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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: Polly Ann on Tuesday 22 June 10 10:11 BST (UK)
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Hi
I am trying to find out about Lt Richard St.George Tracy Agar of the RHA born in Amesbury in 1898 and killed in Action in September 1918. He was the son of Col Edward Agar and Maud Alice Agar.
The memorial to Richard is in St. George's church, Orcheston, Wiltshire
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1901 Rg13/847 folio 143 page 37 Folkestone Kent
12 manor Road
Maud A Agar age 29 head married born India British Subject living on own means
Edith F M dau age 9 London
Edward W T son age 7 London
Richard S G son age 2 Shrewton Wiltshire
Next page
Frances C Tracy single visitor age 35 living on own means India British Subject
plus 4 servants
Regards Pam
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Hello
Always sad to see someone so young dying in the later stages of a war.
The following link gives details of where he is buried.
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2939208
Regards, Steve
I'd also post a message on the WW! board with a link to here. WW1 board is at
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,397.0.html
Please be specific with what info you have and waht you're looking for - to prevent duplication of effort. Good luck. :)
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Richard St George Tracey Agar born about 1889 christened
2nd Feb 1889 Orcheston Wiltshire Mother Maud Alice father Edward Agar
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1891 Rg12/20 folio 80 page 31 folio page Kensington London
13 Obervatary Avenue
Thomas B Tracey age 55 H M India C S retired born Ireland
Frances M wife age 50 India
Frances dau age 25 India
Edith M dau age 24 Ireland
Edward Agar son in law born India age 31 Captain Royal Engineers
Maud Agar dau age 19 born India
3 servants
Pam
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Richard St George Tracy Agar killed in action 29th September 1918 Lieutenant Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
comments 16 Bde H
1881 Kensington
Linden Gardens
Mary Sibleys school mistress
F C Tracy age 15 India all scholars with 5 other girls
E M tracy age 12 Ireland
M A Tracy age 9 India
Pam
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Richard is on the WW1 war memorial in our local church, St George's Orcheston, Wiltshire He was born in a neighbouring village and christened in St. Georges. He is shown as of the parish but other than his birth and christeneing I can find no connection with Orcheston and would be so grateful if anyone can through any light on this for me.
Thanks
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A great big thank you to those who have replied. I had checked the census reports but had missed what I was looking for. It has been a great help. I now know a little more of his background. I had guessed that Tracy was his mother's maiden name but what of St George Thanks to you, I know that was where he was christened could he possibly have been named after the church he was christened in; could that have been why he is on the war memorial as of the parish.
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Found him on the 1901
Mother: Maud Agar - married aged 29 living on own means born India
Sister: Edith aged 9 born London
Brother Edward aged 7 Born London
Richard St. G aged 2
They were living at 12 Manor Road, Folkestone, Kent.
Richard was born in Shrewton, Wiltshire
RG13/847 143 page 37
Anna
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Thanks Anna for taking the trouble to contact me. I am new to Roots Chat and I can't get over, how in a short space of time so many people have been willing to help. I did know where Richard was born and christened but what mystifies me is why the war memorial says he was of this parish. I can find no connection after his christening, unless that was enough to refer to him as of this village, Orcheston St George, Wiltshire, UK
Thank you so much
Maureen
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I too have found this web site super! I too am pretty new to it. That's why I sometimes do look ups for people.
It could be that the Agar's were a military family and moved around quite a lot, and like you say because he was baptised in the village and was born locally this was the nearest place he could call home!
Good luck in your research.
Anna
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His service record is at Kew, under the reference WO 339/56127.
Phil
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I've found two entries in the London Gazette, although the second only corrects the spelling of his name.
Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military Academy, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 19thFebruary 1916.
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29478/pages/1818
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29598/supplements/5302
There is possibly a third entry some-where for Mentioned in Despatches.
Phil
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Richard was born at nearby Shrewton His mother was Maud Alice Tracy who was decended from the Hugh Maxwell of Cawnpore who founded the Elgin Cotton Mills in Cawnpore shortly after the Indiah Mutiny. Richard seems to have got his middle name St George for his cousin Hugh St George Harrison Maxwell, a Captain in the Suffolk Regiment. St George still persists in that line of the Maxwells
I wonder if Polly Ann might be able to get me a date of birth for him from the Orcheston register.
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just found adding the guy on my tree
the baptism record is on ancestry now