Frederick and Cecil CALLAWAY - buried CWGC Grave Hollybrook Cemetery Southampton

[Skoyen89]

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. 

[hanes teulu]

Had you ruled out -
Hampshire Advertiser, 5 Aug 1922
CALLAWAY - On Monday 31 July, Charles Albert, age 30, the beloved son of Mr and Mrs H N Callaway, 7?, Paynes Road, Freemantle.

[Skoyen89]

Hi Hanes Teulu

No, but it didn't come up in my newspaper search for Callaway in 1920s in FindMyPast!!!  I will look into that some more. 

Charles Albert comes up a lot in the Callaway family - each family and each generation seems to have one so untangling them is sometimes challenging. 

Very, very grateful!!!   Spent about five or six hours on this last night of which much was chasing Cecil Callaway.

[hanes teulu]

I have access to newspapers via FindMyPast and British Newspaper Archive (BNA). I prefer BNA's search/navigation.
I pulled up Charles Albert's death notice on BNA searching for Callaway (ie. less is more) and checking "hits" for Hampshire papers shortly before/after 31 July.
 
Searching FindMyPast for Callaway, and Hampshire "hits" shortly before/after 31 July, delivers hits for Callaway in the Hampshire Independent (page 10- 4th Aug) and Hampshire Advertiser (page 10 - 5th Aug). But these are not Charles Albert.
The search does not identify Charles Albert's death notice in the Hampshire Advertiser 5th Aug - odd.     

[AlanBoyd]

Just some clarifications on Claude Callaway. I think this is him in 1939:

1939 register
Claude Callaway 22/7/1900 widowed
[redacted]
Beryl C Callaway [NUNN] 25/12/25 single (she married Herbert C Nunn Q4 1942)

birth registration
Beryl C Calloway
Q1 1925
mmn Abrahams

(note however the discrepancy on year of birth)

death Winifred G Callaway
Q2 1930 Southampton

so I think Claude's wife was indeed Winifred Gwendoline

[AlanBoyd]

There's not much at Fold3 for Frederick Callaway I'm afraid.
RE 23589, L/Cpl, single
death 17/9/1920 disease
Claimant mother, Mrs R Callaway,73 Payne Rd, Freemantle, Southampton, age 50
seems to be an award of 5 shillings.

The Callaway family is at 73 Paynes Road in 1921: Henry, Rosebell, plus Henry (33) Charlie (30) and Claude (20). Henry and Charlie are both recorded as married, but no wives are in evidence: only Claude is single.

[AlanBoyd]

I may be missing something in your original post: given the confusion over who is actually in the grave, what evidence is there for the existence of Cecil Callaway?

[softly softly]

General info only.

"the beloved son of Mr and Mrs H N Callaway, 7?, Paynes Road, Freemantle."

Birth

CALLAWAY, NOAH  HENRY     mmn BILES 
GRO Reference: 1868  M Quarter in SOUTHAMPTON  Volume 02C  Page 19


Death

CALLAWAY, HENRY  NOAH     57 
GRO Reference: 1925  M Quarter in SOUTHAMPTON  Volume 02C  Page 106

Parents marriage

Marriages Sep 1865   
Biles    Emily        Southampton    2c   67    
Kallaway    Albert Charles        Southampton    2c   67

John

[Andy J2022]

Like AlanBoyd, I am confused. But my confusion is about why LCpl Frederick Callaway RE seems to have two different Regimental numbers. On the grave marker it's shown as 1843640 but on the grave registration card and, according to Alan, on Fold3, he's 23589

There's an MIC for 23589 Spr Frederick Callaway RE who received the Victory Medal, British War Medal and 1915 Star. He went to the Balkans 22 -3- 1915. No sign of an alternative number on his MIC. The Royal Engineers only renumbered soldiers from the Territorial Force and that occurred in 1917 (see this article on the Long, Long Trail website) and both the old and new number should have appeared on the MIC. As far as I know, the RE did not re-number soldiers for any other reason, unlike transferring between Infantry Regiments or other Corps. There's no MIC for 1843640 Callaway

The Grave Registration Card does appear to record his rank as Acting LCpl, so the medal rolls might have recorded him in his substantive rank, but the number is still an issue.