Arthur Albert Stolliday (1875-1935) and Elizabeth Mary Ann Wetherall (1876-1952). My great-grandparents. Arthur Stolliday was a colourful character and a Norfolk lad – born on 12 May 1875 in Row 123, Great Yarmouth, to Edward Stoliday and Harriet Goulty. He served in the First World War, worked behind the bar in various pubs, got into […]
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Rupert Walter Finch (1902-1965)
Rupert Walter Finch (1902-1965).My great-uncle. Rupert was Walter Finch and Annie Budgen’s oldest child, born in Bynes Road, Croydon, Surrey, on 14 July 1902 and baptised at the old family church of St Mary’s Church in Reigate on 28 December of that year. Records show him registered as a pupil at Brighton Road Junior School in […]
Raymond Edward Finch (1917-1941)
Raymond Edward Finch (1917-1941).My great-uncle. Raymond was born during the First World War and died tragically young during the Second as an RAF pilot with Bomber Command. He was born to parents Walter Finch and Annie Budgen in Bynes Road, Croydon, Surrey, on 3 September 1917, their youngest child. He grew up with them as […]