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1888
birth Kingston upon Hull United Kingdom Source:8672278 16th October 1888
1915
enlistment Beverley United Kingdom Source:9400479 4th December 1915
1915
service British Army Private 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 5th (reserve) Battalion Source:9400479 4th December 1915 - 19th May 1916
1916
employment Stockbroker's Manager Kingston upon Hull United Kingdom Source:8881195 January 1916
1916
service British Army Corporal 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 5th (reserve) Battalion Source:9400506 19th May 1916 - 19th August 1916
1916
service British Army Sergeant 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 5th (reserve) Battalion Source:9400506 19th August 1916 - 1st September 1916
1916
service British Army Sergeant 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 4th (reserve) Battalion Source:9400506 1st September 1916 - 8th December 1916
1916
service British Army Officer Cadet 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 5th Officer Cadet Battalion, Cambridge Source:9400506 8th December 1916 - 27th March 1917
1917
marriage Maude Marie Watts Source:8881195 24th February 1917
1917
commission Temporary Source:9400953 28th March 1917
1917
service British Army 2nd Lieutenant East Yorkshire Regiment 13th Battalion Source:9400953 28th March 1917 - 24th May 1918
1917
location Farrago, Wilton Road, Hornsea. East Yorkshire United Kingdom parents address Source:9400953 28th March 1917 - 1st April 1922
1917
theatres France & Belgium: 1a Source:9400954 April 1917 - March 1919
1917
hospitalisation Bullet wound in shoulder Hospital/Institution Source:9400956 1st July 1917
1918
awards Military Cross (MC) British Award/Decoration Source:9400971 12th April 1918
1918
service British Army Lieutenant East Yorkshire Regiment 92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery Source:9400976 24th May 1918 - 9th August 1918
1918
service British Army Captain East Yorkshire Regiment 92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery Source:9400981 9th August 1918 - April 1922
1918
awards 31st Division Gallantry Certificate Other War Service Award Source:9642209 9th September 1918
1918
awards Military Cross (MC) British Award/Decoration Source:9400984 9th September 1918
1919
discharge Source:9652812 21st March 1919
service British Army Captain East Yorkshire Regiment Source:3093205
service British Army Captain Trench Mortar Battery Source:3093205
1959
death Not War Related Kingston upon Hull United Kingdom Source:8672278 19th August 1959
burial Southgate Cemetery Non-War Cemetery Hornsea United Kingdom Source:8672278

Details

Details

Names
TypeName
First Names William Oscar
Initials WO
Last Name Montgomery
Source 3093205
Gender
GenderSource
Male
Locations
AddressCountryTypeDateSource
Farrago, Wilton Road, Hornsea. East Yorkshire United Kingdom parents address 28th March 1917 - 1st April 1922
Contribution

Military Service

Military Service
ServiceNumberUnitSectionRankSource
British Army East Yorkshire Regiment Captain
British Army Trench Mortar Battery Captain
British Army 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 5th (reserve) Battalion Private
British Army 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 5th (reserve) Battalion Corporal
British Army 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 5th (reserve) Battalion Sergeant
British Army 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 4th (reserve) Battalion Sergeant
British Army 202287 Northumberland Fusiliers 5th Officer Cadet Battalion, Cambridge Officer Cadet
British Army East Yorkshire Regiment 13th Battalion 2nd Lieutenant
British Army East Yorkshire Regiment 92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery Lieutenant
British Army East Yorkshire Regiment 92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery Captain
Awards
AwardTypeSource
31st Division Gallantry Certificate Other War Service Award
British War Medal First World War Campaign/Service Medal
Military Cross (MC) British Award/Decoration
Military Cross (MC) British Award/Decoration
Victory Medal First World War Campaign/Service Medal
Family
Parents
NameRelationshipDatesSource
Emily Montgomery mother
William Ashton Montgomery father
Spouse
NameRelationshipDatesSource
Maude Marie Watts wife 24th February 1917
Physical
ComplexionEyesHairSource
Light Blue Light Brown
DateHeightSource
1915-12-04 5'4"
Religion
DateReligionSource
1915-12-04 Other Non-conformist

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  • William Oscar Montgomery: Birth Certificate
    Certified copy of an entry in the Register of Births: Registration District Kingston upon Hull.

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  • William Oscar Montgomery: Death Certificate
    Certified copy of an entry in the register of deaths: Registration District Kingston upon Hull

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  • Captain William Oscar Montgomery MC & Bar.
    Portrait postcard sent from France to his wife Marie in 1919.

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  • The wedding of W.O. Montgomery & Maud Marie Watts.
    Bride & Groom, with the Bride's father, brother & Bridesmaids, on the steps of the Trinity Wesleyan Chapel, Coltman Street, Hull. The Groom is wearing the uniform of an Officer Cadet with the cap badge of the Northumberland Fusiliers.

