Prison Records

[liverpool annie]

So that must be his medal card then ! 

Thanks Shaun .... I couldn't get it !!

Annie 

[ShaunJ]

Promotion to Lt (5th Bn Norfolk Regt):

"2nd Lt. C. R. Eastoe to be Lt. 27th August 1919."

[liverpool annie]

mmmm !

Maybe the best thing would be to get his service record ..... you never know there may be something in there ! if there was a court martial or something ... don't you think ?

Annie 

[jdowsett]

I found the same articles and medical card.   I have been researching this family line for quite some time and when I'm not hitting brick walls, I find a few of skeletons in the closet.  What fun!       I absolutely adore mysteries...

I was thinking that there may have been more articles in newspapers, but I'm in the US and can't find anything online other than the London Gazette.    I have information about his birth, marriage, two families, and his death.  At the moment, I'm stuck in 1930 trying to find out about his conviction.

Does anyone know what it means to be convicted by the Civil Power?  Could he have still been in the military in 1930 to have been stripped of his rank?  Or could he have been a civilian?

Thanks a bunch for all your help!
Janice

[ShaunJ]

He was probably a civilian - the Gazette item says "formerly 5th Bn Norfolk R".

"A retired officer will forfeit his rank and status after conviction by a civil power where said conviction results in a custodial sentence"

The "civil power" means the normal civil judiciary system as opposed to military court-martial.

[bill_eastoe]

From the Devon and Exeter Gazette, Friday 11th July 1930:-

A series of ingenious frauds worked through the advertisement columns of a periodical was disclosed at the petty sessions, when Charles Richard Eastoe, of no fixed abode, was charged with obtaining by false pretences 22s from William Rowe, Pontypridd; 20s from Frank Willis, of Cheltenham; and 33s 6d from John Henry Sanders, of Bartholomew Street, Newbury, all about May 15th. Eastoe pleaded guilty to each charge, and also asked that 16 other similar cases in various parts of the country be taken into account. He was sent to prison for four months, with hard labour, on each charge – 12 months in all.

[bill_eastoe]

Tuesday 24 June 1930, Exeter and Plymouth Gazette:-

Charles Richard Eastoe was charged under the name of J. Ward, late 5, Teignmouth-street Teignmouth, with having obtained 22s. bv false pretences from William Rowe.................

An alias and an address. Very useful.