RFA Driver 155529 Frank Routledge 1917 18 LETTER STOKESLEY RVC

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Seller: amgarchive ✉️ (9,398) 100%, Location: Skipton, GB, Ships to: GB & many other countries, Item: 143202918170 RFA Driver 155529 Frank Routledge 1917 18 LETTER STOKESLEY RVC .  authentic item              STORAGE  T13  T1 WWI letter home to the Stokesley and District Parcel Fund  A  letter dating from the last two years of WW1  to the Parcel Fund,  A thank you letter for food parcels and or  money sent often as Christmas gifts, and give a sense of grateful relief at having been remembered , the voice of a person otherwise lost to history. One of a number listed today  For the most part, the people in these letters likely left little mark on officIal recorded history, despite their service in a world-shattering event. Their letter briefly returning  them to view, whether in the formal tones of a thank you letter, the little hopes for peace, bombastic notes of Godly triumph after the Armistice, or the occasional honesty of being fed up with the lot of it, the voices of a lost generation offer a moment of humanity amongst terrible carnage. Condition Report: . Creased, curling and dusty comensurate with sitting in an attic, but compelling. THIS BACKGROUND FROM THE SUPERB STOKESLEY HERITAGE SITE  

Frank Routledge was born in 1883 in Carlton, the son of Thomas Routledge, agricultural labourer from Nunthorpe, and his second wife Jane, nee Coatsworth, of Great Ayton. Frank had at least 17 siblings (from the two marriages). 1

Thomas married Jane, then only 17 years old, in 1879. Their first child, George was born in 1880. Five more sons were born in quick succession - Fred in 1882, Frank in 1883, Harry in 1885 and Herbert in 1888 and Arthur in 1889.

In 1891 Frank was living in Carlton with his parents and his 6 siblings, but by the census of 1901 he was living in Barnsley and working as a groom. However, Frank was back in the locality by 1911 and working as a coachman at Crathorne Hall stables. (By this time, his father Thomas was aged 76 and working as a labourer on the roads! Thomas had also fathered 5 more children, recording in the 1911 census that he and Jane had been married for 31 years and had 10 surviving children, whilst two others had died).

Early in 1914, Frank married Maud Mary Grainge in Stokesley, and they had at least 3 children: Joyce, Rhoda and Frank. We know that Frank served in the war from the Absent Voters list of 1918, which lists him as resident in Silver Street, and as Driver 155529 of the Royal Field Artillery. However, from his medal records we learn that Driver Routledge was previously in the Army Veterinary Corps, where he had been Private SE155676, probably denoting that he was originally concerned with the welfare of horses.

Driver Routledge was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Frank Routledge lived until 1966, in which year his death was registered in the Middlesbrough district.

  • Condition: Used
  • Condition: - WW1 LETTER OF THANKS SERVING SOLDIER --WHAT WAS HIS FATE -- 1918 ERA - TO WELFARE FUND damaged Creased, curling and dusty commensurate with sitting in an attic, but compelling. to conserve restore 22 X 15 CM TWO PAGES

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