H F Claydon GM Updated - new material found!

Post by **MaryA** » 15 Aug 2011 13:54

They are held in the Liverpool Record Office, very few of the Police Records are available but you may have more luck with the Watch Committee Books.

I don't know if they are on microfilm or documents so you would need to check before you go in case you have to order them at Sandhills. I did try to check the catalogue but the service is unavailable at present. Check it later
http://liverpool.gov.uk/libraries-and-a ... y-history/

Post by **Katie** » 15 Aug 2011 14:03

They are at Sandhills 352 WAT. There is a index at the front of each volume.

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 15 Aug 2011 15:59

Mary and Katie

Thank you for your posts.

I am clearly dim! I have searched the ref given by Katie on the Liverpool Record site to no avail!

I think I will have to make a visit.

Thanks to the efforts of you all, I am in contact with the graet nephew of "Nellie Walsh" who was one of those rescued from the rubble of Adlington Street. I will post further information as it comes to light.
Mark

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 15 Aug 2011 16:06

I have found this. Will I have to wait until the Record Office reopens?

Liverpool Blitz: an account of the air raid on Liverpool on the night of 12 March 1941
Repository Liverpool Record Office
Class 942.721084 WAR
Author Price, Alfred
Citation In War Monthly, issue 33, pages 18-22, 1976

Post by **Hilary** » 15 Aug 2011 16:46

Contact them at their Sandhills base - they will be able to tell you whether they can get hold of it and make an appointment for you to view it.

Post by **MaryA** » 16 Aug 2011 09:39

Keep a check on the Record Office updates http://liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/phpBB ... php?t=9679

However so far as I am aware everything is still available, all microfilms are at the World Museum and any documents can be retrieved from the archives and viewed at Sandhills.

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 17 Aug 2011 09:23

Katie, Hilary and Mary,

Thank you all.

I am pleased to confirm that I am now in touch with Nellie Walsh's great nephew who informs me that her name was actualy "Helen".

Nellie sounds to have been a remarkable woman, not only did she survive the war, she went on to raise 10 of her own children, her younger sister and the surviving children of her late sister who had been killed on the 12/13th March 1941!

Mark

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 17 Aug 2011 14:04

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll22 ... aydon1.jpg

Under the heading " Decorations for Heroism Arising out of War Acivities in Liverpool ", Harold's entry reads:-

" Gallant conduct displayed in the rescue of persons from demolished tenements in Adlington Street on the 13.3.1941."

Taken from the Chief Constables report

Harold's collar number was 36 'A'. Does the 'A' indicate A Division?

Post by **Hilary** » 17 Aug 2011 16:51

A on the collar is A division

My great uncle was also in A division and received some sort of an award during the Second World War. Where didyou find the Chief Constable's report? Is it at Liverpool record office?

Post by **Katie** » 17 Aug 2011 16:59

What was his name Hilary I will look in my Newspaper index for The Evening Express and Mark I will pop the article in the post.

Post by **Hilary** » 17 Aug 2011 19:26

That would be great Katie thank you

He was Constable Frank Ambrose 238A He served from 1919 - 1945. According to my notes he received
Medal from Liverpool Police Watch Committee in 1939 (that was for something before the war
Margaret Wheatley Cross from RSPCA in 1942
Royal Life Saving Society medal in 1944

Earlier 1933 a Liverpool and Shipwreck and Humane Society medal

I have seen all the medals. His beat was apparently around the Pier Head area.

Post by **Katie** » 17 Aug 2011 19:53

nothing in the Evening Express 1939-45 I do have a entry for a

Gunner George Ambrose 54 Rushmore Road

dont know if he is related.

Do you have the date he was awarded thw Shipwreck medal?

Post by **Hilary** » 17 Aug 2011 20:32

Thanks Katie

All I have for the shipwreck one is 1933

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 18 Aug 2011 09:03

Hilary

The medal from the Watch Committee would I suspect have been his long service award.

http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.ph ... entPage=16

http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.ph ... entPage=17

http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.ph ... rentPage=1

I have had a quick look but can't find any reference to the chap you are looking for.

Katie

Very many thanks.

Mark

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 22 Aug 2011 12:21

Thanks to my friend Gavin Bassie, author of "Liverpool's Finest", I now have a photo of Sgt Claydon:-

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 26 Aug 2011 11:25

May I say a public "thank you" to Kathy who has very kindly copied a newspaper report on the incident as well as information regarding the raids on Liverpool.

My research is progressing well and I have made contact with relatives of Mrs Fagerass and Nellie Walsh and hope to have photos of those rescued in the near future!

Mark

Post by **MaryA** » 26 Aug 2011 12:32

She's a good un

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 07 Sep 2011 11:31

I have been carrying out further research on Harold Claydon. In addition to the George Medal, I have discovered that as an Inspector, he was awarded a Watch Committee merit badge (along with Inspector Phillips) for disposing of a home made incendiary device which had been placed in premises in Sir Thomas Street 27th Jan 1959.

Post by **Mark Abbott** » 30 Sep 2011 08:19

I have been contacted by the great grandaughter of Mrs Fagerass who has given permission to post this photo. I am very grateful to Maud Formby for this and to eveyone else who has helped with this project.

Hannah Maud Mary Fagerass (Nee Wignall) Born 11/06/1870 Died 12/01/1955 (seated)

Joan Manley (Nee Fagerass) Born 10/12/1929

The photograph was taken on 24th July 1954

Post by **MaryA** » 30 Sep 2011 09:27

Now that's lovely, typical of it's date, I can see the style set by our Queen in the bride's style and outfit and I'm sure many of us can identify our grandmothers with the two ladies, I'm sure I remember mine having just that flowered frock and that hat!!!

Thanks for posting Mark.