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Harold 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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Parents

Frederick GOUNDRY
1869 – 1960
Birth Location: Rosedale Abbey, Yorkshire (North Riding)
FG
Elizabeth BAINBRIDGE
1863 – 1938
Birth Location: Middlesbrough, Yorkshire (North Riding)
EB

Spouses(s)

Dora TAYLOR
1896 – 1953
Birth Location: –
DT
Gwendolen OWLES
1901 – 1996
Birth Location: –
GO

Children(s)

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    Genealogy Event 1
    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

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