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March 14, 2017Published By Ben Hillidge

Jobs and Occupations

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  • A   – Accountant, Agricultural Workers, Armed Forces, Auctioneers.
  • B   – Baker, Banks, Billiard Marker, Blacksmith…..
  • C   – Carter, Carpenters, Cabinet Maker, Coal Mining…..
  • D   – Decorators, Domestic Service, Drapers, Driver…..
  • E   – Electrical Engineer, Engineers / fitters.
  • F   – Farmer, Fellmonger……
  • G  – Gardener, Gas Works, Grocers…….
  • H  – Hairdresser, Hotels & Catering, Hudson Bay Company.
  • L   – Labourer, Local Government, Leather Workers.,
  • M – Merchant Navy, Miller, Mineral Water Worker……..
  • N  – Newspaper Worker.
  • P   – Painter & Decorator, Pattern Maker, Plumber, Police…….
  • Q   – Quarrying.
  • R   – (Railways), Retail and Shop workers, Roofer……
  • S   – Shoemaker, Skating Rink, Solicitor and Lawyers
  • T   – Tailor, Teachers, Timber Merchants….
  • U   – Upholsterer.
  • W  – Warehouse man, Whitesmith, Window Cleaner.

Railways – Railways, Cambrian, LNWR, GWR and others                                         

Unknown Trade / Employers

Private 11488 Harry Wright, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry,

Private 31070 Arthur Clare, 2 Bn South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers).

Private 21270 Edward W (William Edward) Lyndom, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, 

Private 11034 Thomas Roberts, 5 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.  

University enlisted into army – men who went straight into the Forces from university

Captain Audley AD (Andrew Dowell) Lee, 9 Bn Leicestershire Regiment. Lincoln College Oxford

Lieutenant Richard AM Lutener, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. son of vicar at St Oswald’s Church. Went up to Keble College Oxford in 1914 but did not start studies, instead enlisted in army.

Captain Edward W Walker, 1/7 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Keble College Oxford

 

 

 

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