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LINKS TO DOCUMENTS & PHOTOS RELATED TO FLETCHERS IN THE 1900s
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PHOTOS OF THE FRANK EDWARD FLETCHER CHILDREN AND THEIR WIVES 1896 - 1928
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1892 - Hagyards Trade Directory, Scarborough |
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13 ironmongers in Scarborough, including Fletcher, John, 20 North Street – just down the road from the Procters the Draper & Milliners at 108 Westborough – easy courtin' distance for Frank Edward Fletcher and Elizabeth Stringer Procter who were married in Scarborough in 1889 and moved down to Folkestone for the rest of their lives.
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25 January 1894 - John Fletcher dies in |
Scarborough aged 71. He now lies alongside Maria (died 1911) in Manor Rd Cemetery in Scarborough - grave P 18-25. |
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1901 - Maria Fletcher and two daughters are |
still in Scarborough - 9 Trafalgar Square (close to previous North Marine Road house). Maria (63) is described as living on own means (aka a self funded retiree). |
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1901 - Frank Edward and family now at 20 Brockman Road, Folkestone.
20 Brockman Rd (left - semidetached) Folkestone - the Victorian church at the end of the road is next to the Victorian railway station.
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The support staff has been expanded to include a domestic governess as well as a maid, and one child (Frank Rex) is off at boarding school (Kent College, Canterbury). The dapper Frank Edward must have been in reasonable demand as a music teacher and probably Elizabeth the draper's daughter, who also photographs as a striking and simpatico person, came with a bit of a Draper's dowry. |
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1901 - Frank Rex (11) |
is a boarder at Kent College (Methodist school) near Canterbury. In those days there was a railway line between Folkestone and Canterbury. |
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1911 - Maria Fletcher now being looked after |
by one daughter at 9 Trafalgar Square. She is to pass away a couple of months later in 1911, aged 74, survived by 12 of her 14 children. Good strong stock! She is buried with husband John in Manor Rd Cemetery in Scarborough - grave P 18-25.
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1911 - Frank Edward and family still at |
20 Brockman Road, Folkestone. |
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1911 - Frank Rex (now Jimmy) lodging at 12 Mildmay Rd, Islington (no longer there). |
Frank R (Jim) (21) has been a student at England's oldest medical school - the London Hospital Medical School - since 1907. He was the United Hospitals heavyweight boxing champion. |
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1913 - Dr Frank Rex Fletcher |
admitted to British Medical Register on 24 June 1913. MB, BS 1913 from London Hospital Medical College.
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1913 - Photos of the Frank Edward Fletcher Family |
between 1898 and 1928.
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1914 - Jimmy joins the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)
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and starts off by getting the job of Medical Officer (MO) to the 2nd / 3rd County of London Yeomanry (The Sharpshooters) who despite their natty title were to spend the war in England with an absence of shooting. |
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1915 - Frank Rex Marriage - Sunday 15 August |
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Frank Rex (Jimmy) (25) - marries Ethel Henrietta Florence Burton (also 25) in the very drab Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, (Old) Milton, Hampshire. Why there - maybe Frank Rex was stationed nearby ?
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September 1917 - Captain Jimmy Fletcher
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seems to have spent the first three years of the WW I as MO to "B team" battalions who had opted to stay in England (as presumably he had as well). As of mid 1917 he was the MO of the little known 2/5 Royal West Kent Regiment who were then camped happily with their horses at Barham windmill (above) near Canterbury (in fact they were so irrelevant that they were disbanded later in the year). Our man really liked horses, as reflected in several of the photos he took, and MOs were allocated their own superior nags by the army.
Captain Fletcher had presumably decided to make a more significant contribution to the war effort without going so far as a Field Ambulance on the Western Front like his brother-in-law Charlie Burton or my other grandfather Jimmy Sproule. In mid-September 1917 he set sail on the Union Castle Line's "Durham Castle" for a (leisurely) voyage round the Cape to Basra, and thence up the River Tigris to Baghdad (February 1918). Happily he also bought himself a new camera, and we have the negatives of several hundred photos he took in Africa, Mesopotamia and India over the next 6 years.
Farewell at Barham Camp (Nr Canterbury) 10 Sept 1917 - Ethel Fletcher (pregnant wife), Elizabeth Fletcher (Procter) (Mother), Jimmy Fletcher, Gwen Fletcher (Sister).
