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KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE (17th May 2013)
Kingdon, A: Rifle Brigade No: B968 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The prefix ‘B’ to his Regimental number indicates that he was probably an Army Reservist whose
number had been re-allocated, or that he was a previously discharged Army Reservist who was re-enlisting for
WW1 service; I would assume the latter & expect that he had originally enlisted between 04.01.1905 &
20.01.1906, but this is not proven & I have no indication of which Battalion he may have served with; From
his medal card it indicates that he first served in France 03.12.1914; The medal card indicates that he only
earned the 1915 Star & also records that he was Discharged, presumably before the end of WW1? Medals
Card on file, awarded the 1914-15 Star; Insufficient information to identify this person with accuracy;
Kingdon, A. F: #91818 Royal Flying Corps – WW1;
Notes: The Muster Roll for the Royal Air Force in WW1 has reference to A. F. Kingdon enlisting on
01.08.1917, his number of #91818 would indicate that he was a Royal Flying Corps Civilian Recruit;
Insufficient information to identify further;
Kingdon, A. F: Trooper, Transvaal Mounted Rifles, Natal, South Africa, early 1900’s;
Notes: There is a record note for Trooper A.F. Kingdon having served with the Transvaal Mounted Rifles
during the Bambata Natal Battalion in 1906 in South Africa; The records specifically note that this soldier did
not take part in the Boer War; The Natal 1906 Medal was awarded; Insufficient information to identify this
person with any accuracy;
Kingdon, Abel: #5633 Corporal, Regiment unknown? Served in the Boer War;
Notes: There is a Medals Roll for the Boer War which was issued in Colchester on 14.07.1903 but I cannot
read the Regimental details? This records indicates a Corporal Kingdon, #5633 having served in South Africa;
Under the Queen’s South Africa Medal issue column there is reference to “see Private Abel”, I have therefore
assumed that this was his first name; Medals Awarded: State Clasps - Cape Colony; Orange Free State;
Transvaal; South Africa 1901; I have searched for Abel Kingdon in the records but failed to find him;
Kingdon, Abraham: Book 1670, Exeter, Devon Militia for 1803;
Notes: The Devon: Exeter Militia List for 1803 has reference to an Abraham Kingdon, a Joiner, who served in
the Militia; This is probably Abraham Kingdon, born ca.1780 in South Molton, who Married Sarah
Walterman on 09.09.1804 in Exeter St Paul; In 1851 Census Abraham Kingdon is aged 71, a Widower &
living in Rock Street, St Mary Major, Exeter, Devon; I believe that Abraham Kingdon was the son of Abraham
Kingdon, b.1760, & Mary Kingdon from South Molton, Devon, who married on 29.05.1773 in South Molton;
I also believe that Abraham Kingdon Died in South Molton in 1860 aged 81;
Kingdon, Abraham John: Register Number: #11852; Division: Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth
Division; When Enlisted/Date of Enlistment: 10 August 1901; ADM 159/181, pre WW1;
Notes: This is Abraham John Kingdon born 15.02.1884 in Lambeth, Surrey, the Son of John Kingdon
b.1851 in South Molton & his 1st wife Elizabeth Piller from Drewsteignton, Devon; In 1891 Census Abraham
John Kingdon lives with his parents at #123 Mayall Road, Lambeth, his Father is a Carpenter; In 1901 Census
Abraham John Kingdon is now 17 years old & also a Carpenter, living with his Father & Step Mother, (Mary
Cecilia Coomber from Hastings, who married his Father in 1894 in Lambeth), in Mayall Road, Lambeth; In
1911 Census Abraham J Kingdon is a 27 year old Royal Marine Private on board ‘HMS Hermione’ in Barrow
in Furness; (Brother of William Henry Kingdon who served with The Durham Light Infantry & The
Sherwood Foresters); (His younger Brother was Kingdon, George Charles: Register Number: #11322;
Division: Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division, who served in WW1 & died during WW2); I
have not researched any further information;
Kingdon, Adolphus: Private, Taranaki Volunteers, Taranaki Militia, New Zealand Army Maori Wars, 1860 1870;
Notes: This is Adolphus Kingdon born & baptised in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England on 07.08.1834, one of
10 children of Richard Kingdon, a Surgeon b.1782 & Jane Parsons; In the England Census for 1841 Adolphus
Kingdon lives with his parents in Gothier House in the London borough of Lambeth; This family then
emigrated to New Zealand, The Mother & all the children except one in 1850 on board the ‘SS Eden’ to New
Plymouth & the Father in 1851, taking up freehold land in Omato; At this time the family decided to adopt the
older style spelling of their name to Kyngdon which is generally used in all future records; Adolphus Kyngdon
fought in the Maori War, as did both of his brothers, but not without losing some property for which they were
compensated for from the ‘Taranaki Relief Fund’; In 1870 & 1871 he is recorded in Omato as a voter
occupying freehold land; Adolphus Kyngdon Married a previously married woman, Clara Ann Dyce Lepper
(nee McCracken) in 1872 & they continued to live in Omato farming in 1875, 1876 & 1880; Unfortunately his
wife Clara Ann Dyce Kyngdon Died at the age of 47 in 1885; I believe that Adolphus Kyngdon returned to
Lostwithiel in Cornwall on a visit in 1893; In 1905 & 1906 Adolphus Kyngdon was registered for voting in the
Taranaki Roll as a New Plymouth Settler & probably visited England again as he was returning on board the
‘Paparoa’ from UK to Wellington on 03.10.1906; In 1911 Adolphus Kyngdon lived in Bow Street, Raglan & I
understand that he died there in 1912 Aged 78; (See “Kingdon Book – A Second Look, 1974” for this
Holsworthy/Kingdon line); Awarded the New Zealand Medal for the Maori Wars; (He was the Brother of
Augustus Frederick Boughton Kyngdon who also served in the New Zealand Army during the Maori Wars);
(He was the Brother of Courtney Melmoth Kyngdon who also served during the Maori Wars of 1860-1870);
Kingdon, Albert: Canadian Forces in WW1;
Notes: There is a record for Albert Kingdon born 1892 in Wales who is living with his parents in Russell,
Marquette, Manitoba, Canada in the 1916 Census; The record states that he is a 24 year old Serving Canadian
Soldier at Camp Hughes but I have failed to find any Canadian enlistment papers or any other information; I
believe that his parents were Henry (Harry) John Kingdon, a Shoemaker, b.01.04.1867 in Wales who
emigrated to Canada in 1888 & Minnie ?? b. 02.09.1868 in England who emigrated to Canada in 1890, who
were probably Married in Canada in ca.1891/92? (He is the Brother of #3345970 Private Ernest Arthur
Kingdon who served with the Canadian Army in WW1); (He is also the Brother of Alfred Henry Kingdon
who served with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in WW1); (He is also the Brother of #922649
Sapper William Henry Kingdon of the Canadian Engineers Regiment in WW1); No other Details;
Kingdon, Albert Charles: #19969 & # 20606, Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth & Portsmouth
Divisions; ADM 159/166 & ADM 159/196, WW1;
Notes: This is Albert Charles Kingdon born 23.02.1899 in Bampton (registered in Tiverton); He is the son of
Arthur John Kingdon, a Farm Horse Carter b.1874 in Bampton, Devon, & Emma Sarah Webber from
Raddington, Somerset, who Married in 1898 in Tiverton, Devon; In 1901 Census Albert C Kingdom lives with
his parents in Swingles Cottage in Bampton, Devon; In 1911 Census Albert Charles Kingdom lives with his
parents at Middle Beer, Uplowman in Devon; Albert Charles Kingdon Enlisted in the Royal Marine Light
Infantry, Plymouth Division on 11.04.1917 as #19969, later being registered with the Portsmouth Division as
#20606; I believe that Private Albert C Kingdon served on ‘HMS Curlew’ when she was commissioned in late
December 1917; Albert C Kingdom Married Mary Ann Tucker in Dulverton, Somerset in 1929; I have no
further information other than I believe that Albert Charles Kingdom Died in 1983 in West Somerset Aged 84;
Follow up of ADM/171/169 – Awarded the Victory & British War Medals;
Kingdon, Albert E: Devonshire Regiment No: 2711 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: In order to have been given this number 2711 initially then this soldier would have enlisted between
02.01.1889 & 11.06.1890 & further research identifies that this number fits exactly with an enlistment date of
14.09.1914; Sergeant Albert Edwin (Bert) Kingdon also served as #266049 Devonshire Regiment and was
Mentioned in Despatches on 07.02.1919 for Gallantry in The Field in Mesopotamia; His 6 figure Regimental
number would have been issued when the Territorial force renumbered in 1917; He is mentioned in the book
‘Dujailah Days’ by Colonel G.B. Oerton; He enlisted for WW1 on 14.09.1914 & was Discharged on
21.02.1919; This is Albert Edwin (Bert) Kingdon who was born 09.08.1883 in Cooks Cross, South Molton,
son of Edwin (Ned) Kingdon b.1858 Kings Nympton & Mary Jane Gregory (born in Barnstaple Workhouse),
who married in South Molton in 1878; In 1891 he lived with his parents in South Molton; In 1911 he was a
Groom for Lord Poltimore’s Manor Estate in the Stables in North Molton; Albert Edwin Kingdon Married
Florence Mary Jury on 26.02.1913 in South Molton; Albert Edwin Kingdon Died on 15.09.1959; Medals Card
on file; (This is my Wife’s (Alexandra Mary Kingdon) Paternal Grandfather);
Kingdon, Albert A: Norfolk Regiment No: 5633 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This Regimental number would indicate enlistment between 02.03.1900 & 24.06.1901; There was also
another Regimental number of #39235; Researching further would indicate that this is #5763023 Regimental
Sergeant Major Albert Arthur Kingdon born in 1st Q 1884 in St Peters, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of
Edward Kingdon, a Joiner, b.1851 in Farnham, Suffolk & Mary Ann Hannah Newby Leggett from Great
Yarmouth who married on 31.03.1876 in Yarmouth, Norfolk; In 1891 Census the family live in Old Market
Street, Thetford, Norfolk; Albert Arthur Kingdon’s records indicate enlistment at the age of 18 years & 5
months on or about 12.06.1900 in Norwich, he was working as a Baker at that time; He also stated that he had
been serving with the 4th Battalion The Norfolk Volunteers; In 1901 Census he was stationed in the District
Garrison Barracks in Colchester, Essex; I believe that he served with the 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment; By
25.06.1901 he was transferred to South Africa; On 19.03.1904 he extended his service to complete 8 years
with the Colours; On 06.06.1908 Sergeant Albert A Kingdon extended his service by a further 12 years whilst
serving in Pietermaritzburg; He next served in Gibraltar from 04.10.1908 until 13.02.1911; On 13.08.1909,
whilst he was in Gibraltar he again confirmed a further extension of his service period; I understand that he
married Maud Calthrop, b.1877 from Boston, Lincolnshire, in St Mary’s, Thetford on 11.08.1910; He then
served in India from 14.02.1911 to 05.11.1914, he probably had his wife with him as they have a daughter
Audrey Eileen Kingdon born on 23.02.1915 in India; (Follow up research finds Sergeant Albert Arthur
Kingdon living in Barracks & his Wife, Maud Kingdon & a child under 1 year old is recorded also in
Ceylon/India Military Census for the 2nd Battalion the Norfolk Regiment); He then served in the Asiatic
Theatre from 06.11.1914 to 01.01.1916, in Mesopotamia; He was appointed Company Quarter Master
Sergeant on 19.03.1915, Acting Company Sergeant Major on 01.06.1915 & Acting Regimental Sergeant
Major on 24.08.1915, a very fast rise in promotion, obviously due to high casualty rates in the trenches as
noted on his records; He was himself wounded in action on 22.11.1915 at Steriphon; He was sent back to India
in 1916 for a short while before returning to England; He appears to have been posted to the 3rd Bedford
Regiment until being Discharged on 09.06.1921 as a Warrant Officer Class 1 under King’s Regulations Para
392 (xxi), upon Termination of his Service of 21 Years & 3 Months; His Pension reference number was
34244/F; Medals Card on file; He was also awarded the Queen’s South African Medal & the Cape colony
Clasp, the Transvaal Clasp, The King George’s Durbar Medal, the Long Service & Good Conduct Medals; I
also understand that he earned & was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Military
Division) around 21.06.1919 but I can find no Gazette Record; (He is the brother of Edward Kingdon #1445
Military Provost Staff Corps & The Coldstream Guards & this is clearly shown in his records); (He was a
Cousin of Private Edward Pratt Kingdom #24594, 11th or 15th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby
Regiment), who died on 17 July 1916 in France); (He may also be the Cousin of #7108 Henry Capp Kingdon
who served with the Lincolnshire Regiment); (Note: There is a Brother also named Henry Capp Kingdon,
who was born in 1888 in Yarmouth, probably making him too young to have enlisted in 1904/5, although it is
possible that I have the two Henry Capp Kingdons mixed up; In any case they are probably all related in the
Norfolk Kingdon line; Further research reveals that this brother also served & died in WW1 as Private H C
Kingdom, #34736, 3rd Bn., The King's (Liverpool Regiment, who died on 30 March 1916, Remembered with
Honour Birmingham (Witton) Cemetery (I now believe that there is a Henry Charles Kingdon who also
served with the Lincolnshire Regiment); (Also a George Frederick Samuel Kingdon #4570 North
Staffordshire Regiment who is related);
Kingdon, Albert E: East Surrey Regiment No: 10128 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: It is difficult to ascertain which Battalion Albert E. Kingdon served with or whether this soldier had an
L/ or a G/ prefix Regimental Number, however, his number could indicate an enlistment date between
04.01.1910 & 05.01.1911 if he was in the 1st & 2nd Battalions; Albert E. Kingdon also served in the Corps of
Hussars #79393 & a similar problem of identifying which unit he served with exists; First went to France on
20.07.1915; Medals Card on file; There is insufficient information to identify this person accurately;
Kingdon, Albert Edwin: Private #7416, Kings Royal Rifles; WO97 Records, 1890-1899;
Notes: This is Albert Edwin Kingdon who was born in South Molton, Devon in 1873, the son of Edwin
Kingdon b.1851 South Molton & Lucy Ann Ridd from Mariansleigh, who married in 1873 in South Molton; In
1881 Census Albert (Alfred) Kingdon was lodging with his Ridd Grandparents in South Molton, his parents
were in Wales working; His Father died in 1886 & in 1891 Census his Mother Lucy lived at #27, Thornhill
Street, Canton, Cardiff, working as a Widowed Laundress, Albert Kingdon was 18 years old & a Draper’s
Porter at that time; Albert Edwin Kingdon enlisted in the Army Aged 19 years on 16.05.1892 in London,
joined at Winchester & served for 7 years with the Main Depot of the Kings Royal Rifles in Winchester,
England & in Kilkenny & Cork, Ireland, serving latterly as the CO’s Orderly, until he was declared Medically
Unfit with severe Neuralgia on 18.05.1899 & discharged from the Army on 29.05.1899; Albert Edwin
Kingdon was awarded a Chelsea Hospital Pension; I believe that Albert Kingdon Married Emma Griffin, born
in 1873 in Bradninch, Devon, in Cardiff ca.1901, however, I failed to find this record until a Marriage in
Cardiff in 1917, which I don’t quite understand? In the 1901 Census Albert & wife Emma Kingdon live as a
Married couple at #66, Forrest Road, Canton, Cardiff, Wales, he works as a Paper Mill Warehouseman & she
as a Paper Sorter; In the 1911 Census Albert & Emma Kingdon live at #35, Forrest Road, Canton, Cardiff, he
is a General Labourer; Needs more research as there is something not quite right here?
Kingdon, Albert H: Devonshire Regiment No: 8162 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 - Died in WW1;
Notes: This Regimental number, #8162 would indicate enlistment between 08.05.1906 & 13.02.1907;
Private Albert Henry Kingdon
#8162, 1st Bn., Devonshire Regiment
who died on 21 January 1915
in
France; Son of Henry J. Kingdon, of Barn's Close, Dulverton, Somerset. Albert Henry Kingdon is Buried in
Le Touquet-Paris Plage Communal Cemetery; This is Albert Henry Kingdon born in Knowstone b. 4th Q
1885 South Molton 5b.427; Son of Henry J Kingdon b.1857 Shoreditch, London & Sarah Jane Wright b. 1860
Rose Ash who were married in 1883 in South Molton; Grandson of Henry Kingdon b.1837 South Molton &
Elizabeth Perryman b.1834 Bishops Nympton; who married 19.05.1857 in Bishopsgate, London; In 1891
Census Albert Henry lives with his parents at Copphall Cottage in Molland, Devon; In 1901 Albert H Kingdon
is a Carter for the Miller at Rose Ash Mills in Devon; In 1911 I believe that Private Albert Henry Kingdon is
serving with the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment in St George’s Barracks, Malta; (The Grandfather b.1837
was the Henry Kingdon who served with the Grenadier Guards for 22 years and we had some missing info &
confusing issues with him – our internal family Mail #224); Medals Card on file;
Notes: This #8162 Devonshire Regiment needs double checking as other records also refer to Kingdon,
Herbert H: Devonshire Regiment No: 8162 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11; Notes: Medals Card on file
states that he also Died? I can find no other references to this soldier?
Kingdon, Albert James: 6 Field Park Squadron, No: 2548901 Rank: Sergeant, Royal Engineers, 1945-1948
Palestine;
Notes: The WO 100/524 Records have a medal issue to #2548901 Corporal Albert James Kingdon for
service with 6 Field Park Squadron, Royal Engineers in Palestine between 27.09.1945 & 30.06.1948; I have no
further information other than I believe that he was promoted to Sergeant at some point in his Army career;
Awarded the General Service Medal & Palestine Clasp, issued from Benghazi on 21.01.1949; Insufficient
information to identify;
Kingdon, Albert John: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916, WW1;
Notes: I do not believe that this man actually served in WW1, but he is recorded as a Reservist in the 1st
Division in 1916, recruited in #9 Recruitment Centre in Christchurch, stating that he was living in Sockburn as
a General Hand at the Jockey Club, Epsom Road; This is Albert John Kingdon b.1883 in New Zealand, the
son of Josiah Stephens Kingdon, b.1842 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England & Catherine Johnson who Married in
1868 in New Zealand; In 1905 Albert John Kingdon was a Farm Labourer in Yaldhurst, Courtney, Wellington;
In 1911 & 1914 he appears to have been working as an Engine Driver in Yaldhurst; I understand that Albert
John Kingdon Married Eleanor Mary Westaway in 1915 & was recruited for the 1 st Division Army Reserve in
1916; In 1919 they are living at #98, Epsom road, Upper Riccarton, Albert is still an Engine Driver; In 1928,
1935, 1938, 1946, 1949 & 1954 they live at #75, Peverel Street, Riccarton, Canterbury, Albert is a Labourer; I
believe that they had no children; Eleanor Mary Kingdon died in 1962 Aged 79 & Charles Ford Kingdon had
died in 1956 Aged 73; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, George: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916
WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Charles Ford: New Zealand, 2nd Division Reservist, 1917 WW1);
(He was the Brother of Kingdon, James Alexander: #41577, ‘F’ Company, Canterbury Infantry Regiment,
New Zealand Army, WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Stanley Craig: #8/3828, 2nd Battalion, Otago
Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Army, WW1);
Kingdon, Albert John: 226th Overseas Battalion, No: 100873 Rank: Private, Canadian Over-Seas
Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This is Albert John Kingdon born 22.05.1894 in Newton Nottage, Glamorgan, Wales, a son of John
Kingdon, a Greengrocer, b.1862 in Newton Nottage, Glamorgan & Mary Wylde from Laleston, Glamorgan,
who married in 1888 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales; (Grandson of John Kingdon b.1830 North Molton,
Devon & Mary Rees from Newton, Glamorgan, Wales & Great Grandson of Philip Kingdon b.1801 North
Molton & Ann Smith b.1804 North Molton); In 1901 Albert John Kingdon lived with his parents in Church
Street, Newton Nottage, Glamorgan; In 1911 Albert J. Kingdon is living with his parents at Chestnut Cottage,
Newton, Glamorgan & he is working as a Baker’s Assistant; In 1913, Albert John Kingdon then shipped to
Canada aged 20 to take up work as a Farm Labourer onboard the ‘SS Tunisian’, with his elder brother Philip
Henry Kingdon; He registered in Canada for WW1 service on 26.02.1916 & was sent off to War; He served
overseas in Europe as he was returned to Canada on a dispersal Draft from CCD Bramshott in England to
Winnipeg onboard the ‘SS Baltic’ in 1919, presumably for discharge; I understand that Albert J. Kingdon Died
in 1967 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales Aged 74; There is no Medals Card; (He was the Brother of Kingdon,
Eustace W: Welsh Regiment No: 59624 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He was the brother of
Kingdon, Philip Henry: 226th Overseas Battalion, No: 100529 Rank: Private Canadian Over-Seas
Expeditionary Force); (He was the brother of Kingdon, Arthur R, (Richard Arthur Kingdon): Royal Welsh
Fusiliers No: 75494 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, who Died in WW1 on 14.06.1918 in Flanders); I
have not followed up on any further research;
Kingdon, Albert Thomas Victor: Lieutenant, D.S.C. & MID., Royal Naval Reserve, 1939-1945, WW2;
Notes: This is Albert Thomas Victor Kingdon born 05.03.1915 in Chelsea, London; He is the son of Frank
Stanley Kingdon, a WW1 Soldier & later a Laundry Carman, b.08.07.1886 in Stamford Hill, Hackney,
London, (bapt. 01.08.1886 in Upper Clapton, St Matthews Church), & Daisy Matilda Ward from Leamington
Spa who married on 16.01.1910 in St John’s, Leamington, Warwick; From 1915 until the 1930’s, this family
lived at #3, Groom Place, in the City of Westminster, London; Albert T V Kingdon Married Rose Ethel
Laundy, b.21.03.1908 in Lewisham, in 1937 in Greenwich; In 1938 Albert Thomas Victore & Rose Ethel
Kingdon lived at #21, Wickham Road, Deptford, Lewisham; In 1939 they live at #36, Kilgour Road,
Lewisham West; On 19.02.1942 Albert Thomas Victor Kingdon was a Temporary Sub Lieutenant in the Royal
Naval Reserve & was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant in February of 1944; He was the Commanding
Officer of the vessel HDML 1383 & carried out ‘shake down’ trials in January 1944; This boat was part of the
149th ML Flotilla & took part in ‘Operation Neptune’, the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944, she was a
Channel Marker at Omaha Beach on D-Day; On 19.12.1944, Temporary Lieutenant Albert Thomas Victor
Kingdon, RNVR, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, (DSC) for his good service distributing
instructions in the assault anchorage after the first landings in Normandy; Lieutnent Albert T V Kingdon
continued to Command HDML 1383 & on 03.07.1945 he was Mentioned In Dispatches (MID) for the Rescue
of survivors of the ‘MV Gold Shell’ which was mined & sunk off the Belgian coast on 16.04.1945; I
understand that HDML 1383 was disposed of in October 1946; From 1947 until 1955, Albert T V & Rose
Kingdon lived at #9, Morton Court, Whitton Avenue West, in Ealing; From 1956 to 1974 Albert T V Kingdon
lived at #22, Welldon Crescent, Harrow in Middlesex; His 1st wife Rose Ethel Kingdon died in Brighton in
1971 & Albert T V Kingdon remarried in 1975 in Harrow to a Dorothy I Mason; I believe that Albert Thomas
Victor Kingdon died in 1981, Hillingdon, Greater London, Aged 66; Awarded the Distinguised Service Cross
& Mentioned in Dispatches for Gallant Service during WW2 & also the normal WW2 medals; (He was the son
of Kingdon, Frank S: Army Service Corps No: M/303737 Rank: Private 1914-1920, WW1);
Kingdon, Alfred: Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry (1881 Royal Navy Records);
Notes: There is an 1881 Census Record for a Private Alfred Kingdon, born 1861, from Barnstaple, serving in
the Royal Marine Light Infantry onboard the surveying Vessel ‘HMS Magpie’ in Kowloon Dock, Hong Kong;
I had originally not found any other Royal Marine information or records, prior to 1881 for this man?
