Henry William Cockshull

born
11th May 1914
died
28th February 1970
Being the first born and a boy, I think he probably got preferential treatment ...going to a photo studio must have been a luxury just after WWI. Here he is in (probably) his first suit :

 

Born more or less 9 months to the day after his parents married - presumably Sarah Josling was a virgin at the time :~)) A few years on and another new suit
(in the garden at Elmsleigh Road, Wandsworth)

 

Roehampton Sports Club

He started work in 1928 when he was 14 at the Roehampton Sports Club
as an office boy and ball boy on the tennis courts.
He progressed via the games office to being a Junior Clerk, before being called up to go to fight in WWII.

His first wage was 15 shillings a week, with lunch and tea included!

Over the 11 years he worked there, his wage increased to £1.12.6d

Here is his employment record, very kindly supplied by the Club:

Employment record at the Roehampton Sports Club

 

Out with his younger brother Fred on a boating lake

 

As a young man........



He loved cycling



Out on the downs............

 

Private Henry William Cockshull – 5731247 – The Dorset Regiment
Served in the 50, 8 and 2nd Battalion. Fought in Italy, India, Egypt and
with the signals platoon during the Burma campaign.

Medals : 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45

 

 

 

Posing with his brother Fred

After the war he worked as a Hospital porter, where he met and married my mother :
MaryVera Walters

Mum and Dad on a day out to the seaside

Walking along the Prom
(amazing - my Mum wearing trousers!!)

Henry and vera marry

Fred, Henry, Vera, 'Granny Walters' (Vera's mum), Helen (Eddie's daughter), Eddie (Vera's elder brother)

29 September 1947
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When first married they lived with Vera's mum at nr 20 latchmere Road and later they all moved to nr 16

This photo was taken in 2009 - it's now in a real state :~(

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2 years later they had a child Janet (Jenny)

Janet in trafalgar Square

The family lived at 16, Lathcmere Road, Battersea, until Henry then got a job at English Electric in Stevenage (later BAC), and they moved to Stevenage New Town.


The yearly weeks holiday

In the garden at Stevenage

(Mum was a great knitter - note all the home made jumpers and the waistcoat)


Henry died suddenly of a heart attack in 1970

 

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