Ethel and Terry Burton at breakfast - September 1917
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1917 - 1919 Mesopotamia
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The Anglo Persian Oil Company's refinery at Abbadan (November 1917) - what it was all about
Basra - November 1917
Coffee Shop at Ashar - November 1917
First time in Baghdad - February 1918
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23 April 1918 |
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Michael James Rex Fletcher is born back in London (Princes Gate).
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1918 - More photos from Iraq |
March 1918 - Hospital ship loading
Sisters Webb and Mann being chatted up on a river outing - April 1918
Hospital ship number 12 - May 1918
Amira Grain Bazaar - August 1918
Proclamation Day Salute, Indian Foot Regiments and Cavalry - 23 November 1918
Peacetime - the men go duck shooting - December 1918
Horse and pipe loving doctor - January 1919
End of war revue - February 1919 - FRF centre stage
plus picnics with "Nurse Dorothea" - this one on 11 February 1919 - the lovely nurse features in several of Jimmy Fletcher's negatives at the end of his time in Mesopotamia, but does not seem to have made it into any of the little print albums shared with wife Ethel!
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1919 |
after the end of WWI (November 1918) Jimmy Fletcher goes regular in the RAMC, and in 1919, after a few picnics, duck shoots and horse rides, is moved on from the Tigris River to the British Military Hospital at Murree Hill, 40 miles from Rawalpindi - via Bombay and the Taj Mahal (8 May 1919) in Agra.
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Murree Hill from Clulekee Gali Rd - 1921
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1919 - Capt Jimmy is Joined by Ethel and Michael in Clifden, Murree Hill, 40 miles from Rawalpindi. The Hill Station houses a sizeable military hospital.
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Michael Fletcher in Clifden, Murree Hill c1921
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Capt Frank Rex (Jimmy), Michael James Rex (4) and Ethel Henrietta Florence (Em) - "Clifden, Murree Hills, August 1922"
They stay there till 1923 then return to a posting in Aldershot.
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The photo above is reproduced from a negative, of which we have (but not scanned) about 700 covering the 1917 - 1923 period. Contact prints from some of the photos were stuck in little home made albumettes like the ones shown below - perhaps "Indian made" rather than home made as the bindings were sewn in a professional way.
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On the right, FRF in the pipe, shorts and riding boots with friend and 10 shooting assistants - c1920
3 May 1921 - Support team for Jimmy, Ethel and Michael, and their friends Dick and Kitty to travel to Kashmir
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1926 - 1927: Jimmy Fletcher does two stints in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The first one (without family) ends on 13 September 1926 with his return to Plymouth on the ship "Appam". He is promoted to Major shortly afterwards on 28th September. The second one (with Ethel but not 9 year old Michael, who stays in Folkestone with his grandmother Gem Burton and his cousins Peter and Joan burton) involves departure August 1927 on the Accra and return to Plymouth on the "Abinsi" on 29 April 1828. In amongst all of this he becomes a specialist in Gynaecology and Midwifery (?maybe) and completes a doctorate (awarded in 1928) back at the London Hospital Medical School (thus becoming a "real doctor").
Brits having fun in Freetown, Sierra Leone c1927 - Jimmy F is one in from the left, and Ethel ditto from the right. And the carved and stuffed animals ? - who knows, anything can happen when Poms are having fun!!
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1925 - 1928 - Doctor Dr Major F R Fletcher |
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In amongst short Freetown postings he becomes a specialist in Gynaecology and Midwifery (? only one source for this) and completes a doctorate (awarded in 1928) back at the London Hospital Medical School (thus becoming a "real doctor"). Also becomes MRCP London.
This hand coloured photo portrait of Dr Frank Rex Fletcher in London University doctoral robes was probably done later in the 1930s.
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Fletcher family on the indifferent shingle of Folkestone beach late 1920s - Elizabeth, Ethel, Frank Edward, Frank Rex (Jimmy) and Michael in front.
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Early 1931 Major Jimmy Fletcher (41) retires from the army and becomes a GP in Folkestone.
1935 - Dr Frank Rex (Jim) Fletcher and Ethel now in long term Folkestone residence - Dene Court (Ingles Rd) - the left half of the house below.
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Frank Rex (Jimmy), son Michael (Adrian's Dad to be) and Ethel outside Dene Ct, Folkestone, 1937.
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FRF (49) Called up for WW II duties September 1939 to 1945. |
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October 1968 - Ethel Fletcher (Burton) (78) passes away. |
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May 1974 - Frank Rex (Jim) Fletcher (84) passes away. |
18 May 1974
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