However, following further research, I believe this to be Alfred Kingdon born 1860 in Bratton Fleming,
Devon; He was the son of John Kingdon, an Agricultural Labourer b.1816 in Bratton Fleming & Grace Bale,
b.1818 in Parracombe, who Married in 1837 in Barnstaple; In the 1861 Census Alfred Kingdon lives with his
parents in Bratton Fleming village in Devon; In 1871 Alfred Kingdon lives with his parents at Churn Hill,
Bratton Fleming, Devon; In the 1881 Census Alfred Kingdon is serving with the RMLI in Hong Kong; I
believe that Alfred Kingdon Married a Sarah Ann Rawlings, born 16.10.1861 in Stogumber, Somerset,
sometime in 1886 but I have not yet found the records? There appears to be a daughter, Florence Kingdon,
born in Ayr in Scotland in 1887 so it would seem that Alfred Kingdon served in that area around that time? In
the 1891 Census there is a Sarah A Kingdon b.1862 in Stogumber, Somerset & her children living at #10,
Admiralty Street, in East Stonehouse, she is Married so I assume that her husband (Alfred) is away with the
Royal Marines; In 1901 Census Alfred & Sarah Ann Kingdon living at #23, Hotham Place, Stoke Damerel, he
is a Storekeeper for the local District Council; In the 1911 Census Alfred Kingdon & his Wife Sarah Ann live
at #23, Hotham Place, Stoke Damerel, Devonport & he is recorded as a Naval Pensioner & an Insurance
Agent; Sarah Ann Kingdon Died on 01.05.1918 in Devonport & Probate was dated 12.06.1918 leaving all to
her Husband Alfred Kingdon a Naval Pensioner; I believe that Alfred Kingdon may well have Died in
Devonport in 1920 Aged 60;
Kingdon, Alfred G: Royal Army Service Corps No: M2/079207 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also had compulsory service with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment from 1917 as #33877; There is
also a Service Record, Attestation page for an Alfred George Kingdon but this is actually for Alfred Gerald
Kingdon; This is Alfred Gerald Kingdon born in 1887 in St Mary Church, Torquay, Devon, the son of Alfred
A. W. Kingdon b.1861 Bradninch & Emily Aldridge of St Mary Church Road, Torquay; In 1891 Alfred G
Kingdon lives with his parents in St Mary Church, his Father is a Domestic Gardener; In 1901 Alfred G
Kingdon lives with his parents in St Mary Church & he is a 14 year old Cycle Trader in his Father’s Cycle
Repair Shop; In 1911 Census he lives with his Mother Emily, a Nurse Attendant, at #32, Ellacombe Road,
Torquay, he is aged 24 & is a Chauffeur & Mechanic; Alfred Gerald Kingdon was a Motor Driver & Mechanic
when he enlisted at the age of 28 on 17.04.1915 in Torquay, Devon; He gave his address as #7, Ellacombe
Road, Torquay & his Mother as his next of kin; He was sent to France on 27.09.1915; On 24.09.1917 he was
posted to the 16th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment; Most of his 4 years service was spent in France &
Alfred Gerald Kingdon was discharged on 03.04.1919; The M2 prefix to his Regimental number indicates that
he was an electrician in the Army Service Corps; Alfred Gerald Kingdon died in 4 th Q 1964 in Torquay aged
77; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Percy (Percival Henry): Royal Field Artillery No:
28726 Rank: Bombardier);
Kingdon, Alfred Henry; Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in WW1;
Notes: There are enlistment papers for Alfred Henry Kingdon dated 26.02.1916 in Russell, Manitoba, Canada
for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force for service in WW1 but there is no indication of his Unit or
Regimental Number; I believe that this is Alfred Henry Kingdon born 06.07.1896 in Minnedosa, Manitoba,
Canada, the son of Henry (Harry) John Kingdon, a Shoemaker, b.01.04.1867 in Wales who emigrated to
Canada in 1888 & Minnie ?? b. 02.09.1868 in England who emigrated to Canada in 1890, who were probably
Married in Canada in ca.1891/92? In the 1901 Census for Minnedosa Alfred Henry Kingdon is aged 4 & living
with his parents; In the 1906 Census he is aged 9 & living with his parents in Marquette, Manitoba (the family
are recorded as Kingdom); At the age of 15 years Alfred Kingdon is living with his parents in Minnedosa,
Manitoba in the 1911 Census; Alfred Henry Kingdon enlisted for service in WW1 on 26.02.1916 in Russell,
Manitoba at the age of 19; He gave his birth date as 06.07.1896 in Minnedosa & his NOK as his Father, Harry
John Kingdon living in Russell; He gives his trade as a Drayman; At the age of 20, Alfred Kingdon is recorded
as a serving soldier at Camp Hughes but living with his parents in Russell, Manitoba in the 1916 Census; (He
is the Brother of #3345970 Private Ernest Arthur Kingdon who served with the Canadian Army in WW1);
(He is also the Brother of Albert Kingdon who served with the Canadian Forces); (He is also the Brother of
#922649 Sapper William Henry Kingdon of the Canadian Engineers Regiment in WW1); I did not research
further;
Kingdon, Alfred J: Royal Field Artillery No: 1788 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Served as #1788 with 5th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery & was promoted to Corporal Shoeing
Smith A. J. Kingdon with the Royal Field Artillery #970024; This is Alfred John Kingdon born 16.01.1894
in Lambeth, baptised 25.02.1894 in Lambeth St Mary Church, son of George Kingdon, (a Painter & later a
Greengrocer & Fruiterer) b.1872 in Lambeth & Mary Ann Long b.1872 from Lambeth who married in
Lambeth on 15.11.1891; London School Records exist for Alfred Kingdon, aged 3, born 18.01.1894 in
Lambeth, Father’s name George, attending Vauxhall Street School from 23.08.1897 to 26.08.1901; At that
time the records say that this family lived at #53 Vauxhall Street; In the 1901 Census the family lived in #77,
Vauxhall Street, Lambeth, but Alfred is recorded as Arthur?; In 1911 Census this family lives at #10, Dollar
Street, Vauxhall, Kennington, Lambeth, London & Alfred is a Law Clerk; Alfred John Kingdon’s papers
indicate that he originally enlisted for 4 years service in the United Kingdom in the Territorial Force; He was
Embodied on 02.10.1914 in Kennington at the age of 20 years & 9 months; In WW1 he first served in France
on 21.03.1915 until 15.03.1918, when went on 2 weeks leave to England & returned to France until
09.01.1919; On 03.09.1915 he was appointed Shoeing Smith with the 47th (London) Divisional Ammunition
Column & then promoted to Corporal Shoeing Smith on 13.10.1915; He may have been wounded in the left
hand in January 1918? Alfred J. Kingdon was Disembodied on Demobilisation on 05.02.1919 & his address
was then #7, Offley Road, Brixton, London; Alfred John Kingdon Married Alice Mary Ann Duke
(b.12.02.1893 in Wandsworth) on 14.12.1915 in St Mark Church, Kennington; I believe that Alfred John
Kingdon died in 1973 in Rochford, Essex Aged 79; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon,
Robert Leonard: Royal Field Artillery No: 1887 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11); I have not
researched this person further;
Kingdon, Alfred John Walter: Leicestershire Regiment No: 235220 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: Also served as #63325 in Leicestershire Regiment; This is Alfred John Walter Kingdon born 1897 in
Kittisford, Somerset, son of John Kingdon b.1870 Bishops Nympton & Mary Anna Didham who married in
Somerset in 1892; Alfred John Walter Kingdon lived in Huntsham, Devon with his parents in 1901 & in
Gadbridge, Thurlbeere, Taunton, Somerset in 1911; Alfred John Walter Kingdon Enlisted on 05.02.1919 &
was Discharged because of Sickness on 13.09.1919 under King’s Regulations Para. 392 (xvi); Alfred John
Walter Kingdon married Florrie Reed in Somerset in 1925; He was awarded the Silver War Badge #493128;
Medals Card on file: (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Victor P: Royal Army Medical Corps No: 114598 Rank:
Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served in WW1);
Kingdon, Alfred James: Army Service Corps, #TS/742 Acting Farrier Sergeant 1914-20 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Alfred James Kingdon born 26.09.1881 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Richard
Kingdon b.1854 in Bratton Fleming, Devon & Mary Rees from Swansea who married in 1876; (Alfred James
Kingdon is the Grandson of John Kingdon b.1817 Bratton Fleming & Grace Bale b.1815 in Parracombe); In
1891 Census Alfred James Kingdon lives with his family in Swansea, his Father is a Police Constable; In 1901
Alfred James Kingdon is already a Blacksmith & living with his parents in Melrose Cottage, Catherine Street,
Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales; His records show a wife, Mary Ann Kingdon (nee Clavering, born 24.11.1881 in
Southwark), & they were married on 22.06.1907 in Greenwich, & living at #124, Maple Road, Penge, London;
In 1911 Census Alfred James & Mary Ann Kingdon lived at #13, Western Street, Swansea & working as a
Shoeing Smith; They have 4 children, Richard Alfred Austin Kingdon born 14.11.1908 in Elham; William
John Kingdon born 10.10.1910 in Swansea & Sydney Henry born 03.01.1913 in Penge; & George D. Kingdon
born 1918 in Lambeth; Alfred James Kingdon was aged 33 years when he enlisted on 12.08.1914, he was
already married & a Farrier to trade, he also noted that he had previously served in the ASC & had been
discharged, but I have not found any records of this service, however, he may well have been serving in
Woolwich Barracks in 1907 at the time of his marriage?; He re-joined the Army Service Corps in Woolwich
on 14.08.1914; His Army Service was all spent in the Home Station from 12.08.1914 to 05.07.1916, a period
of 1 year & 429 days; He was discharged as being no longer physically fit for service on 15.07.1916, being
sick, under King’s Regulations, Para 392 (xvi); He was awarded a small Chelsea Hospital life pension in 1916;
The TS prefix to his number indicates Army Service Corps, Transport Specials (trade); I believe that Alfred
James Kingdon died in the 1st Q 1923 in Lambeth Aged 41; Also awarded the Silver War Badge #107225;
Medals Card on file; (I believe that he was the Brother of #4480 Richard John Kingdon who served 18 years
with the 1st Battalion, the Welsh Regiment & re-enlisted in 1914 for WW1); (Another Brother – William
Henry Kingdon b.1878 in Swansea served with a Militia Unit at some time & may have been in receipt of a
Chelsea Pension);
Kingdon, Alfred William: Royal Garrison Artillery Rank: Second Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Whilst researching the sale of this Officer’s WW1 Medals on an internet site, I found an Alfred
William Kingdon born in 1889 in Maidstone, Kent who’s profile matches; He was the son of James Durant
Kingdon, the Vicar of Loose in Kent, b.26.12.1830 in London, Middlesex & Eleanor Katharine Stead from
Ovingdean, Sussex who Married in 1867 in Lewes, Sussex; (Alfred’s Grandfather was William Kingdon a
London Surgeon); In the 1891 Census Alfred W Kingdon lives with his parents at the Loose Vicarage in Kent;
In 1901 Census Alfred W Kingdon is living with his Widowed Mother at West Bank House, Sutton Valence,
Kent; In 1911 Census Alfred William Kingdon was an Assistant School Master at Elstree Lodge, St. Hilary’s
School, Hastings Road, Bexhill, Sussex; Alfred William Kingdon served with the Royal Garrison Artillery in
Palestine from 31.07.1917; The London Gazette has notice on 25.10.1918 that 2nd Lieutenant A. W. Kingdon
had been promoted to Lieutenant on 05.09.1918; I believe that he received his Medals from the Army on
02.03.1922 & lived in Sandrock Hall, near Hastings in Sussex at the time; I understand that following WW1
Service, Alfred William Kingdon returned to being a School Master; Alfred W Kingdon Died in 1961 in
Finsbury, London Aged 72; Medals Card on file; His medals were for sale on E Bay in 2010;
Kingdon, Allan Harry; Private, #Q124002, #QX59786, 55th/53rd Infantry Battalion, Australian Army, WW2;
Notes: This young man appears to have served in WW2 in the Australian Military Force but under 2 different
names, a crime for which he was eventually Court martialed & Imprisoned for in 1945; There are records on
the Australian files for Allan Henry/Harry Kingdon & Arthur Harold Kingdon; Further research would indicate
that this is in fact Allen (Harry) Henry Kingdon, born 25.04.1925 in Brisbane, Queensland Australia; He was
the son of John Kingdon, a WW1 & WW2 soldier born 24.05.1887 in Tongham, Surrey, England (his military
records are expanded in this Kingdon List), & Marjorie May Ringwood who Married in St Giles in the Fields,
London england on 15.04.1916 & emigrated to Australia in October 1921, living in Brisbane; Allen Harry
Kingdon used his Brother’s name & some false details to enlist, hence the use of Arthur Harold Kingdon in his
records; I have recorded the following from the Australian Military Records for WW2; There is a Medical
Exam Record for this soldier dated 12.08.1942 in Annerley & a Mobilisation Attestation Form for Allan Harry
Kingdon born 24.04.1924 in Brisbane, in which he gave his Brother Arthur Harold Kingdon as his Next of
Kin; In this record he served in Queensland, had some discipline problems & was sick with acute appendicitis
in October 1943; Allan Harry Kingdon was taken on strength with the 55th/53rd Australian Infantry Battalion
in Queensland on 07.01.1944 & his number was changed to #Q151628 (later altered to #QX59786); At that
time he declared himself as a natural born Australian from Cannon hill, Queensland, born 24.04.1924; He gave
his Father John Kingdon as his next of kin, living at Beverley Hill, Annerley, Queensland; In July 1944 he
served on Thursday Island; On 22.09.1944 he was posted Absent Without Leave & an Arrest warrant was
issued; On 28.10.1945 he was apprehended, detained & charged with Fraudulent Enlistment having confessed
that whilst serving as #QX31010 Arthur Harold Kingdon, he absented himself without leave on 03.06.1942 &
whilst absent had fraudulently enlisted on 12.08.1942 as Allan Harry Kingdon, #Q151628, subsequently
#QX59786 on 17.01.1944; For the records the Army Authority decided to close his records for #QX31010,
Private Arthur Harold Kingdon; He was finally convicted at a Court Martial on 07.12.1945 in Brisbane, founf
Guilty & sentenced to 15 months Detention; His Discharge was authorised on 17.12.1945 &his Discharge
Papers #352246, indicated his Service had commenced on 24.08.1942 & that he served from 24.08.1942 to
17.12.1945, however this was later altered following Court Martial proceedings in 1945 with forfeiture of pay;
He was eventually released & discharged on 16.05.1946 I understand that Allan Henry (Harry) Kingdon died
in Queensland on 28.05.1979; More Australian research might help;
Kingdon, Ambrose: Royal Engineers No: 182909 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Ambrose John Kingdon born in 1st Q 1881 (11.02.1881) in Barnstaple, Devon, the son of
James Kingdon b.1849 West Buckland & Mary Whitefield from Swimbridge who married in South Molton in
1874; In 1881 & 1891 Census Ambrose Kingdon lives with his parents in Barnstaple; In 1901 he is a Painter &
Decorator living with his parents in Devonport; Ambrose John Kingdon Married Winifred Veale (b.1884
Kingsbridge, Devon) on 26.03.1911 in Plymouth, Devon; They have 1 daughter Gwendoline (b.17.04.1912 in
Plymouth but who dies aged 23 in Plymouth in 1935) & 1 son Christopher Ambrose C Kingdon (b.08.01.1915
in Plymouth, who dies aged 85 in Plymouth in 2000); In the 1911 Census for Plymouth Ambrose is recorded
as Bruce & Winifred Kingdon, a House Painter, living at #17, Prince Maurice Road, Mutley, Plymouth;
Ambrose Kingdon enlisted in Plymouth on 11.05.1916 aged 35; Served at Home from 16.06.1916 to
23.11.1917; Served in France from 24.04.1917 to 16.05.1917 & returned to UK 17.05.1917; Sapper Ambrose
Kingdon was discharged under King’s Regulations Para 302 (xvi) on 08.02.1918 at Chatham with the Silver
War Badge aged 36 years & 8 months & noted as having Tuberculosis & being no longer physically fit for
War Service, he was serving at the RE Training Camp in Newark & also in Chatham & Tavistock Square,
London; The Military Medical Board attributed the TB to Ambrose having suffered with Pleurisy in 1916 from
exposure during training; Ambrose Kingdon Died on 01.10.1918 of Tuberculosis of the Lungs & Intestines,
Aged 37; His address was recorded as #64, Belgrade Road, Plymouth; He was obviously a Chelsea Pensioner
#231179H with 100% incapacity for a short time prior to his death; He was Awarded the Silver War Badge
#325973 in WW1; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Andrew H: Army Service Corps No: T4/219925 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Served with the Royal Army Service Corps the T4/ prefix to his Regimental number indicates service
with Horse Transport Units; This is Andrew Henry Kingdon born in 1879 in Backwell, Somerset, the son of
John Kingdon, a Railway Station Master, b.1846 in Selworthy, Somerset & Caroline Sherwood from
Farnborough, Hampshire, who married in 1878 in Taunton, Somerset; In 1881 & the 1891 Censuses the family
lived in the Railway Cottages, Backwell, Somerset; In 1901 Andrew Henry Kingdon lives with his parents in
Moorside, Backwell, Somerset, he is aged 21 & a Tobacco Factory Hand Worker; In 1911 Census he is
unmarried & still lives with his parents at Broad Moor, Backwell, Somerset; Andrew Henry Kingdon was a
Special Reservist who enlisted on 11.12.1915 aged 36 years & joined the Army Service Corps MT Siege
Battery #75; This Soldier served at Home from 04.11.1916 to 03.12.1916 & was then sent to France on
04.12.1916, returning Home on 11.01.1918 for treatment in the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolwich for a
fractured radius; By 04.01.1918 he was found to be suffering with Acute Arthritis brought on by a fracture of
the radius at his waist whilst on Active Service giving him a 20% disability; Subsequently he was Discharged
on 04.04.1919; A Medical Board on 19.02.1920 awarded him a Pension; Medals Card on file; (He is the
Brother of Gunner Fred Sherwood Kingdon: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 162987 who also served in WW1).
