Those who served their country in WW1
Search for all who served in WW1, whose families had some connection with Bollington and Kerridge.
Results of search: surname Grounds
Sons of Thomas Grounds and Lucy (formerly Grimshaw):
Albert Grounds was born about 1874 at Stockport and married Sarah Ann Ingley*.
Their son Private ALBERT GROUNDS Cheshire Yeomanry 210473 was born 23 November 1898 at Bollington. He lived at Chapel Street in 1901. In 1911 he was a cotton piecer and part time at school, living at 4 Chapel Street with his parents. He was working as a vanman when he enlisted 26 February 1917. He did not serve overseas and was discharged 3 September 1917 as being no longer physically fit for war service on grounds of sickness. His address on discharge was 85 Palmerston Street. He married Ethel M Martindale at Saddleworth in 1923 and in 1939 they were living at 4 Birch Grove Audenshaw, he was a cotton mill overlooker and she was a cotton doubler. He died in 1949 in the Hyde area.
*Sarah Ann Ingley was a sister of JOSEPH, JOHN and WILLIAM INGLEY.
Private WILLIAM GROUNDS Canadian Expeditionary Force 64007 was born 20 September 1893 at Bollington and was baptised 4 March 1894 at St John’s. He lived at Shrigley Road in 1901 and was a calenderer in 1911 living with his parents at 12 Lord Street. He emigrated to Canada 25 September 1912 on board “Victorian”. He was working as a switchman with the Canadian National(?) Railway when he enlisted 16 February 1915 at Quebec, although his regiment is not indicated on his attestation form. He was injured at Ypres and was transferred to hospital in England instead of being returned to Canada. He married Amy Cox, a nurse at the hospital, in Dartford in 1917. They had three children, Madeleine Marguerite, Arthur Humphrey, and Ronald Leslie, before returning to the Bollington area in the 1920’s. The family lived in Water Street where Amy had a small milliners shop. Bill worked at Oak Bank Mill and the children attended the Water Street School. In 1939 the family was living at 49 Lowe Street Macclesfield, he was then a silk spinner. He died in 1979 and was buried at Henbury.
RONALD LESLIE GROUNDS was a casualty of WW2 (see his entry under War Dead).
Arthur Grounds served as bomber crew in the RAF and died in 2002 in Macclesfield after living in Australia for many years.
Madeleine, who was named after the French governess of Mr. Palmer, of Huntley and Palmers biscuits to whom Amy had been a nanny, died at the age of 94 in 2011.
Notes:
Please note that MOST (about 60%) of WW1 army service records did not survive the London blitz of WW2. If (and only if) soldiers served overseas they would have received campaign medals - campaign medal rolls and index cards have generally survived, but only show brief key details. If a soldier served overseas before the end of 1915, the index card shows the date of first arrival in a theatre of war. If there is no date on the card, the soldier first served after the end of 1915. In many cases this is all that is known about a soldier's service.
As a general rule in these short histories, details of campaign medals awarded are NOT included unless there is something of particular interest. See the section on Medals for an explanation of how soldiers qualified for the various campaign medals.
Unless otherwise stated, addresses are in Bollington, near Macclesfield. St John's was the local Anglican church, and St Gregory's was the local Roman Catholic church. (Neither church is still in use, replaced by St Oswald's and the new St Gregory's respectively. However, each of the former churches has its own burial ground.) The Wesleyan Methodist chapel is on Wellington Road opposite St Gregory's, but is no longer in use as a chapel. The Primitive Methodist church (now demolished) was on High Street and the Methodist New Connexion chapel (now demolished) was on Grimshaw Lane. The Congregationalist chapel was at the bottom end of Palmerston Street; part of the building still stands and is now used as offices.
In some cases, details of army organisation, battalion movements, etc have been extracted from The Long, Long Trail website.
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