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During World War I
Timeline of their lives |
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William |
Horace |
Kenneth |
Red type indicates periods spent in France/Belgium
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WILLIAM |
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10 May 1889 |
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4 Aug 1889 William baptised |
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7 May 1890 Horace born Uttoxeter. |
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23 March 1892 Sister, Elsie born, Uttoxeter |
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8 Feb 1894 Kenneth born Uttoxeter |
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19 Aug 1898 Father, Holme Lea, Uttoxeter |
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31 March 1901 census Billy and Horace boarding at
Brewood School, near Wolverhampton, Staffs. |
Billy and Horace boarding at
Brewood School, near Wolverhampton, Staffs. |
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29 Feb 1904 Sister Elsie died traumatically, of diphtheria. Uttoxeter |
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2 April 1911 census Billy living in Nottingham,
working for Nottingham Council as an electrical engineer. |
Horace at his mother’s house in
Uttoxeter; occupation bank clerk. |
Ken living in Southport as
“auctioneer’s pupil”. |
Susan Bagshaw, widow, living Holme Lea, Heath Rd,
Uttoxeter. |
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2 June 1911 |
1911 Kenneth Articled pupil for J Hatch
& Son, auctioneers & estate agents. 4 Seabank Rd, Southport 12 June 1911 Joins Corps Unit RASC (Royal Army Service
Corps) No 1, to 6 Aug 1911. Driver. Farleton Camp. |
22 June 1911 |
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1914 |
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Began "Embodied Service” as
Driver |
4 Aug 1914 War declared |
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Oct 1914 Arr UK early November |
27 Sept 1914 Resigns from Killara Rifles in
order to return to England and enlist. |
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30 Nov 1914 Enlists, alongside brother Horace Inns of Court OTC, |
30 Nov 1914 Enlists, alongside brother Billy Inns of Court OTC, |
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1915 |
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4 Jan 1915 Living at |
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24 Feb 1915 A/L/Cpl |
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March 1915 Appointed to commission in 20th
Manchesters |
March 1915 Appointed to commission in 20th
Manchesters 2nd Lt |
20 March 1915 A/Cpl |
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3 Nov 1915 Arrives in France |
9 Nov 1915 Arrives in France |
1 Nov 1915 A/Sgt |
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1916 |
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France |
25 Jan 1916 |
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3-23 April 1916 In hospital in France
with German measles |
HSB commanding a
Company. |
3 March 1916 Joins OTC at Oxford on 3 March
1916." |
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21 May 1916 Joined battalion 20th Manchesters as
Captain |
France |
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9 June 1916 Billy marries Mamie Seal at
Doveridge/ Uttoxeter, Staffs, and has four-day honeymoon in London. ?14 June 1916 |
France |
9 June 1916 best man at the wedding of Billy
to Mamie Seal. based at Wadham College, Oxford
OTC |
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1 July 1916 First day of Battle of
Somme. 20th Manchesters attack
at Fricourt at 2.30pm. Billy wounded in
shoulder. |
1 July 1916 First day of Battle of
Somme. 20th Manchesters attack
at Fricourt at 2.30pm. |
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1 July-Nov 1916 Battle of the Somme |
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2 July 1916 |
2 July 1916 Promoted in the field to
Temporary Captain |
7 July 1916 Appointed to temporary commission
as 2nd Lt, Manchester Regiment |
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France |
1916 Ken arrives in France |
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France |
18 Oct 1916 Ken wounded, at Flers,
north-east of Albert in front lower third of R thigh..” |
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France |
20 Oct 1916 Kenneth "Fragment
removed" |
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France |
2 Nov 1916 Embarks by ship for
England, to hospital. |
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1917 [or ?1916] |
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14 Dec 1916 Has sciatica. Sick leave extended |
30 Dec 1916 Kenneth Medical Board (see letter
below) |
All three brothers were on sick leave in England at
Christmas 1916. |
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1 Jan 1917 Horace's MC gazetted. Still on sick leave |
13 Jan 1917 Still on sick leave. Applies by letter for a wounds
gratuity. ... |
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4 March 1917 Embarked at Folkestone
for Boulogne after medical leave |
16 March 1917 operated upon at Alder Hey. |
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March
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Transferred to 2/9th
Battalion, Manchester Regiment 17.3.1917 Billy is