Kingdon, Archie: 2/4 Devonshire, Royal Engineers No: ?? Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920; No References other
than the Roath Road Church Records in Cardiff were found?
Notes: I believe that this is “Archie” Archibald Kingdon born in 1893 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, the son
of George Henry Kingdon, a French Polisher, b.1867 in Cardiff & Sarah Ann Connett from Cardiff who
married in Cardiff in late 1889; In 1901 Archibald Kingdon lives with his parents in #52, Keppoch Street,
Roath, Cardiff; In 1911 Archibald Kingdon is aged 18 & is a Plumber, living with his parents at #52, Keppoch
Street, Roath, Cardiff, his Father is still a French Polisher working for a Pianoforte Dealer; I understand that
this family had a lifelong connection with the Roath Road Church; At some stage in his service he was in
Gosport as a 2nd Corporal with the Electric Light Company, Royal Engineers; (He was probably the Brother of
#117646 Private Wilfred G Kingdon of the Machine Gun Corps, who served in WW1); I did not research
this soldier any further due to possible confusion with another Archibald Kingdon born in Cardiff in
1892;
Kingdon, Archibald Henry: Class ‘C’, 2nd Division Reservist, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1917,
WW1;
Notes: This is Archibald Henry Kingdon born in 1879 in Cornwall, England, the son of James Kingdon,
b.1844 in Advent, Cornwall, England & Elizabeth Jane Wendon, b.1848 in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, who had
married in Cornwall, England in 1868 & sailed with young Archibald H Kingdon & the rest of their family on
09.09.1879 from England to New Zealand on board the ‘Famenoth’, arriving in Cambridge West in 1880,
where he established a Blacksmith’s business on the corner of Shakespeare & Cook Streets; (His
Grandparents, Jonathan Kingdon & Mary Orchard Hill had arrived in New Zealand from Cornwall, England
in 1872 on the ‘Celestial Queen’); (I understand that one of Archibald’s brothers, Samuel Wendon Kingdon,
died by drowning in a river at a Wesleyan Picnic in 1883 at the age of 12 years); Archibald Henry Kingdon
Married Nora Agnes Ryan in 1903 & he is working as a Sawmill Hand living in Mangapehi in 1905 & 1906;
In 1911 Archibald Henry Kingdon is living with his wife & working as a Tablet Porter in Manurewa; & in
1911 they are recorded living in Victoria Road, Cambridge; In 1914 Archibald Henry & Nora Agnes Kingdon
are living in Connell Street, Waihi, he is now a Railway Guard; In August, September, October of 1917
Archibald Henry Kingdon registered for WW1 Service with the 2 nd Division, New Zealand Expeditionary
Force & was classified in ‘Class C’, having 2 children; There are no other military records for this soldier but I
do not believe that he actually served in WW1; In 1919 they live at #4, Marewa Road, Greenlane, Parnell,
Archibald Henry Kingdon is working for New Zealand Railways; His Father died around 1919; In 1928 &
1935 Archie Kingdon is a Signalman for the railways & they live in Haydn Avenue, Epsom, Manukau; I
believe that Archibald Henry Kingdon died in 1969 Aged 90; I understand that his wife, Nora Agnes Kingdon
Died in 1959 Aged 77 & is buried in Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand; (He was the Brother of Kingdon,
Irwin Wendon: Private, #48650, ‘A’ Company, Auckland Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary
Force, WW1): (He was the Brother of Dick Kingdon, 2nd Division New Zealand Reservist, WW1): (He was
the Brother of Percy James Kingdon, 2nd Division New Zealand Reservist, WW1): This family could be
researched further;
Kingdon, Arthur: British Red Cross Society and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem 1914-1920 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: This Scheme started in 1909 but Membership of the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachments) grew quickly
on the outbreak of WW1 in 1914. The British Red Cross and the Order of St John of Jerusalem, a body which
was also empowered to raise detachments under the War Office Voluntary Aid Scheme, combined to form the
Joint War Committee (JWC) to administer their wartime relief work with the greatest possible efficiency and
economy, under the protection of the red cross emblem and name; Arthur Kingdon was Awarded the Victory
Medal & the British Medal for his services during WW1; Medals Card on file; There is insufficient
information to identify this person further;
Kingdon, Arthur: Dorsetshire Regiment No: 14190 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This soldier, Arthur Kingdon also served as #06739 Hampshire Regiment & probably also with the
Royal Irish Fusiliers as #25324; Served in the Asiatic Theatre from 11.12.1915, indicating service in East
Africa, Nyasaland & Northern Rhodesia; Initially there was insufficient information to identify this person,
however, following further research of the Spring 1919 Absent voters list for Devon there is a ‘Reference 213’
for Arthur Kingdon of Middlewick in the Parish of Bishops Nympton, South Molton; He was recorded as
serving as #G/25324 with the 1st (G.B.) Royal Irish Fusiliers; The prefix ‘G’ to his regimental number would
also indicate service with the 1st Garrison Battalion, & his number indicates enlistment with the Royal Irish
Fusiliers after January 1914; This is also probably Arthur Kingdon born 14.10.1889 in East Anstey, the son
of Thomas Kingdon b.1853 Bishops Nympton & Elizabeth Baker of Twitchen who Married on 11.06.1878 in
Bishops Nympton, Devon; In the 1891 Census young Arthur, aged 2, was with his parents living Kingscombe
Cottage, West Anstey, Devon; In the 1901 Census Arthur Kingdon aged 12 lived with his parents in Higher
Week, Bishops Nympton; In the 1911 Census Arthur Kingdon is aged 22, a Farm Labourer & Rabbit Trapper,
living with his parents in Middle Week, Bishops Nympton, Devon; I believe that Arthur Kingdon Married
Beatrice Sanders from Dolton, Devon in 1922 in South Molton, Devon, (however, she may well have been
named Hilda Eliza B. Sanders on her birth records)?; I also understand that Arthur Kingdon died in Exeter in
1986 Aged 97; Medals Card on file; (Brother of Kingdon, William Thomas; Lance Corporal #3785,
Devonshire Regiment);
Kingdon, Arthur: Royal Field Artillery No: TF2994 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Arthur Kingdon also served as #866032 & #295743 in the Royal Field Artillery; The prefix TF would
normally indicate service was with a Territorial Force; Medals Card on file for the British War Medal only,
however, this was unclaimed after 10 years & was subsequently returned to Ordnance Stores, The Royal
Dockyard, Woolwich for disposal under King’s Regulations (1912) para 1743; There is insufficient
information to identify this person further;
Kingdon, Arthur: Gunner, #29968, 112th Howitzer Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, WW1;
Notes: This is Arthur Kingdon born 07.05.1896 at Two Wells, South Australia, the son of John W. Kingdon
& Priscilla Roberts of #7, Hauteville Terrace, Eastwood, South Australia; Arthur Kingdon enlisted at the age
of 20 years on 19.04.1916 at Adelaide, South Australia, stated that he was a Postal Assistant with the Post
Office & subsequently served in France & Belgium having originally embarked on 03.10.1916 from
Melbourne Australia on ‘HMAT Aeneas’; This Gunner served with the 120 th Howitzer Battery, Australian
Field Artillery; He was wounded, fractured right foot, at Passchendaele on 04.10.1917 & was invalided back to
the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, England; He was considered medically unfit & returned to Australia on
27.05.1919 for Discharge; This soldier had served for 2 years & 39 days with service abroad of 1 year & 220
days; Medals awarded were 1914/15 Star, British War & Victory Medals; More records on Australian
Military Files;
Kingdon, Arthur: English Mariner 1763;
Notes: There is a Record of a Seaman’s Will for Arthur Kingdon (Mariner) in 1763 who hailed from
Plymouth, Devon & served on ‘HMS Tyger’; His Will was deposited with Thomas Boyde & Ambrose Old,
probably in Plymouth, (Ref: PCC PROB11 884); The Record states that he died & was buried in Plymouth in
1763, the dates recorded appear to be the 3rd February & the 26th March 1763; No other information;
Kingdon, Arthur Francis: York and Lancaster Regiment Rank: Captain 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in
WW1; Captain Arthur Francis Kingdon, 6th Bn., York and Lancaster Regiment, who died on 09 October
1917 on the Somme; Remembered with honour TYNE COT MEMORIAL in Belgium; Notes: This is Arthur
Francis Kingdon born 28.03.1896 in Sheffield, son of William Edward Kingdon, a Tobacconist, b.1861 in
Worcester & Annie Lock from West Buckland in Devon, who married in Barnstaple in 1st Q 1886, later of
Bemerton, Buxton, Derby; They lived in Sheffield in 1901 Census at #81, Fitzwalter Road; In 1911 his brother
James manages the family Tobacconists shop at #39, Fitzwalter Road, Sheffield, whilst Arthur Francis
Kingdon is aged 15 & a student at Trent College in Stapleford, Long Eaton, (near Nottingham), Derbyshire;
Joined the Public Schools Camp at Epsom in September 1914, Transferred to the Inns of Court O.T.C. in
November 1914 & gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the York & Lancaster Regiment on 15.01.1915; He was
promoted to Acting Captain whilst Commanding a Company on 12.11.1916 (from Temporary 2 nd Lieutenant
& since promotion to temporary Captain), Gazetted 22.01.1917, & then Promoted to Captain in December
1916; He served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Egypt from January 1916 where he took part in
actions against the Turks on the Suez Canal; He proceeded to France the following July & took part in the
fighting on the Somme in September, being then given command of his Company; He was wounded in January
1917 & invalided home; He returned to France in August 1917 & took part in the fighting for the ridges to the
east of Ypres, and was killed in action at the 3rd Battle of Ypres on 9th October 1917, while leading his
Company; He was buried where he fell; Probate is dated 26.03.1918 & leaves all effects to his Father William
Edward Kingdon; He is also remembered on the Buxton War Memorial in Derbyshire; Medal Card on file;
(Brother of Kingdon, George Herbert: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, Captain 1914-1920 WO
372/11); (Brother of Kingdon, William Edward: Royal Army Medical Corps Rank: Captain 1914-1920 WO
372/11);
Kingdon, Arthur A: Army Service Corps No: T4/036217 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes; This is Arthur Alban Kingdon born in 1892 in Churchstow, Devon, the illegitimate son of Edith
Annie Kingdon b.1872 Churchstow. He was the Grandson of Jonathan Kingdon b.1836 Blisland, Cornwall &
Elizabeth Drew from Churchstow; In 1901 Census he lives with his Grandparents in, Knap Mill, Loddiswell,
Kingsbridge, Devon; In 1911 Census he is recorded as a Farmer’s Son working on his Uncle’s Farm at
‘Addlehole’ in Kingsbridge, Devon, he is aged 19 (Uncle William Henry Kingdon b.1875 Churchstow & his
Grandparents also reside there); Arthur Alban Kingdon enlisted on 15.12.1914 & joined in Aldershot, served
as a Driver in the RASC, and served from September 1916 to February 1919 in Macedonia; The T4/ prefix to
his Regimental number depicts that he served with a Horse Transport Unit; He suffered with Malaria in
September 1917 for which he claimed a disability pension; He was Discharged on 18.04.1919 giving his
address as Addlehole Farm, Kingsbridge, Devon; I understand that he emigrated to Australia & Married Olga
Muir in 1939 in Katanning, Western Australia; He Died in Australia in 1962 Aged 70; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Arthur G: Royal Engineers No: T6886 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Transferred from Kingdom List: Kingdom, Arthur George: Royal Engineers No: 6886 Rank: Sapper
1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The T/ prefix to this Soldier’s Regimental number denotes service with a Territorial Force; His Records
Card indicates his being attached to an unknown “Wil. Dn. RE” notation to the Corps he served in? This
Record states that he enlisted on 03.09.1914 & was Discharged as a Sapper under King’s Regulations Para 392
(xvi) on 14.04.1916 as being Medically Unfit; The records indicate that he had served overseas at some point
in his service; This is probably Arthur George Kingdon born in Dawlish, Devon in 1885, the son of William
Kingdon, a Gardener b.1852 in Silverton, Devon & Mary Ann Routley from Sowton, Devon, who Married in
1882 in Exeter St Thomas; In the 1891 Census Arthur George Kingdon lives with his parents in #8, Brook
Street, Dawlish, Devon; In the 1901 Census he is a 16 year old Mason’s Apprentice, living with his parents in
Manor Row, East Dawlish ; In the 1911 Census Arthur George Kingdon is aged 25, working as a Plasterer &
Slater & boarding with another family at #14, Tasker Terrace, in Rainhill, Lancashire; Awarded Silver War
Badge #63712; Record & Medal Cards on file for the Victory Medal & the British War Medal; (He is the
Brother of Kingdon, Frederick R: Royal Engineers No: 286416 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who
Died in WW1); (He is the Brother of Kingdom, Charles: Royal Engineers No: 172009 Rank: Driver 19141920 WO 372/11; I did not research further;
Kingdon, Arthur Harold Victor: Served in the Royal Air Force in WW1; AIR 76/277/101;
Notes: This is Arthur Harold Victor Kingdon born in 1887 in Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire, the son
of Charles Kingdon, a Labourer b.1853 in Bishops Nympton, Devon & Ann Lee from Rose Ash, Devon who
Married in 1875 in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales; In 1891 & 1901 Censuses Arthur H Kingdon is living with
his parents in Bedminster; I found it difficult tracing this man in 1911 but there is a Harold Victor Kingdon
born 1887 in Bristol who is boarding as a Tailor Maker/Cutter at #15, Mill Road, Wellingborough,
Northamptonshire which could be him; Arthur H V Kingdon Married Lilian May Hambridge b.1888 Bristol,
(baptised 17.12.1889), in 1914 in Bristol; I believe that Arthur Harold Victor Kingdon served between 1918 &
1919 in the Royal Air Force; Arthur & his wife were living at #1, Dean’s Way, Finchley, Barnet, London
between 1932 & 1938; Unfortunately his 1st Wife Lilian May Died at the age of 64 years on 19.11.1952 whilst
living at #78 Lyndhurst Road, Hove, Sussex; Arthur H V Kingdon then Married for a 2nd time to Nellie May
Thompson in 1953 in Surrey; Arthur H V Kingdon Died on 07.09.1957 whilst living at #53, Deepdene Vale,
Dorking, Surrey Aged 70 years; (There is a son from the 1st marriage, Raymond William Charles Eugene
Kingdon b.1919 in Edmonton who was a Photographer);
Kingdon, Arthur J: Devonshire Regiment No: 2061 Rank: Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: In order to have the number #2061 this soldier would have enlisted between 18.02.1888 & 02.01.1889;
Also served as #265525 in the Devonshire Regiment & #574497 Royal Engineers; This soldier was also
awarded the Territorial Force War Medal; Medals Card on file; This could be Arthur John or Arthur James
Kingdon, of which there are a few choices so I have not researched this soldier further; He maybe was a
L/Cpl transferred from 1st Battalion Devons to RE 448th Northumbrian Field Co also? Further research of
Colonel Flick’s Diary reveals that Lance Corporal A. J. Kingdon #265525, serving with ‘A’ Company of the
6th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment was transferred to the Royal Engineers, 448th Northumbrian Field
Company on 01.08.1917;
Kingdon, Arthur R: Royal Welsh Fusiliers No: 75494 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in
WW1; Private Arthur Richard Kingdon #75494, 9th Bn., Royal Welsh Fusiliers (formerly #2052 in the
Denbighshire Yeomanry), who died on 14 June 1918; Remembered with honour SOISSONS MEMORIAL;
Notes; This soldier’s death is recorded as Arthur Richard Kingdon & the records state that he was born in
Porthcawl, Glamorgan, Wales; This is actually Richard Arthur Kingdon born 1898 in Newton Nottage,
Glamorgan, Wales; He was the son of John Kingdon, a Greengrocer, b.1862 in Newton Nottage, Glamorgan &
Mary Wylde from Laleston, Glamorgan, who married in 1888 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales; (Grandson of
John Kingdon b.1830 North Molton, Devon & Mary Rees from Newton, Glamorgan, Wales & Great Grandson
of Philip Kingdon b.1801 North Molton & Ann Smith b.1804 North Molton); In 1901 Richard A. Kingdon
lived with his parents in Church Street, Newton Nottage, Glamorgan; In 1911 Richard A. Kingdon is a School
Boy living with his parents at Chestnut Cottage, Newton, Glamorgan, Wales; I believe that Richard Arthur
Kingdon enlisted in the Denbighshire Yeomanry as #2052 in Bridgend, Glamorgan for service in WW1; His
original unit in February 1917 formed the 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Bn, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and
came under orders of 231st Brigade in 74th (Yeomanry) Division & moved to France & his Army Regimental
number changed to #75494; He served in Flanders & France & Died on the field of battle on 14.06.1918; This
soldier is also remembered as R.A. Kingdon on the Porthcawl War Memorial for WW1, which is situated
outside All Saints’ Church in the Parish of Newton Nottage, Porthcawl, Glamorgan; Medal Card on file; (He
was the Brother of Kingdon, Eustace W: Welsh Regiment No: 59624 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11)
(He was the Brother of Kingdon, Albert John: 226th Overseas Battalion, No: 100873 Rank: Private Canadian
Over-Seas Expeditionary Force); (He was the brother of Kingdon, Philip Henry: 226th Overseas Battalion,
No: 100529 Rank: Private Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force);
Kingdon, Arthur Thomas: #17683 Royal Engineers, Service Records, WW1;
Notes: Arthur Thomas Kingdon was aged 30 years, a Wireman for the General Post Office (GPO), married &
living at #13, Claremont Street in Plymouth on 25.11.1915 when he was first attested for WW1 Service in
Plymouth; This is Arthur Thomas Kingdon born in East Stonehouse in 1885, the son of John Thorne
Kingdon, a Carpenter b.1853 in Crowan, Cornwall & Phebe Ann Hains from Devonport who married in 1876
in Stoke Damerel; In 1891 Census Arthur T Kingdon lived with his parents in Claremont Street, Plymouth; In
1901 Census Arthur Thomas Kingdon was a Tea Packer for a Grocer, still living with his parents in Charles,
Plymouth; I believe that Arthur Thomas Kingdon Married Mabel Kate Baker from Exeter in Plymouth on
07.05.1910; In 1911 Census Arthur Thomas & Mabel Kate Kingdon lived at #19, Clarence Street, Plymouth,
he was a Carpenter; They had 5 children until Mabel his wife died at the age of 41 in Plymouth in 1925,
probably following the birth of their youngest daughter Lilian? Sapper Arthur Thomas Kingdon served with
the Royal Engineers for Signal Service following his call up from the Army Reserve on 15.11.1917; I don’t
believe that he served overseas as there is no Medals card on file but he was Discharged as being surplus to
Army Requirements on 14.12.1918 in Chatham; Arthur Thomas Kingdon Died in Plymouth in 1966 Aged 80;
No Medals card on file;
Kingdon, Arthur William: #16094 Devonshire Regiment, Service & Pension Records, WW1;
Notes: This is Arthur William Kingdon born 23.01.1882 in Bishops Nympton (baptised 29.07.1883 in Bishops
Nympton), the son of William Kingdon b.1850 Bishops Nympton & Mary Luxton from Knowstone, who
married in South Molton in 1881; In 1891 Arthur William Kingdon lived with his parents at North Roach
Hole, Knowstone; In 1901 he lived with his parents at Lakehead Farm in Chulmleigh; In 1910 Arthur William
Kingdon Married Annie Gibbings from Nymet Rowland on 25.05.1910 in Chulmleigh; In 1911 Arthur & his
bride Annie Kingdon lived with his Uncle William Luxton as a Farm Labourer at Pyne Mead, Chulmleigh,
Devon; Arthur William Kingdon enlisted in the Devonshire Regiment, #16094, on 12.04.1915 but was
Discharged due to Mental Slowness & Deficiency on 16.10.1915 after only 188 days service; I have not
researched them further than their 5 children between 1911 & 1921, all born in Chulmleigh; There is No
Medals Card;
Kingdon, Arthur William Branch: #M9330, Rank shown as L.V.A., Royal Navy; ADM 188/1036, WW1;
Notes: This is Arthur William Branch Kingdon born 22.08.1894 in Stoke Damerel, Devonport, Devon, the
son of William Robert Kingdon, a Dockyard Labourer b.1868 in Wilcove, Antony, Cornwall & Lisette
Constance Pine Branch from Antony who married in 1893 in Stoke Damerel; In 1901 Census Arthur Kingdon
aged 6 lives with his parents in Ferry Street, Antony, Cornwall; There are no dates given for his Royal Navy
enlistment but he did serve during WW1 & also served on ‘HMS Cairo’ ca.1919; The ADM 188/1036
Collection would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1914 & 31.12.1914; The M prefix to his number indicates
that was either an Artisan, Artificer or an RPO, but on his medals records he is recorded as having the rank of
L.V.A, which I have failed to identify; In the 1911 Census Arthur Kingdon is aged 16, a Labourer in HM
Dockyard & living with his Widowed Mother at #10, Stopford Place, Tamar, Devonport, Devon; Arthur W B
Kingdon Married Frances L. Bland in Plymouth in 1919; I believe that they had 2 daughters, both born in
Devonport in 1923 & 1926; I understand that this Senior Chief Petty Officer had served on ‘HMS Clematis’ in
1928 & was still serving in the Royal Navy on shore at ‘HMS Vivid’, Devonport Naval Barracks in 1929;
Arthur W. B. Kingdon Died in 1967 in Plymouth Aged 72; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War
Medals; ADM 171/141 record the issue of his Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal on
23.11.1929;
Kingdon, Augustus Frederick Boughton: Private, Taranaki Volunteers, Taranaki Militia, New Zealand
Army Maori Wars, 1860 - 1870;
Notes: This is Augustus Frederick Boughton Kingdon born & baptised in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England on
27.05.1832, one of 10 children of Richard Kingdon, a Surgeon b.1782 & Jane Parsons; In the England Census
for 1841 Augustus Kingdon lives with his parents in Gothier House in the London borough of Lambeth; This
family then emigrated to New Zealand, The Mother & all the children except one, in 1850 on board the ‘SS
Eden’ to New Plymouth & the Father in 1851, taking up freehold land in Omato; At this time the family
decided to adopt the older style spelling of their name to Kyngdon which is generally used in all future
records; On 08.03.1856 Augustus Kingdon is recorded as being eligible for Jury Duty in New Plymouth, New
Zealand; Private Augustus Kyngdon fought in the Maori Wars between 1860 & 1870, as did both of his
brothers; In 1870 Augustus Kyngdon was living on Freehold Land in Omato; In 1875 Augustus Frederick
Boughton Kingdon is recorded as a Freeholder in Urenui, Omato; I believe that Augustus Frederick Boughton
Kyngdon Died in 1881; (See “Kingdon Book – A Second Look, 1974” for this Holsworthy/Kingdon line);
Awarded the New Zealand Medal for the Maori Wars; (He was the Brother of Courtney Melmoth Kyngdon
who also served during the Maori Wars of 1860 - 1870); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Adolphus: Private,
Taranaki Volunteers, Taranaki Militia, New Zealand Army Maori Wars);
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KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, B: New Zealand Rifle Brigade No: 24/1915 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/24, WW1;
Notes: This is Basil Samuel Kingdon, a Farmer, born on 13.01.1891 in Nelson, New Zealand, the second son
of Roger William Wellesley Kingdon, a Solicitor, & Annie Evelyn Curtis, living in Fielding, Oroua, New
Zealand; (His original family are from the Thorverton & Exeter, Devon, Kingdon line); I believe that Basil
Kingdon was at Nelson College from 1901 to 1903; In 1914 Electoral Roll for Oroua, Manawatu-Wanganui,
Basil Kingdon was a Farm Labourer living in Cheltenham, Oroua, his mother lives in Fielding, Oroua & is a
Widow at least since 1903 as his Father Died at the age of 42; Basil Kingdon had enlisted in the New Zealand
Rifle Brigade in 1915 & was promoted to sergeant prior to January 1916; On the 27.01.1916 the newspaper
‘The Colonist’ reported that Sergeant Basil Kingdon had been visiting Nelson on final leave before being
shipped to France & that he was the last of 3 Kingdon Brothers to go to the Front; Both of his brothers were
serving in Egypt in January 1916; This Soldier served with ‘F’ Company, (4th Reinforcements Draft), the 2nd
Battalion, The New Zealand Rifle Brigade, (The Earl of Liverpool’s Own), in France, having Embarked for
Europe on 04.03.1916 & subsequently fought in France; There is a New Zealand Army Casualty List #418/9
Report for #24/1915 Sergeant B. Kingdon having been slightly wounded on 29.09.1916 but able to remain
with his unit; The ‘Evening Post’ newspaper reported on the 06.09.1918 that Sergeant Basil Kingdon of the
New Zealand Rifle Brigade had been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for valuable services on the field
in France & that he was at that time at Keble College, Oxford, sitting for his Officer’s Commission; In the
1919 Electoral Rolls for Oroua, Manawatu-Wanganui, Basil Kingdon was recorded as a Farmer living in
Cheltenham, Oroua, his mother lives in Fielding, Oroua; I understand that 2nd Lieutenant Basil Kingdon
returned to Wellington, New Zealand on 30.06.1919, having left from England on the 16.05.1919, on board the
‘Prinzessin’, the first of the captured WW1 German liners to arrive in New Zealand; On the 13.11.1920 the
‘Fielding Star’ newspaper reported that Lieutenant B. Kingdon, M.S.M. became engaged to Miss Emily S.
