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SIGN UPHarold Bainbridge GOUNDRY 1897 – 1976 – Genealogical Records
Birth Date: 6 JUN 1897
Birth Location: Middlesbrough, Yorkshire (North Riding)
Death Date: 18 JUN 1976
Death Location: 26 Outney Road, Bungay, Suffolk
Father: Frederick GOUNDRY
Mother: Elizabeth BAINBRIDGE
Spouse(s): Dora TAYLOR, Gwendolen OWLES
Children(s):
1897 marked the beginning of Harold Bainbridge GOUNDRY's life in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire (North Riding), to parents Frederick William GOUNDRY and Elizabeth BAINBRIDGE. Eventually, Harold Bainbridge GOUNDRY married Dora TAYLOR and Gwendolen Irene OWLES. Harold Bainbridge GOUNDRY passed in 1976 at 26 Outney Road, Bungay, Suffolk.
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Event Type: Birth
Event Year: 6 JUN 1897
Event Place: Middlesbrough, Yorkshire (North Riding)
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Education
Event Year: 1 FEB 1904
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 JAN 1916
Record Source: he attested at Saltburn, his height was 5 feet 7 ins., weight - 132 lbs, hair colour - brown, complexion - fresh, eyes - blue ?, chest measurement when fully expanded - 34½ ins., range of expansion - 2½ inches, his home address was Hazeldene, Saltb
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1918
Record Source: he was admitted as a Member of the Honourable Artillery Company
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 22 FEB 1918
Record Source: he joined G Division, 2/Battery, British Expeditionary Force as a RB in France, Regimental no. 626803, leaving on 13 Jun 1919
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 19 JUL 1918
Record Source: his Commanding Officer at 2a Battery HAC 126 Bde RFA, Finsbury, London EC wrote to the Secretary to the War Office that he was "Highly recommended to me. His engineering experience should fit him for an Artillery Commission after training".
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 21 AUG 1918
Record Source: he was mobilised and posted to Harrow as a Driver in the Honourable Artillery Company, regimental No. 626803 - his home address was Longford, Eaglescliffe.
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 4 OCT 1918
Record Source: he was posted to Reserve Battery, H.A.C. at Leeds.
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 NOV 1918
Record Source: he was discharged back to duty from Leeds Military Hospital, after spending eight days there, suffering from influenza (a world-wide influenza epidemic between Mar 1918 and June 1920 is estimated to have killed between 20 and 100 million people wor
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 12 OCT 1919
Record Source: he was serving in Berg Gladbach, Germany, and on 29 October was posted to 113 Brigade, R.F.A., (serving in Germany ?).
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 31 DEC 1919
Record Source: he was in the Reserve Battery, his address was 4 St. George's Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 5 MAR 1920
Record Source: he was demobilised from 2nd ?, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1922 AND 1924
Record Source: he played for Durham University Cricket Team - he was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1923 AND 1924
Record Source: he played cricket at the Northumberland Club and Ground
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1924
Record Source: he obtained his first position as a School Teacher.
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: FROM 1925 TO 1927
Event Place: St. Michael's College, Tenbury, Bewdley, Worcestershire
Record Source: where he was listed on the Electoral Register
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 12 AUG 1926
Record Source: a cricket match was played at Ross-on-Sea between Colwyn Bay and H.B. GOUNDRY's XI
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: 1927
Event Place: "Dunelm", Lower Olland Street, Bungay, Suffolk
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1928
Record Source: he played cricket for Dulwich
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1929
Record Source: he was appointed as a Schoolmaster at Bungay Grammar School, Suffolk, where he remained for 35 years - "In the course of time the cricket square, lovingly tended by a succession of cricketing masters, (especially H.B. GOUNDRY) became one of the bes
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1 APR 1931
Record Source: he registered with the Teachers Registration Board, as Register Number 79420, his professional address was Grammar School, Bungay, Suffolk, and his Attainments were a B.Sc. at Durham.
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1934 AND 1948
Record Source: he played cricket in the Suffolk (Minor Counties Championship)
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: MAY 1937
Record Source: playing cricket for Suffolk against Lincolnshire, he took 3 wickets for 17 runs.
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 24 MAR 1941 AND JUL 1945
Record Source: he was an Acting Pilot Officer in the RAF Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch) - his Service No. was A250599/41, his Personal No. 66852
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 APR 1943
Record Source: a Flying Officer, he accompanied a Wing Commander who attended a Church Parade and afterwards presented proficiency certificates which had been won by members of the Harleston and Bungay A.T.C.
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 12 MAR 1945
Record Source: he was posted from 3 A.P.C. to to R.A.F. Manston in Kent, from where he flew missions over the sea in a two-man Fairey Swordfish, usually flying with Pilot Officer J. TEMPLETON, D.F.C. The Swordfish was a medium-sized biplane torpedo bomber and re
Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 5 APR 1945
Record Source: two aircraft flew from 0845 to 1045 on anti S.B.U. patrols. P/O GOUNDRY in aircraft F sighted what he took to be a wake in position 5156N 0348E. It was difficult to guess at the speed, but it was making a course of 080, so he homed to the spot t
Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 APR 1945
Record Source: they flew from 1615 to 1626 returning with engine trouble. They took off again at 1723, returning with engine trouble at 1950
Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 7 APR 1945
Record Source: they flew from 0840 to 1215 and landed at Manston, and took off again at 1425, landing at Manston at 1535
Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 8 APR 1945
Record Source: they took off in aircraft O at 1220, landing at 1540, having sighted two mines, then flew in the same aircraft from 1710 to 1830
Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 10 APR 1945
Record Source: they flew in aircraft S from 0830 to1145, returning to base owing to radar trouble
Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 APR 1945
Record Source: they took off at 1950 in aircraft L, returning with engine trouble at 2030
Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 12 APR 1945
Record Source: they were scrambled in aircraft F at 1320 on a strike search for Bibers* reported 40 miles north of base, (the Biber was a 9m long one-man midget submarine, which carried two torpedoes or mines.). "Success attended his vigilance for at 1510 the pi
Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 APR 1945
Record Source: they flew from 1900 to 2200 in aircraft Q.
Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 14 APR 1945
Record Source: they flew from 0640 to 0910 and again from 1310 to 1420, both times in aircraft Q.
Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 APR 1945
Record Source: in aircraft B they flew from 1850 to 1908, and "returned with I.F.F. u/s". They then flew in aircraft D from 1920 to 2210.
Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 APR 1945
Record Source: in aircraft D they were on A/S/B/U patrol fro 1200 to 1500. On the 20th, in aircraft Q they were on A/S/B/U patrol from 0800 to 1110. On the 24th they were on A/S/B/U patrol from 1528 to 1842 in aircraft A
Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 4 MAY 1945
Record Source: they were again on A/S/B/U patrol, from 1719 to 2005, in aircraft S
Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1947
Record Source: he played cricket at the Suffolk Club and Ground
Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1952
Record Source: he was a teacher of Mathematics (and possibly other subjects) at Bungay Grammar School - his nickname was Pluto. He was described as a cricket fanatic who had played for Suffolk County which was the reason the school had an annual fixture agains
Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT MAY 1953
Record Source: his wife Dora died
Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 JUL 1976
Record Source: a notice in The London Gazette requested that claims against his estate be made by 14 September 1976. His address was 26 Outney Road, Bungay, Suffolk and he was a Retired Schoolmaster.
Genealogy Event 43
Event Type: Death
Event Year: 18 JUN 1976
Event Place: 26 Outney Road, Bungay, Suffolk
Record Source: - he had one daughter from his first marriage, and no issue from the second one