38 Oaklands Rd. 5 Vaughan Rd Welling,, Kidderminster Worcestershire.

According to Gladys Bayly as a boy and young man her brother liked all things outdoors, climbing trees, scouts etc. He fought as a young man in World War 1. He may have been in the Royal Air Corps as a wireless operator, attached to the Royal Artillery, or he may have been in the Royal Corps of Signals.
His daughter says “he was attached to a Generals staff and was closely attached to a ColonelBoggisand worked for some time in a hollowed out cave so was protected to some degree but did experience the horror of the line and the mud and death of comrades etc. He was given the first message that was sent to the Generals and Colonels on the field to advise them that the Armistice was going to be signed and a ceasefire would begin at whatever time it was”.

He lived at 5, Vaughan Rd Welling with his wife Isabel. When she died in the early 1950s he remarried, and moved to Worcestershire with Fownes the glove firm he worked for.

He died of heart failure

After his death his second wife Gladys moved to Highbridge Somerset.2

She handed all his medals and war stuff to the Imperial War Museum