Fergus William Featherstone

1898 - 1963  (65 years)

• Name	Fergus William Featherstone  [1, 2]
  Born	1898  [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Mil-service	Jul 1917	Rawalpindi, India   [2, 4, 5]
  Milit-End	27 Nov 1919  [3]
  	Corporal, Royal Field Artillery
  arrival	31 Dec 1952	Port, London, London, England   [6]
  	aboard Chusan, from Bombay
  Died	31 Aug 1963	7 Jesson Road, Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire, England   [7]
  Death	Sep 1963	7B. 273,  Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England   [8]
  	66
  Reference Number	37990
  Reference Number	P11900
  Person ID	I37990	Featherstone Main
  Last Modified	23 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	James William Featherstone,   b. Abt 1873
  Family ID	F5365	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Olga Blanche Cannel,   b. Abt 1903
  Married	24 Jun 1925	Saidpur, Bengal, India   [9]
  Children	1. Living
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2022
  Family ID	F12046	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] death registration index, (1837-2010). [S170] Military WW1 burnt records, First name(s) Fergus William Last name Featherstone Age 19 Birth year 1898 Service number 579 Regiment Royal Field Artillery Unit / Battalion No 2nd Anglo Indian Battery Year 1917 Series WO 363 Series description Wo 363 - First World War Service Records 'Burnt Documents' Archive The National Archives Record set British Army Service Records. [S170] Military WW1 burnt records, First name(s) Fergus William Last name Featherstone Age 19 and 6 Months Birth year 1898 Service number 579 Regiment Royal Field Artillery Unit / Battalion No 2nd Anglo Indian Battery Year 1917 Series WO 363 Series description Wo 363 - First World War Service Records 'Burnt Documents' Archive The National Archives Record set British Army Service Records. [S454] WW1 Medal Cards, Army, (NRO, Kew, Middlesex, 2009), First name(s) F W Last name Featherstone Year 1914-20 Service number 579 Rank Corporal Regiment Auxiliary Indian Battery Service record Soldier Number: 579, Rank: Corporal, Corps: Auxiliary Indian Battery Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D7554310 Country Great Britain Medal type British Army Medal Index Cards, 1914-1920 Archive reference WO372/26. [S2458] Military Service Record, Government, (HM Government, Whitehall London, various), Short Service (for the duration of the war) attestation of No. 579 F W Featherstone Corps A I Force RFA Fergus William Featherstone address c/o A Rogers Clocadanga, E.B.R. Calcutta A British Subject Age 19 years 6 months No trade or calling Not married Previous service Goethals School Cadet Corps Kurseong Signed at Rawlpindi July 1917 Anglo-Indian Battery? RFA Height 5 feet 9 1/2 inches girth 36 inches no distinctive marks no next of kin given Service Joined at Rawalpindi 4 July 1917 Posted AI Bty gunner 4 July 1917 Vol Artillery L/Bdr 20 March 1918 appointed Bdr 29 June 1919 appointed A/Corporal 13 July 1919 Permanently released from military service 27 November 1919 Information Supplied by recruit Name and address of next of kin A Rogers, Chooadanga E B Ry - relationship father Calcutta there is a copy of a telegraph dated 29 August 1919 to say that a telegraph addressed to Featherstone on 26 August 1918 Convent Road Entally Calcutta could not be delivered as addressee not known. [S850] UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, British Governmeant, (British Governmeant, Home Office, 2011), UK Incoming Passenger Lists Ship Chusan arrival at Port of London 31 December 1952 Line P.&O. S.E. Co. whence arrived Hong Kong Port of Embarkation Bombay Fergus Featherstone 53 retired Olga Featherstone 49 H.D. Mary Featherstone 24 H.D. Neville Featherstone 18 proposed address in the United Kingdom 7 Unwin Road, Hatherley, Cheltenham, Gloucester Country of last permanent residence India country of intended permanent residence England. [S184] Probate, Probate 1963 Fergus William Featherstone of 4 Hatherley Villas Andover Road Cheltenham died 31 August 1963 at 7 Jesson Road Bishops Cleeve Gloucestershire Probate Gloucester 22 October to Terence Warren-Green solicitor. Effects £3152 15s. [S3] death registration index, (1837-2010), death registration index Fergus W Featherstone Sep 1963 Cheltenham GLS 7b 273 age 66. [S1838] India British Office Ecclesiastical Return, (Period, -1948), First name(s) Fergus William Last name Featherstone Marriage year 1925 Marriage date 24 Jun 1925 Spouse's first name Olga Blanche Spouse's last name Cannel Place Saidpur Presidency Bengal Groom's age 26 Bride's age 22 Groom's father's first name James William Groom's father's last name Featherstone Bride's father's first name Percy Bride's father's last name Cannel Catalogue description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal, : 1713-1948 Archive reference N-1-485 Folio number 27 Entry number - Record set British India Office Marriages.