Deighton, of ‘Leventhorpe’, Kawhatau Valley, Mangaweka, who he Married in 1925; In the 1928 Electoral
Roll his Mother Annie Evelyn Kingdon, his Brother John Stuart Kingdon, Basil & his wife Emily Susette
Kingdon, were Farming at Ohaeawai in Bay of Islands, Northland; I understand that Emily Susette Kingdon
Died in 1966 Aged 81 & that Basil Kingdon Died in 1972; This soldier was awarded the New Zealand
“Meritorious Service Medal” – Gazetted 17th June 1918, Registered Paper 0137/5058 - 159053; Medals Card
on file; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Roger Audley: #2698, Private, 28th Battalion, 6th Reinforcements,
Australian Imperial Force, WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, John Stewart: #23/473, Rifleman, ‘B’
Company, 1st New Zealand Rifle Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, WW1);
Kingdon, Benjamin R: Liverpool Regiment No: 56170 Acting Colour Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: Also served as #19973 Welsh Regiment & #38594 Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Labour Corps #46202 &
#56170 King’s Liverpool Regiment; On enlistment he recorded that he had previously served for 10 years &
254 days with 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers; This is Benjamin (Ben) Rufus Kingdon; He was born in
Swansea in 1870 according to the Chelsea Pensioners list; Further research confirms Benjamin Rufus
Kingdon was born in 1870 in Gower, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of John Gaylord Kingdon, a Tailor &
Draper, b.1842 in Swansea & Sarah Maria Jones b.1843 from Mumbles who Married in 1864 in Swansea, but
his Mother died in Cardiff, Glamorgan in the 1st Q 1877 Aged 35; (His Father, John G Kingdon remarried in
1878 to Ann Eliza Gillard from Tiverton); In 1871 Census Benjamin lives with his parents at #4, Dunns, in
Oystermouth, Glamorgan; In 1881 Census Benjamin is living with his parents at #11, Somerset Place, in
Oystermouth; I cannot find him in 1891 or 1901 Census so I assume that he was serving in the Army with the
2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, probably in Peshawar, India & then in South Africa; I have found records
that indicate Benjamin Rufus Kingdon was married previously in Gower in the 3rd Q 1901 to Martha Elliott but
she appears to have died in Gower in 1903 Aged 31, I doubt if there were any living children; In 1908,
Benjamin Rufus Kingdon married for the 2nd time to Edith Elizabeth Morris, born 1875 Mumbles, Glamorgan,
Wales, & they were married in St Paul’s Church, Swansea on 14.10.1908; In the 1911 Census Benjamin Rufus
Kingdon lives with wife Edith Elizabeth, he is the Town Postman; On Enlistment for WW1 Service on
02.12.1914 he was living at #65, Woodville Road, Mumbles, Swansea, Aged 44 years & 4 months, was a
Postman & married with 1 child; Wife is Daughter’s name is Florrie Margaret Doreen Kingdon born
27.12.1910, Gower, but she does not appear in the 1911 Census with her parents; His Service Records appear
to have mostly kept him in Home Postings, probably due to his age – he served with the 16th (Service)
Battalion Welsh Regiment from 1914 to 16.12.1915 as Quartermaster Sergeant & Sergeant; Transferred to the
2nd Reserve Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 17.12.1915 & served with them until being transferred on to
the 24th Works Battalion in 1916 & then the 24th King’s Liverpool Regiment on 02.09.1916; At about this time
I believe that he did serve in France for at least 5 months from 13.03.1917 until suffering a shell wound to his
left hand on 09.04.1917, & being invalided to England on 28.08.1917; He served at the Home Station with the
King’s Liverpool Regiment, attached to the 78th Labour Company from 28.10.1917 & was finally discharged
as being no longer fit for war service on 30.09.1917 with the rank of Company Quartermaster Sergeant, which
he had held since 07.03.1917; I believe that he was suffering from Arterial Capillary Fibrosis; His MIC card
indicates that he was on the Silver War Badge List with Regimental Numbers #46202, ex #19973 Labour
Corps & ex Welsh Regiment; He received his medals on 20.06.1921; Benjamin Rufus Kingdon was a Chelsea
Pensioner also; I believe that Benjamin R Kingdon died in 1943 in Swansea Aged 72; He was Awarded the
Silver War Badge # 274506; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Octavius Gillard Kingdon who
emigrated to Canada & served in WW1 as #109436 in the Canadian Expeditionary Force); (He is the Brother
of Hubert Kingdon who emigrated to Canada in 1912 & served in WW1 as #109435 in the Canadian
Expeditionary Force); (He was also the Brother of ca.1891, Royal Navy Apprentice Hedley Vicars Kingdon);
Kingdon, Bert: Devonshire Regiment No: 8673 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Bert (Bertie) Kingdon born in 1886 in Bishops Nympton, the son of George Kingdon, a
Labourer baptised 26.10.1851 in Bishops Nympton, Devon & Ann Kingdom b.1863 in Knowstone, Devon
who married in 1881 in Knowstone, North Devon; In the 1891 Census Bertie Kingdon was living with his
parents at Crosside Cottages in Knowstone, Devon; In 1901 Census Bert Kingdon was aged 15 & working as
an Agricultural Labourer on Padmarsh Farm in Rose Ash, Devon; He probably enlisted much earlier than his
entry date into WW1 on 06.11.1914, which is the date shown on his medal card, because I found a Bert
Kingdon born in 1887 in South Molton serving as a Private in the 2 nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment in
Malta in 1911 Census; Military research for the Devonshires would indicate enlistment for a man with the
regimental #8673 would have been between 23.01.1908 & 08.03.1909; It would be reasonably safe to assume
that Bertie Kingdon also served in the local Militia as his name appears on a Militia Service List (1806 to
1915), & this may explain the earlier service number of #8673; This Bert Kingdon served with the 2nd
Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment & is also mentioned in C T Atkinson's book about the Devonshire
Regiment under Bert Kingdon, No. 8673, & listed under Honours and Awards; He was awarded the Victory,
British & 1914 Star Medals so must have served for the duration of WW1; The UK Spring 1919 Absent Voters
List for South Molton Division, Devon, Parish of Rose Ash has reference #4152 to Kingdon Bert – Ash Moor
(No service details given); The Rose Ash Victory Hall Memorial in Devon records a Corporal B. Kingdon of
the Devonshire Regiment; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Ernest: Devonshire Regiment
No: 8737 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is also the Brother of Eli Kingdon who served in WW1
#3143, #2348 & #96658 RFA until 31.03.1919); (He is the brother of Kingdon, Frederick: #814692 139th
Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force; Rank: Private); (He is probably also the Brother of
Kingdom, Francis W: Devonshire Regiment No: 1775 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); I have not
researched any further at the moment;
Kingdon, Bertram: Army Service Corps No: 4/122407 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This Soldier also served as #41026 Gloucestershire Regiment & #5881 Leinster Regiment (The old
Prince of Wales’s Royal Canadians); The Regimental number of #5881 Acting Corporal for the 6th Battalion
Leinster Regiment would indicate an enlistment date between 29.03.1899 & 13.03.1900, however the 6th
Battalion was not formed until the outbreak of WW1 so I’m confused? 6th (Service) Battalion Formed in
Dublin, August 1914, as part of K1. August 1914: attached to 29th Brigade, 10th (Irish) Division. May 1918:
left the Division and moved to France, arriving Marseilles on 1 June 1918. 7-19 June 1918: attached to 14th
Division. 19-28 June 1918: attached to 34th Division. 20 July 1918: attached to 198th Brigade, 66th Division.
12 September 1918: disbanded in France; This is probably Bertram/Bertrum Kingdon born in 1890 in
Bishops Nympton, Devon, the son of John Kingdon, an Agricultural Labourer b.1852 in Romansleigh, Devon
& Mary Ann Lock from Bishops Nympton, who married in Bishops Nympton, Devon in 1873; In the 1891
Census Bertam Kingdon lived with parents at Knowles Downs, Bishops Nympton, Devon; In the 1901 Census
Bertram Kingdon lives with his parents at Poole Cottage, Bishops Nympton; In the 1911 Census I believe that
Bertram Kingdon was working as a Butcher & lodging in Middle Street, North Perrott, Somerset; At some
stage prior to his Army Service Bertram Kingdon moved to Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales as he Married
Minnie Bertha Vines, b.1892 in Dursley, Gloucestershire, in 1914 in Bridgend; Bertram Kingdon served in
France from 25.07.1915; Bertram Kingdon’s MIC card is marked to show his Service order as being #1 with
the Army Service Corps, #2 with the Leinster Regiment & #3 with the Gloucestershires Regiment; Bertram
Kingdon was Transferred to the Class Z Reserve on 15.03.1919; I believe that Bertram Kingdon dies Aged 56
in Bridgend, Wales in 1946; Medals Card on file; (He is the brother of Charles Kingdon who also served in
WW1 as #28483 in the Grenadier Guards); (I believe that another Brother, John Kingdon born 1880/82 in
Bishops Nympton served in the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment at the Battle of Colenso in the Boer War);
(He is also a brother of William Kingdom who also served in WW1 as #19131 Devonshires & #P13292
Military Foot Police);
Kingdon, Bruce: #622376, Private, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment); – Died in WW1;
Private Bruce Kingdon, #622376, 44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment), who died at
the age 27 on 25th October 1916 in the Area of the Somme; He was the Son of John E. Kingdon (b.1855), of
Barnstaple, England, a Fisherman, Shipbuilder & Bargeman & Elizabeth ??, also from Barnstaple; (She may
have been previously married as there is a Stepdaughter recorded living with the family in the 1891 Census
called Elizabeth Jane Limebear, b.1875 Barnstaple); At the time of his Death in France, Bruce Kingdon was
the Husband of Reta Viola Kingdon (nee Wilson, 2nd Marriage to Drenner) of 249, Kilbride Avenue,
Winnipeg, Manitoba; This Soldier is Remembered with honour in the VIMY MEMORIAL;
Notes: This is Bruce Kingdon who was born in Barnstaple, England on 21.04.1888; In 1891 Bruce Kingdon
lived with his parents in Potters Lane, Barnstaple, his Father was a Fisherman; In the 1901 English Census,
Bruce Kingdon was aged 13 & living with his parents at #10, Signal Terrace, Barnstaple, Devon, his Father is
a Shipwright & Bargeman; Bruce Kingdon probably emigrated to Canada on 21.07.1910 to visit his step sister
Elizabeth Limebeer, who had married Richard Johns in Barnstaple in 1899 & emigrated to Manitoba, Canada
in 1905, on the ‘SS Empress of Britain’ from Liverpool to Quebec; Bruce Kingdon is Rooming with another
Policeman & his family in Winnipeg City in the 1911 Census of Canada, he is a Winnipeg City Policeman, but
this record indicated that he had arrived in Canada in 1906 & not in 1910?; Bruce Kingdon married Reta Viola
Wilson on 02.11.1911 in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Private Bruce Kingdon enlisted at the age of 27 in the Canadian
Over-Seas Expeditionary Force in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on 17.05.1915 stating that he was an ex
Winnipeg City Policeman & that he had previously served with the Royal Garrison Artillery, (Volunteers) in
Devonshire, England; His attestation papers give his birth date of 21.04.1888 in Barnstaple, Devon, England &
indicate that he was already Married; His first attestation number was A23151, which was subsequently
changed to #622376 when he joined the 44th Overseas Battalion, CEF; I understand that his wife remarried to a
William Arnold Drenner in Winnipeg on 01.04.1918; (He was probably the Brother of Kingdon, John (Jack):
Royal Field Artillery No: 49756 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/23); (The Brother of Kingdon, George:
Royal Field Artillery No: 45713 Rank: Gunner & #174744 Sergeant George Kingdon of the Royal Garrison
Artillery); (He was also the Brother of Sydney John Kingdon WW1 Merchant Seaman);
Kingdon, Bruce Edwin: #4692108, Private, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; – Died in WW2;
Private Bruce Edwin Kingdon died on 12.04.1944 whilst serving with the 1/4th Battalion KOYLI’s in WW2,
he was aged 25, & is Remembered with Honour in the Castleford New Cemetery;
Notes: This is Bruce Edwin Kingdon, born 13.07.1918 in Castleford, Yorkshire (registered Pontefract), the
son of George (Henry) Kingdon, b.1890 Barnstaple, Devon, a Sergeant in the RGA, & Lily Fawcett from
Yorkshire, who Married on 01.12.1917 in Allerton, Bywater, Yorkshire; (His Father had earlier marital &
illegitimate children problems throughout his Army career – which I have detailed under his own profile
notes); I believe that Bruce Edwin Kingdon may not have Died in Action as there is a UK Death Record
registration in Blyth, Suffolk for Bruce E Kingdon Aged 25 in 1944 - (2nd Q 1944 Blyth 4a.1150), however, as
the KOYLI’s saw a great deal of action at Normandy in June 1944 it is possible this Soldier may have been
killed at home during training for the invasion?; Awarded the 1939-45 Star & War Medals; (He was the son of
Kingdon, George: Royal Field Artillery No: 45713 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – also recorded as
Kingdon, George: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 174744 Rank: Sergeant);
Kingdon, Bridget Mary: Officer Candidate & Assistant Administrator, Women’s Royal Air Force, 1918-19;
Notes: This is Bridget Mary Kingdon, born in 1893 in Holsworthy, Devon, the Daughter of Reverend Frank
Hawker Kingdon b.1860 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire & Jessie Freyberg from Belgravia, London who
married in 1886 in Richmond, Surrey; In 1901 Bridget Mary Kingdon lived with her parents in the Vicarage in
Bridgerule, Devon; In 1911 Census Bridget Mary Kingdon was studying Physical Culture in Middlesex &
living with a maternal Aunt & Uncle Percy Freyberg at #47, Warwick Road, Ealing; On 01.10.1918 Bridget
Mary Kingdon was an Officer Candidate promoted to Assistant Administrator at the Air Ministry in the newly
formed Women’s Royal Air Force; On the 22.10.1919 Bridget Mary Kingdon relinquished her position with
the WRAF upon completion of her service; (She is the Sister of Second Lieutenant Robert Claude Hawker
Kingdon, Royal Field Artillery who died age 27 on 19 April 1917); (She was the Sister of Kingdon, Frank
Denys: Royal Field Artillery Rank: Second Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who served in WW1);
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KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, C: Room Steward, presumably serving with Royal Navy, Victorian Conflicts Lists;
Notes: There is a note for service in the Victorian Conflicts period for a C. Kingdon served as a “Room
Steward” on board a ship named “Englishman”; None of this can be verified? The record has his birth year as
1895 in Cardiff but there are no C. Kingdon births in 1894, 1895 or early 1896 that match? The nearest
possibility is an Ernest Clifford Kingdon born in the 4th Q 1894 in Cardiff? I did not research any further;
Kingdon, C: Royal Navy, 1st Class Boy, Ship’s Pay Book #19; Crimean War 1855;
Notes: I have a Medal Record from ADM 171/25 for Sailors who served on ‘HMS Swallow’ in the Crimean
War (1854 to 1856) which indicates that 1st Class Boy, C.G. Kingdon was present at the assault of Sebastopol;
He was awarded the Sea of Azoff (Azov) Clasp; This Sailor needs more research to find out who he is;
Kingdon, C: Civilian Sailor, Mate; WW1 – ADM 171/133;
Notes: ADM 171/133 records the issue of medals to Civilian Personnel C. Kingdon, who was serving as Mate
on board a vessel named ‘Isieford’ during WW1; I can find no references for this vessel? However, the medal
issue records delivery to the Royal Naval Armament Depot, Lodge Hill in Chattenden, near Upnor in Kent;
Awarded the British War Medal; Insufficient information to identify further;
Kingdon, C W: Royal Field Artillery No: 47983 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Also served as - Kingdon, Charlie Walter: #364586, Royal Navy, ADM 188/556, WW1;
Notes: Recorded for service with the Royal Regiment of Artillery, the Royal Horse Artillery & Royal Field
Artillery; Served in France from 04.09.1915 to 10.02.1917; This is Charles (Charlie) Walter Kingdon
b.17.09.1889 in the Parish of Fratton, Portsmouth, Hampshire; This young man enlisted on 17.09.1907 at the
age of 18 years in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; His Short Service Attestation Papers record that he was a
Domestic by trade and had previously served in the Royal Navy but had been discharged as his services were
no longer required; Further searches indicate that Charles Walter Kingdon had served as a Boy Domestic in
the Royal Navy, #364586, from 01.02.1906 to 21.08.1907; He served on HMS Victory 01.02.1906 to
01.09.1906; HMS Latona from 20.09.1906 to 06.05.1907; HMS Amethyst from 07.05.1907 to 19.08.1907;
HMS Albermarle from 20.08.1907 to 21.08.1907 but on shore; He was the son of James George Kingdon, a
Royal Navy Seaman, b.1837 in Portsmouth & his 2nd wife Elizabeth Male who married in 1877 in Portsea,
Portsmouth; In 1891 Charles Walter Kingdon lived in #32, Alver Road, Portsmouth with his parents; In 1901
he was living in Ethel Road, Portsmouth with his parents, I note that the family also had a 1 year old Nurse
Child, Annie Nye from Woking in Surrey living with them; In 1911 Census Charles Walter Kingdon was a
Gunner serving away from his Command HQ in Jubbulpore in India with the 83 rd Battery Royal Field
Artillery; During his Army Service with the Royal Field Artillery Charles Walter Kingdon married Mildred
Annie Mary Aldworth on 12.04.1915 in West Hundred, Steventon, Berkshire; His wife was born in 1894 in
Berkshire; His Service Records show that he was on the ‘B’ Reserve from the date of enlistment until
19.11.1907, with service up to 03.02.1914 where he was again placed on the Reserve & until he was Mobilised
on 06.08.1914; On 03.02.1914 he gave his address as #6, Ethel Road, Portsmouth & his trade as Pawnbroker’s
Assistant; He was again on the ‘B’ Reserve on 07.03.1919 & finally Discharged from the 3/5 Reserve Brigade
Royal Field Artillery on 16.09.1919 after 12 years service; Upon discharge he gave his occupation before
enlistment as ‘Rancher’ & his intended address as #28,Summerville Road, New Cross, London, SE14; I
believe that he served in India & France & that he was wounded in Salonika on 12.09.1916 with gun shot
wounds to his buttock & forearm; He was transferred to England via Malta at that time, suffering from Malaria
as well; One of his record papers identifies that he had 4 brothers all serving in the Royal Navy, James John,
William George, Harry & Edward Arthur Kingdon; Medals Card on file; His MIC Card has his son as M.V.
