Cadet Walter Scammell - Royal Newfoundland Regiment

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission would love to hear from relatives of Cadet Walter Scammell who died 11 November 1918 -

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQF-42F3

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-27SK-TD?cc=1790939

The private memorial marking the grave no longer provides Cadet Walter Scammell with adequate commemoration.  The Commononwealth War Graves permission are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

FIND A GRAVE

Cambridge City Cemetery Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. England.
Plot   C. 3631.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32379347

Birth - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQF-97BL

Service Number 2958 Cadet Walter Scammell - Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Beloved Son of Stewart and Sarah Scammell - Change Islands,Newfoundland
Who Fell Asleep In Christ - 11 Nov 1918 - Age 21
Resting From His Work Today
Lies One Loved, One Far Away

http://ngb.chebucto.org/Cemetery/scammell-walter-rnr-cambridge.shtml

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Note :- I am aware of an ancestry tree with Walter Scammell named but it has 135,018 people in it !!!!  Decided to swerve that one..........

https://pt-br.facebook.com/cbcnl/posts/the-commonwealth-war-graves-are-looking-for-the-family-of-walter-scammell-can-yo/10157066076932174/

If you are related to Cadet Walter Scammell, CWGC would love to hear from you.

https://www.cwgc.org/

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A marriage of Stewart Scammell (aged 20 years - bachelor)  and Sarah Selina Torrville (23 years - spinster) 18 December 1893 - Change Islands, Newfoundland, Canada.
Witness Arthur Scammell and Walter Scammell

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQF-6C1B

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-2WX9-P?i=258&cc=1790939

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Clara May Scammell may be a sister of Walter - Clara May Scammell born 1898 Change Islands Newfoundland.
Clara May Scammell aged 29 years - single - parents  Stewart Scammell -  Mother's Name Sarah Torraville
Married Earl Marshall Wainwright born 1893   Penns Grove, N. J.  and aged 34 years -  20 August 1927 Manhattan NY

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24WZ-KCB

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Couple shown on 1930 US census East 43rd Brooklyn New York.

Earl M Wainwright   37
Clara M Wainwright   32 born Newfoundland. Imm 1920. NA
Robert M Wainwright   0 born NY.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4VH-9J3

1940 census Assembly District 18, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings, New York,

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQRR-FXF

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The son Robert Wainwright born 1930 Bklyn Kings, New York passed away 23 August 2002 -
Earl M Wainwright - Mother Clara M Scammell.

FIND A GRAVE

Rev Robert Marshall Wainwright

burial - Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Columbarium Rochester, Monroe County, New York.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173665824

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Rev Robert Wainwright predeceased his wife Nanyc Wainwright

Obituary with photograph..........

Published in Rochester Democrat And Chronicle on Nov. 11, 2018

Rochester - November 9, 2018. Born May 14, 1932 on Staten Island to parents George and Phyllis Crabtree. Nancy is predeceased by her husband, The Reverend Robert Marshall Wainwright and her brother, George Manley Crabtree.........etc etc



https://obits.democratandchronicle.com/obituaries/democratandchronicle/obituary.aspx?n=nancy-wainwright&pid=190708132&fhid=13366

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Obituary for Rev Robert Marshall Wainwright - gives no clue to any other siblings.

Democrat and Chronicle  (Rochester, New York) 8 Sep 2002, Sun  - Metro  -  Page 31

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27424401/rev_robert_marshall_wainwright/

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Looks like 2 more siblings on the 1935 census Change Islands, Fogo, Newfoundland, Canada.

Stewart Scammell    62
Sarah Selina Scammell   65
Chesley Roy Scammell 25 son
Violet Lucy Scammell   28 daughter

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9Z-WSJX

Violey could have middle names Violet Alma Lucy Scammell.

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Father Stewart Scammell born 1873 passed away 11 October 1948 Change Islands, Newfoundland.

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