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HAM F W
Private 145348 Northamptonshire Yeomanry
Mentioned in a letter to a newspaper of Kings Cliffe men who
have joined the New Army.
Joined 6th Nov 1914.
EDGSON Arnold Goodliffe
Private 678171 2nd Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles
Born in Kings Cliffe at the end of 1867, Arnold was the son of
Edward and Sarah Edgson who lived on Park Street, Kings
Cliffe.
His father ran a tailoring and grocery business, and had moved
to Kings Cliffe from Rutland in 1858.
Arnold went to the local school, leaving it around 1882. By the
time of the 1891 census he had moved to London and was
living in large company accommodation in the City, on Warwick
Street. He was working as a warehouseman and was now 24
years old.
Arnold’s mother, Sarah, died in 1898, but his father continued to
run the Kings Cliffe business until about 1906 when he moved
to Morcott to live with his son John’s family.
Arnold was leading the not untypical life of a single young
working man in London with frequent moves and changes of
employment.
In 1900 he was at 8 Purland Road, Islington, in 1901 at 85 Duckett
Road, Hornsey and in 1902 at 137 Wood Street, Walthamstow
and had now taken up his father’s trade of a draper.
In 1906 he was still at Wood Street and still working as a draper.
At some point, and probably around 1909, he tires of this life
and decides to make a new life for himself in Canada.
The call of the old country, however, must have burnt strongly,
as on 26th January 1916, at the advanced age of 48, he enlisted
in Toronto, Canada, and returned to England before embarking
for the war in France.
He survived the war and returned to the Canadian Camp at
Bramshott near Aldershot, where he died on February 11th,
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Private 145348 Northamptonshire Yeomanry
Mentioned in a letter to a newspaper of Kings Cliffe men who
have joined the New Army.
Joined 6th Nov 1914.
EDGSON Arnold Goodliffe
Private 678171 2nd Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles
Born in Kings Cliffe at the end of 1867, Arnold was the son of
Edward and Sarah Edgson who lived on Park Street, Kings
Cliffe.
His father ran a tailoring and grocery business, and had moved
to Kings Cliffe from Rutland in 1858.
Arnold went to the local school, leaving it around 1882. By the
time of the 1891 census he had moved to London and was
living in large company accommodation in the City, on Warwick
Street. He was working as a warehouseman and was now 24
years old.
Arnold’s mother, Sarah, died in 1898, but his father continued to
run the Kings Cliffe business until about 1906 when he moved
to Morcott to live with his son John’s family.
Arnold was leading the not untypical life of a single young
working man in London with frequent moves and changes of
employment.
In 1900 he was at 8 Purland Road, Islington, in 1901 at 85 Duckett
Road, Hornsey and in 1902 at 137 Wood Street, Walthamstow
and had now taken up his father’s trade of a draper.
In 1906 he was still at Wood Street and still working as a draper.
At some point, and probably around 1909, he tires of this life
and decides to make a new life for himself in Canada.
The call of the old country, however, must have burnt strongly,
as on 26th January 1916, at the advanced age of 48, he enlisted
in Toronto, Canada, and returned to England before embarking
for the war in France.
He survived the war and returned to the Canadian Camp at
Bramshott near Aldershot, where he died on February 11th,
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