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returned home to the sad news that, while he had survived
the horrors of the Western Front, his brother, Horace and
his sister, Violet, had succumbed to the virulent Spanish Flu
epidemic, which was sweeping the world.
Ted, much to his father’s disgust, bought himself a tractor and
started a contracting business. Once back home, he also found
it difficult to sleep in the quiet of the country and without the
noise of war all around him.
He married Ethel May Potter (known as May) at Bury St
Edmunds soon after he returned home in July 1919 and later
their daughter Hilary (now Blunt) was born.
Written with help from his daughter, Hilary Blunt.
BUTLER M
Mentioned in Stamford & Rutland News letter of 16th September
1914 as being a Kings Cliffe man in the army.
CARRINGTON Horace
Private 49245 Royal Army Medical Corps
Horace was born in Kings Cliffe in February 1893.His mother
was Sarah Carrington.
At the turn of the century (1901) Athenasius Carrington, a cattle
dealer, lived in a small cottage (now demolished) in the back
garden of what is now 11, West Street, together with his wife,
his son and his daughter Sarah Frances, a charwoman. Sarah,
although not married, had three children living with them; Alice
13, Horace aged 8 and a baby, Edith.
The Carringtons were an old established Kings Cliffe family.
Horace joined the mixed school on Park Street in March 1902
(aged 11) and left in June 1908 (aged 15) to earn his living. He
probably went to the village junior school prior to this.
In 1911, the family were all still together and living in the same
house with the addition of Frank, a nephew of Athenasius.
By now it would have been decidedly crowded in the house
as the grandchildren were no longer small. Horace had left
school three years previously and in 1911 he was working as a
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the horrors of the Western Front, his brother, Horace and
his sister, Violet, had succumbed to the virulent Spanish Flu
epidemic, which was sweeping the world.
Ted, much to his father’s disgust, bought himself a tractor and
started a contracting business. Once back home, he also found
it difficult to sleep in the quiet of the country and without the
noise of war all around him.
He married Ethel May Potter (known as May) at Bury St
Edmunds soon after he returned home in July 1919 and later
their daughter Hilary (now Blunt) was born.
Written with help from his daughter, Hilary Blunt.
BUTLER M
Mentioned in Stamford & Rutland News letter of 16th September
1914 as being a Kings Cliffe man in the army.
CARRINGTON Horace
Private 49245 Royal Army Medical Corps
Horace was born in Kings Cliffe in February 1893.His mother
was Sarah Carrington.
At the turn of the century (1901) Athenasius Carrington, a cattle
dealer, lived in a small cottage (now demolished) in the back
garden of what is now 11, West Street, together with his wife,
his son and his daughter Sarah Frances, a charwoman. Sarah,
although not married, had three children living with them; Alice
13, Horace aged 8 and a baby, Edith.
The Carringtons were an old established Kings Cliffe family.
Horace joined the mixed school on Park Street in March 1902
(aged 11) and left in June 1908 (aged 15) to earn his living. He
probably went to the village junior school prior to this.
In 1911, the family were all still together and living in the same
house with the addition of Frank, a nephew of Athenasius.
By now it would have been decidedly crowded in the house
as the grandchildren were no longer small. Horace had left
school three years previously and in 1911 he was working as a
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