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Morpeth Herald 23 May 1941: Amble War Weapons Week, a big parade on the links. "Mr W H Gray was parade marshall assisted by Mr R Nicholson. The Home Guard detachment was commanded by Captain W. J. Casey."
It looks like he died in Amble in 1946. |
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Thanks Janwhin. I've put in the bare facts as we know them. That's some service that chap had.
He would have medals for 3 major wars, although he might not have lived to see his 'Defence Medal*' for WW2. (*Assuming he got 3 years in to qualify) |
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Interesting career. Maybe there is a bit of an obituary in the Alnwick Gazette which would require a sit at the microfilm reader in Alnwick library.
You might like to remove the copyright reference from the bottom of your page on the honours men. I'm always happy to take the credit, of course |
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By the way, Coquet, where do you manage to find service histories for these men? When I search on Ancestry it looks like most of the NF records are missing. I assumed they were part of the burnt records.
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Good Idea. If I get to Alnwick this week I'll check for an obit. I could do with some pickled gherkins from Aldi too.
A few years back I spoke to a chap called Jonathan Collins a well known researcher for us medal types and he told me there were disproportionate losses of NF service papers. This does seem the case now we can check them ourselves. So unfortunately they are few and far between. Doing an "Amble" search on Ancestry in Draft & Enlistment papers it produces 116 Pension records search produces 56 with maybe a dozen spurious/duplicate results in there. And these are all units, so quite a hopeless survival rate all round when you look at the amount of names on the Absent voters lists. I don't know if these links will work: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...&uidh=vs3&so=2 http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...&uidh=vs3&so=2 Officers' papers are a much better story with the bulk having survived, but they are not online yet. Regarding our man Casey though the chance is high that they are unavailable at the current time because his WW2 Home Guard service probably means they are still with the MoD. |
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draft enlistment for "Acklington" gives 89
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...AAEwwATC5A-61- pension search gives 33 http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...&uidh=vs3&so=2 |
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Thanks for your detailed response, Coquet. Sadly my ancestors were not officer material, I have 1 sergeant and 1 private in World War One Radcliffe based NF
I have one helpful hint for you, you'll be searching a long time for gherkins in Alnwick Aldi, there isn't one.....try Lidl or if you want to go upmarket, Sainsbury |
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I do hope we get to see the Northumberland Home guard records, a number of our Great War veterans will pop up again in those lists I imagine. |
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W J Casey and J lynn.
Casey was the resident instructor to the TA in Amble and his family were brought up here. I went to school with his grandson, also named Walter. There were Caseys in Amble until last year when Joe Casey , son of Walter J, died he was 92 and lived in West Crescent. He worked at both Hauxley and Whittle collieries.
Jack Lynn lived next door to my grandparents in Centre Row Radcliffe and was Caseys second in command in the Home Guard in the rank of Lieutenant, he worked at Hauxley colliery and ended his days in Leslie Drive in Amble after moving from Radcliffe. |
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Alan, have you got anything on James Douglass? The most likely candidate was living in Cross Row in the 1911 census, a 31 years old miner. Of course with a name like that it's not that straightforward.
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James Douglass.
Have trawled through the Radcliffe 1911 census and only came up with two James Douglass' ( note the double s as opposed to Douglas with one s). They were both in Cross Row one in East and one in West. East was your 31 year old and West was aged 42 in 1911.
I would favour the 31 year old as by the end of the war he would have still been in his late 30's where the other one would have been pushing 50 possibly too old for active service. |
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Yes, that was my reasoning too. The double ss seems pretty consistent.
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J. Douglass
It's a difficult one. They territorials did go at some respectable ages. Here's an example of one in the 1/5th Northumberland Fusiliers.
But as you say it's more likley to be the younger one. The Western Front Association have obtained a new series of documents that might help if a pension claim was made but I assume they won't be available for a while. I'm looking forward to seeing/using them anyway. |
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Northumberland Archives have a full run of St George's Gazette - the Northumberland Fusiliers Regimental Paper, bound in volumes.
That might be just as good for the Casey Obit, and you never know might give some info on James Douglass, I'll have a look. NRO 07549/1/1/1/ 1 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1884 2 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1885 3 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1886 4 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1887 5 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1891 6 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1892 7 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1893 8 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1894 9 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1897 10 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1900 11 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1904 12 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1905 13 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1907 14 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1908 15 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1909 16 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1910 17 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1912 18 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1914 19 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1915 20 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1916 21 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1917 22 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1918 23 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1919 24 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1920 25 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1928 26 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1930 27 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1931 28 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1937 29 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1938 30 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1939 31 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1941 32 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1942 33 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1943 34 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1944 35 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1945 36 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1946 37 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1947 38 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1948 39 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1949 40 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1950 41 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1951 42 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1952 43 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1953 44 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1954 45 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1955 46 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1956 47 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1957 48 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1958 49 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1960 50 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1962 51 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1963 52 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1965 53 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1966 54 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1967 55 Volume of St. George's Gazette. 1968 so I'm after NRO 07549/1/1/1/23 (1919) and NRO 07549/1/1/1/36 (1946) I bet that 1968 volume is rather sad. |
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Douglass the younger.
If it was, as we suspect, the younger one, his grandson and greatgrandsons are still in Amble. I can verify this by the names of his sons on the census.
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Are these volumes out on the shelves at Woodhorn, Coquet? I'd like to get in amongst them, might find out something about my grandad's brothers, otherwise lost in the National Archives burnt records.
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I'm not sure, I found them playing about with Google with the term 'Northumberland Fusiliers' & 'St George's gazette' last night!
I note that the list does have some volume omissions, not complete as I first thought. How useful will they be? not sure, I have one volume at home, 1906, I'll post some scans. page a page b page c |
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I've had a look at these volumes today and they won't provide much information. MMs are a listed with the same detail as the London Gazette. Some detailed officer obituaries though, but could not find anything for Casey in the 1946 or 47 volumes. I do believe there is a photo of him in the pre WW1 volumes but we will not be allowed to publish it.
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That's a shame....its Alnwick library and pickled gherkins then
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