WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 13737 [ASC] 2816 [SF] 256558 [RE] WR/269134 [RE] |
Corporal Cuthbert Hollingshead | Army Service Corps Sherwood Foresters(Notts & Derby Regiment Royal Engineers, waterways and railways |
born 1877 |
| Service record | Service records exist on Ancestry but only for
pre-War service with Army Service Corps: Attested at Derby for 3years minimum with Army Service Corps on 14/1/1898 at the age of 20 yrs 8 months. Born Holwell, Melton Mowbray. He was 5’4¼”; girth 332 (34½” expanded);212 lbs; blue eyes and brown hair. He was based at Aldershot. Trade: Butcher (4 years apprenticeship with W H Hoult – indenture cancelled) Next of kin [all of Kegworth Rd., Gotham, Notts]: Father: Herbert Brother: Bernard Sister: Clara Passed education certificate third class 18th March 1898. Discharged 29th March 1898 “having claimed it on payment of £10 within 3 months of attestation.” (I.e. bought himself out). |
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War Diary |
264th Company undertook training at Longmoor Camp and embarked for France on 13th May 1917. For much of 1917 they were engaged on maintenance and extension of the Midland Railway from Ypres northwards. They were often under attack by artillery and aircraft; several men were wounded (including Cuthbert) and one or two were killed in various bombardments. At the beginning of 1918 they were relieved by 113th Railway company and moved to other duties in France. Some maps of their projects are here. | Base | |
| Medal Card | Awarded Victory and British medals | ||
| Roll of Honour AVL |
RoH: wounded twice on Western Front AVL Address: Chapel Yard. Sapper 264th Railway Co RE |
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Family history etc
| Corporal Cuthbert Hollingshead | |||
| 1877 FREEBMD | Born Holwell, Leicestershire JUN qtr. | ||
| Census 1881 |
Lived in Holwell with: Father: Herbert b 1843 Grimston, Leics Mother; Elizabeth b 1846 Ragdale Siblings: Arthur, b 1867 Grimston Florence, b 1868 Osgathorpe Laura, b 1870 Osgathorpe Ernest, b 1872 Osgathorpe Bernard, b 1874 Osgathorpe Ida, b 1876 Osgathorpe |
Farmer 230 acres |
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| Census 1891 |
Lived in Hoton with: Father: Herbert b 1843 Grimston, Leics Mother: Elizabeth b 1846 Ragdale Siblings: Arthur Florence Laura Bernard Ida Clara, b 1884 Holwell |
Farmer Farmer’s son Farmer’s son |
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| 1901 | not found | In New Zealand, see footnote below | |
| Census 1911 | Living in Needham Street, Bingham with: Wife, Addie, b. 1879 in Cropwell Butler Son, Cecil, b. 1909 Bingham. |
platelayer (GNR) |
Adie Radford (sic) b. Cropwell aged 3 was living in Union St., Bingham
in 1881, was a servant in Stathern in 1891 & was living in Market
St., Bingham in 1901 with parents William (a County Court Bailiff) &
Ann Radford in a shop & warehouse there. She died in Jun 1960 |
| 1913 | Admitted to membership of National Union of Railwaymen. He received a superannuation payment of £26 on 20/9/39 (Old Age) and of £5 on 30/5/59 (Death). | Great Northern Railway. | 22 Other railway staff at Bingham joined at the same time. |
| 1915 FREEBMD | Married Addie Redford in Southwell JUN qtr. | ||
| 1959 (Apr-Jun) | Died aged 82 Nottingham | ||
| 1939 Register | Newgate Street, Bingham: Cuthbert Hollingshead, b. 1 Apr 1877, married. Addie Hollingshead, b. 4 Aug 1877, married |
Railway Platelayer (retired); Bakehouse Assistant retired baker Unpaid domestic duties |
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| 1959 | Cuthbert died Nottingham Jun qtr. Aged 82. | ||
| Footnote | Cuthbert became involved in the events surrounding his brother Arthur’s
divorce case in New Zealand. see http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZH19040416.2.68.24 |
Note: Arthur had married Elizabeth Thomas in Jun 1892 & subsequently
married Mary Ann Thomas in Sept 1906. 13 Oct 1898 C Hollingshead, Labourer aged 22 (b 1876), sailed to NZ on SS Ruahine. Cuthbert (occupation farmer, aged 30) sailed from Lyttleton, New Zealand on the SS Ruapehu docking in London on July 8th 1907. A death of a ship stewardess during the voyage was recorded as disappearance. |
Cuthbert’s visit to New Zealand from 1898 to 1907 would explain why he was not listed on the 1901 census. |