Herbert ROWLES & Family - 1911 in Blakeney (General)

by m p griffiths , Saturday, January 14, 2012, 20:51 (4707 days ago) @ slowhands

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Herbert ROWLES
New Road
Blakeney

Living in 5 rooms

Herbert - 49 - married 26 years - 12 children born alive, 12 living, Railway Ganger - born Westbury on Severn
Edith - 44 born Horton
Albert - 20 - born Swindon
Hilda - 12 - School - all born Lydney
William - 10 - School
Archiebald - 8
Godfrey - 6
Osborne - 3

Just like my Grandad/Great Great Grandad & Great Great Uncle - from Blakeney, who went to work for the Great Western Railways in Swindon, but stayed there, what a contrast from the countryside - to working 'Inside' as we used to say, because of the high boundary walls that surrounded the Railway Works, (just like a big prison) - I know because that's where my worklife started, as a typist. We had to cover all our paper/typewriters etc every night, as they got covered in 'soot' from the engines passing by!!!

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UK Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1918

Arthur Herbert ROWLES

Birth place: Swindon, Wilts

Residence: Bedwas. Mon

Death Date: 23 Aug 1918

Death Location: France & Flanders

Enlistment Location: Caerphilly, Glam

Rank: Gunner

Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery

Number: 124198

Type of Casualty: Died of wounds

Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

Comments: M.M.