The Andrews / Hebblethwaite family tree

Noreen Dudley (1907 – 1981)

Dudley John Andrews (1929 – 2010)

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Victoria (1837 – 1901)

Edward VII (1901 – 1910)

George V (1910 – 1936)

Edward VIII (1936 – 1936) abdicated

George VI (1936 – 1952)

Elizabeth II (1952 – )

 

Walter Charles Dudley

Walter is the son of Joseph Dudley and Fanny Hazzard and was born on the 2nd of August 1881 at 9 Rutland Terrace, Bunbury Street, Radford, Nottingham.  He was baptised at the Anglican Church of St. Saviour, Nottingham on the 25th of September 1881.  Walter died on the 19th of November 1962 at the City Hospital, Nottingham, at the age of 81, and he was cremated on the 21st of November 1962 at the City Of Nottingham Crematorium. 

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Another name for Walter was Tom. 

 

Cause of death Haematemesis & Malena Peptic Ulcer.

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Walter’s war record shows that he was a small man just 5 feet and 4 & 1/8 inches tall and was already in possession of scars on both shins and left forearm.  (His height seems a bit short considering the photographs of him after the war.)

 

At the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 Walter was 34 years 5 months old.  It was not until the 25th January of 1916 that he joined the Sherwood Foresters as 68040 Private Dudley.  The day after he was assigned to the Army reserve and then posted for duty on the 5th of December, 1916 at Nottingham.

 

On the 19th January 1917 Walter was transferred to the 6th Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancashires as 33513 Private Dudley.  On the 16th of March he had disembarked at Bombay, India and three days later he was in Bangalore.  He was subsequently posted to Mesopotamia on the 21st April 1917. 

 

He was wounded on 18th April 1918 when a bullet grazed his lower lid when advancing over open ground.  Also it appears that he was wounded again on 3rd May 1918 as his record shows that he was wounded in action.  Though this could be a record of his transfer for the April wounding.  On the 11th of May he was discharged to Depot from hospital in Baghdad.  On the 3rd of August 1918 he embarked for the UK from Bombay.

                                 

The card detailing these whereabouts is difficult to read but it appears that on the 29th of April, 1918 he was admitted to 41st FA for G.S. ???? on the 29th of June 1918 admitted to G.H. Baptford??, this is likely to be Baghdad considering other records and he was there until the 2nd of August 1918. Walter spent a total of three months in hospital.

                                  

Walter was complaining of seeing black spots in front of left eye, stating that he can neither read nor write for any length of time because eyes get tired and headaches.  He was also complaining of special difficulty in seeing at night.  His diagnosis was asthampia(?) due to astigmatism.  R and L V = 6/18 and it was considered to be congenital and that there was no disability.

 

No operation was performed to correct this and at the time of the report there was no evidence of any other disability.  Although he had defective vision, non attributable, there were no grounds for an award of a disability pension, so any application was rejected.

 

He served for 3 years and 245 days in India and South Africa, with 357 days being disallowed to give a total of 2 years 253 days towards a pension.

           

Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity (Soldier not remaining with the Colours) on the 29th of August 1919 he is listed as Private 33513 Walter Charles Dudley of the 6 East Lancs, King's Own Royal Lancashire Regiment.  Walter was transferred to the reserve on demobilization the 26th of September, 1919, having been granted 28 days leave on the 28th August.  He was formerly discharged from the Army on the 4th of December 1919 at the rank of Private.

 

He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

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Below is a brief account of the war in Mesopotamia and of the 6th Battalions contribution.

 

Mesopotamian campaign

6th of November 1914 to 14th of November 1918.

 

The Mesopotamian campaign was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre fought between the Allies represented by the British Empire, mostly troops from the Indian Empire and the Central Powers, mostly of the Ottoman Empire.

 

Background

The Ottoman’s had conquered the region in the early 16th century, however they had never fully gained complete control over the area. Regional pockets of Ottoman control through local proxy rulers maintained the Ottoman's reach throughout Mesopotamia. Work began on a Baghdad railway in 1888: by 1915 it had only four gaps, and travel time from Istanbul to Baghdad, now in Iraq, had fallen to 21 days.

 

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company had exclusive rights to petroleum deposits throughout the Persian Empire except in the provinces of Azerbaijan, Ghilan, Mazendaran, Asdrabad, and Khorasan.  In 1914, before the war, the British government had contracted with the company for oil for the navy.  Kuwait was another strategic factor for the British.

