Horace GRUNDRY

[seeds ltd]

Hi, I have a Horace Grundry b Clun Shropshire Dec 1883, m 1903 Atcham, joined Army Sept 1914 Foot Police, left May 1917 (sick) then no more records

[ShaunJ]

Most records have the name as Gundry.

[ShaunJ]

This is a bit of a mystery.

Wife Alice L Gundry describes her condition as married in the 1921 census; and yet she seems to be in receipt of a widow's pension from the War Office in 1920 per pension records; and other pension records record his widow as Maud L Gundry in Boulder City, Western Australia in 1932.

https://www.corpsofmilitarypolice.org/soldier/8106/

[ShaunJ]

Maud Lilian Gundry was the widow of Horace John Gundry who died in 1932

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/62676/images/62676_324054001285_0392-00033

[seeds ltd]

There are 2 Horace Gundry's (NO MIDDLE NAME) the one i am look at DID NOT GO TO AUS

[heywood]

Newspaper snippet announcement of death of Mrs Alice Gundry, 1940, Shrewsbury.
“ Her husband, the late | was a gold mining”

[ShaunJ]

Here's that 1940 clip

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/ac2b2b54-56cb-409f-934d-76a04a993049

[heywood]

Thanks Shaun

[ShaunJ]

So Alice's husband was a gold miner.  So was the one who died in WA in 1932. Were they one and the same?