 A. F. V. Routledge (Arthur Frederick Victor Routledge) (Routledge, Arthur Frederick Victor) Service no G/14788 Private, Leicestershire Regiment, 9th Battalion Killed in action on 14 April 1917, aged 28 Born in Highgate; enlisted in Leicester CWGC: "Son of Arthur and Selina Routledge, of 13 Tregothnan Road, Stockwell, London." Remembered at St Leger British Cemetery, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 (Photo: courtesy of Peter Bennett) Information from the censuses In 1901 Arthur Frederick Victor Routledge lived at 116 Junction Road, Islington. His parents, Arthur Chapelhorn Routledge, 40, an upholsterer, and his wife, Selina, 34, had five children: Lilian D. Routledge, 14 Arthur F. Routledge, 12 Edward H. Routledge, 10 Emily Routledge, 7 Leonard G. Routledge, 2 All the family are listed as having been born in Islington. I have not been able to find Arthur Routledge on the 1911 census. However, his father, Arthur C. Routledge, now describing himself cabinet maker, is located at 10 Belvedere Road Bournemouth. He was out of work, and his wife, Selina Routledge, 44, made a living letting apartments. The couple lived with their youngest son, 12-year-old Leonard G. Routledge. The other members of the family were dispersed: one daughter to Boscombe, another to Wimbourne. February 2010 Norman (Arthur) Routledge has emailed with this additional information about Victor Routledge, who was his uncle: "Vic's fiancée, Maud Seaman, kept in touch with us. She did not marry
for a great many years and worked as a cook in Huntingdon. In old age
she married three times - no doubt the cookery had something to do with
that! When I was at King's College in Cambridge (c.1950) I used to
bicycle over to see her at the Literary Institute in Huntingdon, which
she and her husband cared for.
You might be interested that Vic's younger brother, my father, Leonard George Routledge, also joined up (RAF) and was awarded the Croix de Guerre, which we have together with the citation signed by Pétain. Maud had the very handsome bronze commemorative plaque for Vic which the authorities sent to all the families of dead soldiers." |
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Arthur Frederick Victor Routledge |