 

The operational area of the Mesopotamian campaign was limited to the lands watered by the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. The main challenge was moving the supplies and troops through the swamps and deserts which surrounded the area of conflict.

 

Shortly after the European war started, the British sent a military force to protect Abadan.  In Abadan was one of the world's earliest oil refineries. British operational planning included landing troops in the Shatt-al-Arab, a river formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris. The 6th (Poona) Division from the British Indian Army was assigned, designated as Indian Expeditionary Force D (IEF D).

 

Another reason for the British effort in Mesopotamia, especially in the minds of politicians like Austen Chamberlain (Secretary of State for India) and former Viceroy Lord Curzon, was to maintain British prestige with Indian Muslim opinion, and at first it was run by the India Office and Indian Army with little input from the War Office.

 

The Ottoman Fourth Army was located in the region. The army was composed of two corps, the XII Corps with 35th and 36th Divisions at Mosul, now in Iraq, and XIII Corps with the 37th and 38th Divisions at Baghdad.

 

On 29th of October 1914, the German battle-cruiser SMS Goeben and light cruiser SMS Breslau passed through the Dardanelles to reach Constantinople, now Istanbul.  The ships had managed to evade the British Mediterranean fleet and their arrival was a catalyst that contributed to the Ottoman Empire joining the Central Powers by issuing a declaration of war against the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia.

 

Mesopotamia was a low priority area for the Ottomans, and they did not expect any major action in this region. Regiments of the XII and XIII Corps were maintained at low levels in peacetime. Lieutenant Colonel Suleyman Askerî Bey became the commander. He redeployed portions of the 38th Division at the mouth of Shatt-al-Arab. The rest of the defensive force was stationed in Basra. The Ottoman General Staff did not even possess a proper map of Mesopotamia. They tried to draw a map with the help of some people who used to work in Iraq before the war, although this attempt failed.

 

1914, Initial British offence.

On 6th of November 1914, the British offensive began with the naval force bombarding the old fort at Fao, which was located at the point where the Shatt-al-Arab meets the Persian Gulf.  At the Fao landing, the British (IEF D), comprising the 6th (Poona) Division led by Lieutenant General Arthur Barrett, was opposed by 350 Ottoman troops and 4 cannons. By mid-November, the Poona Division was fully ashore and moved towards the city of Basra.

 

On 22nd of November, the British occupied the city of Basra against a force of Ottoman soldiers of the Iraq Area Command commanded by Suphi Bey, the Governor of Basra. The Ottoman troops ran after a short fight, abandoning Basra and retreated farther up the river. With the occupation the British first established order in the town, they then continued their advance, and at the Battle of Qurna they succeeded in capturing Subhi Bey and 1,000 of his Ottoman troops. That gave the British a very strong position and ensured that Basra and the oilfields would be protected from an Ottoman advance. The main Ottoman army, under the overall command of Khalil Pasha (Pasha is a military rank) was located 275 miles north-west of Baghdad.  They made only weak efforts to dislodge the British.

 

1915

On 2nd of January, Suleyman Askerî Bey assumed the Iraq Area Command. The Ottoman Army did not have any other resources at the time to move to this region because other areas such as Gallipoli, the Caucasus, and Palestine had higher priority. Süleyman Askerî Bey sent letters to Arab sheiks in an attempt to organise them to fight against the British.  He wanted to retake the Shatt-al-Arab region at any cost.

 

On 12th of April, Süleyman Askerî attacked the British camp at Shaiba in what became known as the Battle of Shaiba.  He had about 4,000 regular troops and about 14,000 Arab irregulars.  The attack started early in the morning. Those forces provided by Arab sheiks did not produce results. However, the Ottoman infantry launched a series of relentless attacks on the fortified British camp and later attempted to bypass it.  When the British cavalry and infantry counter attacked Suleyman Askari pulled his troops back.  The next day the British attacked his defensive positions.  It was a hard fought infantry battle in which the British infantry overcame tough Ottoman opposition.  Ottoman losses numbered 2400 men killed, wounded, or taken prisoner as well as two artillery field pieces lost.  The retreat left the Ottomans 75 miles up the river at Hamisive.  Süleyman Askerî was wounded at Shaiba.  Disappointed and depressed, he shot himself at the hospital in Baghdad.  In his place Colonel Nureddin was appointed commander of the Iraq Area Command on 20th of April 1915.  Nureddin was one of the few officers to reach high command without the benefit of a staff college education.  He did, however, have extensive combat experience.

