Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
(I have not been at this for some time, but this does not mean I have not been hard at my genealogy. It just never stops!)
Since I found my father's father, Thomas Burgess TINGAY, I have come a long way. And as I am climbing the tree - that is going upwards from the bottom - I felt that I had reached a little milestone in that.
It was family history that Thomas Burgess TINGAY had been killed at the end of The Great War, but I knew nothing about where or when this had taken place.
With help from family, I discovered that he had been killed at the age of 40. This happened in a munitions blast on August 23, 1918 at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, England. He was a Lance Corporal in the 646th London Field Company Royal Engineers. Along with some fellow soldiers, he had been killed at the end of the Walton pier, where a shed containing munitions had been located. Probably munitions gathered from the sea around the pier. Perhaps someone lit a cigarette. No one knows.
So, my grandmother was left with seven children to support. But that is another story.
I am on the way back into the past.
Since I found my father's father, Thomas Burgess TINGAY, I have come a long way. And as I am climbing the tree - that is going upwards from the bottom - I felt that I had reached a little milestone in that.
It was family history that Thomas Burgess TINGAY had been killed at the end of The Great War, but I knew nothing about where or when this had taken place.
With help from family, I discovered that he had been killed at the age of 40. This happened in a munitions blast on August 23, 1918 at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, England. He was a Lance Corporal in the 646th London Field Company Royal Engineers. Along with some fellow soldiers, he had been killed at the end of the Walton pier, where a shed containing munitions had been located. Probably munitions gathered from the sea around the pier. Perhaps someone lit a cigarette. No one knows.
So, my grandmother was left with seven children to support. But that is another story.
I am on the way back into the past.
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