? War - could someone restore and date please? Completed

[liverpool annie]

Hi Jill !

When you're all done here ... you might like to put one of your photos on the Armed Forces board .... somebody looking for Army relatives may recognise them !!

Just a thought !

Annie  

[Rossdal3]

Thanks for the beautiful colour pic saddles! I will treasure all these fantastic pics!

Thelma I too hope that I can learn to be as useful to others as you have all been to me!

Annie, I was wondering if it was appropriate to post on the WW1 board or whether it would be a double up!  I will post the pic now, as I would love it if someone recognised one of the others on the picture.

Cheers,
Jill

[saddles]

Hi Jill........Heres another colour for your collection.


Carolyn 

[Rossdal3]

It's really lovely Carolyn, thank you so much!

regards,
Jill

[saddles]

Thanks to Thelma and Jill for your kind words !


Carolyn   

[oldtimer]

Carolyn, those two pics are stunning!! 

[chinakay]

Oh my, Carolyn!

China

[mmm45]

Jill
From the Bradford Roll of honour:
William Gaunt 11 Newington St ,Royal Field Artillery Bombardier Enlisted :4th Sept 1916
Edwin Gaunt 182 Priestman St Royal Field Artillery D Battery 46th Brigade En: 26th August 1914
Harry Gaunt  131 Priestman St 1/6th West Yorks Regiment En: 3rd Sept 1914

1/6th was a Bradford Territorial unit there is a history written on them wouldnt surprise me if Edwin was a Territorial too as they both joined up early.


Also Williams obituary is in the Bradford Weekly Telegraph 1/6/17

Wiiliam Gaunt worked at Ackroyds(BDA) At City Rd
He leaves a widow and 3 children.


There are 7 other Gaunts on the list if you have any other Bradford Gaunts there are two Brothers who were "Bradford Pals" 18th batt West Yorkshires.

Glad to help.

Ady

[Rossdal3]

Ady,

Thanks so much for this wonderful information.  We were just discussing last night whether William had left any children behind.  Dad never heard them spoken about when he was growing up, he hadn't ever been told that William married.

My paternal Grandmother was William's sister, although she would only have been 15 years old when he died.  She spoke to me about 'our Willie' a lot and the fact that he was killed in the war, but she never once mentioned his widow or children.

I'll have to wait until the 1911 census comes out to discover more about them I guess.

kind regards,
Jill