Re: ID of named WW1 RFA officer needed??? 1915

[Danny152]

Another ebay buy guys... looks like a R.M Geldant?? Any help I would be very grateful.

 

Thanks

 

Danny 

[seaJane]

How about Richard Morton Geldart?

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1068431

[seaJane]

And another with middle name spelt Morfon:  https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D2309646

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

 Indexed (seemingly incorrectly) on Ancestry as  Richard Marton Geldard !

But corrected by someone to:  Richard Morton Geldart

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Medals applied for 22/2/1920, address: Cottesbrooke, Mostyn Road SW19

Also endorsed "SWB      San Remo[??], Bungalow Town, Shoreham by Sea"

http://www.shorehambysea.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/JT4-copy.jpg

Edited 25 March , 2019 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr

[seaJane]

May have gone into medicine?

https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/topic/35-montpelier-road-brighton

 

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

Hmmm.

Naughty boy.

MRCS LRCP- London Conjoint degree I suspect.

 

..... Signed Gwilym Lloyd-George.

(" Lloyd George was my father,

Father was Lloyd George.....")

[battiscombe]

Jan 1915 Army List has him as new t/2Lt  in 24th Division, then forming ..

[clk]

Hi Danny,

 

There is an officers SWB roll record for a 2/Lt Richard Morton Geldart RFA, date stamped 25.10.1916, which gives a then address as The Vicarage, Moulton Chapel, Spalding, Lincs. Further research needed, but in the 1901 census he might be a 6 year old son of a J B Geldart (a CoE clergyman) and his wife Frances, born in Yorkshire, and living in Devon.

 

Regards

Chris

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

Surname First name(s)  District Vol Page 

Marriages Mar 1892   (>99%)

CASEY Frances                   Kensington 1a227  

Geldart Richard John B        Kensington 1a227  

 

Births Dec 1894   (>99%)

Geldart Richard Morton  Howden 9d85  

 

BUT

The GRO states:

	Name:	Mother's Maiden Surname:
	GELDART, RICHARD  MORTON	HARMAN
	GRO Reference: 1894  D Quarter in HOWDEN  Volume 09D  Page 85

 

Although there is no record in BMD of any marriage between a Geldart and a Harman, but there is this:

 

Marriages Jun 1875   (>99%)

CASEY Thomas  Strand 1b913  

Harman Frances   Strand 1b913  

 

Deaths Sep 1887   (>99%)

Casey Thomas 50 Brighton 2b153  

 

Edited 25 March , 2019 by Dai Bach y Sowldiwr

[TTracer44]

A Richard Morton Geldart died in Bristol 1971, dob given as 20sep1894, there is a marriage of a Richard M Geldart to a Margaret Dixon at Loddon, Norfolk, in 1923, 

info from FreeBmd.

Den

[charlie962]

If you look at Newspapers on Findmypast there are a number of hits for RM Geldart. He was awarded a Kitchener scholarship in 1918 for 3 years at Clare College. Also appears on exam results 1917 part of a science degree. So on Discharge 1916 must have gone back to his studies.

[Dai Bach y Sowldiwr]

Medical Registers from the 1920s onwards would pin down his medical degree.

[seaJane]

A former GWF post here by his grandson:

 

[The Inspector]

Hi

Born 20.9.1894 d.10.5.1971. Bristol. Father Richard J. B Geldart, mother Frances Harman. Married twice. Was convicted 11th Nov. 1942 Worthing, Dangerous Drugs Act. 

Here is another,

 

Regards Barry

Edited 26 March , 2019 by The Inspector

[David Porter]

A postcard written by him has also appeared on Ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153432151502

If he was at Christchurch in July 1915 that puts him in 3C Reserve Brigade RFA