No.241671, Private, Owen Harvey CORNWELL
Aged 20
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Owen Harvey Cornwell was born in Lode in 1896 (Newmarket Q2-1896 3B:525), son of John and Mary Ann CORNWELL (née HARVEY).
1901 census...Aged 5, he was at Main Street, Lode with his father John CORNWELL [53] a journeyman tailor; his mother Mary Ann [43]; sisters Mabel [15], Katie [10], Ethel [7] and Blanche [2], and brother Ellis [13] labourer. The whole family were born in Lode. 1911 census...Aged 15, a cow boy, he was still at Main Street, Lode with his parents, sisters Florence Beatrice [27], Mabel Gertrude and Blanche Evelyn and his brother Ellis Wilfred, a pointer. |
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He enlisted in Bury St. Edmunds on 6th March 1916, giving his age as 19 years 10 months, a farm labourer from Quy Road, Lode. He was 5ft 7.5
inches (171.5 cm) tall, weighed 131 lbs (59.6 kg) and had a chest of 36" to 39" (91.4 to 99.1 cm). Next of kin was given as father John at Quy Road,Lode. He went via Folkstone-Boulogne to join the BEF on 31st August 1916. After his death his effects were sent to his mother at "Wayside" Lode Road, Quy, consisting of just a cap badge and a religious book. On the family form after his death, completed in 1919 by his mother at Wayside, Quy Road, Lode, at home there were his parents, sister Florence and brother Ellis, sister Kate Mildred, now Mrs BARBER was in Watford, Ethel Priscilla, now Mrs HILLS, was in Cambridge as were sisters Mabel Gertrude and Blanche Evelyn 9th April 1917, Easter Sunday, marked the start of the 1st Battle of the Scarpe, one of the action in the 1917 Battle of Arras. The 1st/8th Middlesex lost 26 killed.
photo: Commonwealth War Graves Commission and also commemorated on the Bottisham war memorial. click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
