Some of you might remember a few months back when I asked for help tracing Rebecca Guilford in Australia. Rebecca was the widow of my great great uncle Charles William Guilford who was killed in WW1. She went to live in Australia after the war and was found travelling from the UK to Australia several times between the 1920s and 1940s.
The recent release of incoming shipping lists has enabled me to discover that she finally returned to the UK in 1950, and a contact who is researching her family has found her death in 1961 here in the UK.
According to their 1915 marriage certificate, Charles was recorded as working at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, and being that he served in the Rifle Brigade, I had images of him making armaments in the years leading up to the war... However according to her death certificate, he was a chef! So those images are now dashed!!
Anyway, I've made a lot of progress with this couple in the last few weeks and some very kind members of the Great War Forum have supplied me with photos of his grave in Belgium, including a very poignant inscription by his wife which you can just about read -
I think that she must have been devastated by his death and moving to Australia was the way she coped. My contact believes that she went there because her brother was also there - Richard Fawcett (born 1881).
Please can someone with access to Australian records trace Richard for me. Rebecca lived in NSW, so I think that this would be the best place to start.
He has also given me these names - Thomas Gospage, John Gospage, David Gospage and George Gospage - I have no years of birth although it's a uncommon name. Can anyone find them in Australia please?
Many thanks for your help.
The recent release of incoming shipping lists has enabled me to discover that she finally returned to the UK in 1950, and a contact who is researching her family has found her death in 1961 here in the UK.
According to their 1915 marriage certificate, Charles was recorded as working at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, and being that he served in the Rifle Brigade, I had images of him making armaments in the years leading up to the war... However according to her death certificate, he was a chef! So those images are now dashed!!
Anyway, I've made a lot of progress with this couple in the last few weeks and some very kind members of the Great War Forum have supplied me with photos of his grave in Belgium, including a very poignant inscription by his wife which you can just about read -
I think that she must have been devastated by his death and moving to Australia was the way she coped. My contact believes that she went there because her brother was also there - Richard Fawcett (born 1881).
Please can someone with access to Australian records trace Richard for me. Rebecca lived in NSW, so I think that this would be the best place to start.
He has also given me these names - Thomas Gospage, John Gospage, David Gospage and George Gospage - I have no years of birth although it's a uncommon name. Can anyone find them in Australia please?
Many thanks for your help.
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