1896 Jul 27 Born Bethnal Green, London

1900 Aug 27 Admitted to Wilmot Street School
1901 census I cannot get him
1910 Enlisted as Boy in 1st West Kent Regt. Nok is mother who has re-married Ethel Rackam, 6 Southampton Terrace,Kent St, Bethnal Green. He must have run away I think as his parents lived for many years, and his mother did not remarry
1911 census A Boy Musician at the Quebee Barracks, with the 1st Btn West Kent Regiment,
1911 Sep 30 Discharged, services no longer required
1917 Oct 7 Married at Bethnal Green to Ethel Agnes Cooper

1920 Nov 30. RIC no 76092 & ADRIC no 254 (526) ex-soldier & Motor Driver
Posted to 4 Gds
1927 His wife died, and he remarried
1928 Married Elsie C Cooper in Romford. She is a younger sister of Ethel
1939 Registe at 4 Bull Lane, Dagenham, Dagenham M.B., Essex, . He is a lorry driver, and living with wife Elsie C Holdsworth
1975 Oct 5 Died Romford