1901 Cen. Living Aston Tavern, 10 Aston Road, Aston Manor with wife; child by first wife Charlotte Louisa - barmaid; children by second marriage Albert - musician, Fanny Florence - barmaid, Ernest Dempster - Clerk ?Brewery?, Percival - railway clerk, Ethel, Harold, Victor James & Howard; also present servant-nursemaid aged 12
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As a boy, keen on calligraphy and made sixpence (0.025 GBP) a time selling illuminated manuscripts of ‘Bless This House’ and ‘Trees’. I have copies of pages of his Flight Log Book with impeccable written entries.
Joined Royal Air Force. Achieved rank of Flight Lieutenant and was singled out for fast-track career advancement being appointed as Aide-de-camp to Air Vice Marshall.
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paper dealer
a Joiner who later also kept a Grocery Shop on Red Lion Street in Redditch.
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