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BQMS. Sawyer, Cecil Fred

Battery Quarter Master Sergeant

Date of Birth: 17/5/1890, Wellington, Soms
Occupation: Commercial Staff
Employer: Daily Post
Other service: 745666 A/WO1 & BQMS

Personal Details

WORKING NOTES

Born 17/5/1890, Wellington, Somerset. Parents - Fred & Lucy Ann

1891 - 17 Mantle St, Wellington, Som. 10m. W parents

1901 - Mantle ST, Wellington, Som. 10yo. W parents and 2 younger sibs

1911 - Wellington, Somerset. 20yo. Occ-Clerk, Woolen Manufacturers. W parents (Dad-Postman) & 2 younger sibs

1915 - Married Eva M Sully, Q1, Bridgwater

1921 -

1939 - DOB

1951-54 Consular Marriages SAWYER Cecil F married COURTY, Cairo. Presumably Penelope.

1958 - Landed New York fr Southampton on the Hanseatic (departed 23/7). Cecil DOB 17/5/90. Add-Bullen Court Bungalow, Broadway, Ilminster. Occ-Accountant. W Penelope

1959 - Landed Southampton from New York. DOB 17/5/90. Add-Newhaven, Beeching Court Farm. Occ-Retired. With Penelope (Housekeeper/Dressmaker). Country of last perm residence - Egypt

1962 - Died 27 Dec 1962 at Musgrove Park Hospital, aged 72. Add Horton Filling Station, Horton, Ilminster. Effects to widow, Penelope.

Military Service

No SR

Wartime recruit

11/5/15 - South Wales Evening Post - EX "DAILY POST" MAN. Gunner C.F. Sawyer, who was formerly on the commercial staff of the "Daily Post", has been appointed on the clerical staff of the Welsh Divisional Artillery Headquarters Office.

2/9/15 - Daily Post ROH, South Wales Evening Post - Commercial Department. Private C.F. Sawyer, 1st Welsh Howitzer Brigade

Transferred from Welsh Howitzers to 68th DAC.

- Surviving records point to 2 transfers of men, the first on 2 September 1916 and the second, a week later on 9 September 1916.

Renumbered 745666

Saw active service, BWM & Vic

Explanation Of Abbreviations

Awards

  • 14/15 – 1914/15 Star
  • BWM – British War Medal
  • VIC – Victory Medal
  • SWB – Silver War Badge
  • TFEM – Territorial Force (1908-1921)
  • TEM – Territorial Efficiency Medal (1921-1930)
  • TFWM – Territorial Force War Medal

Gallantry

  • MID – Mention In Dispatches
  • LG – London Gazette
  • MM – Military Medal
  • DCM – Distinguished Conduct Medal

Sources

  • ROLL – Medal Roll for British War Medal and Victory Medal (Ancestry.co.uk)
  • MIC – Medal Index Cards (Ancestry.co.uk)
  • SR – Service Record (Ancestry.co.uk)
  • SR-F – Service Record (FindMyPast.co.uk)
  • SR-NA – Service Record (National Archives) – officers
  • COMM – Commission letters (National Library of Wales)
  • SWB – Silver War Badge Records (Ancestry.co.uk)
  • PENS – Pension Records (Western Front Association/Fold3)
  • CWGC – Commonwealth War Grave Commission
  • RAA – Royal Artillery Attestations 1883 -1942 (FindMyPast.co.uk)
  • NEWS – Newspapers
  • CENS – Census Records (Ancestry.co.uk & FindMyPast.co.uk)
  • BFB – Briton Ferry Boys at the Front Fund Committee Records (swansea.gov.uk)
  • FAM – Family Records
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