"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them".
Laurence Cyril Winstone was born in 1900 in Maidenhead, Berkshire to Frederick Thomas Winstone, a general labourer, and his wife Alice Mary Burton.
Laurence recorded as Lawrence, fist appears on the 1901 census aged just six months old, living at 68 Reform Road with his parents and five elder siblings. By the 1911 census the family had moved to 54 Waldeck Terrace, Reform Road, Maidenhead.
Laurence recorded as Lawrence, fist appears on the 1901 census aged just six months old, living at 68 Reform Road with his parents and five elder siblings. By the 1911 census the family had moved to 54 Waldeck Terrace, Reform Road, Maidenhead.
In 1918 Laurence enlisted with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 5th Battalion. Sadly only 3 months into service Lawrence was wounded. Lawrence was then sent to 16 Northumberland Voluntary Auxiliary Hospital (Later Ashington General Infirmary), where he succumbed where he contracted Bronchial Pneumonia and passed away on 11th October 1918
On 16th October 1918 the maidenhead Advertiser carried the following announcement:
"Deaths
Winstone- On Oct. 11th, 1918, at Ashington V.A.D. Hospital, Northumberland, of broncho-pneumonia, Lawrence [sic] ("Lorry"). Cyril Winstone, 5th Warick Regt., aged 18 years. 'Thy Will be done'."
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I've never seen that kind of detail - very interesting! How sad that he died at such a young age.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing -- and for linking!