Winton, PO Box 134, Viceroy, Saskatchewan, Canada but I could not link them; (After further research I
believe that Charlie Walter Kingdon was the Brother of James John Kingdon, a Coast Guard Petty Officer
#PO/128972 who Died in WW1 aboard ‘HMS India’ on 08.08.1915 off Norway); (He was also the Brother of
Kingdon, Edward Arthur: #220316 Leading Seaman, Royal Navy who served in WW1); (He is also the
Brother of Kingdon, Harry: #208949 Leading Seaman, Royal Navy); (Also the Brother of Kingdon, William
George: Petty Officer 1st Class, #155575, Royal Navy); (He was the Son of #40040 James George Kingdon,
who served in the Royal Navy from 01.07.1853);
Kingdon, C: #1421, Corporal, 19th Regiment, Hussars; Anglo Egyptian War; WO 100/55;
Notes: It is my belief that the #1421 indicates enlistment before #2096, which was issued on 10.01.1881, & the
fact that he was a Corporal in 1882 would indicate a much earlier date of birth than 1860? I have medal
records for Corporal C. Kingdon, serving with the 19th Regiment Hussars for service in the Anglo Egyptian
War in 1882 & for having fought at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir on 13.09.1882, near Kassassin, Canal Zone,
Egypt, (there were 374 of these medals issued to the 19th Hussars); Originally the 19th were raised in 1858 as
the 1st Bengal European Light Cavalry by the British East India Company for service in the Indian Mutiny,
they became Light Dragoons in 1861 & were changed to Hussars in 1862 when they moved into the British
Army; By 1885 this Regiment was known as the 19th (Prince of Wales Own) Hussars; He was awarded the
Egypt Medal & the Tal el Kebir Clasps; This Soldier needs more research to find out who he is;
Kingdon, Cecil James: #1703 Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery; WW1;
Notes: This is Cecil James Kingdon born 27.01.1900 in Islington/Clapham, he was the son of Henry (Harry)
Kingdon, a Fitter b.1866 in Stepney & Sarah (Sally) Chown, (b.1870 Kilburn), who Married in 1894 in
Lambeth; In the 1901 Census Cecil Kingdon is aged 1 & living with his parents at #136, Hornsey Park Road,
Wood Green, Middlesex; In the 1911 Census record Cecil James Kingdon is aged 11, living with his parents at
#12, Luxor Street, Camberwell; Cecil James Kingdon Enlisted in the Army in 1915 but made a false statement
regarding his age; He tried to enlist on 22.09.1915 claiming to be 19 years of age & was initially accepted; He
was in service with the 138th Hampstead Brigade for 284 days before being found out & was subsequently
discharged at Cambridge Barracks, Woolwich, under King’s Regulations Para 392 (vi) on 01.07.1916; At his
discharge time he stated that he intended to live in Islington and work as a Clerk, he was aged 16 Years & 157
days at that time; His address was #5, Rheidol Terrace, Islington; (See new notes below);
Kingdon, Cecil James: #15621 Gunner, 2nd Class, Royal Marine Artillery; ADM 159/91; WW1;
New Notes; Further research reveals that Cecil James Kingdon later successfully enlisted in the Royal Marine
Artillery, as part of his Continuous Service on 07.05.1917; There is also a record for Cecil James Kingdon,
Gunner 2nd Class with a Royal Marine Artillery number of #15621 who was awarded the British War Medal;
This record confirms that this is the same soldier as it gives his date of birth as 27th January 1900 & his date of
Enlistment as 07.05.1917; Subsequently we can assume that he served for the duration of WW1? I believe that
after the war he went to Hong Kong at some time as there are numerous trips back to UK via ship, in 1927 he
was a ‘Warder’ & travelled from Hong Kong with Una Maud Kingdon aged 20, who was probably his wife;
(Did they marry in Hong Kong & was her name Una Maud Falla?); in 1934 he was a Warder travelling from
Hong Kong with a 5 year old Louis F Kingdon, & I also note that Una Maud Kingdon, aged 26 & a 3 year old
Marcel Harry Kingdon, both resident in Hong Kong also travelled to the UK in May 1934; (It appears that they
travelled on different ships); I believe that they may have lived in the London area in 1935 as they had a
daughter born in Islington in that year & she travelled with them in 1937 from Hong Kong on a visit to the
Channel Islands; In 1939 he is a Warder coming from Hong Kong; in 1946 he is a Warder coming from
Sydney, Australia; In 1947 he came from Hong Kong & is recorded as a Government Official going to stay at
#69, Tottenham Lane, Hornsey, London, he is aged 47; In 1951 to 1964 I found Cecil J & Una M Kingdon
living at #44, Strathleven Road, Brixton, Lambeth, London, Middlesex, England; At some stage between 1965
& 1976 Cecil James & Una Maud Kingdon returned to Australia; Ancestry Public Trees on the internet have
Cecil James Kingdon’s Death in 1970 in Australia but I have yet to be convinced of this as I have a record of
Cecil James & Una Maud Kingdon living at #8, Campbell Street, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia in 1977 & in
1980; For his WW1 Service he was awarded the British War Medal; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Henry
Maurice: #J14253, Able Seaman, Royal Navy; ADM 188/675); (He was the Father of #36141 Louis Francis
Edward Kingdon (born 03.01.1929 Hong Kong), Australian Navy in WW2);
Kingdon, Cecil C W: Midshipman, Royal Naval Reserve, 1920’s;
Notes: This is Cecil Charles Whitfield Kingdon born on 26.03.1903 in Medstead, Hampshire; He was the
son of Arthur Kingdon b.1868 in Basingstoke & Mabel Whitfield from Birmingham who married in King’s
Norton, Birmingham, Worcestershire in 1895; (His Grandfather was Thomas Maton Kingdon b.1835 in
Salisbury, Wiltshire, an Ironmonger & wealthy businessman); (His Father died on 17.12.1903 at the age of
35); In the 1911 Census he lives with his Mother, a widow living on private means in The Lodge, Alresford,
Hampshire; In July 1920 there is a reference to Cecil Charles Whitfield Kingdon being made a Probationary
Midshipman with the Royal Naval Reserve as from 01.09.1919; I believe that Cecil C W Kingdon Married
Gladys Mary Lines in 1926 in Alresford, Hampshire; In 1930 I have found an Electoral Registration for Cecil
Charles Whitfield & Gladys Mary Kingdon for #118 New Street, Market Hall Ward, Edgbaston, Birmingham,
Warwickshire, however, there is a note that their actual abode is #67, Paradise Lane, Sparkhill Ward, Moseley,
Birmingham; Cecil Charles W Kingdon died in 1982 in Bexley, Greater London Aged 79; (He was the Brother
of Kingdom, Arthur G: Hampshire Regiment No: 355507 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); I
researched no further;
Kingdon, Charles: Royal Field Artillery No: 151312 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Charles Henry Kingdon born in the 3rd Q 1891 in Barnstaple, probably the son of Charles
Walter Kingdon b.1861 in South Molton (illegitimate son of Eliza Kingdon from Knowstone who married
James Richards a Blacksmith from Pilton) & Mary Jane ?? from Barnstaple who married in 1887 in
Barnstaple; If I am correct then in 1901 Census Charles lived with his parents in #3, Allen’s Court, Litchdon
Street, Barnstaple; In 1911 the family lived at the same address but I did not find Charles Kingdon b.1892,
however, this family had 11 children with only 7 surviving in 1911; This young man enlisted in 1915 & was
Mobilised on 09.07.1916 in Barnstaple at the age of 24 years & 153 days age & was a Provision Manager
living at #3, Market Street, Ilfracombe, Devon; He gave his Next of Kin as his Father, Charles Walter Kingdon
living in Litchdon Street, Barnstaple, who I think was a Mason by trade or a Coal Porter; I believe that Gunner
Charles Kingdon may have been wounded or sick at some point in his service as he was in the British Station
Hospital in Hyderabad, Sind; He embarked for UK from India on 20.04.1920; Further research indicates that
he did not join 69 Brigade in the Mesopotamia Expeditionary force as he was invalided to India with
Dysentery on 08.12.1917; In October & November 1919 he appears to have suffered from Para Typhoid Fever
but was fully recovered by mid December; Gunner Charles Kingdon served with the 3# Depot, Royal Field
Artillery in Hilsea at the time of Discharge on 16th August 1920 & gave his permanent address as #14,
Litchdon Street, Barnstaple; Just prior to discharge he spent 1 month in hospital in Alexandria with an
advanced case of Gonorrhea which he contracted in Bombay, India, & was transferred to England; I think that
he served also in Afghanistan, North West Frontier in 1918/19 as he was awarded the Medal & clasp for that
conflict; Unfortunately many of his service documents are unreadable; Only one late 1920 record has him as
Gunner Charles H Kingdon; Further research reveals that Gunner Charles Kingdon #151312 served with the
21st Brigade Royal Field Artillery & was awarded the India General Service Medal 1908 with Clasp inscribed
“Afghanistan, North-West Frontier, 1919” under the provisions of Army Order No. 223, dated 3 rd June 1920,
(Medal Roll on file); I believe that Charles Henry Kingdon died in Barnstaple in 1936 Aged 43; Medals Card
on file; I did not research any further;
Kingdom, Charles: Royal Engineers No: 172009 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1; Transferred
from Kingdom List;
Notes: (I believe that this is more likely to be Charles Kingdon when I researched looking for suitable
candidates); This is probably Charles William Kingdon b.1883 in Dawlish, Devon; If I am correct then he
was the son of William Kingdon, a Gardener b.1852 in Silverton, Devon & Mary Ann Routley from Sowton,
Devon, who Married in 1882 in Exeter St Thomas; In the 1891 Census Charles W. Kingdon lives with his
parents in #8, Brook Street, Dawlish, Devon; In the 1901 Census he is 17 years old, working as an Apprentice
Carpenter & living with his parents in Manor Row, East Dawlish; Unfortunately I failed to find this man in the
1911 Census? With two brothers serving in the Royal Engineers I have assumed that Charles Kingdon is part
of this family; Medals Card on file for the Victory & British War Medals; (He is the Brother of Kingdon,
Frederick R: Royal Engineers No: 286416 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who Died in WW1); (He was
the Brother of Kingdon, Arthur G: Royal Engineers No: T6886 Rank: Sapper, 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Needs more research;
Kingdon, Charles & Kingdom, Charles: Private, #PLY/16665 & Corporal, #PLY/16666, Royal Marine
Light Infantry, Plymouth Division; ADM 159/159; NOTE: These are 2 separate People;
Notes: I have searched for suitable Charles Kingdon & Charles Kingdom who were born on the dates indicated
in the RMLI Records but did not find any possibilities over a 4 year period either side of the dates given?
The ADM records have a Charles Kingdon, #16665 born on 21.12.1894 who Enlisted in the RMLI Plymouth
Division on 20.04.1914, WW1;
The ADM records have a Charles Kingdom, #16666 born on 31.12.1896 who also Enlisted in the RMLI
Plymouth Division on 20.04.1914, WW1;
A search of the 1901 & 1911 Census records does not reveal any suitable Charles Kingdon/Kingdom either?
The records also indicate that both men with #16665 & #16666 served with the Plymouth Battalion at Antwerp
& Dunkirk in 1914? #16665 was recorded as a Private, “Error on Roll – also entitled to the Clasp for Antwerp
1914, Clasp not issued/claimed & Discharged to Pension”? #16666 was recorded as a Corporal who was
“Discharged with Bonus on Reduction”?
Follow up research – ADM 171/169 also confirms this #PLY 16665 Private Chas. Kingdon’s medal awards
& also indicates that he served on board ‘HMS Bellerophon’ on 07.02.1919 & at the R.M.B. Plymouth when
his medals were awarded; I believe that he may have been serving on the Aircraft Carrier ‘HMS Eagle’ in
1929; Awarded the 1914 Star, Victory & British War Medals; On 25.07.1929 he was issued with the Royal
Navy Long Service & good Conduct Medal;
Follow up research – ADM 171/169 confirms this #PLY 16666 Corporal Chas. Kingdom’s medal awards &
also indicates that he served on board ‘HMS Suffolk’ & ‘HMS Cambrian’ when his medals were awarded; It
appears that #16666 was also a Sergeant when he served on ‘HMS Suffolk’ on 04.08.1919; Awarded the 1914
Star, Victory & British War Medals; Needs more research to identify these two long serving Marines?
