Name | John Samuel Keartland |
Service number | CH 19625 |
Rank – including any promotions, with dates | Private |
Regiment | R.M.Li – WW1 Pensions Ledgers Description – Other Ranks Survived ref no 11/N/1277 |
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Birthplace | |
Date of birth | 13/06/1897 |
Enlisted | 1915 with Royal Marines |
1939 | 56 Lilian Road, Mitchum, Surrey |
Parents | Thomas and Alice Jane Keartland: siblings, Alice 1884; Louisa 1886; Ada 1887; Florence 1891; Daisy 1893; Charles 1895; John 1897 |
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Wife | Dorothy Robins b. 25/10/1902 Married 1921 Wandsworth, London 1938 Register has Keartland crossed out on Dorothy’s name and Reddington written above it also M.I.C. 17.7.1948 CNA – Dorothy Keartland’s second husband was Frederick Reddington – married 1948 October 1972 marriage of John S Keartland to Dora R Edwards registration district Durham Western |
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Children | Patricia Keartland B. 25/10/1922 -2017; ( emigrated to Australia) Iris Keartland 1924-2005 |
Occupation | 1939 – Omnibus Bus Driver for GPTB 1914 – Signal Lamp man, London, Brighton and South Coast Railways, 1921 his pay was £3.4s6d, he was recommended by a Mr Platt and re appointed 14/06/1920 |
Medals – held in collection Citations | UK Naval Medal Award Rolls – Star, Victory Medal and British War Medal – |
Medals – others awarded but not held in collection | |
Citations/Notes | School Admissions: admission date 27/04/1908, aged 10; Eardley Road School ( opened in 1894, became Eardley Primary School in 1951 |
How died – not known, at home, of wounds, killed in action | |
Date of death | July 1983 |
Age | 86 |
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Cemetery – plot, row and grave |
Sevenhills, Greenhills Business Pk
Spennymoor, Co.Durham, DL16 6JB
Registered Charity Number: 273744
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