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Uniform Help
« on: Wednesday 28 December 11 23:36 GMT (UK) »
This is my Grandfather. His name was Leonard Milburn, he lived in Sunderland b:25 Sept 1898 - d:3 March 1940. I would like to know what this uniform he is wearing is if anyone can help. I know he was an accountant when he died, and I haven't found any military records for him, so not sure why he is wearing this uniform.
Hyde, Driver, Hirons, Tite, James, Brockwell, White, Flawn : Northampton.
Milburn, Beardall, Legender, Hall, Beck, Wilton: Sunderland
Brown, Hall, Staig, Hood: Fife Scotland
Park, Stephenson, Lister : Newcastle upon Tyne
Beardall, Duke: Nottinghamshire

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Re: Uniform Help
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 29 December 11 00:38 GMT (UK) »
He looks as though he may have been a cadet by having a white band around his hat also it appears to me that the badge on his cap is an artillery badge.

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« Reply #2 on: Thursday 29 December 11 00:42 GMT (UK) »
Also, going by the dates you posted he may have been an Artillery Army cadet just prior to WW1.
Just my twopence worth.

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O'Halloran, O'Brien - Limerick. Ireland
Dower - Co.Waterford. Ireland
Dodd - Co.Kildare. Ireland
Cotter - Co.Cork. Ireland
French, Sussex. U.K.
Pinning (Penning) - Lincolnshire. U.K.
Heath - Devon. U.K.
Bennett- Staffordshire. U.K.
Dodge - Kent. U.K
Coffey - Co.Cork, Ireland.
Connolly- Co. Dublin, Ireland
Walton - Co. Durham U.K.
Stoker - Co. Durham. U.K.
Henderson - Co. Durham U.K

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Re: Uniform Help
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 29 December 11 00:54 GMT (UK) »
Thanks John, I have always wondered about this photo. I guess he would have been too young to fight in the war as he would have been 16 when it started and 20 when it ended? Were the cadets like a sort of home guard service?
Hyde, Driver, Hirons, Tite, James, Brockwell, White, Flawn : Northampton.
Milburn, Beardall, Legender, Hall, Beck, Wilton: Sunderland
Brown, Hall, Staig, Hood: Fife Scotland
Park, Stephenson, Lister : Newcastle upon Tyne
Beardall, Duke: Nottinghamshire


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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 29 December 11 01:57 GMT (UK) »
If it is the same Leonard Milburn he had numerous cases as a Liquidator in Sunderland during 1920s/1930s. "Leonard Milburn of Central Buidings, West Sunniside, Sunderland was appointed liquidator" etc.. All on the London Gazette website.   

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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 29 December 11 02:05 GMT (UK) »
That is very interesting, he was a Charted Accountant, so that sounds right. How do I see those items?
Hyde, Driver, Hirons, Tite, James, Brockwell, White, Flawn : Northampton.
Milburn, Beardall, Legender, Hall, Beck, Wilton: Sunderland
Brown, Hall, Staig, Hood: Fife Scotland
Park, Stephenson, Lister : Newcastle upon Tyne
Beardall, Duke: Nottinghamshire

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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 29 December 11 02:36 GMT (UK) »
Google "London Gazette"     and you should see London Gazette Online. Then London Gazette Home Page. then a blue Search the Archive. and then type in the box called "with exact phrase"  - Leonard Millburn, most of the items that refer to him will start off Leonard Milburn, Central Buildings ......

Where he had his office is described in some articles as............ Sunniside grew up in the Victorian Era as the original business centre of Sunderland............

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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 29 December 11 03:12 GMT (UK) »
Leonard Milburn has records in the Tyne and Wear Archives and the National Archives. Three of the ones from Tyne and Wear are:

Leonard Milburn, Chartered Accountant, Sunderland 
Admin/History The firm was started in the 1920's by Leonard Milburn who continued as a sole practitioner for approximately five years until the admission to partnership of Stanley Cowey. Mr Milburn died in 1940. The firm was styled L Milburn & Co until 1971, when, following a merger with a local firm, it was renamed Milburn, Torgersen & Co. In 1980 it merged with Nicholson, Forsythe & Co. and became Torgerson Nicholson & Co. 

Articles of clerkship 
Date 14 May 1915 
Description Leonard Milburn, son of George James Milburn, of 10 Ettrick Grove, Sunderland, to Richard Southern Burkett of 66 John Street, Sunderland, Chartered Accountant {possibly this is the reason why he was not called up - still under Articles} 

Correspondence 
Date 3-11 March 1927 
Description: Correspondence  between Leonard Milburn, Chartered Accountants, Central Buildings, West Sunniside, Sunderland, and Stanley Cowey of Boldon Colliery re terms of employment [including concern that he should not "submit (himself) to cold lunches every day"] 
Format 3 papers 


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« Reply #8 on: Thursday 29 December 11 03:30 GMT (UK) »
This is lovely, thankyou very much. I never met him, of course, as he died so young. My mum was 5 when he died. I will forward all of this onto her also, she will enjoy reading about her dad :-) Thankyou again - very precious stuff! I feel proud of my grandfather.

Is there some way I can see more online? I live in NZ so can only do family history online unfortunately. Are thoses papers availble for me to see at all?


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Hyde, Driver, Hirons, Tite, James, Brockwell, White, Flawn : Northampton.
Milburn, Beardall, Legender, Hall, Beck, Wilton: Sunderland
Brown, Hall, Staig, Hood: Fife Scotland
Park, Stephenson, Lister : Newcastle upon Tyne
Beardall, Duke: Nottinghamshire