Hi folks, this is the other WW1 soldier whose burial I am trying to find.
A/Sjt Francis Claude Austin M/39555 Royal Army Service Corps, died on 26/7/1921 age 32 at Consumption Hospital, 70 Mount Pleasant. His address on the death certificate is 15 Durham Road, Seaforth, but from his service record I also have 14 Bedford Place, Seaforth.
He was apparently born at Portsmouth, and joined the King's Liverpool Regiment at Warrington in 1907. His address on discharge in 1919 was Elson, Gosport. His mother Caroline and (step?)father John Cook lived at 18 Formby Street, Formby, and he had siblings living in Warrington and Ashton-under-Lyne. The only census record I can identify is 1901 when the family were living at Manchester.
Married to Alice Goddard at Portsmouth in 1914, they had two children, Gwendoline and Francis, both born at Alverstoke. His widow later seems to have lived at Emsworth.
Listed on CWGC since last November: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/754676…
This one is a bit more tricky as he seems to have moved around quite a bit, but again any help is appreciated.
Hi Paul, It doesn't really…
Hi Paul,
It doesn't really help you find a grave, but were you aware that there's a 1921 Census entry for (possibly) Francis C junior (b.1919 Gosport) plus someone named Margaret and 7 others living somewhere in Seaforth? Possibly this will turn out to be 15 Durham Road. Doing an address search in the 1921C for 15 Durham Rd shows a Margaret, Richard, Stephen C and 7 others at that address. The name Alice doesn't appear but that's not to say she wasn't also there. The occupants of 14 Bedford Place are a Donald, Mary and Nora.
No obvious sign of Francis senior in Liverpool, but I'm not sure how well the transcription of hospital inmates has been handled in the 1921C. There are too many entries doing an address search for Mount Pleasant to narrow them down to the consumption hospital itself.