Walter Melville ( ABT 1895 - AFT 1921 )

Born: ABT 1895 at Ceylon
Source: 1901 Census

Father: Walter George Melville
Mother: Mary Jane Spittles

Died: AFT 1921
Source: 1921 Census


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1895 Possible Birth
Melville, Walter
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Trincomalee, Ceylon
Volume: 668 - Page: 103
Source: findmypast - GRO Regimental Birth Indices (1761 to 1924)

1895 Possible Birth
Melville, Walter
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Trinco, Ceylon
Volume: 747 - Page: 66
Source: findmypast - GRO Regimental Birth Indices (1761 to 1924)

1895 Possible Birth
Melville, Walter
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Trinco, Ceylon
Volume: 761 - Page: 80
Source: findmypast - GRO Regimental Birth Indices (1761 to 1924)

1901 Census

Marriage after 1909 - Need more information

1911 Census

Medal Card of Melville, Walter
Corps: Royal Engineers
Regiment No: 25726
Rank: Sapper...
1914-1920 WO 372/13
See card at http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=1262&path=M.Melville.454&fn=Walter&ln=Melville&st=r&pid=3775480&rc=&zp=50

Kings Regulations 1923 Para 992 (a.) An officer receiving medals for issue will arrange for their safe custody.

(b.) When medals are presented to individual's receipts will be obtained from the recipients.

992. Medals which, at the end of one year, still remain unclaimed, will be sent to the Secretary, The War Office."

If Medals were undeliverable, they were sent Registered Postage by the General Post Office, as was; after repeated attempts at Delivery and if no notification of a change of address had been given by the Recipient to the War Office /Records Offices & or the GPO then they would have been returned to the Record Office concerned and after a period of Ten Years "Broken Up" to use their terminology.

Medals that were however returned by Recipients for "Adjustment" on a number of occasions which usually meant for alterations to the wording and numbering, in which case they would be Amended & then returned to the recipient.
Source: Great War Forum

1920 Possible Marriage
Melville, Walter to
Rickards, Nelly
GRO J1920 - Farnham 2a 411

1921 Census

1951 Possible Death
Melville, Walter
Age: 55 - Born 1896~
GRO M1951 - Basingstoke 6b 120
Source: www.gro.gov.uk

TO DO 1939 Register RG101/7153G/019/26 ???



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