 

Due to the unexpected success British command reconsidered their plan and General Sir John Nixon was sent in April 1915 to take command.  He ordered Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend to advance to Kut or even to Baghdad if possible.  Townshend and his small army advanced up the Tigris river, defeating several Ottoman forces that were sent to halt him.  Logistically, his advance was very difficult to sustain, but it was sustained.

 

In late September 1915, amidst the recent defeat of Serbia and entry of Bulgaria into the war and concerns about German attempts to incite jihad in Persia and Afghanistan, Grey (Foreign Secretary) and other politicians encouraged a further 100-mile push to Baghdad.  The Chief of the Imperial Staff Murray thought this logistically unwise, but Kitchener advised the Dardanelles Committee (21st of October) that Baghdad be seized for the sake of prestige then abandoned.

 

Enver Pasha considered to be the most powerful figure of the government of Ottoman Turkey or "the number one man in Istanbul" as many referred to him, worried about the possible fall of Baghdad.  He realized the mistake of underestimating the importance of the Mesopotamian campaign.  He ordered the 35th Division and Mehmet Fazıl Pasha to return to their old location, which was Mosul. The 38th Division was reconstituted. The Sixth Army was created on 5th of October 1915, and its commander was a 76 year old German, General Colmar von der Goltz. Von der Goltz was a famous military historian who had written several classic books on military operations.  He had also spent many years working as a military adviser in the Ottoman Empire. However, he was in Thrace commanding the Ottoman First Army and would not reach the theatre for some time. Colonel Nureddin the former commander of the Iraq Area Command was still in charge on the ground.

 

On 22nd of November, Townshend and Nureddin fought a battle at Ctesiphon, a town 25 miles south of Baghdad.  The conflict lasted five days and was a stalemate as both the Ottomans and the British ended up retreating from the battlefield.  Townshend concluded that a full scale retreat was necessary.  However, Nureddin realised the British were retreating and cancelled his retreat and followed the British.  Townshend withdrew his division in good order back to Kut-al-Amara.  He halted and fortified the position. Nureddin pursued with his forces. He tried to encircle the British with his XVIII Corps composed of the 45th Division, 51st Division and 2nd Tribal Cavalry Brigade.  The exhausted and depleted British force was urged back to the defences of Kut-al-Amara.  The retreat was completed on 3rd of December.  Nureddin encircled the British at Kut-al-Amara, and sent other forces down river to prevent the British from marching to the relief of the garrison.

 

On 7th of  December, the siege of Kut began.  From the Ottoman perspective the Siege of Kut prevented the Sixth Army to perform other operations.  From the British perspective, defending Kut as opposed to retreating back to Basra was a mistake since Kut was isolated.  It could be defended, but it could not be resupplied.  Von der Goltz helped the Ottoman forces build defensive positions around Kut.  The Sixth Army was reorganised into two corps, the XIII and the XVIII.  Nureddin Pasha gave command to Von der Goltz, following the reorganisation the Sixth Army laid siege to the British.  New fortified positions established down river fended off any attempt to rescue Townshend.  Townshend suggested an attempt to break out but this was initially rejected by Sir John Nixon, however he relented.  Nixon under the command of General Aylmer established a relief force.  General Aylmer made three major attempts to break the siege, but each effort was unsuccessful.

 

1916

On 20th of January, Enver Pasha replaced Nureddin Pasha with Colonel Halil Kut (Khalil Pasha). Nureddin Pasha did not want to work with a German General. He sent a telegram to the War Ministry "The Iraq Army has already proven that it does not need the military knowledge of Goltz Pasha..."  After the first failure, General Nixon was replaced by General Lake.  British forces received small quantities of supplies from the air, but these drops were not enough to feed the garrison.  Halil Kut forced the British to choose between starving and surrendering, though in the mean time they would try to lift the siege.

 

Between January–March 1916, both Townshend and Aylmer launched several attacks in an attempt to lift the siege.  In sequence, the attacks took place at the Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad, the Battle of the Wadi, the Battle of Hanna, and the Battle of Dujaila Redoubt.  These series of British attempts to break through the encirclement did not succeed and their costs were heavy. Both sides suffered high casualties. In February, XIII Corps received the 2nd Infantry Division as reinforcement.  Food and hopes were running out for Townshend in Kut-al-Amara and diseases were spreading rapidly and could not be cured.

