Remembering Today Casualty Gunner CUERDEN, JAMES Service Number 890564 Died 02/12/1941 Aged 31 137 Field Regt., Royal Artillery Commemorated at SINGAPORE MEMORIAL Location: Singapore Number of casualties: 24317 Cemetery/memorial reference: Column 16.
Thought there may be something strange about this as the date is prior to the Japanese landings. Gunner James Cuerden, killed in action at Kuala Kangsar, body never recovered, on 23.12.1941. CWGC do have the correct date on the gravestone registration but not the initial search page. R.I.P. James Mike
Son of John Herbert Cuerden (1879-1939) and Jane [nee Ainsworth] (1882-1967) Royal Artillery attestations: POW records: Death: The aftermath: 1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION 24 Wapping Street, Bolton C.B., Lancashire NAME DOB OCCUPATION Jane Cuerden 07 Dec 1881 Unpaid Domestic Duties [widow] Jane died in Bolton, 1967 aged 85
Harkness, On the 4th file you uploaded, ss/330/141/269 Page 10, all the names have NR next to them. I keep coming across these handwritten initials on repatriation lists, but have yet to understand what it stands for. Have you any idea? Mike
Missed this: Marriage: 9 Feb 1935 St Luke, Halliwell, Lancs. James Cuerden - 24, Side Piecer, Bachelor, 1 France St Clara Shaw - 22, Comber Tenter, Spinster, 1 France St Groom's Father: John Herbert Cuerden, Baker Bride's Father: George Shaw, Labourer Witness: Thomas Cuerden; May Shaw Married by Banns by: G. Roger Woodhams Vicar Register: Marriages 1928 - 1939, Page 60, Entry 119 One daughter, born 1936. Damn. Clara later re-married: Marriage: 28 Aug 1943 St Luke, Halliwell, Lancashire, England Ansell Walter Ferguson - 33, Soldier, Bachelor, Pheasant Copes Camp, Tillington, near Petworth, Sussex Clara Cuerden - 31, Box Tenter (Cardroom), Widow, 1 France St. Groom's Father: Harry Walter Ferguson, (deceased), Sailor Bride's Father: George Shaw, (deceased), Labourer Witness: George Shaw; May Howarth Married by Banns by: G. Roger Woodhams. Vicar Register: Marriages 1939 - 1948, Page 59, Entry 118
Hi, I am James Cuerden's great nephew, I stumbled across this thread whilst looking for information regarding my Granddad's (James's brother) military history. Thank you all for the information you have posted. I am going to pass this to the other members of the Cuerden family. Thanks once again.