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  • Marriage Certificate
    Marriage Certificate of Cadet Officer William Oscar Montgomery & Maud Marie Watts

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  • Emily Montgomery with her children (1891)
    Oscar, on his mother's knee, with his siblings John Calvert; Henrietta; Kathleen; Mabel & Enid in the garden of their summer home at 4 New Road, Hornsea, shortly after the death of their father.

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  • Enlistment at Beverley, East Yorkshire. (1915)
    Short Service Attestation Form: 5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.

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  • Service Record with Northumberland Fusiliers
    Statement of Services of 202287

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  • Training near Harrogate
    Sergeants of the Northumberland Fusiliers with Regular Army instructors. Sergeant W.O. Montgomery is sitting on the left-hand end of the bench.

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  • Commission
    Commission with envelope in which it was posted

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  • 2nd Lt. W.O. Montgomery, Arras, April 1917
    2nd Lt. W.O. Montgomery standing in the archway of a shell damaged building in Arras. The name 'Arras' can be seen painted on the left of the archway.

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  • Wounded: 1st July, 1917.
    Letter from War Office to Oscar's wife Marie, informing her that although wounded on 1st July, 1917, he is still serving with his regiment.

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  • Gazette Citation: Military Cross
    London Gazette (Supplement 10990. 16th September, 1918) citation for award of Military Cross.

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  • Notice of promotion to Lieutenant
    Newspaper cutting noting promotion of 2nd Lt. W.O. Montgomery to Lieutenant while second in command of a trench mortar battery

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  • 92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery. May 1918.
    92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery after the defense of Hazebrouck during the Battles of the Lys (German Spring Offensive. 1918)

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  • Notice of promotion to Captain
    Press cutting noting promotion to Captain of Lt. W.O. Montgomery while commanding a trench mortar battery

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  • 92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery. 31st Division.
    Photograph of the 92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery, 31st Division, XV Corps, 2nd Army. Taken at Caserne de la Barre, St Omer. November 1918.

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  • Gazette Citation: Bar to the Military Cross
    London Gazette (supplement. February 1919 p.1625) citation for award of Bar to the Military Cross.

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  • Oscar & Marie, Cambridge March 1917
    Oscar & Marie visiting the 5th O.C.B. Trinity College Cambridge at the end of their honeymoon shortly before Oscar received his commission.

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  • Oscar at Farrago, Hornsea. On leave, winter 1917
    Oscar, on leave, photographed by his wife Marie in the garden at Farrago. His father-in-law is walking toward the gate. The garden has been dug-over for growing vegetables

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  • Hornsea, August 1914
    Family & friends on the beach at Hornsea. Oscar in white shirt, right of center leaning on his left elbow. Further right, his brother Jack leaning on his right elbow. At left front (in white suit) Oscar's future brother-in-law, recently returned from a tour of North America.

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  • Digging foundation for Observer Post, Hornsea 1940
    Oscar (foreground) & fellow WW1 veterans digging foundations for Observer Post 'F4' on the North Cliff at Hornsea, East Yorkshire, 1940. Hornsea Mere was a navigation point for Luftwaffe raids on the port city of Hull.

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  • Oscar, Royal Observer Post F3. Hornsea.
    Oscar on duty at Royal Observer Post F3. North Cliff, Hornsea (1940-45)

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  • November 1918
    Captain W.O. Montgomery M.C. & Bar with 2nd Lt. Kidd, November 1918.

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  • Mrs Marie Montgomery
    A pensive looking Marie on holiday at Saltburn-by-the-sea, North Yorkshire, August 1917. In solidarity with her husband of five months (now serving in France & recently wounded) she has pinned her blouse with a cap badge of the East Yorkshire Regiment.

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  • 31st Division Gallantry Certificate
    Gallantry Certificate awarded to Captain W.O. Montgomery M.C. Recipients of such certificates were entitled to wear the 'Battle Badge' of the 31st Division on their right shoulder.

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  • Boroughbridge Yorkshire 1924
    Oscar, Marie and friends posing on a wartime gun at the Boroughbridge War Memorial while touring in Yorkshire

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  • Marie Montgomery & her son Michael, 1919
    Marie & her son Michael seated on a memorial bench, Eastgate Hornsea East Yorkshire. The bench commemorates 2nd Lt. W.H. Collinson, 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, killed in action 5th January, 1916. Inscribed on the rear of the bench are the famous, opening lines of Rupert Brooke's poem 'The Soldier'. 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.'

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  • Schooldays, Hornsea, Yorkshire 1903.
    Oscar (on the right, smoking a pipe) aged 14, on the beach at Hornsea with friends after school. The boys are wearing the uniform of Brampton House School (a private school in Hornsea). The girls are smoking cigarettes in the conical paper holders of the day.