Adjutant, writing the battalion diary. At Cuinchy, La Bassée |
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12 July 1917 Battalion to take over
coast defences at Fort des Dunes Nieuwpoort sector |
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5 September 1917 Horace attends an investiture at
Buckingham Palace, and receives his MC from King George V. |
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9 Oct 1917 Battle of Poelcappelle
with 2/9th |
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11 Oct 1917 Kenneth "Probably
incapacitated 11m. Severe but not permanent." |
12 Oct 1917. First Battle of Passchendaele (aka Third Ypres) |
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2 Nov 1917 |
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8 - 29 Dec 1917 Granted leave to
UK |
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It seems that
all three brothers are in England for Christmas 1917. |
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1 Jan 1918 |
January 1918 Still unfit |
Kenneth back to France |
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21 Feb 1918 |
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Temp Lt, |
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25 March 1918 Billy wins Bar to MC, at Framerville 26 March 1918 To be Brigade Major 198th
Infantry Brigade, with Captain FB Hewson MC, Lancs & Yorks Regiment |
1 Mar 1918 |
27 March 1918 Kenneth wins Military Cross at Bucquoy |
21 March 1918 German spring offensive, retakes much ground, and
lamost reaches Amiens. 26 March 1918 Supreme Command of Allied forces placed in hands of
France’s Marshal Foch. Allies begin to push Germans back to the east. |
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14 May 1918 To be Brigade Major, 74th
Infantry Brigade 27 May – 4 June
1918, |
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9 May 1918 11 May 1918 Left unit abroad. 17 May 1918 Embarked for England (Le
Havre to Southampton. Arrived 18 May
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29 June 1918 Billy ordered to
“proiceed to UK” |
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Aug 1918 Billy must have had home leave
around this time (first child born 9 months later, in May 1919!). |
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16 July 1918 Kenneth Unfit (fit Cat C(ii)) |
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15 Sept 1918 Embarked Folkestone to
Boulogne |
8 Oct 1918 Horace Bagshaw lands in
France again; 13.Oct 1918 Rejoins 20th Battalion
Manchesters at Le Cateau 23 Oct 1918 Horace wounded by
shrapnel bullet in the elbow. 26 Oct 1918 Embarked at Le Havre; arrived Southampton 27 Oct |
23 Oct 1918 Suffers a bout of
broncho-pneumonia, while in billets at Reading |
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1918 20th Bttn
Manchester Rgt returned from Italy to join 7th Brigade, 25th Division at
Canchy. |
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12 Nov 1918 Unfit (fit Cat C(ii)) |
11 Nov 1918 ARMISTICE |
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9 Jan 1919 Granted extension of
leave to return to UK for demobilisation." |
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3 March 1919 Unfit (fit Cat C(ii)). |
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17 April 1919 Released (?demobbed) |
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18 May 1919 First child born born: Dorothy
Joyce Susanne |
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10 July 1919 "Proceed to
Aintree" 28 July 1919 Embarked at Le Havre for
England 31 July 1919 "Disembodied" |
Still in hospital since 23 October
1918 |
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25 Oct 1919 Relinquished commission |
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1920 |
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9 Feb 1920 Applies for wound pension |
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3 March 1920 Ken and Billy invested with MCs at
Buckingham Palace |
2 March 1920 Fit C(i) 3 March 1920 Ken and Billy invested with MCs by
King George V at Buckingham Palace. Horace and his mother accompany
them. |
3 March 1920 Ken and Billy invested with MCs at
Buckingham Palace |
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23 Dec 1920 Kenneth "To retain the rank
of Lieutenant" |
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1921 onwards |
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Billy proves his mother's Will |
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4 July 1922 Mother, Susan Bagshaw (née
Trubshaw) dies |
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1923 Horace sails from Liverpool for
Canada. |
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1924 "Manager" Kenneth sails from Liverpool for
the US, |
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1927 Horace died, Vancouver |
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1958 Ken died, Vancouver |
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1973 Billy died, England |
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NAVIGATION
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These pages were put together in early 2008 by Angela Bird, grand-daughter of
William Browne Bagshaw,
with much help from the descendents of Kenneth Bagshaw in Vancouver,
and from Phil Baker in Australia, as well as from the experts on the forum of The
Manchester Regiment.