Kingdon, Charles: #328882 Private, 60th Overseas Battery Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Overseas
Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This soldier also served with the 15th O/S Brigade C.F.A.; This is Charles Kingdon born 12.02.1890 in
Penarth, South Wales, United Kingdom; He is the son of William Kingdon b.02.03.1861 in Meshaw, Devon,
England & Elizabeth Stanmore Lovell from Penarth who Married in Cardiff, Wales in 1882; In 1891 Census
Charles Kingdon lives with his parents at #39, Evans Street, Merthyr Dovan in Glamorgan, Wales; In 1901
Census Charles’s Mother has died & he lives with his Widower Father & his Grandmother, (who was a widow
& had married again to a Dock Labourer called Thomas Bath), at #39, Regent Street in Merthyr Dovan in
Barry, Glamorgan; In 1911 Census Charles Kingdon is living with his Father at the same address, is aged 21 &
a Crane Driver for the Railway; Charles Kingdon then emigrated to Canada on board the ‘SS Victorian’
arriving in Halifax on 23.04.1911 & heading towards Regina, Saskatchewan; Charles Kingdon was then
enlisted into the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 20.03.1916 at the age of 26 years; He was working as a
Dominion Civil Service Clerk for the Post Office at that time, living at #2059, McTavish or McParrish Street,
Regina, Saskatchewan & was sent to Camp Petewawa; I believe that by this stage Charles may have already
been a Canadian Citizen; I believe that he returned to Regina, Canada after the War & became the Post Master
there until he joined the Great Ford Co. where he became a Director; He had served in WW1 with members of
the Ford family; Follow up research indicates that Signaller C. Kingdon of the 60 th CFA Unit was invalided
back to Canada in 1919 on board the R.M.S. ‘Royal George’ suffering from Jaundice & Catarrh; I did not
research further;
Kingdon, Charles: Royal Welsh Fusiliers No: 47296 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Records are for #47296 Private Charles Kingdon 3rd Garrison, Welsh Regiment; Charles Kingdon
Enlisted on 04.08.1915 in Barry at the Age of 39 years, having previously served for 14 years in the Royal
Garrison Artillery but no records of this have survived; He was initially given #38801 with the Welsh
Regiment but this is crossed out & #47296 with the 4th Garrison Battalion Royal Welsh fusiliers inserted;
Private Charles Kingdon was Discharged 01.10.1916 under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) as being no
longer Physically fit for War Service; It would appear that he was struck off Battalion strength when they
departed for overseas service and he was left in Hospital on 06.06.1916 suffering from severe Rheumatism; At
the time of his discharge in Shrewsbury he was aged 40 years & 3 months, therefore born ca.1876 & had
served for 1 year & 59 days; He gives his trade as Labourer & his address as #17, Quarella Street, Cadoxton,
Barry, near Cardiff, Wales (he did not live there in 1911 Census but the resident, Mrs. Elizabeth Carter was
recorded as being his friend); Further research indicates that he may well have been Charles Kingdon born as
early as 1872 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, who was a Dock Labourer & Boarder at #39, Daniel Street, Cadoxton
in 1911 Census & is recorded as being single; His Chelsea Pension reference number was 65703E I believe but
his name does not appear on any of my lists; Based on the foregoing I researched Charles Kingdon born
1872/1876 in Bristol but unfortunately nothing became obvious; I did find him in 1901 Census as a Navvy,
boarding in Barry, Glamorgan, aged 29; Searching further back in 1891 I think that I found him again as a 20
year old Labourer staying with his Uncle & Aunt Alfred Aldridge at #1, Kenilworth Road, Cadoxton Juxta
Barry, next to Quarella Street; He was awarded the Silver War Badge #B154009; No Medals awarded but
Records Card is on file; This needs further research as I may have mixed up my Charles Kingdons;
Kingdon, Charles: Grenadier Guards No: 28483 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Records say he was Charles Kingdom #28483; This is Charles Kingdon born in 1888 in Bishops
Nympton, Devon, the son of John Kingdon b.1852 in Romansleigh & Mary Ann Lock from Bishops Nympton,
married in Bishops Nympton in 1873; In 1891 Charles Kingdon lived with parents at Knowles Downs,
Bishops Nympton; In 1901 Census he was a 13 year old Farm Servant or a Horse Teamster at Cross Farm or
Combesland in Bishops Nympton, (some confusion as there are more than one Charles Kingdoms/Kingdons of
similar ages in this area in 1901); In 1911 Census Charles Kingdon was a Waggoner on Hondre Owen Farm,
Llanharan, Pontyclin, Glamorgan, Wales; His attestation papers indicate that he was a 27 year old Farm
Labourer on Hondre Owen Farm, near Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales when he enlisted on 10.12.1915 & he also
gave his next of kin as Mary Kingdom, Mother, living at Pool Cott, Bishops Nympton where the family lived
in 1911 Census; He enlisted on 10.12.1915, Army Reserve 11.12.1915 & mobilised in Caterham, with the
Grenadier Guards on 09.12.1916; He served at Home & was sent to France on 30.12.1917 until 14.09.1918,
returning to continue Home Service; He was demobilised & sent to Reserve on 11.12.1919 and finally
discharged on 01.03.1920; Medals Card on file; (He is the younger brother of William Kingdom who also
served in WW1 as #19131 Devonshires & #P13292 Military Foot Police); (I believe that another Brother,
John Kingdon born 1880/82 in Bishops Nympton served in the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment at the
Battle of Colenso in the Boer War); (He is also the brother of Bertram Kingdon who served in WW1
#4/122407 Army Service Corps & #41026 Gloucestershires & #5881 Leinster Regiment;
Kingdon, Charles Frederick: #31691 Continuous Service Royal Navy, 1856 – 1860’s; ADM 139/317;
Notes: This is Charles Frederick Kingdon born 20.06.1842 in Plymouth, he was the son of William George
Kingdon, an Independent person b.ca.1797 (probably in Plymouth) & Ann Webb (b.1806) from Worcester,
Worcestershire, who Married on 27.08.1824 in Worcester, England; Charles's Father William Kingdon Died in
Plymouth either in 1846 or 1849 as Charles Kingdon aged 9 lived with his Widowed Mother in #7, Victorian
Street, Plymouth in the 1851 Census; Charles Frederick Kingdon Volunteered for the Royal Navy on
30.09.1856 at the age of 14 years; In the 1861 Census he is serving as an Ordinary 2nd Class Seaman on board
‘HMS Nile’ which was undergoing steam trials at Plymouth in April of that year, having just been converted to
screw power; I believe that Charles Frederick Kingdon Married Maria Griffiths Lamprell (b.1845, Edmonton,
Enfield) in Shoreditch in 1863; In 1871 Census I have Charles F & Maria Kingdon living in Strattondale
Street, Mile End Old Town, London, Charles is a Labourer; In the 1881 Census Charles & Maria ‘Kingston’
(corrected to Kingdon) still live at #16, Strattondale Street in Poplar, London, Charles is a Weigher at the
Docks; In 1891 Census Chas Fred & Maria Griffiths Kingdon still live at #16, Strattondale Street in Poplar, the
house is now a Sweet Shop & Charles works at Millwall Docks as a Sampler; in 1901 Census Charles Kingdon
still lives at #16, Strattondale Street in Poplar & is Dock Sampler, his wife Maria G. Kingdon is a Sick Nurse
visiting an Edmunds Family at #68, Satterley Street in Limehouse, London (I do not think they were related);
In the 1911 Census Charles & Maria Kingdon live at #35, Strattondale Street, Poplar, he is a Waterman at the
Docks; I believe that Charles F Kingdom Died in 1920, Aged 78, in Poplar & his wife Maria Griffiths
Kingdom in 1928 Aged 85;
Kingdon, Charles Ford: New Zealand, 2nd Division Reservist, 1917, WW1;
Notes: I do not believe that this man actually served in WW1, but he is recorded as a Class E Reservist in the
2nd Division in 1917; Class E indicates that at that time he was Married with at least 4 children, living &
Farming at Ryal Bush, Southland Provincial District; This is Charles Ford Kingdon b.1878 in New Zealand,
the son of Josiah Stephens Kingdon, b.1842 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England & Catherine Johnson who Married
in 1868 in New Zealand; I understand that Charles Ford Kingdon Married Grace Wilcox in 1901 & continued
Farming in Ryal Bush, Awarua, Southland through to 1919; In the 1928 Canterbury Rolls Charles & Grace
Kingdon lived at #35, Lincoln road, Riccarton, Canterbury but were also recorded in Burnham, Kaiapoi,
Canterbury for the same year; From 1935 to 1946 they are recorded in Hawthornden Road, Riccarton &
Selwyn, Canterbury; I believe that they had at least 5 children between 1902 & 1912; Grace Kingdon died in
1948 Aged 75 & Charles Ford Kingdon died in 1950 Aged 72; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, George: New
Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916 WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Albert John: New Zealand,
1st Division Reservist, 1916 WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, James Alexander: #41577, ‘F’
Company, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Army, WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon,
Stanley Craig: #8/3828, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Army, WW1);
Kingdon, Charles H: London Regiment No: 4950 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Private Charles H Kingdon served with the 6th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (City
of London Rifles) & his regimental number would indicate an enlistment date of between 09.09.1915 &
27.10.1915; This soldier also served in the Machine Gun Corps as #119397; This is likely to be Charles
Henry Kingdon born in 1898 in Pimlico, (St George, Hanover Square, London), the son of Henry Kingdon, a
Printing Ink Maker, b.1874 in Stepney & Edith Margaret Anderson b.1874 from Grosvenor Square who
married in 1896 in St George, Hanover Square, London; In 1901 Census I believe that the family lived in East
Ham; I believe that Henry Kingdon was admitted to Pocock Street School in Southwark at the age of 5, the
school records have his Father’s name as John(?); In 1911 Census Charles Henry Kingdon lives with his
parents at #46, Zoar Street, Southwark in London; A search of records indicates that Charles Henry Kingdon
Married Ellen Hephzibah Day on 30.07.1921 in Kingsway Holy Trinity Church in Camden, Charles was a
Warehouse Man at the time, (as was his Father) & aged 23; I believe that Charles Henry Kingdon Died in the
1st Q 1936 in Bromley, Kent, Aged 38, purely based on his being from Kent, & the assumption that he enlisted
to serve in a London Regiment at the age of 18 years; I believe that his wife (b.19.04.1899) died aged 88 in
Southwark in 1988; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Charles H: Coldstream Guards No: 5487 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1;
Sergeant Charles Henry Kingdon, #5487, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, who died age 30 on 14th
September 1914; Husband of Elizabeth Kingdon, of 26, Water St., Llanllechid, Bangor. Remembered with
honour LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL;
Notes: This is Charles Henry Kingdon born 1884 in Newport, Glamorgan, Wales (Not Proven?); Charles
Henry Kingdon probably enlisted in 1904 according to the Coldstream Guards numbering sequence; Charles
Henry Kingdon probably married Susannah Elizabeth Cook in 1902 in Plymouth, Devon; This WW1
Memorial in France commemorates soldiers who died in August, September & the early part of October 1914
& who have no known grave; Medals Card on file; I have not done any further research on this soldier;
Kingdon, Charles Llewellyn: S.A. 1667, Skipper, Merchant Marine, Royal Naval Trawlers & Auxiliary
Small Craft, Royal Naval Reserve in WW1; Ref. BT 377/7/98564;
Notes: This is Charles Llewellyn Kingdon b.1879 in Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire; He was the son of
William Kingdon, a Shipwright b.1834 in Bristol, & Elizabeth Morgan b.1840 in Newport, Monmouthshire,
Wales, who Married in 1858 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; [Charles Llewellyn Kingdon was a brother of Elsie
Maria Kingdon who married Elias James Leach in Bristol & was the Mother of Cary Grant (Archibald
Alexander Leach)]; In 1881 Census Charles Kingdon was aged 2 & lived with his parents at #3, Poor House
Steps, Hotwell Road, Clifton, Bristol; I believe his father died in early 1891 & coming from a very large
family, Charles Llewellyn Kingdon was placed in the National Nautical School Training Ship “Formidable”,
moored at Portishead in the Bristol Channel; (Interesting to note that of the 3,700 boys discharged from the
‘Formidable’ between 1869 & 1909, 2,312 of them went into the Merchant Service & 192 into the Royal
Navy); In the 1891 Census Charles Llewellyn is recorded as a 12 year old onboard “Formidable” & effectively
a Scholar ‘under detention’ until the age of 16 years; In the 1901 Census Charles Kingdom is found as a
Boarder living in Green’s Court, Brixham, Devon, he is a 22 year old Fisherman, living next door to a
Brixham fishing family named Seaward who were probably related to his future wife); In early 1901 Charles
Llewellyn Kingdon Married Jessie Seaward in Brixham, Devon; In the 1911 Census Jessie Kingdon & 4
children are living in #4, St Peter’s Terrace, Brixham, I assume that Charles Llewellyn Kingdon is away at sea
fishing; I have for the Royal Naval Reserve during WW1 & in October 1916 he is recorded in the Royal Naval
Reserve as #S.A. 1667, a Temporary Skipper with Seniority since 02.06.1916 & serving on the Auxiliary
Small Craft “Tettenhall”; The “Tettenhall” was a Navy Trawler commissioned on 02.06.1916 which was sunk
by a German U-Boat UC14, off Lowestoft on 23.05.1917; The records indicate that all 6 crew were killed but I
find this hard to believe when Charles Llewellyn Kingdon, the Skipper, continued to serve in the RNR until at
least 1919? In August 1917 he is still Royal Naval Reserve but not assigned to any vessel; In January 1919
Charles Llewellyn Kingdon is Skipper of the trawler “Warbler”; I understand from the records that Charles
Llewellyn & Jessie Kingdon probably settled in Woolwich, Kent & lived at #22, Sand Street, Newnham,
Woolwich which eventually became a Fish & Chip Shop for many years, later run by their son Charles
Llewellyn (b.1904 Woolwich) & his wife Doris Blanche Kingdon; Charles Llewellyn & Jessie Kingdon lived
at #22, Sand Street, Woolwich until 1930 & then moved to #21, Crescent Road, Plumstead, Woolwich,
London, Kent; Charles Llewellyn Kingdon died on 21.07.1938 in Plumstead aged 59 & his wife Jessie
Kingdon died on 27.12.1944 Aged 64, also in Plumstead, Woolwich; (He is the Father of Charles Llewellyn
Kingdon who served in WW2);
Kingdon, Charles Llewellyn: Called up & served in 1939-1945 WW2;
Notes: This is Charles Llewellyn Kingdon b.01.05.1904 in Brixham, Devon, the son of Charles Llewellyn
Kingdon, a Fisherman, b.1879 in Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire & Jessie Seaward, b.1881 in Brixham, who
Married in 1901 in Brixham, Devon; In the 1911 Census Charles lives with his Mother, (Father at sea), at #4,
St Peter’s Terrace, Brixham, Devon, he is aged 6; In 1926 the family lived at #22, Sand Street, Newnham,
Woolwich in London; Charles L Kingdon Married Doris (Doll) Blanche Backhouse in 1929 in Woolwich, (she
was born 19.04.1906 in Woolwich); In 1933 Charles Llewellyn & Doris blanche Kingdon lived at #37,
Silvermere Road, Catford, Lewisham but moved back to #22, Sand Street in 1934 when his parents moved out,
where they ran a Fish & Chip Shop located on the corner of Sand Street & Oak Street; During WW2 Charles
Llewellyn Kingdon was called up for WW2 Service & the Fish Shop was closed until his demobilisation at the
end of the War; They re-opened & continued to run a very successful business until the mid 1960’s; I believe
that Doris Blanche Kingdon Died in Guys Hospital, London on 06.07.1972, Aged 66 & Charles Llewellyn
Kingdon in 1975 in Greenwich, he was aged 71; Needs more research on his military records for WW2;
(He is the Son of Charles Llewellyn Kingdon, #S.A. 1667, Skipper, Merchant Marine, Royal Naval Trawlers
& Auxiliary Small Craft, Royal Naval Reserve in WW1; Ref. BT 377/7/98564, who served in WW1);
Kingdon, Charles Oliver: #6878, Corporal, Royal Army Pay Corps, WW1;
Notes: This is Charles Oliver Kingdon born in 1878 in St. Pancras London, the son of John Kingdon b.1835
South Molton, Devon & 2nd Wife Matilda ‘Tilly’ Knight Count from Nottinghamshire who married in Newark
in November 1875, (John Kingdon’s 1st wife Elizabeth Case died in 1875); In 1881, 1891 & 1901 Censuses
Charles O. Kingdon is aged 3, 13 & 23 years respectively & lived with his parents at #32 Hastings Street, St
Pancras, he is a House Painter in 1901; Charles Oliver Kingdon Married Florence Tilbury from St Pancras, in
St Pancras in 1901; In 1911 Census Charles Oliver & Florence live at #2, Chesterfield Street, Kings Cross,
London WC & he is a House Painter, records say they have been married for 9 years with no children; His
original Army documents indicate that he was attested & serving as a Private on 27.04.1915; He was promoted
to Temporary Corporal on 21.06.1915 & Temporary Sergeant on 09.10.1915; He reverted ranks on
17.11.1916; Obviously this Soldier was posted to other units as a Pay Corps man & was promoted accordingly,
at one stage he served with the 32nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; He was a Private on 23.03.1918,
Appointed Acting Unpaid Corporal on 25.02.1919, Appointed Acting Unpaid Sergeant on 28.02.1919,
Appointed Acting Sergeant on 11.04.1919; For pay purposes he was promoted to Corporal on 27.04.1916 until
31.10.1919 when he was Acting Paid Sergeant & reverted to paid rank of Corporal on 01.11.1919; Corporal
Charles Oliver Kingdon was Discharged on 29.06.1920; I believe that Charles Oliver Kingdon was Aged 37,
was a married Clerk & living at #50, High Street, Marylebone, London when he was first attested on
27.04.1915 in London for the Duration of the War; Other records have him as a House Painter previously; His
records state that his wife was Florence Tilbury who he married in St Pancras on 25.05.1901, they have
children indicated on the records but there has been some crossing out? There is a Frank Oliver Kingdon born
on 17.02.1912 in St Pancras; A daughter Elsie Florence Kingdon born 01.10.1913 in Islington & Doris
Kathleen Kingdon born in Islington on 12.09.1916 but who Died on 21.11.1916 at the age of 9 weeks of
bronchial pneumonia but there was an inquest held in London on 23.11.1916; In 1916 the family were living at
#25, Richmond Crescent, Barnsbury, Islington, London; Charles Oliver Kingdon had extended his service at
least once & finally served for 5 years & 64 days, being discharged in order to take up Civilian Employment; I
believe that Charles O Kingdon Died in Marylebone in 1935 Aged 57; No Medals card on file; (Brother of
Kingdon, John K: Royal Engineers No: 530107 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (Also Brother of Dr.
Frank Kingdon who emigrated to USA & was Advisor to President Roosevelt);
Kingdon, Charles S: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 65306 Rank: Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Charles Sylvanus Kingdon born 18.06.1892 in Morchard Bishop, Devon, the son of Charles
Kingdon, a Farmer b.1864 Colebrooke, Devon, & Alice Sarah Fish, from Brompton Ralph in Somerset, who
married in 1891 in Islington, London, Middlesex; In the 1901 Census Chas Sylvanus Kingdon lived with his
Parents at Rudge Rewe Farm, Morchard Bishop, Devon; He was an Infantry Cadet in the Officers Training
Corps whilst he was at Bristol University; In the 1911 Census Charles Sylvanus Kingdon is an 18 year old
Accountant living with his Uncle Robert Sellick (a Provisions Merchant, on Maternal side) at Elmcliffe,
Elmgrove Road, Cotham, Bristol, Gloucestershire; He enlisted at the age of 23 years & 6 months in Bristol on
04.12.1915, he was a Commercial Traveler; He was put on the Army Reserve until Joining for duty on
17.03.1916 with 41 Company, #3 Depot, Royal Garrison Artillery, serving there until being posted to the Siege
Artillery Signaling Unit on 02.02.1918 in Plymouth; On the 10.03.1918 Charles S Kingdon was posted to the
British Expeditionary Force in France; He was promoted Corporal in 1916; He was suffering with Trench
Nephritis in September 1918, hospitalised in Rouen, France & invalided to England where he was hospitalised
in the Paisley War Hospital in Perth, Scotland, finally being transferred to the Royal Artillery & Tank corps
Command Depot in Catterick from 02.11.918 until 04.12.1918; He was Transferred to the ‘Z’ Reserve &
Discharged in 20.03.1919 in Dover; I believe that Charles Sylvanus Kingdon Died in 1969 in Christchurch,
Hampshire Aged 77; (This man is part of the Coldridge Kingdon family line, see the Kingdon Book 1932);
Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Tom Kingdon who served late in WW1, #3259 Royal Marine
Artillery, Short Service, (#RMA/3259/S); ADM 159/101);
Kingdon, Christopher: Captain, 21st Regiment, Madras Army Native Infantry, India, 1800-1815;
Notes: This is Christopher Kingdon born 24.09.1784 in Bridgerule, the son of Reverend John Kingdon
b.1735 (Holsworthy Kingdon Line) & Jane Hockin and who was baptised in Bridgerule on 26.10.1784;
Christopher Kingdon applied for a Cadetship in the East India Company Armies in the 1800-1801 Season; In
the Madras Almanac I found reference to a Lieutenant Kingdon of the 21 st Regiment Madras Native Infantry
departing Madras for England on the ‘SS Bengal’ on 05.01.1815; He may have been promoted to Captain
during his service in India; Christopher Kingdon died in Bude, Cornwall on 10.06.1816 & is buried in
Bridgerule, Devon; (His Will reference is PCC PROB11 1583);
Kingdon, Christopher; #84867 Royal Navy; ADM 188/80, pre 1900’s;
Notes: This is Christopher Rogers Kingdon, born 30.04.1850 in Stoke Damerel, the son of John Thorn
Kingdom, also Royal Navy & Greenwich Pensioner b.1809 in Morice Town, Devonport & Mary Ann Rogers
from Wilcove in Cornwall who married on 10.04.1832 in Stoke Damerel, Devon; In 1851 Census Christopher
Kingdom lives with his parents in the Coke Houses, Stoke Damerel, Devon; In 1861 Christopher Kingdom
