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| Charles James Vavasour SANDFORD (1874 - 1917) |
| bank clerk, commercial traveller (wire matresses), actor, 2nd Lieutenant |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
| Charles James Vavasour SANDFORD (1874 - 1917) + Edith Margaret Fane DE SALIS (1882 - 1932) |
Alfred Vavasour SANDFORD (1838 - 1905) | Joseph Edwards SANDFORD (1800 - 1848) | ||
| Ann Jane VAVASOUR (1799 - 1886) | ||||
| Mary Ann ORRELL (1839 - ) | James ORRELL | |||
| Mary Ann TODD | ||||
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Pic P1. My paternal grandmother played the piano to entertain the patients at Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, England, during WWI. She had an autograph album that a number of the patients signed, often writing poems or painting pictures, which has passed to me. I have been looking at the entries in the album, as the centenary of the outbreak of WWI approaches, and in there are two beautiful poems written by Pte Chas Sandford 2/5th Gloucester Regiment and dated 16.10.1916. Having done some internet research, I believe this is the Charles Sandford you are researching and who died only a few months later on 22.4.1917. He must have been discharged from the hospital to return to the front and subsequently be killed in action. Pic 1. My paternal grandmother played the piano to entertain the patients at Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, England, during WWI. She had an autograph album that a number of the patients signed, often writing poems or painting pictures, which has passed to me. I have been looking at the entries in the album, as the centenary of the outbreak of WWI approaches, and in there are two beautiful poems written by Pte Chas Sandford 2/5th Gloucester Regiment and dated 16.10.1916. Pic 2. My paternal grandmother played the piano to entertain the patients at Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, England, during WWI. She had an autograph album that a number of the patients signed, often writing poems or painting pictures, which has passed to me. I have been looking at the entries in the album, as the centenary of the outbreak of WWI approaches, and in there are two beautiful poems written by Pte Chas Sandford 2/5th Gloucester Regiment and dated 16.10.1916. |
| b. 04 Jun 1874 at Great Harwood, Lancashire, England |
| m. abt Jun 1914 Edith Margaret Fane DE SALIS (1882 - 1932) at Kensington, London, England |
| d. 07 May 1917 at Arras, France aged 42 |
| Cause of Death: |
| died of wounds from battle |
| Near Relatives of Charles James Vavasour SANDFORD (1874 - 1917) | ||||||
| Relationship | Person | Born | Birth Place | Died | Death Place | Age |
| Grandfather | Joseph Edwards SANDFORD | 30 Jun 1800 | Bridport, Dorset, England | 23 Sep 1848 | Kensington, London, England | 48 |
| Grandmother | Ann Jane VAVASOUR | Feb 1799 | Topsham, Exeter, Devon, England | 16 Jun 1886 | Manchester, Lancashire, England | 87 |
| Grandfather | James ORRELL | |||||
| Grandmother | Mary Ann TODD | |||||
| Father in Law | Rodolph Fane DE SALIS | 10 Dec 1854 | Fringford, Oxfordshire, England | 26 Dec 1931 | Brackley, Buckinghamshire, England | 77 |
| Mother in Law | Edith Louisa C ROUSBY | abt Dec 1920 | Windsor, Berkshire, England | |||
| Father | Alfred Vavasour SANDFORD | Jun 1838 | Totnes, Devon, England | 1905 | Stockport | 67 |
| Mother | Mary Ann ORRELL | abt 1839 | Newton Heath, Lancashire, England | |||
| Self | Charles James Vavasour SANDFORD | 04 Jun 1874 | Great Harwood, Lancashire, England | 07 May 1917 | Arras, France | 42 |
| Wife | Edith Margaret Fane DE SALIS | 13 Jul 1882 | St George Hanover Square, London, England | 22 Jun 1932 | Folkestone, Kent, England | 49 |
| Sister | Alice M SANDFORD | abt 1877 | ||||
| Sister | Beatrice M SANDFORD | abt 1879 | Garston, Lancashire, England | |||
| Events in Charles James Vavasour SANDFORD (1874 - 1917)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 04 Jun 1874 | Charles James Vavasour SANDFORD was born | Great Harwood, Lancashire, England | |||
| 1891 | 17 | Census | Levenshulme, Lancashire, England | ||
| 1901 | 27 | Census | Levenshulme, Lancashire, England | ||
| 1905 | 31 | Death of father Alfred Vavasour SANDFORD (aged 67) | Stockport | ||
| 1911 | 37 | Census | Widnes, Lancashire, England | Note 1 | |
| abt Jun 1914 | 40 | Married Edith Margaret Fane DE SALIS (aged 31) | Kensington, London, England | FreeBMD Jun 1914 1a 485 | |
| 07 May 1917 | 42 | Charles James Vavasour SANDFORD died | Arras, France | ||
| Note 1: actor, gives place of birth as Lodon |
| Personal Notes: |
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† * Charles James Vavasour Sandford (*Great Harwood, Whalley, Lancashire, July 1874- , 6 or †7.5.1917), Cadet from Artists Rifles OTC, to 2nd Lt. 16.6.1916 (probation), 1/8th Battalion, Middlesex DCO Regiment. Died of wounds 6 May 1917. Buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de Calais, France (grave: IV. K. 60). Actor. Son of Dr. Alfred Sandford, GP of Levenshulme/Gatley. Bank clerk at 16; commercial traveller wire mattresses at 26? The DCO lost 12,694 men in the war, main memorial, no names, now at The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, NW7.
[Second husband (married Kensington, 1914) of Edith Margery, daughter of Rodolph, of Finmere]. |
| Source References: |
| 18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool |
| - Reference = APVSandford 13 Aug 2014 (Name, Notes) |
| - Notes: I am researching my WW1 soldier ancestors and in particular Charles James Vavasour SANDFORD, my 1st cousin twice removed. I have a marriage for him in 1914 to an Edith Margaret de Salis in Kensington.
Ref:Free BMD Marriages Jun 1914 De Salis Edith M F Sandford Kensington 1a 485 However, this is not shown in your extensive de Salis data. My guess is that her family did not approve her marrying an actor! Charles died near Arras in May 1917. |