Captain John Gladstone GREENWOOD 26/23 Military Cross

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Captain John Gladstone GREENWOOD Military Cross

Rifle Brigade

Died 22 April 1951

Aged 75 years

 

Bl 1A Pl 433

 

Occupation: Post & Telegraph employee

Also Mentioned in Despatches [2]

 

Notice of his MC being conferred:

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 146, 20 June 1918, Page 8

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...

 

His Cenotaph database record

muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/63522.detail?O...

 

Access to his military records have been restricted by Archives New Zealand for preservation reasons.:

archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24056801

 

John was born 18 Oct 1876 and baptised at Habergham Eaves, Lancashire, England. Father: William Mother: Elizabeth [4]

 

1881 England Census: Still lived Habergham Eaves at 28 Trafalgar Road. Father was a bookseller and newsagent aged 30, born Lancashire. Mother was aged 32 and born Staffordshire

Shows John aged 4, his brother Walter J aged 6 and brother James W aged 2. They had a servant so reasonably well off.[4]

 

1891 England Census: A brother Ernest, twin of James appears; a sister Mary aged 5 and a sister named Margaret aged 2.

Father is now a newsagent and paper bag seller [4]. The same servant, Annie Elkin Is still with them.

 

 

Married Edith Emily SWINDELL c1908 [1] She died 7 October 1961 aged 81 and is buried Bl 23 Pl 225 at same cemetery [3]

 

Children:

Ailsa Irene born c1909 and died 22 Sep 1983, spinster. Buried with mother [1] [3]

Karl Gladstone born c1913 [1]

 

 

SOURCES:

[1]

NZ Department of Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes

[2]

freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/NZRBHono...

[3]

Christchurch City Council cemetery database

4]

Ancestry.co.uk

 

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