lives with his parents in Antony, Cornwall; In 1871 Christopher is an Agricultural Labourer living with his
parents in Wilcove, Antony, Cornwall; This sailor’s official number would indicate enlistment between
01.01.1874 & 31.12.1874; In the 1881 Census Christopher Kingdon is aged 28 & a Stoker in the Royal Navy
on board the Guard Ship Steam Reserve ‘HMS Indus’, located at Devonport; In 1887 in Stoke Damerel
Christopher Kingdom Marries Eliza Elizabeth Kitto; In the 1891 Census Christopher Kingdon is Married but
still a RN Stoker living in Antony, Cornwall, with his Wife & Father in Law, Edward J Kitto, his wife is Eliza
Elizabeth Kingdon (nee Kitto) aged 31, Born in Antony in 1859 & a Dressmaker; I believe that his wife Died
in Plymouth in 1894 Aged 35; In the 1901 Census Christopher is a Widower, aged 51 & an Ordinary Domestic
Gardener living with his Widowed Sister Mary Ann Rogers Henderson (nee Kingdom) in Coombe Park,
Antony in Cornwall; I have found him in 1911 Census, still living as a Naval Pensioner with his Widowed
Sister Mary Ann Henderson (nee Kingdom) in #2, Barossa Place, Torpoint, Cornwall; I believe that
Christopher Rogers Kingdon Died in Cornwall in 1922 Aged 72; (Son of John Thorn Kingdom, Royal
Navy); (Brother of #9762A Joseph Rogers Kingdon Royal Navy); (Brother of #66612 & #18070A William
Joseph Kingdom Royal Navy); (Brother of #31681 & #62768 John Rogers Kingdom Royal Navy); (Possible
Brother of Kingdom, Thomas: Seaman, #84877, Royal Navy; ADM 188/80);
Kingdom, Claude Carne: Machine Gun Corps, #178198, WW1; Transferred from Kingdom List:
Notes: This is actually Claude Carne Kingdon born in Metheniot, Cornwall on 15.11.1890 & Baptised in
Lezant, Cornwall on 22.09.1895; He is the son of Thomas Kingdon, a Blacksmith born 1867 in Polbathick,
Cornwall, & Eva Jane Carne, b.05.10.1867 in Doddycross, Menheniot, Cornwall, who Married in Liskeard,
Cornwall on 24.12.1889; In the 1891 Census Claud C Kingdom is incorrectly recorded as Clara C, but lives
with his parents in Sheviock, Cornwall, his Father is a Blacksmith; In the 1901 Claud Kingdon lives with his
Mother Eva J. Kingdon in Menheniot in Cornwall in 1901 Census; (I am assuming that his Father was away
from home)? In the 1911 Census Claud Kingdon is aged 20 & living with his Mother Eva Kingdon in Higher
Lux Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, & working as a Domestic Gardener; (I am assuming that his Father was away
from home)? (Claude Carne Kingdon’s Father must have died or abandoned the family, post 1900 & pre
1911, as his Mother remarried in 1917 in Liskeard, Cornwall to Cornelius Hocker, a widower & granite
polisher, & lived in Cornwall, I understand that she died on 15.02.1931 in Cornwall; An internet Family Tree
suggests that he went off to Australia & died there in Western Australia on 27.06.1951; There is a Thomas
Kingdon, a Blacksmith, living in Nairn Street, Freemantle, Western Australia in 1903 & 1906; In 1916
Thomas Kingdon appears to be married to Wilhemina Kingdon & lives at #10, Davis Street, South Fremantle,
he is a Blacksmith; Follow up research indicates a Marriage in Freemantle in 1910; This couple live in
Thomas Road East, Rockingham in 1936, 1937 & 1943; In 1949 he is a Pensioner living in Jandakot, Murray,
Canning, Western Australia); Claude Carne Kingdon, Aged 27 & married was a Police Constable in London
but still enlisted for WW1 service on 30.10.1918 in London; At enlistment he gave his address as #6,
Claremont Square, Islington; Claude had Married Edith Gladson, b.10.08.1893 in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on
28.10.1914 in Holborn Registry Office, Middlesex, however, there is also a record for a Claud Kingdon &
Edith Lack Marriage in Holborn in 1914; I have recorded both Edith Lack & Edith Gladson, as this
information is clearly shown in Claude Carne Kingdon’s Military Service Records, but I now understand from
her ancestors that she married Claude Carne Kingdon twice as she had originally used the alias Gladson, to
hide her identity because of her young age & that she had run away to marry him; In 1918 this couple had a
daughter Ethel Kingdon born 01.06.1918 in Holborn & that record gives her mother’s maiden name as
Gladson; Their additional children born later all have Lack as the mother’s naiden name; Claude Carne
Kingdon had served as a Private with the “E” Machine Gun Corps Training Battalion; I believe that he was
discharged on 30.04.1919 & Transferred to the ‘Z’ Reserve, following which he lived at #18, Penton Street,
Pentonville Road, London N1; Claude Carne Kingdom dies in Watford in 1959 Aged 68; I found no Medals
Card on record; (He is the elder Brother of William John Yendall Kingdom who served with the Royal
Marines Light Infantry & died of Dysentery in France in 1918 in WW1);
Kingdon, Colin Alfred: Served with the Royal Air Force late in WW1 1918-1919 AIR 76/277/102;
Notes: This is Colin Alfred Kingdon born 30.04.1899 in Upper Norwood, Croydon, Surrey, the son of Alfred
John Kingdon, a Secretary with a Gas Company b.1866 in St Pancras & Celina Sarah Griffiths from
Winchester who Married in 1897 in Wandsworth; In 1901 Colin Alfred Kingdon lives with his parents in
Streatham, London; In 1911 he is aged 11 & living with his parents at #66, Wilton Road, Muswell Hill, Friern
Barnet, where Colin Alfred Kingdon & his parents continued to live in 1922 & 1924; Colin Alfred Kingdon
appears to have been a young Cadet with the Royal Air Force, his number #81003 indicates joining from
civilian life in May 1917, as he was later granted an Honorary Commission to 2nd Lieutenant on 23.03.1919,
this was gazetted on 30.01.1920; I believe that Colin Alfred Kingdon Died in Torbay, Devon in 1973 Aged 74;
I have no other information on his WW1 Service;
Kyngdon, Courtney: Honorary Colonel, Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australian Armed Forces; WW2
period;
Notes: This is Courtney William Trehunsey Kyngdon born 1910 in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia;
(Note that the spelling of Courtney is inconsistent both in public & family documents; This family are also
recorded in the ‘Kingdon Book – A Second Look’ published 1974); He was the son of Francis Boughton
Kyngdon b.1846 & Florence Elizabeth Evans who Married in ??; Courtney Kyngdon joined the Australian
Army & was living in Victoria Barracks, Paddington, Brisbane, Queensland; In 1937 he is recorded as an
Army Officer in Victoria Barracks, Melbourne Ports, South Melbourne; At some stage he was in England as
he sailed as a 29 year old Army Officer from Southampton to Melbourne, Australia on board the ‘SS Jervis
Bay’ on 08.04.1939; At that time he gave his UK contact address as Kenilworth Road, Fleet in Hampshire; I
believe that Courtney William Trehunsey Kyngdon married Edit Olwen Daniell around that time; In 1943 he is
a Soldier & they both live at #49, Bruce Street, Toorak, Fawkner, Victoria; In1949 they live at #11,
Washington Street, South Yarra, Fawkner, Victoria, Courtney Kyngdon is still a Soldier; In 1954 they are
recorded as an Army Officer & Wife living in Alfred Road, Swanbourne, Claremont, Fremantle, but are also
recorded in Bethune Street, Queenscliff, Corio, Victoria; In 1963 Courtney Kyngdon is a Lecturer living in
Mann Road, Mount Eliza, Frankston, Finders, Victoria; In 1968, 1972,1977 & 1980 he is recorded as an
Executive living at #717, Toorak Road, Malvern, Higgins, Victoria; I did not research further;
Kingdon, Courtney Melmoth: Lieutenant, Taranaki Volunteers, Taranaki Militia & Rifles, New Zealand
Army, Maori Wars, 1860 - 1870;
Notes: This is Courtney Melmoth Kingdon born & baptised in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, one of 10
children of Richard Kingdon, a Surgeon b.1782 & Jane Parsons; In the England Census for 1841 Courtney
Kingdon lives & works with his elder brother Boughton Kingdon, both as Man Servants, in Gothier or Gothic
Lodge in the London borough of Lambeth; This family then emigrated to New Zealand, The Mother & all the
children except Boughton (who followed later), left England in 1850 on board the ‘Barque Eden’ arriving on
29.10.1850 in New Plymouth & the Father in 1851, taking up freehold land in Omato; At this time the family
decided to adopt the older style spelling of their name to Kyngdon which is generally used in all future
records; During the Maori War Courtney Kyngdon was one if the Garrison of the Omato Stockade & also took
part in the Battle of Waireka, later being given a commission in North Taranaki body of friendly Maoris;
Courtney Melmoth Kyngdon Married Jane Jessie Messenger in 1868; He held Freehold Land at Urenui in
1870, 1871, 1875 etc., where he continued to farm well into 1900; In 1905 Courtney & Jessie Kyngdon were
residing at Morley Street & recorded as a Settler; In 1911 they lived in Rimu Street, Fitzroy & remained there
until the date he died; Courtney Melmoth Kyngdon Died in 1920 at the age of 98 years; I believe that Jane
Jessie Kyngdon died in 1936 Aged 91; (See “Kingdon Book – A Second Look, 1974” for this
Holsworthy/Kingdon family line); Awarded the New Zealand Medal for the Maori Wars; (He was the Brother
of Kingdon, Adolphus: Private, Taranaki Volunteers, Taranaki Militia, New Zealand Army Maori Wars); (He
was the Brother of Augustus Frederick Boughton Kyngdon who also served in the New Zealand Army
during the Maori Wars);
D
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon D: Major, 80th Regiment of Foot; (Early 1800’s);
Notes: This is a Major D. Kingdon who served with the 80th Regiment of Foot (The Staffordshire Volunteers)
who was awarded an A1 Medal in 1801 for the Egypt Campaign of which I believe there were only 7 issued;
He may well have also served in the Peninsular War 1808 to 1814? This is probably Dennis Kingdon born
1779 in Bridgerule, Devon, the son of John Kingdon b.1735 Holsworthy, Devon & Jane Hockin who married
on 17.07.1766 in Okehampton; Dennis Kingdon Married Mary Ann Herring in 1817 in North Petherwin,
Cornwall; I have no record of when he first joined the Army, or when he retired, but in 1841 Dennis & Mary
Kingdon live in The Barton, North Petherwin; I then believe that his wife died in Plymouth in 1 st Q 1850; In
the 1851 Census Dennis Kingdon, a Retired Army Major, is a Widower living with his Niece at #16, Cobourg
Street, Plymouth; Dennis Kingdon died in Plymouth later in 1851 & I believe that his Will & Probate was on
11.09.1851, ref 11/2139 wherein it states that he was ‘late of North Petherwin’; Dennis Kingdon Esquire, a
Major in the 80th Regiment of Foot who inherited the Barton at North Petherwyn, Cornwall, ca.1822 by the
right of his wife, the only daughter & heir of Leonard Herring Esquire, who’s wife originally inherited it from
the Yeo Family in 1741; (Note that around that time the Herring family were 1st cousins to the Archbishop of
Canterbury); In 2011 the Barton is a Grade II listed building; In the Church of St Paternus in North Petherwin
there is a Monument to ‘Denis Kingdon of Barton’ (qv) (1851); The Regimental Museum has this Officer as
Lieutenant D. Kingdom; He was awarded the Military General Service Medal with a Clasp for service in
Egypt; I have not researched this line any further;
Kingdon, D. R: 2nd Lieutenant (on Probation), Royal Garrison Artillery; (London Gazette WW1);
Notes: There is a London Gazette notice on page 1865, Supplement dated 22.02.1917, which identifies that 2 nd
Lieutenant (on Probation) D. R. Kingdon resigns his commission on 23.02.1917; There is no other information
to enable identification of this soldier/officer; However, this could be Dennis Roger Kingdon born 1895 in
Gravesend, Kent, the son of Roger Kingdon, an Accountant b.1866 in Great Bookham, Surrey & Bertha
Florence Gramshaw, b.1860 in Gravesend, Kent, who Married in 1894; In the 1901 Census Dennis R Kingdon
lives with his parents in #13, Portland Road, Gravesend, Kent; In the 1911 Census Dennis Roger Kingdon is
aged 15 & living with his parents at #14, Dry Hill, Park Road, Tonbridge, Kent; Needs further research;
Kingdon, Daniel: Carpenter Crew, Continuous Service #2501B, Royal Navy, 1867-1870; ADM 139/826;
Notes: This is Daniel Kingdon born in St Helier, Jersey on 05.04.1842 according to his Naval records but I
can only find a Daniel Kingdon born in 1846 in Jersey; I therefore assume that this is Daniel Kingdon the son
of Daniel Kingdon, a Cabinet Maker b.1811 in Devonport, England & Elizabeth Johns Kingswell from Truro,
Cornwall, who Married on 25.01.1837 in Stoke Damerel, Devon; In 1851 Census this family live in #8,
Victoria Street, St Helier on the Island of Jersey, Daniel’s Father is a Cabinet Maker; In 1861 Census Daniel
Kingdon is aged 15 & an Apprentice Cabinet Maker working with his Father at #35, Cecil Street, St Andrew,
Plymouth; Daniel Kingdon enlisted for 10 years service as a Carpenter Crew with the Royal Navy on
12.08.1867 on board ‘' Lord Warden’ but I don’t believe he served his full time, perhaps serving only 3 years;
In 1871 Census I find Daniel Kingdon aged 25 working as an Upholsterer with his brother & his Widowed
Father, a Cabinet Maker in Charles, Plymouth; I believe that Daniel Kingdon Married Mary ?? (b.1857 in
Torquay) in ?? in ca.1875 (not found); In 1881 There is a Daniel, aged 35, & Mary Kingdom, a Cabinet
Maker, living at #1, Saltram View in Egg Buckland, Plympton, Devon; In 1891 Census Daniel & Mary
Kingdon live in Ladywell Cottage, Charles, Plymouth; In 1901 there is a Daniel Kingdon, birth place
unknown, Aged 52 (b.1849), a Widower & French Polisher, boarding at #13, Summerland Place, Plymouth
which may be this man; In 1911 Census Daniel Kingdon now aged 63 is living at #1, Well Street, Plymouth,
he is a Widower & still works as a French Polisher; I believe that Daniel Kingdon died in 1911 in Plymouth
Aged 64; (Father of #11870 Frank Kingdom, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division);
Kingdom, David: Private #14580, South Wales Borderers, WW1; (I believe this should be Kingdon);
Notes: David Kingdom was Attested for 3 Years Short Service on 02.09.1914 in Neath, he did not give his
address but I believe that it was #9, New Henry Street, Neath, Glamorgan because on checking I find this to be
a house owned by the Bevan Family although there are 3 young Kingdon men lodging there at the time; I later
discovered that his Mother may be Jane Bevan born in1859 in Neath & that Private David Kingdon records her
as his “Mother” & next of kin in the records; At the time of his enlistment he gives his age as 27 years & 11
months, making him born in 1886, despite his age in the 1911 Census indicating that he was born in 1888;
Birth records for a David Kingdon in Neath seem to support a birth date of 1886; He was posted to the 5 th
Battalion South Wales Borderers which was a Pioneer Service Battalion originally formed in Brecon in
September 1914 & then moved to Tidworth, Hampshire in late 1914; On 12.11.1914 Private David Kingdom
was declared Medically Unfit for Further Military Service under King’s Regulations Para 392 (iii) & was
Discharged from the Army having served only 72 days; His Medical Records state that he had defective teeth;
This is probably David Kingdon born 1886 in Neath, possibly the son of David Kingdon b.1858 in Neath, a
Tin Worker, & Jane Davies b.1861 in Neath who married in 1880 in Neath; In 1891 David lived with his
parents in Briton Ferry; This family lived at #4, Bowen Street, in Neath in 1901 Census & son David aged 14
was a Tin Plate Bundler; I believe that David’s Father David Kingdon Died in Neath in 1904 aged 45 & that
David’s Mother Jane was remarried to a Albert Bevan, a Sawyer from Herefordshire & lived in New Henry
Street in 1911 Census, (but in the record Jane has been crossed out to read Margaret)? (Albert Bevan’s 1st wife
was called Margaret Ann & she had died in Neath in 1903); David & Jane Kingdon’s 3 sons certainly were
lodging there in 1911, David Kingdon b.1888 Neath, Edwin Kingdon b.1889 Aberdare & Oliver Kingdon
b.1894 in Neath, Glamorgan;
Follow up research shows that Albert Bevan aged 41 was serving a prison sentence in Carmarthen Prison in
1901 Census; Follow up research indicates that Widow Jane Kingdon did marry Albert Bevan in 3 rd Q 1905 in
Neath; The issue of their being married for 27 years with 8 children & Jane being called Margaret, as marked
on the 1911 Census, is yet to be resolved, but these people weren’t too trustworthy & Albert’s 1 st wife was
called Margaret so maybe it is just a slip of the memory when making out the census record;
Question, was this David Kingdon also a little feeble minded as well as being feeble in stature just like his
Brother John?
This Soldier needs a lot more research within my own Kingdon family tree structure; (He is the Brother
of Kingdon, John: Private #2933, 6th Battalion The Welsh Regiment who enlisted for WW1 Service but was
also rejected & discharged); (He is also the Brother of Kingdon, Edwin: Private #78084, Royal Field Artillery
& # 12650 who enlisted & was discharged/rejected twice);
Kingdon, David: Private Royal Horse Artillery, Early 1900 period;
Notes: This is David Kingdon born in 1880 in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Thomas Kingdom b.
27.11.1856 in Neath, Port Talbot & Elizabeth Ann Owens from Neath, who married in 1877 in Neath; In 1881
Census David Kingdon lives at #7, Colliery Row with his parents; In 1891 Census David is aged 11 & living
with his parents at #9, Colliery Row, Neath; David Kingdon must have enlisted into the Army some time after
this as in 1901 Census I find him Aged 21 & a single Soldier being cared for as a Patient at the District
Connaught Hospital in Farnborough, Hampshire; I can find no record of why he should have been in hospital
in England at that time? In the 1911 Census I found Private David Kingdom Aged 32 living as a single soldier
in the Royal Artillery & Cavalry Butt Road Barracks in Colchester, Essex; I have no other information except
that David Kingdom is recorded as having been in receipt of a Chelsea Pension at some time; Did he serve in
WW1? There is no Medals card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, John (Jack): Leicestershire Regiment
No: 10192 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, who served in WW1);
Kingdon, David: Merchant Seaman during WW1; BT 351/1/177261;
Notes: This is probably David Kingdon born in 01.10.1897 in Clifton, Bristol although his Merchant
Seaman’s WW1 Medals Record had 1898; If I am correct then this David Kingdon is the son of David
Kingdon, a Slaughterman/Butcher b.1870 in Clifton, Bristol & Blanche Beavis from Bristol who Married in
1890 in Bristol & initially lived & worked as a Butcher in Elgin Street in Birkenhead, Cheshire; In 1901 David
Kingdon is aged 4 years & living with his parents in Dowry Square, Bristol; In the 1911 Census David
Kingdon is now aged 13 & living with his Parents at #6, Ambrose Road, Clifton, Bristol, his Father is a
Butcher; I did not research further but David Kingdon may well have emigrated to Canada at some later stage
as there is a Canada to USA, Niagara Falls border crossing on 09.04.1943 for a 2 week visit which fits his
personal details? Awarded the WW1 Mercantile Marine & the British War Medal; (Probably the Brother of
Merchant Seaman Sidney Kingdon, WW1 BT 351/1/177262); Not researched further;
Kingdon, Dick: Class ‘E’, 2nd Division Reservist, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1917, WW1;
Notes: This is Dick Kingdon born in 1873 in Cornwall, England, the son of James Kingdon, b.1844 in
Advent, Cornwall, England & Elizabeth Jane Wendon, b.1848 in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, who had married in
Cornwall, England in 1868 & sailed with young Dick & the rest of their family to New Zealand, arriving in
Cambridge West in 1880, where he established a Blacksmith’s business on the corner of Shakespeare & Cook
Streets; (His Grandparents, Jonathan Kingdon & Mary Orchard Hill had arrived in New Zealand from
Cornwall, England in 1872 on the ‘Celestial Queen’); (I understand that one of Dick’s brothers, Samuel
Wendon Kingdon, died by drowning in a river at a Wesleyan Picnic in 1883 at the age of 12 years); Dick
Kingdon lived with his parents in Cambridge as a Labourer in 1900, 1905, 1906, & 1911; Dick Kingdon
Married Mary Elizabeth Hall in 1913; In1914 Dick Kingdon is recorded as a Labourer in Flat Park,
Leamington; In August, September, October of 1917 Dick Kingdon registered for WW1 Service with the 2 nd
Division, New Zealand Expeditionary Force & was classified in ‘Class E’, having 4 children;; There are no
other military records for this soldier but I do not believe that he actually served in WW1; In 1919 Dick &
Mary Kingdon live in Flat Park, Leamington, Dick is a Labourer; His Father died around 1919; They live in
Carlyle Street, Leamington, Cambridge in 1928, 1935 & 1938; I believe that Mary Elizabeth Kingdon died in
1940 Aged 68 & that Dick Kingdon died in 1946 Aged 72; (He was the Brother of Percy James Kingdon, 2nd
Division New Zealand Reservist, WW1): (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Irwin Wendon: Private, #48650,
‘A’ Company, Auckland Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, WW1): (He was the Brother
of Archibald Henry Kingdon, 2nd Division New Zealand Reservist, WW1): This family could be researched
further;
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KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, E: Private, #4209, 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment; Boer War;
Notes: This is Edward Kingdon born in 1877 in Bishops Nympton, Devon; His name first appears as #4209
Drummer Kingdon E. on a Medal Roll for the 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment for individuals entitled to
the South African Medal for Boer War Service, dated 20.08.1901 in Standerton; His name again appears as
#4209 Drummer Kingdon E. on a Medal Roll for the 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment for individuals
entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal and Clasps for Boer War Service, dated 11.12.1903 in Bordon, the
record indicates that he was already Discharged; After exhaustive Kingdon Family research, this Edward
Kingdon is believed to be the son of James Kingdon, a Farm Labourer born in 1856 Bishops Nympton, &
Martha Tucker, who Married on 26.10.1876 in Bishops Nympton; In 1881 Census Edward Kingdon was aged
4 & lived with his parents at Barton House, Bishops Nympton, Devon; In 1891 Edward Kingdon was aged 14
