The texture of everyday life gone by

William Edward Bone (1895)

British Army Victoria Rifles and King’s Royal Rifle Corps volunteers. Antique print from Her Majesty’s Army by Walter Richards (Source: Frontispiece).

William Edward Bone (1876-1964). On the 7th December 1895 William applied to the First Middlesex (Victoria and St. George’s) Rifle Volunteers (more here) and signed a Memorandum of Agreement.

I obtained this fragile document and a small collection of his photographs.

From what I can gather (this might be the wrong person), William probably spent most of his life in the Croydon and Lewisham area presumably working as a railway clerk in 1939. If my research is correct he married his wife (Daisy Catherine Smith 1880-1971) in 1915, they had a daughter, Dorothy, born in 1917.

The family history research is here (4):

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SurnameNameDatesLink
Elizabeth - 4691
BoneAgustusabt 1845 - 4692
BoneArthur Cosen06 March 1881 - 25 Sep 19554693
BoneAugustus Lewis9 August 1808 - 4694
BoneCatherineabt 1850 - 4695
BoneCecil Augustus20 Oct 1893 - 19794696
BoneEdward JohnApril 1855 - 19264698
BoneElizabth Margaret6 July 1810 - 4699
BoneEllen9 March 1814 - 4700
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Below, the Memorandum and the photograph collection: