death he was attached to the staff of the 22nd Infantry Brigade as a machine-gun officer.

Captain Cartwright was elected an Associate of the A.I.E.E. on December 18, 1903.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6590487
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6590488

Cheers,
Peter

 

A.I.E.E. = American Institute of Electrical Engineers

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On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

George Courtney Dell CLARKE Captain Royal Air Force

Depending on the source his surname appears as CLARKE, DELL CLARKE (unhypenated) OR DELL-CLARKE, (hypenated).

His CWGC webpage records him as DELL CLARKE (unhypenated), who died aged 24 on the 16th July 1918 while serving in France with 60 Squadron, RAF. He is buried at Wavens, France. He had received the Military Cross. The additional information is that he was the son of George Dell Clarke and Emma Priscilla Clarke, of 47, Richmond Park Avenue, Bournemouth. Born at Kobe, Japan. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2913532/G C DELL CLARKE/
The original Grave Registration document attached to that web-page shows him as DELL-CLARKE, (hypenated).

His RAF Officers record at the National Archive has been catalogued as George CourtnAy DELL-CLARKE, (hypenated), with a birth date of the 12th January 1890, but that would make him 28 when he died. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8246678

A look at the document shows it could easily read 1896, which would still be incorrect. There are various address for him - looks like it was initally 38 Nakayamate, Dori, then 3 Chome, Kobe, both in Japan, before there are various c\o addresses. It's not quite clear, but looks like at least initially the person to be informed of casualty is his Godmother, Lady St Heliers. In the RAF census it is noted that he had a good knowledge of Japanese Language - 16 years in Japan. It looks like he had been in hospital to the end of June 1918 and was then posted to 60 Squadron. He is shown as having died at the 21 Casualty Clearing Station on the 16th July 1918. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8246678

"Sixty Squadron, RAF" by Group Captain A.J.L Scott published shortly after the end of the Great War mentions him twice, as DELL-CLARKE, (hypenated), but only as part of lists with the note that he was killed 16th July 1918. Nothing specific is stated about the circumstances of his death. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47416/47416-h/47416-h.htm

"60 Squadron, Capt George Courtenay Dell Clarke MC - SE5a D5992, did half roll low down and dived into field adjoining aerodrome during practice,"
Source is one of the responses on this forum thread http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68592

The 1919 Probate Calendar has him listed in the appropriate place for a CLARKE but then shows his surname as DELL-CLARKE, (hypenated). George CourtenAy Dell-Clarke, of Kobe, Japan, a Captain the RAF, died 16th July 1918 in France Killed in Action. Administration (limited) was granted at the London Court on the 28th February 1919 to Thomas William Aldis, ship-broker, the attorney of George Dell-Clarke. https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Clarke&yearOfDeath=1919&page=4#calendar

Cheers
Peter