CWGC Appeal for relatives........Lance Corporal Cecil Victor Abbott

[*Sandra*]

Commonwealth Graves Commission would like to make contact with any relatives of Lance Corporal Cecil Victor Abbott- aged 19 years - died 27 February 1921 - Leicester, Leicester Unitary Authority, Leicestershire. (Death Mar 1921 Abbott Cecil V 19 Leicester 7a 345)
According to Register Soldiers Effects - Father Charles E Abbott (and Frances E. Abbott of Loughborough.)
Charles Edward Abbott married Frances Elizabeth Ray - Huntingdon - Registered March 1895 - 3b 295

He was accepted for commemoration as war dead on 5th August 2015, and his name was immediately added to the United Kingdom Book of Remembrance.

FIND A GRAVE entry


Brookwood Military Cemetery  Brookwood Woking Borough Surrey, England
Plot: Brookwood 1914-1918 Memorial Panel 8

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=150218999&ref=acom

http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/local-news/special-headstone-for-wwi-soldier-13737652

Sandra

[crisane]

As a start
Cecil and siblings
Florence Emily Abbott born c 1899 possible marriage to Arthur W Butler 1917 Oundle reg district
Frederick Charles Abbott born c 1900
Cecil V Abbott c1902
Stanley W Abbott c1909
Donald H Abbott c1910

No marriages for the others in Huntingdonshire 1915 onwards
I can't see a tree on ancestry for this family

[*Sandra*]

Donald Herbert Abbott 14 January 1910 passed away March 1983 Loughborough. Leicestershire.

Stanley Walter Abbott born 1908 passed away 1938 Loughborough. Leicestershire.

Sandra

[crisane]

I think there are a few births for this Butler/Abbott marriage one being in 1918, registration district Oundle, for a daughter with the same name as her mother.
A possible marriage for the daughter Huntingdonshire North Sept 1/4 1940. vol 3b page 1137
3 children to this couple 1941, 1943 and 1946.
I will pm you with their names as we are not allowed to post details of living people

[Mvann]

Hi all.

I'll have a look a bit further on my tree to see if I have any connections as I have Abbott members but they were down the road near thrapston in the 1870s/80s

[Dreamchaser]

I've recently started looking after L/Cpl Abbott,s grave at Loughborough crem. Does anyone know anything about Charles Sodan and why his name is on Cecil Victor Abbott headstone

[crisane]

There is this death but how is this man's name recorded on the grave.
Charles Sodan
Age   82 born about 1824
Registration Quarter   December 1906
at Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK
Vol 7a Page 77

Searching in FreeBMD using All and just the names there is only the one result, the above death reg.
If using the surname SodEn there are many more results with the first name Charles but using Leicestershire as the county the first rsult is a birth of Chares William Soden in 1882

[Dreamchaser]

From what I've been told, Charles sodan died in the workhouse. So if he didn't have a headstone, just a grave number, they would put other people in with him ( similar to a purpers grave. So there's a possibility that when Cecil Victor Abbott died is family couldnt afford a headstone so he was placed with Sodan. It's only when Cecil,s resting place was found he got a miliary headstone and Sodan name was added