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1887 Oct/Dec. Born Walsall, Staffs
1891 census at Walsall, Staffordshire,
1901 census working as a servant/errand boy in another household in Staffs
1906 circa Enlisted in South Staffs
1911 census at 1st Battalion S Staffs Regt, Single. Corporal
1914 Oct 4. Landed in France.
1915 Nov 16 DCM Gazetted. CSM L Ford . One of the write ups says that his parents were now in Canada
1917 Aug 29 Commissioned in S Staffs
1917 Oct/Dec Married Daisy Nellie Miller at Walsall
1920 Jan 23. Lt L Ford D.C.M, S Staffs Regt retires and gets a gratuity
1921 Mar 22. Joined ADRIC with service no 1847. Posted to G Coy
1921 Apr 14. Posted to Depot.
1921 Apr 16 to 20 May under suspension
1921 May 30 Handed over to an RIC escort to be removed from Mountjoy Gaol. He had been remanded under ROIR act.
1921 May 31. "Dismissed the force for Vile and Indecent (?) behaviour" by the Commandant. His wife Nellie was at 33 Glebe St, Stafford
1921 census
1925 May 10 Died The Sanitarium, Marlock, Bakewell, Derbyshire Ref 7b, 827, Apr/Jun . Death Cert has his cause of death as "Pulmonary Tuberculosis - 3 years"