Looking for the place of Burial

[Farelf]

I have the name of a soldier who died at Shorncliffe, Kent, in 1906.

As part of my research on Shorncliffe, I am interested in finding their burial place.

They are not in the cemetery register.

Sergeant JT Sawyer.  Army Service Corps. Died 20th of July 1906.

Any help much appreciated.

[coombs]

Do you know how old he was when he died, and where was he born, he may have been buried where he was born or where his parents lived?

[Farelf]

Sadly no.

[mckha489]

Do you mean Joseph Albert Sawyer? He died 13 July 1906 at Shorncliffe. That is the only Sawyer male death in the Elham reg district in that quarter.
Age 36

 Rank Sergeant. No 8348
His deceased effects register has authorised person as an uncle George Daniel
Next of kin..Father. Joseph
Place he enlisted Portsea. He was a baker.


Attestation is on ancestry and has the cause of death. That matches newspaper article which has him as J.T. Sawyer

Folkestone Express, Sandgate, Shorncliffe & Hythe Advertiser
25 July 1906

[mckha489]

Joseph’s father, also Joseph, was in Portsea Union Infirmary in 1899
He, father, married in King street Congregational chapel at Portsea in 1866

[mckha489]

Further to his record
After he died a”wire” was sent to his next of his kin, but it was returned “address unknown”

His father was buried 8 Sept 1900 at Portsea.  From the infirmary
I cannot see that any of his siblings survived him either.

It’s frustrating, his death generated a reasonable amount of paperwork but doesn’t say where he is to be buried.
In the circumstances it’s hard to see why he would  be anywhere other than Shorncliffe.

[Farelf]

Thanks mckha489.

I have come to the same conclusion.

For reasons I do not know the Burial Register for Shorncliffe Military Cemetery has more than a few missing burials.