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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Frederick and Cecil CALLAWAY - buried CWGC Grave Hollybrook Cemetery Southampton
« on: Tuesday 06 June 23 12:18 BST (UK) »
I am trying to find out about the military service and death of two relatives who are buried in Hollybrook Cemetery in Southampton and share a grave and CWGC headstone. They died in the few years after WWI ended and were brothers.
Frederick Callaway was a Lance Corporal in the Royal Engineers (no. 1843640). He died on 16 Sept 1920 and appears from the CWGC Concentration Document that he was buried in Shirley Warren Infirmary cemetery first, suggesting he died there. His parents are given – Henry Noah Callaway and Rosabell Callaway (nee Ross) of 73 Payne’s Road, Freemantle, Southampton. His birth seems to have been in 1894 as he was aged 26 at death.
Frederick went to Sholing School in 1905 and was living in Spring Road and in 1901 was living in 73 Paynes’s Road and was an Aluminium Grainer. He was single and aged 16 in 1911.
There is a Fold 3 entry for Frederick Callaway but I don’t have the level of subscription to access it.
The other person buried there is ‘C Callaway’. He is given as a A/C 2 (Aircraftsman 2nd Class – the first rank on joining the RAF) in the RAF with a number of 125941 on the gravestone. He died on 31 July 1922 but although he is on a CWGC headstone he is not on the CWGC database.
Frederick had a brother Claude who was born in Q3 1900 (source: Birth Index and 1901 Census). He shows in the 1911 Census as a schoolboy and in the 1921 Census where he was living with his parents at 73 Payne’s Road, aged 20 years 10 months and a motor Driver for the GPO. He was single.
There is then a marriage to Winifred G Abraham in Q4 1921 (Southampton 2c 174). They may have had a son – Claude C Callaway (mother: Abrahams) born March 1923 in Southampton and died in Surrey aged 54.
There are two Winifred G Abraham – I think ours was born 4 Dec 1898 in Hedge End, lived in Bournemouth in 1939 and died Oct 1987 in Reading/Wokingham. There is another born 1902 in the New Forest, name Winfred Gwendoline Abraham.
I have looked for Newspaper reports of their deaths on FindMyPast but nothing showing.
The one thing that threw me a bit is that when I searched for RAF records online I found a record for the number given for ‘C Callaway’ on the headstone – 125941. That showed it was given to Charles A Galloway who was an AC2 in the RAF. He was a Motor Driver and lived in Freemantle, Southampton. However he was born in 1890 and joined the Army in Jan 1918 and transferred to the RFC on 29 Jan 1918 and the RAF on 1 April 1918. He married Violet Galloway on 26 May 1912. Although there are lots of similarities to Cecil Calloway I think they are different persons.
As I said I would like to understand more about their military service and death of Frederick and Cecil Callaway. Any help or things to follow up on would help. If someone has Fold3 subscription and could do a lookup that would be welcome. I plan to order death certs and Cecil’s marriage cert but they will take a week or two.
Frederick Callaway was a Lance Corporal in the Royal Engineers (no. 1843640). He died on 16 Sept 1920 and appears from the CWGC Concentration Document that he was buried in Shirley Warren Infirmary cemetery first, suggesting he died there. His parents are given – Henry Noah Callaway and Rosabell Callaway (nee Ross) of 73 Payne’s Road, Freemantle, Southampton. His birth seems to have been in 1894 as he was aged 26 at death.
Frederick went to Sholing School in 1905 and was living in Spring Road and in 1901 was living in 73 Paynes’s Road and was an Aluminium Grainer. He was single and aged 16 in 1911.
There is a Fold 3 entry for Frederick Callaway but I don’t have the level of subscription to access it.
The other person buried there is ‘C Callaway’. He is given as a A/C 2 (Aircraftsman 2nd Class – the first rank on joining the RAF) in the RAF with a number of 125941 on the gravestone. He died on 31 July 1922 but although he is on a CWGC headstone he is not on the CWGC database.
Frederick had a brother Claude who was born in Q3 1900 (source: Birth Index and 1901 Census). He shows in the 1911 Census as a schoolboy and in the 1921 Census where he was living with his parents at 73 Payne’s Road, aged 20 years 10 months and a motor Driver for the GPO. He was single.
There is then a marriage to Winifred G Abraham in Q4 1921 (Southampton 2c 174). They may have had a son – Claude C Callaway (mother: Abrahams) born March 1923 in Southampton and died in Surrey aged 54.
There are two Winifred G Abraham – I think ours was born 4 Dec 1898 in Hedge End, lived in Bournemouth in 1939 and died Oct 1987 in Reading/Wokingham. There is another born 1902 in the New Forest, name Winfred Gwendoline Abraham.
I have looked for Newspaper reports of their deaths on FindMyPast but nothing showing.
The one thing that threw me a bit is that when I searched for RAF records online I found a record for the number given for ‘C Callaway’ on the headstone – 125941. That showed it was given to Charles A Galloway who was an AC2 in the RAF. He was a Motor Driver and lived in Freemantle, Southampton. However he was born in 1890 and joined the Army in Jan 1918 and transferred to the RFC on 29 Jan 1918 and the RAF on 1 April 1918. He married Violet Galloway on 26 May 1912. Although there are lots of similarities to Cecil Calloway I think they are different persons.
As I said I would like to understand more about their military service and death of Frederick and Cecil Callaway. Any help or things to follow up on would help. If someone has Fold3 subscription and could do a lookup that would be welcome. I plan to order death certs and Cecil’s marriage cert but they will take a week or two.