 

On 19th of April Field Marshal Von der Goltz died of cholera. On 24th of April, an attempt by the paddle steamer “Julnar” to re-supply the town by river failed.  With that there was no way the British could resupply Kut.  After repeated attempts to break through, and with more Ottoman attacks on the city, and rather than wait for reinforcements, Townshend surrendered on 29th of April 1916.  The remaining force in Kut-al-Amara of 13,164 soldiers became captives of the Ottomans.

 

The British viewed the loss of Kut as a humiliating defeat.  It had been many years since such a large body of British Army soldiers had surrendered to an enemy.  Also this loss followed only four months after the British defeat at the Battle of Gallipoli.  Nearly all the British commanders involved in the failure to rescue Townshend were removed from command.  The Ottomans proved they were good at holding defensive positions against superior forces.

 

The British refused to let the defeat at Kut stand.  Further attempts to advance in Mesopotamia were ordered by the politicians on the War Committee (18th of September), including Curzon and Chamberlain, who argued that there would be no net savings in troops if a passive policy in the Middle East encouraged Muslim unrest in India, Persia and Afghanistan.

 

A major problem for the British was the lack of logistical infrastructure.  When ships arrived at Basra, they had to be unloaded by small boats which then unloaded their cargo which was then stored in warehouses, which there were not enough of in Basra.  Ships often sat for days waiting to be unloaded.  Then supplies had to be sent north along the river in shallow draft river steamers because there were almost no roads north.  Usually the amount of supplies being sent north was barely adequate to supply the forces in place.  A plan to build a railway was rejected by the Indian Government in 1915, but after Kut it was approved.  After the defeat at Kut, the British made a major effort to improve the ability to move men and equipment into theatre, and keep them supplied.  The port at Basra was greatly improved so that ships could be quickly unloaded. Good roads were built around Basra.  Rest camps and supply dumps were created to receive men and material from the port.  More and better river steamers were put into service moving supplies up river.  New hospitals were also set up to better care for the sick and wounded.  As a result, the British were able to bring more troops and equipment to the front lines and keep them properly supplied for a new offensive.

 

Lessons were learned following the fall of Kut, the British ordered Major-General Stanley Maude to take command of the British army in Mesopotamia. He introduced new methods, which culminated in a decisive defeat of the Turks in February 1917 and the capture of Baghdad in March 1917. He was given additional reinforcements and equipment.  For the next six months he trained and organised his army. 

 

At the same time, the Ottoman Sixth Army was growing weaker.  Khalil Pasha received very few replacements, and ended up disbanding the weak 38th Division and used its soldiers as replacements for his other divisions, the 46th, 51st, 35th, and 52nd.  When it seemed that the Russians might advance to Mosul, removing any Turkish threat to Mesopotamia, Maude was authorised to attack and on 13th of  December 1916 he launched his offensive.

 

1917

The British advanced up both sides of the Tigris river, forcing the Ottoman army out of a number of fortified positions along the way.  General Maude's offensive was methodical, organised, and successful.  Khalil Pasha was able to concentrate most of his forces against Maude near Kut. However, Maude switched his advance to the other bank of the Tigris, bypassing most of the Ottoman forces.  The Ottoman XVIII Corps escaped destruction only by fighting some desperate rear guard actions.  It did lose quite a bit of equipment and supplies.  The British occupied Kut and continued to advance up the Tigris.

 

By early March, the British were at the outskirts of Baghdad, and the Baghdad garrison, under the direct command of the Governor of Baghdad province Halil Kut (Khalil Pasha), tried to stop them on the Diyala river.  General Maude out-manoeuvred the Ottoman forces, destroyed an Ottoman regiment and captured the Ottoman defensive positions.  Khalil Pasha retreated in disarray out of the city.  On 11th of March 1917 the British entered Baghdad where they were greeted as liberators. The British Indian Army played a significant role in the liberation of Baghdad.  Amidst the confusion of the retreat a large part of the Ottoman army (some 15,000 soldiers) were captured.

 

On this day, the Berlin-Baghdad railway was captured, and German schemes for Turkey were finished.  Given the continually depressing news in France and elsewhere, this was a significant and newsworthy achievement. 

 

Khalil Pasha withdrew his battered Sixth Army up river and established his headquarters in Mosul.  He had about 30,000 total troops with which to oppose Maude.  In April, he received the 2nd Infantry Division, but overall the Ottoman strategic position was bad in the spring of 1917. After the capture of Baghdad, Maude stopped his advance.   He felt his supply lines were too long and conditions in the summer made campaigning difficult also he had been denied reinforcements he felt he needed.

