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D – Decorators, Domestic Service, Drapers, Driver…..

June 23, 2017Published By Ben Hillidge

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  • Decorators – see Painters and Decorators

 

  • Domestic Service

Private 12702 Robert Thomas, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Servant on Farm

Private 17038 JJ Morris, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. House Boy

Private 9995 Laban James West Felton War Memorial – pantry boy at Mowbrick Hall, Kirkham, Lancashire. (LINK)

Butler 

Sergeant 12969 Thomas Kynaston, 4 Bn South Wales Borderers.  At Swalcliffe Park in Oxfordshire,  Underlea, Aigburth in Liverpool and Abermarlais Park at Llansadwrn near Llandovery.

  • Drapers

Lance Corporal 14521 Bernard Easthope, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.  Draper’s assistant –employed by father at Belper

Private 23756 John OV Davies, 16 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers.  Drapers assistant working in Messrs Marshall and Snelgrove, 16 Marylebone Lane, 334/348 Oxford Street, London (now part of Debenhams stores, archive at City of Westminster).

Private 40016 Godfrey Reynolds, 2/7 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers. Draper’s Apprentice

  • Driver  – Motor transport – in the 1900s a new ‘industry’ that in the post WW1 years would supersede horses and dominate road transportation.

Private 49023 Albert W Phillipson, 2/4 Bn Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. 

 

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