WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 612321 | Gunner Harry Robert Buggins | Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery, Territorial Force | born 1896 |
| Roll of Honour/Absent Voters list | Served on the Western front/ Gunner, RFA base in Mesopotamia |
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| Medal card | He was awarded the Victory medal and the British War Medal. | ||
| 1054358 | Re-enlisted at Nottingham 10 April1922 Signed for 12 years with the colours on 18th November 1922. His previous service and number, 612321, were noted in the register book. |
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No service/pension records exist on Ancestry except for the Medal card
Family history etc
| 612321 | Gunner Harry Buggins | ||
| 1896 | Born Church Stretton | ||
| Census 1881 |
Father Thomas age 14 living with his parents and siblings on the Ragley Estate in Arrow Warwickshire | Plough boy |
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| Census 1891 | Father Thomas living at the police station, Hatton, Warwickshire. Noted as born in Hatton. Unmarried. | Police constable |
Lodging with Police Superintendent’s family and four other constables. |
| Census 1901 | Living in Blisworth Northants with Father: Thomas J Buggins, b 1867, Warwick, Mother: Phyllis, b 1870 Oldbury, Worcs, Siblings: Thomas Alfred, b 1895 Church Stretton Phyllis M, b 1899 Church Stretton |
Game Keeper |
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| Census 1911 | Living in a 5 roomed house [now known as Buggins
Cottage] on Fosse Road, Bingham with: Father: Thomas Buggins Mother: Phyllis Siblings: Thomas Alfred Phyllis May |
Farm servant Farm Servant (probably gamekeeper) Asylum Attendant, Saxondale Hospital; died in WW1 |
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| As gamekeeper on a large estate, Thomas snr. Would have been moved around from time to time to prevent too much danger of collusion with local poachers. Agricultural and police background would have been suitable for becoming gamekeeper. | |||
| RFA attestation book | Re-joining record shows he lived in Nottingham and was a police constable. He was married in Woolwich to Edith Kathleen Rosendale on 14th February 1923 and they had a son Ivor Thomas on 25th May 1923 at Woolwich. Edith was the daughter of a retired police officer and was born in 1895. The RFA was (and still is) based in Woolwich. He was discharged on 18th December 1935. | ||
| AVL | Address: Newton Turn, Fosse Road | ||
| 1923 Free BMD |
Sister Phyllis Mary married Charles Pacey who served in the Royal Marines | ||
| 1939 register | The Blue Bell Inn,
Blue Bell Yard, Church Street, Blackwell, Derbyshire: Harry R Buggins, b.3 Mar 1896, married Edith K Buggins (later Marriott), b. 24 Jan 1895, married Ivor T Buggins, b. 25 May 1923, single |
Beer House Keeper and Army pensioner Domestic Duties Coal Picker, colliery surface |
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| Death Certificate | Harry died in April 1945 aged 49. He had been a licensed victualler and the informant was his wife EK (Edith Kathleen) – the report in Newark Advertiser 4/8/2011 of Thomas’ war grave saying Harry dies in Nottingham in June 1945 and is buried in same pauper’s plot as Thomas is possibly inaccurate. | ||
| Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald | Friday 25 May 1945 – family notice of wedding of son Ivor to Miss Mary Antcliffe in South Normanton. | ||