 

British forces (and Russians, advancing from the north and east) closed in on the Turks throughout the autumn of 1917, and into the spring of 1918.  Despite making great advances, however, and the additional pressure coming from the north-west where British forces in Palestine defeated the Turks, no decisive victory was gained.

 

General Maude died of cholera on 18th of November. He was replaced by General William Marshall who halted operations for the winter.

 

1918

The British resumed their offensive in late February 1918 capturing Hīt and Khan al Baghdadi in March, and Kifri in April.  For the rest of the 1918, the British had to move troops to the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in support of the Battle of Megiddo.  General Marshall moved some of the forces east in support of General Lionel Dunsterville's operations in Persia during the summer of 1918.  His very powerful army was "astonishingly inactive, not only in the hot season but through most of the cold".  The fight in Mesopotamia was not wanted anymore.

 

Negotiations began about armistice conditions between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire with the turn of October.  General Marshall, following instructions from the War Office that "every effort was to be made to score as heavily as possible on the Tigris before the whistle blew" went on the offensive for the last time.  General Alexander Cobbe commanded a British force from Baghdad on 23rd of October 1918.  Within two days it covered 120 kilometres, reaching the Little Zab River, where it expected to meet and engage the Ottoman Sixth Army operating under Ismail Hakki Bey.  Cobbe fought a battle at the Battle of Sharqat, capturing nearly the entire Ottoman force.

 

On 30th of October 1918, the Armistice of Mudros was signed and both parties accepted their current positions. General Marshall accepted the surrender of Khalil Pasha and the Ottoman 6th Army at the same day.  But Cobbe did not hold his current position as the armistice required, and continued to advance on Mosul in the face of Turkish protests.  British troops marched unopposed into Mosul on the 14th of November 1918. The ownership of the Mosul Province and its rich oil fields became an international issue.

 

The war in Mesopotamia was over on 14th of November 1918. It was 15 days after the Armistice and one day after the occupation of Istanbul.

 

During the four years of fighting in the region, more than 31,000 officers and men from the British and Indian armies had died in combat or from disease.

 

The campaign resulted in the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.

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6th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.

6th (Service) Battalion, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) was raised at Lancaster in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 38th Brigade, 13th (Western) Division and trained on Salisbury Plain.  Near the end of February the Division concentrated at Blackdown in Hampshire.

 

The battalion was known as a service battalion and saw action in 1915.  They moved to the Mediterranean from the 13th of June 1915 landing at Alexandria then moving to Mudros, by the 4th of July to prepare for a landing at Gallipoli. The infantry landed on Cape Helles between the 6th and 16th of July to relieve 29th Division. They returned to Mudros at the end of the month, and the entire Division landed at ANZAC Cove between the 3rd and 5th of August.  They were in action in The Battle of Sari Bair, The Battle of Russell's Top and The Battle of Hill 60, at ANZAC.  Soon afterwards they transferred from ANZAC to Suvla Bay.  They were evacuated from Suvla on the 19th and 20th of December 1915, and after a weeks rest they moved to the Helles bridgehead. 

 

They were in action during the last Turkish attacks at Helles on the 7th of January 1916 and were evacuated from Helles on the 8th and 9th.  The Division concentrated at Port Said, holding forward posts in the Suez Canal defences.  On the 12th of February 1916 they moved to Mesopotamia, to join the force being assembled near Sheikh Sa'ad for the relief of the besieged garrison at Kut al Amara.  They joined the Tigris Corps on the 27th of March and were in action in the unsucessful attempts to relieve Kut.  They were in action in The Battle of Kut al Amara, the capture of the Hai Salient, the capture of Dahra Bend and the passage of the Diyala, in the pursuit of the enemy towards Baghdad. 

 

Units of the Division were the first troops to enter Baghdad, when it fell on the 11th of March 1917.  The Division then joined "Marshall's Column" and pushed north across Iraq, fighting at Delli 'Abbas, Duqma, Nahr Kalis, crossing the 'Adhaim on the 18th of April and fighting at Shatt al 'Adhaim.  On the 24th of April 1917, the battalion was involved in an attack near Barurah, which is now in Syria.  On the 30th of April there was further fighting in an attack at Adhaim.  Al Uzaym (Adhaim) River. 

