Ernest Dudley Brockhurst

[treganna]

I'm searching for information on my late father. He was born in Sussex England in 1919 & then moved to Baysville Canada & then returned to England in 1937to join RAF.

[gortonboy]

hi,,there is a brief mention in the 2nd supplement to the London Gazette dated Friday 11th August 1944.

It is probably noting his appointment as a Sergeant.  the entry says

June 1944   610083 Sgt Ernest Dudley Brockhurst {55711}

not much info i know,,,but at least you know he was a Sergeant in the RAF,,and possibly his service number.

[treganna]

It would be a great help to see the 1911 Census  entry . Thank you

[susano]

Do you know approximately what year your father emigrated to Canada?  Did he come with his parents and if so do you know their names?

Susan

[carol8353]

It would be a great help to see the 1911 Census  entry . Thank you

We are not allowed to do 1911 look ups on Rootschat.

But if he was born in 1919 he isn't going to be on it anyway 

Carol

[Jacquie in Canada]

I'm searching for information on my late father. He was born in Sussex England in 1919 & then moved to Baysville Canada & then returned to England in 1937to join RAF.

I've searched outgoing UK passenger lists, incoming Canadian passengers and incoming passenger lists for various American ports and can't find anything regarding your father. I'm wondering whether he was in Canada when he was with the RAF. I know there were some training facilities about a 1/2 hour from Baysville at the Muskoka Airport during WWII.

Jacquie

[carol8353]

Do you know approximately what year your father emigrated to Canada?  Did he come with his parents and if so do you know their names?

Susan

Going by his 1919 birth I think this must be the parents marriage?

Marriages Mar 1914 
 
Frederick H  BROCKHURST to Pelham in E. Preston  ref 2b 540   
Florence K PELHAM to  Brockhurst in E. Preston  ref 2b 540   

Carol

[treganna]

I have found out a lot about his family in Britain but it is the years he spent in Canada that remains a mystery. Before he died he began writing his life history. He states that his awareness of it began in1924 in Baysville. He said that his mother married a canadian soldier who was gassed in WW1 & that he died in 1926 or 27.He states that his mother died in 1936 & his grandparents in 1937 within a day of each other. None of this corresponds with British records stating his fatherdied in 1962 & his mother in 1965. I'm beginning to think he may have been sent to Canada & lived with another family.

[Jacquie in Canada]

Is it possible that Frederick and Florence were not his birth parents and they adopted him after the death of his parents? Does a birth registration get modified after an adoption to list his adopted parents and not his birth parents?

Looking at some family trees at Ancestry for Frederick who married Florence, they indicate that his parents (William Brockhurst and Sarah Rice) both died in 1937. So there does seem to be some truth to his story.

Jacquie