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  • Cambridge, March 1917.
    Cadets of the 5th Officer Cadet Battalion, Trinity College Cambridge, rowing beneath the Bridge of Sighs. (Photographed by Marie while visiting Cambridge with Oscar after their Honeymoon in London.)

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  • Captain W.O. Montgomery's medal set
    Oscar's medal set from World War 1, with cap badges of the East Yorkshire Regiment, the Northumberland Fusiliers and World War 2 Observer Corps Badge.

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  • Rievaulx, Yorkshire
    Oscar, walking near Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire.

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  • Marie, Hornsea 1917
    Marie outside her parents home at Hornsea, having just returned from her honeymoon in London & Cambridge. Oscar has gone to join his regiment on the Western Front.

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  • 'They are lions old crush'
    Message side of postcard (Sergeants of the Northumberland Fusiliers -training near Harrogate). Message: 'The staff here -McNeill, has gone to join the 5th Norfolks just in the next field. They are Lions old crush. Long letter tomorrow, been busy today. All love Oscar.

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  • Oscar & Marie 1920
    Portrait photograph taken when Oscar returned from France in 1920

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  • Marie at Farrago 1918
    Marie at Farrago, Hornsea, where she lived with her parents until Oscar's return from Active service.

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  • Hull War Wedding
    Newspaper article regarding the marriage of Maud Marie Watts to William Oscar Montgomery

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  • Medal Card
    Medal Card of Capt W.O. Montgomery M.C. East Yorkshire Regiment

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  • Descriptive Report on Enlistment
    Descriptive Report on Enlistment at Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, 4th December 1915.

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  • Court of Inquiry into fatal accident, 92nd T.M.B.
    Lt. W.O. Montgomery M.C. witness testimony to Court of Inquiry at Le Grand Hazard, into fatal accident during trench mortar instruction, 8th August, 1918, that claimed the lives of Capt. Douglas Oake M.C.; Lt. F.W. Cowley M.C. & Bar; 2nd Lt Whitmore; Sgt, H. Hill M.M.; Cpl. W.H. Woodall; Pte. Booth, Staff Sgt. Instructor Russell & wounded 2nd Lt. B.J. Wilkins M.C. & L/Cpl. F. Baker M.M.

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  • Out for a walk on the seafront
    Oscar, out for a walk with his grandson Andrew. Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, 1951.

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  • Clearance Certificate
    Clearance Certificate, relinquishing command of 92nd Trench Mortar Battery. 21st March, 1919.

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William Oscar Montgomery: Birth Certificate Andrew92507
William Oscar Montgomery: Death Certificate Andrew92507
Captain William Oscar Montgomery MC & Bar. Andrew92507
The wedding of W.O. Montgomery & Maud Marie Watts. Andrew92507
Marriage Certificate Andrew92507
Emily Montgomery with her children (1891) Andrew92507
Enlistment at Beverley, East Yorkshire. (1915) Andrew92507
Service Record with Northumberland Fusiliers Andrew92507
Training near Harrogate Andrew92507
Commission Andrew92507
2nd Lt. W.O. Montgomery, Arras, April 1917 Andrew92507
Wounded: 1st July, 1917. Andrew92507
Gazette Citation: Military Cross Andrew92507
Notice of promotion to Lieutenant Andrew92507
92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery. May 1918. Andrew92507
Notice of promotion to Captain Andrew92507
92nd Light Trench Mortar Battery. 31st Division. Andrew92507
Gazette Citation: Bar to the Military Cross Andrew92507
Oscar & Marie, Cambridge March 1917 Andrew92507
Oscar at Farrago, Hornsea. On leave, winter 1917 Andrew92507
Hornsea, August 1914 Andrew92507
Digging foundation for Observer Post, Hornsea 1940 Andrew92507
Oscar, Royal Observer Post F3. Hornsea. Andrew92507
November 1918 Andrew92507
Mrs Marie Montgomery Andrew92507
31st Division Gallantry Certificate Andrew92507
Boroughbridge Yorkshire 1924 Andrew92507
Marie Montgomery & her son Michael, 1919 Andrew92507
Schooldays, Hornsea, Yorkshire 1903. Andrew92507
Cambridge, March 1917. Andrew92507
Captain W.O. Montgomery's medal set Andrew92507
Rievaulx, Yorkshire Andrew92507
Marie, Hornsea 1917 Andrew92507
'They are lions old crush' Andrew92507
Oscar & Marie 1920 Andrew92507
Marie at Farrago 1918 Andrew92507
Hull War Wedding Andrew92507
Medal Card Andrew92507
Descriptive Report on Enlistment Andrew92507
Court of Inquiry into fatal accident, 92nd T.M.B. Andrew92507
Out for a walk on the seafront Andrew92507
Clearance Certificate Andrew92507

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