 

Later in 1917 they were in action in the Second and Third Actions of Jabal Hamrin and fought at Tuz Khurmatli the following April.  In the autumn of 1917 they were in pursuit of the Turkish army and in the spring of 1918 the battalion occupied the town of Kirkuk, now in Iraq. By the 29th of April 1918 they had captured the town of Tuz Khurmati on the Tigris, now in Iraq, and many Turkish prisoners.  At this time Walter had been wounded on the 18th of April and again on the 3rd of May.

 

By the 28th of May 1918, Divisional HQ had moved to Dawalib and remained there until the end of the war, enduring extreme summer temperatures.

 

In 1919 the battalion was moved to Rawalpindi in India and in August of that year they returned to England.

 

The cost

Like Gallipoli, conditions in Mesopotamia defy description.  Extremes of temperature (120 degrees F was common); arid desert and regular flooding; flies, mosquitoes and other vermin: all led to appalling levels of sickness and death through disease.  Under these conditions, units fell short of officers and men, and all too often the reinforcements were half-trained and ill-equipped. Medical arrangements were quite shocking, with wounded men spending up to two weeks on boats before reaching any kind of hospital.  These factors, plus the unexpectedly determined Turkish resistance, contributed to high casualty rates.

• 11012 killed

• 3985 died of wounds

• 12678 died of sickness

• 13492 missing and prisoners (9000 at Kut)

• 51836 wounded

  Data from "Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire" (London: HMSO, 1920).

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Walter’s war record shows that he worked for Wesseloft & Son in Houndsgate, Nottingham, although in the same area as his own subsequent business it was not in the same premises. 'Wesseloft' was a company of printers furnishers and he was employed as a traveller. It was here that he became known as Tom, since Mr Wesseloft, a German, could not pronounce Walter clearly. (source – Dudley Andrews).  Walter took over the printing business in 1933 when his employer retired and it became Tom Dudley, printer's furnishers in Houndsgate, Nottingham.

 

Walter then became one half of "Caxton & Dudley", with premises on the ground floor of 61 Houndsgate, Nottingham, supplying hot metal print to the print industry.  Another company used the top floor. They gave up the business as they were both getting on when that section of Houndsgate was demolished to make room for the new Maid Marion Way.  (source – ###### ########, there is also a reference in Kelly’s 1934 & 1936).  According to his wife, Mabel Smith's death certificate Walter was a Printers Furnisher. 

 

Walter was listed in the 1936, 1941 and 1956 editions of Kelly's Directory.

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1956 listing in Kelly's expanded the address to 61 St. Nicholas Street, Hounds Gate, Nottingham.

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In 1932 Walter and Mabel took in their grandson Dudley Andrews into their home in Spalding Road, whilst his mother Noreen Andrews got over the birth of her third child, Derek.  This was to have lasted only a few weeks but actually lasted until the time that Dudley got married in 1953.  Mabel was instrumental in buying the house in Spalding Road because Walter was in Ireland at the time, paying £450.  It was eventually sold by Dudley Andrews sold it for £1000 on behalf of Noreen Andrews and used the proceeds to get a flat in Belconnon Road, Bestwood, Nottingham.

                                  

Walter recalled to his grandson Dudley Andrews that he could remember his own grandparents, Thomas Dudley, b 1805 and Mary Hewlett, b 1807 wore smocks when they were dressed.

                                  

On the 1911 census the household were all listed as Smith also address given as 17 Spalding Road, though the 2nd No 17.

                                   

Census listed as St. Mary Parish of Nottingham, Bridge Municipal Ward, Southern Nottingham.

 

Walter left his entire estate to Mabel Dudley nee Smith of 18 Spalding Road, Carlton, Nottingham.  It was £1002 and 11 shillings with a net value £925 and 5 shillings with probate granted on 13th December 1962.

                                  

Funeral Directors A.W. Lymn Ltd charge of £43 & 6 shillings for making necessary arrangements.

                                  

Crematorium Fees - £5 and 4 shillings - paid by Mrs E. A. Atkinson.

 

Noted events in his life were:

*  He was Wesleyan.

*  Living: 25th September 1881, Rutland Terrace, Nottingham.

*  Living: 1891, 27 Uppingham Terrace, Nottingham. 

*  He was a scholar in 1891.

*  Living: 1901, 2 Summers Terrace, Nottingham. 

*  He worked as a printers type and ink warehouseman in 1901.

*  Living: 7th April 1906, 1 Summers Terrace, Nottingham. 

*  He worked as a warehouseman on 7th April 1906.

*  Living: 9th December 1907, 15 Teversal Avenue, Lenton, Nottingham. 

*  He worked as a printer's furnisher's warehouseman on 9th December 1907.  From birth certificate of Noreen Dudley

*  Living: 1911, 17 Spalding Road, Nottingham. 

*  He worked as a warehouse manager in 1911 in a printers furnishers.

*  He worked as a warehouseman in 1916.

*  Living: 1916, 124 Carlton Road, Nottingham. 

*  Enlisted: 25th January 1916, The Sherwood Foresters, Nottingham.

*  He served in the military King's Own Royal Lancashire Regiment on 5th December 1916.

*  Living: 1918, 124 Carlton Road, Nottingham.  From discharge papers.

*  He was discharged from the military on 26th September 1919.

*  He worked as a commercial traveller on 10th November 1928.

*  Living: 1936, 18 Spalding Road, Nottingham. 

*  He worked as a traveller in 1936.

*  He was employed in 1936 in Claxton & Dudley, printers' suppliers, 61 Houndsgate, Nottingham.

*  Living: 1941, 18 Spalding Road, Nottingham. 

*  Living: 1956, 18 Spalding Road, Nottingham.        

*  He was employed in 1956 in Claxton & Dudley, printers' furnishers, 61 St. Nicholas

    Street, Hounds Gate, Nottingham.

*  Living: 18th November 1962, 18 Spalding Road, Nottingham. 

 

Walter married Mabel Elizabeth Smith on the 7th of April 1906 in All Souls Church, Radford, Nottingham. 

 

Children from this marriage were:

i.   Noreen Dudley – (9/12/1907 – 18/12/1981)

ii.  Edna Alice Dudley – (14/5/1914 – 13/8/1965)

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Mabel Elizabeth Smith

Mabel is the daughter of Arthur Smith and Mary Elizabeth Eyley and was born on the 5th of May 1882 at 37 Out Gang Lane, Nottingham.  She was christened on the 26th of March 1885 in Parish of Saint Mary, Nottingham.  She died on the 4th of September 1969 at Newstead Hospital, Newstead, Nottinghamshire, at the age of 87, and was cremated five days later on the 9th of September. 

 

The cause of her death was congestive Cardiac Failure and Myocardial Infarct. 

 

Research Notes: Possess

Certificate of Baptism, Death Certificate, Marriage Certificate

Funeral Directors Bill dated 17th September 1969, cost £62 and 3 shillings.

 

Birth A/M/J 1882 Nottingham 7b Page 261

                                  

Marriage witnessed by Arthur Smith and Sarah Ann Alice Garton.

                                  

On night of 1891 census is with her Grandparents, Richard and Harriett Eyley at 13 Lammas Street, Nottingham.

                                  

On the 1911 census the household were all listed as Smith also address given as 17 Spalding Road, though the 2nd No 17.

 

In 1932 Walter and Mabel took in their grandson Dudley Andrews into their home in Spalding Road, whilst his mother Noreen Andrews got over the birth of her third child, Derek.  This was to have lasted only a few weeks but actually lasted until the time that Dudley got married in 1953.  Mabel was instrumental in buying the house in Spalding Road because Walter was in Ireland at the time, paying for £450.  It was eventually sold by Dudley Andrews sold it for £1000 on behalf of Noreen Andrews and used the proceeds to get a flat in Belconnon Road, Bestwood, Nottingham.

                                   

Probate Registry Fee £8.00 on Thursday 18th September 1969.

                                  

An envelope addressed to Mrs Dudley, 124 Carlton Road, Nottingham.

 

Noted events in her life were:

*  Living: 26th March 1885, 12 Winborne Road, Nottingham.  From Certificate of Baptism for Mabel Smith

*  Living: 1891, 13 Lammas Street, Nottingham. 

*  Living: 1901, 117 Norton Street, Radford, Nottingham. 

*  She worked as a cigar maker in 1901.

*  Living: 7th April 1906, 90 Forsters Street, Radford, Nottingham. 

*  She was listed as no profession on 7th April 1906.

*  Living: 1911, 17 Spalding Road, Nottingham. 

*  Living: 25th January 1916, 124 Carlton Road, Nottingham. 

*  Living: 26th September 1919, 124 Carlton Road, Nottingham. 

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