& a Farm Servant at Bainsworthy in North Molton, Devon; It was during the next few years that Edward
Kingdon joined the Devonshire Regiment as a young Drummer as per the referenced medal rolls & I also
failed to locate him in any UK 1901 Census; Edward Kingdon must have been discharged from the Army
sometime pre- December 1903 & returned to Devon; Edward Kingdon Married Esther Sampson in 1906 in
Bishops Nympton & lives & works as a Farm Labourer at Broad Park in Bishops Nympton in 1911; Medals
awarded – Queen’s South Africa Medal, King’s South Africa Medal, with Clasps for service at Tugela
Heights, Paardeberg, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laings Nek & Belfast; (Brother of Kingdom, John
Tucker: Royal Field Artillery No: 81419 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, E: Private, #14951502, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment; Palestine 1945-1948;
Notes: The WO 100/528 Records indicate the issue of to Private E. Kingdon of the 1 st Battalion the Border
Regiment on 16.03.1948 from Gothic Camp, El Ballah, Suez; I have no other information for this soldier;
Awarded the Palestine General Service Medal & Clasp, 1945-1948; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, E C: Rank: Mrs; Sister, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service; WW1 period;
Notes: This is E.C. Kingdon but I have no other information except that she served at the Royal Hospital in
Chatham in Kent from at least 1917 until 1923 as a Massage Nurse; These women were the forerunners of
what we now call Physio Therapists in the medical profession & were always called Mrs. & not Nurse or
Sister; I failed to find any other information for this woman; Needs more research;
Kingdon, E F: Soldiers Christian Association 1914 -1920, WO 372/23; WW1 period;
Notes: (This was the Military Auxiliary of the YMCA); This is Elizabeth Frances Kingdon whose name
appears on the Absent Voters List for #21, Yew Tree Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire for 1918
& again in 1919; Her credentials are indicated as A.I.B.D. which probably stands for Australian Infantry Base
Depot which was situated in Rouelles, near Le Havre, France; She is recorded as being an absent voter with a
sister Winifred Adams Kingdon of the same address; Elizabeth Frances Kingdon obviously came from a
wealthy family as in the 1911 Census she is aged 42 & living with her Widowed Mother & 3 other spinster
sisters, all on ‘Private Means’, at The Croft, St Annes Road, Eastbourne, Sussex; (This family originates from
the Cory Kingdon, Holsworthy, Devon line); Elizabeth Frances Kingdon was born in Spondon, Derbyshire
in 1868, she is the daughter of Godfrey Kingdon, a Clergyman b.1838 in Poughill, Cornwall & Frances
Adams, b.1833 in Nottingham, who married in 1863 in Radford, Nottinghamshire; In the 1871 Census
Elizabeth F. Kingdon is aged 2 & living with her parents at the Spondon Vicarage in Derbyshire, her Father
was the Vicar of Spondon; In the 1881 Census Elizabeth F. Kingdon is aged 12 & lives with her parents, who
were absent on the census date, at the St Mary’s Church Vicarage, Spondon, Derbyshire; In the 1891 Census
her Father was the Vicar of Taunton St James in Somerset & Elizabeth F Kingdon lived with her parents at
Salisbury House, Taunton St Mary Magdalene Within, Somerset; In the 1901 Census she is living with her
parents at Witherley Rectory in Leicestershire; In 1935 & in 1939 Elizabeth Frances Kingdon lived with her
spinster sisters at #13, Yew Tree Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire; I believe that Elizabeth F
Kingdon Died in 1954 in Newton Abbot (Teignmouth, Devon) Aged 85; I can find no medals card info for this
person, however, there is a reference at Kew WO 372/23/24106? (She is the Sister of Kingdon, Winifred
Adams: Soldiers Christian Association 1914-1920 WO 372/23);
Kingdom, Edgar: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 73969 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11
Transferred from the Kingdom list:
Notes: Some Records have Edgar Kingdone, some have Kingdon & others Kingdom? This is Edgar Kingdom
born in 1891 in Chert, Frensham, Surrey, the son of Henry Kingdom, a Brewer’s Drayman, b.1865 in Wibley,
Surrey & Fanny Smith from Frensham who married in 1889 in Farnham; (Edgar is the Grandson of Robert
Kingdon b.1835 in Chulmleigh & Mary Jane from Swansea); In 1901 Census Edgar lives with his parents in St
Giles in the Field, Bloomsbury; Edgar Kingdom, a 24 year old Married Clerk from #52, Castle Street, Long
Acre, London, was Attested on 08.12.1915, sent to the Reserve & then Enlisted on 04.04.1916 in London;
Edgar Kingdom Married Madeline Simpson on 25.12.1912 at St Michael’s Church in Bromley; On his Army
records there are 2 children – Edgar Robert Kingdom born 07.01.1914 in West Ham & Ronald James
Kingdom born 13.01.1916 in St Giles, Bloomsbury; Edgar Kingdom served for 3 years & 65 days, with 3
postings to France in that time; I believe that he was discharged on 05.09.1919 in Dover; On 20.10.1922 the
Ministry of Pensions requested his Discharge Records & for some reason someone has written “Australia” on
the bottom of the forms; Did this family emigrate to Australia post WW1? I have now found the family’s
return to England from Australia aboard the ‘SS Sophocles’ in July 1925; Later checks indicate that Edgar &
his family will emigrate to Canada in 1925 as he travels as a Motor Salesman to Quebec/Montreal on
21.11.1925 aboard the ‘SS Empress of Scotland’, however, his Passport appears to have issued in Brisbane on
07.05.1925 so he had already been to Australia & returned to England; Edgar also recorded that he was visiting
a Brother in Law, A. Strafford of 8th Avenue, Montreal – is this a Kingdon or a Simpson relative? At this time
Edgar & Madeline Kingdom have Twin Daughters, Ivy & Doris born in 1920; Madeline Kingdom & the
children emigrate to Canada on 10.05.1926 aboard the ‘SS Athenia’, their tickets being paid for by her sister;
Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Henry: Army Service Corps No: M2/034115 Rank:
Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is the Brother of Kingdon, John: Royal Scots Fusiliers No: 8503 Rank:
Private1914-1920 WO 372/11, South Africa & WW1; Kingdon, John: Private, #Q50587 & #Q123713 &
#143274, Australian Army; WW2);
Kingdon, Edmund Joseph: Caulker, Royal Navy, Continuous Service #7723B & #40313; ADM 139/878 &
ADM 188/5; (1868-1875 period)
Notes: Enlisted on ‘HMS Hercules’ for 10 years service as a Caulker on 12.11.1868, joined on 23.12.1868;
This is Edmund Joseph Kingdon born 10.12.1842 in Plymouth, the son of Richard Kingdon, a Sawyer
b.1792 in Maker, Devon, & Dorothy (Dorothea) Congdon(?) from Calstock, Cornwall who Married ca.1827,
probably in Plymouth; In 1851 Census Edmund Kingdon lived with his parents at #24, Gasking Street,
Plymouth Charles the Martyr; In 1861 Edmund lives with his Widower Father at #26, Gasking Street, Charles
the Martyr, Charles, Plymouth & is an 18 year old Shipwright Apprentice; Edmund Joseph Kingdon Married
Mary Ann Western, (born ca.1842 Plymouth) in Plymouth in 1863; In the 1871 Census Edmund’s wife, Mary
Ann Kingdon aged 27 is a Nurse living with a Gilbert Family in #55, Cobourg Street, St Andrew, Plymouth,
she is recorded as being the wife of a Royal Navy Caulker also; (I did think that eventually I had found ‘Ed
Jo’ Kingdon in 1871, aged 26 years, as an Able Seaman serving in the Royal Navy on board ‘HMS
Cambridge’ in Tamar, Devonport, but the crew are recorded as being ashore at Census time on Sunday
02.04.1871, but this may not be him as a closer look indicates his age is incorrect?); I seem to lose both of
them from here, however there is an Edmund Joseph Kingdon in the Navy List which records a promotion to
Carpenter on 24.07.1875; The Date of the Navy list is June 1879: 118 – Comus 18 May 78 (Borne in
“Pembroke”); I then discovered the ADM 196/30 Record referring to Edmund Kingdon dated 24.07.1875, in
the Royal Navy Warrant Officers Register of Service List, which records his Promotion from Caulker to
Carpenter; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Samuel: Rating, Continuous Service #22684A, Royal Navy;
ADM 139/627); I researched no further, needs more work;
Kingdon, Edward: Military Provost Staff Corps No: 1445 Rank: Warrant Officer Class 2, WO 372/11,
Service of 23 years from 1897;
Notes: This is Edward Kingdon who served with the Coldstream Guards as #20399 from 05.01.1897 to 1906;
He served with 4th Battalion Norfolk Volunteers prior to joining the Regular Army & at enlistment wanted to
join the Dragoons of the Line; I believe that this is Edward Philip Kingdon born 4th Q 1879 in St James
Parish, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk the son of Edward Kingdon, a Joiner, b.1851 in Farnham, Suffolk & Mary
Ann Hannah Newby Leggett from Great Yarmouth who married on 31.03.1876 in Yarmouth, Norfolk; In 1891
Census the family live in Old Market Street, Thetford, Norfolk; At enlistment in 1897 in Norwich Edward
Kingdon was a Painter Aged 18 years & 4 months; He was attested & transferred to the Coldstream Guards on
11.01.1897 & Appointed Lance Corporal on 28.10.1897, serving in England until 09.03.1899; He served in
Gibraltar from 10.03.1899 to 27.10.1899; Served in South Africa from 28.10.1899 to 04.02.1902; Edward
Kingdon Married Jean Langford Watts? in Thetford on 27.04.1903 & they had at least 3 children born in
Windsor (Edward Henry G. 1904), Aldershot (Maud Irene 20.01.1906) & Dublin (Phyllis Mary 22.02.1909);
By 13.02.1902 he was a Sergeant & on 29.11.1903 elected to extend his service to complete 12 years service;
He served in England from 05.10.1902 to 04.09.1912; On the 26.06.1906 he transferred to the Military Provost
Staff as a Sergeant; Edward Kingdon then re-engaged to serve 21 years service on 14.08.1906; There seems to
have been a Court of Inquiry in Dublin on 13.04.1910 but I can find no records other than the note on his
papers; He then served back in South Africa from 05.09.1912 until 25.11.1919 before returning to England; He
was promoted to Staff Sergeant on 01.09.1913 & to Warrant Officer Rank on 22.06.1918; He served a Total of
23 Years & 32 Days before being discharged on 04.02.1920; I believe that his Chelsea Pensioner number was
#20755/F & he retired to Thetford in Norfolk; I believe that he may have died aged 67 in Gosport, Hants in
1946; Good Conduct Medal; South Africa War Medal & Clasps; Medals Card on file; (Brother of Kingdon,
Albert Arthur: Norfolk Regiment No: 5633 Rank: RSM, OBE); (Cousin of Private Edward Pratt Kingdom
#24594, 11th or 15th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters); (He may also be cousin of #7108 Henry Capp Kingdon,
Lincolnshire Regiment); (Note: There is a Brother also named Henry Capp Kingdon, who was born in 1888
in Yarmouth, probably making him too young to have enlisted in 1904/5, although it is possible that I have the
two Henry Capp Kingdons mixed up; In any case they are probably all related in the Norfolk Kingdon line;
Further research reveals that this brother also served & died in WW1 as Private H C Kingdom, #34736, 3rd
Bn., The King's Liverpool Regiment, who died on 30 March 1916); (I now believe that there is a Henry
Charles Kingdon who also served with the Lincolnshire Regiment); (Also a George Frederick Samuel
Kingdon #4570 North Staffordshire Regiment who is related);
Kingdon, Edward; Private, #8679, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division; ADM 159/49, (18951905 period);
Notes: This is Edward Arnold Bail Kingdon, born 28.01.1878 in Wolverhampton; He is the son of Harry
Bail Kingdon, a Tailor b.1839, & Alice Amelia Stafford (nee Crossland) b.1844 in Clerkenwell, who Married
in Hackney, London in 1872 & she appears to have used her maiden name of Alice Amelia Crossland in the
records; (His Mother was previously married to James Thomas Stafford who died in 1872); (His Father Harry
Bail Kingdon may have died in London ca.1886);In the 1881 Census I had difficulty locating this family but
did find an Edward A. Bale (Kingdon) aged 4 & born in Wolverhampton, living with his Mother, Alice Bale at
#8, Great Hampton street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire – I can only assume this is the correct family record?
I failed to find his Father Harry Bail Kingdon in 1881; I also did not originally find Edward Kingdon in the
1891 Census but his Widowed Mother lived at #14, Durrington Road, Hackney, London, but I have now
discovered him recorded as Edward Arnold Kingdom as an Inmate, Scholar aged 13 at the District Hackney
Union Training School in Brentwood, Essex, his birthplace is not given; On 11.11.1895 Edward Kingdon
Enlisted in the Chatham Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry; In the 1901 Census I found Edward A.C.
Kingdon, now aged 22 & serving as a Soldier in the RMLI, living with his Widowed Mother at #95, Balance
Road, Hackney, London; In the 1911 Census there is a Edward Arnold Kingdon boarding as a Married man (6
years with 3 children) aged 32, working as the Superintendent of Hotel Staff & boarding at #1, Harpur Street,
St Andrew Holborn, London WC; Follow up research indicates that Edward Arnold Kingdon Married Emma
Cliff, from Manchester, in 1906 in Chertsey, Surrey; In 1911 Census Emma, & their 3 children, is a Lodging
Domestic Worker for an elderly Widow in #27, Victoria Road, Springbourne, Bournemouth; (Edward’s
Brother Harry Bail Kingdon is also there as a Hall Porter); I believe that Edward A.B. Kingdon Died in 1951
in Essex Aged 73; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Harry Bail: #11093, Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry,
Chatham Division; ADM 159/54); (It is likely that there is another brother, Kingdon, John Sidney: #280767,
Stoker, Royal Navy; ADM 188/448; & who also appears on the Chelsea Pensioners List);
Kingdon, Edward: Royal Navy, Continuous service #28405A; ADM 139/685, (1859 period);
Notes: The records for this Royal Navy Sailor would indicate that this is probably Edward Kingdon born
23.11.1841 (registered 1842) in Landport, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire; He was the son of John Kingdon, a
Dockyard Shipwright b.1793 in Barnstaple, Devon, & Sarah Bevis from Portsea, who Married on 13.05.1815
in St Mary’s Portsea, Hampshire; In 1851 Census Edward Kingdon lives with his parents in Spring Street,
Portsea, Portsmouth; (His family lived in Spring Street from 1841); Royal Navy records have Edward Kingdon
Volunteering for service on 26.01.1859; Unfortunately I lost this Edward Kingdon from here? (I believe that
his Father died in 1867 & his Mother in 1875 in Portsea); (I have not proven any link, but there is a Prisoner
Record from Dorchester Prison in Dorset of an Edward Kingdon, aged 20 (b.1842) & originating from
Portsmouth being arrested on 21.02.1862 for Deserting HM Ship); (He is the brother of James George
Kingdon #40040 & #832 Royal Navy); No further information found;
Kingdon, Edward A: Royal Field Artillery No: 207455 Rank: Gunner, 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Medals Card on file for the Victory & British War Medals only; Insufficient information to follow up
further;
Kingdon, Edward Arthur: #220316 Leading Seaman, Royal Navy; ADM 188/387, WW1;
Notes: This is Edward Arthur Kingdon born 08.01.1887 in Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, the son of
James George Kingdon, a Royal Navy Seaman, b.1837 in Portsmouth & his 2nd Wife Elizabeth Male who
married in 1877 in Portsea, Portsmouth; In the 1891 Census Edward Kingdon lived with his parents at #32,
Alver Road in Portsmouth, his father was a Naval Pensioner; In 1901 Census Edward Kingdon was aged 14, a
Corset Stay Maker Labourer living with his parents at #6 Ethel road, Portsmouth, Hampshire; He then joined
the Royal Navy between 01.01.1902 & 31.12.1902 as his number indicates, and during WW1 served with
‘HMS Amethyst’ in all the chief operations at the Dardanelles, the Narrows, Suvla Bay & Chunuk Bair, and
then to South America stations after the Evacuation of the Peninsular, where she served on patrol, escort &
other important duties until the close of hostilities; In the 1911 Census Edward A. Kingdon is an Able Seaman,
Aged 23, serving onboard the Battleship, ‘HMS Superb’ stationed in Portsmouth Harbour; Leading Seaman
Edward Arthur Kingdon also served in ‘HMY Alexandra’ & holds the 1914-15 Star and the General Service,
Victory & Long Service & Good Conduct Medals; I believe he lived at #29, Edgeware Road, Milton,
Portsmouth after his service years; I understand that Edward Arthur Kingdon Died in Hampstead in 1951 Aged
64; I believe that there were other brothers who served in the Royal Navy as well: Namely William George,
Harry & James John Kingdon from Portsea, Portsmouth; Medals Record Roll on File; (He is Brother of
Kingdon, James John: Royal Navy, #PO/128972; who died on ‘HMS India’ in 1915); (He is the Brother of
Kingdon, Charles Walter: Royal Field Artillery No: 47983, Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is the
Brother of Kingdon, Harry: #208949 Leading Seaman, Royal Navy); (Also the Brother of Kingdon, William
George: Petty Officer 1st Class, #155575, Royal Navy); (He was the Son of #40040 James George Kingdon,
who served in the Royal Navy from 01.07.1853);
Kingdon, Edwin: Private #78084, Royal Field Artillery, WW1 period;
Notes: Edwin Kingdon has records which indicate that he was earlier Discharged as a Private #12650 from
the 8th Service Battalion Welsh Regiment of Infantry on 28.09.1914 in Salisbury, under King’s Regulations
Para 392 (iii) for being medically unfit, he was aged 25 years & recorded as a Sheet Worker at that time; There
were no other records available in his files to indicate when he had first enlisted, however his Company
Conduct Sheet states that he was born in Aberdare, aged 25 years & 3 months & had enlisted for 3 years in
Neath on 19.08.1914; I searched further & found that he had enlisted as #12650 Edward Kingdon but signed
the records as Edwin Kingdon stating that he was Married with 1 child, aged 25 years & 3 months, a Sheet
Worker & had served for 3 years previously in #7 Company the Glamorgan Field Artillery; On discharge it
appears that his record shows that he served for 41 days only in 1914; He also gave his Next of Kin as his
Wife, Annie Kingdon living at #19, Brookdale Terrace, Neath, Glamorgan, Wales; Edwin Kingdon was for
the 2nd time, again Attested for the Duration of the War Short Service on 12.01.1915 in Neath, joining in
Preston on the same date, as #78084 denoted Driver in the RHA & RFA; His address was #4, Payne Street,
Neath, Glamorgan & he had been married since 1913; At the time of his enlistment he was a Sheet Worker,
had served already for 4 years in the Volunteer Artillery & he gives his age as 25 years & 7 months, making
him born ca.1889; His Next of Kin was his wife, Annie Kingdon (nee Casey) who he married on 22.02.1913 in
Neath, Glamorgan, they had one daughter at that time, Olive Margaret Kingdon born 29.12.1913 in Neath; The
Records show that this Soldier was then re-assessed on 26.01.1915 by #2 Depot RFA & 7th Reserve Battery
RFA & Discharged as being not likely to become an efficient soldier on medical grounds; One of his records
declared that the arches of both of his feet had gone and that he suffered very much pain when marching; This
is Edwin Kingdon born 1889 in Neath, probably the son of David Kingdon b.1858 in Neath, a tin worker, &
Jane Davies b.1861 in Neath who married in 1880 in Neath; In 1891 Edwin lived with his parents in Briton
Ferry; This family lived at #4, Bowen Street, in Neath in 1901 Census & son Edwin aged 12 lived with them; I
believe that Edwin’s Father David Kingdon Died in Neath in 1904 aged 45 & that Edwin’s Mother Jane was
remarried to a Albert Bevan, a Sawyer from Herefordshire & lived in New Henry Street in 1911 Census, (but
in the record Jane has been crossed out to read Margaret)? (Albert Bevan’s 1st wife was called Margaret Ann &
she had died in Neath in 1903); David & Jane Kingdon’s 3 sons certainly were lodging there in 1911, David
Kingdon b.1888 Neath, Edwin Kingdon b.1889 Aberdare & Oliver Kingdon b.1894 Neath; Edwin (called
Edward in the records) Kingdon Married Annie Casey in Neath on 22.02.1913; I believe that they may have
had 7 children between 1913 & 1931; Follow up research shows that Albert Bevan aged 41 was serving a
prison sentence in Carmarthen Prison in 1901 Census; Follow up research indicates that Widow Jane Kingdon
did marry Albert Bevan in 3rd Q 1905 in Neath; The issue of their being married for 27 years with 8 children &
Jane being called Margaret, as marked on the 1911 Census, is yet to be resolved, but these people weren’t too
trustworthy & Albert’s 1st wife was called Margaret so maybe it is just a slip of the memory when making out
the census record; Question, was this Edwin Kingdon also a little feeble minded just like his Brothers John &
David as all 3 were discharged as being unsuitable for service? This Soldier needs a lot more research
within my own Kingdon family tree structure; (He may be the Brother of Kingdon, John: Private #2933,
6th Battalion The Welsh Regiment who enlisted for WW1 Service but was also rejected & discharged); (He is
the Brother of Kingdom, David: Private #14580, South Wales Borderers; (I believe this should be Kingdon);
Kingdon, Edwin Herbert: #M7750, Electrical Artificer Class 3, Royal Navy, Served WW1; ADM 188/1033;
Notes: This is Edwin Herbert Kingdon born 05.09.1892 in Devonport, Devon, the son of Edwin Herbert
Kingdon, Royal Navy, born 1862 Cawsand, Cornwall & Maria Carne from Rame in Cornwall, who Married in
1885 in Stoke Damerel, Devon; In 1901 Census Edwin Herbert Kingdon lives with his parents in Clematis
Villa in Devoncourt, Harwich, Essex; In 1911 Edwin Herbert Kingdon is aged 18 & living with his parents at
#3, Molesworth Terrace, Millbrook, Plymouth, he is an Apprentice Engineer with a Steam Boat Company, his
Father is a Naval Pensioner & Shipwright working for the same company; Edwin Herbert Kingdon joined the
Royal Navy between 01.01.1914 & 31.12.1914 for service in WW1 & appears to have served on ‘HMS Ajax’;
In 1916 Edwin Herbert Kingdon Married Mary Ann Landrey in Cornwall, she was from Rame in Cornwall;
#M/7750 Chief Electrical Artificer 2nd Class made a career out of the Royal Navy & was still serving on board
‘HMS Adventurer’ on 25.07.1929; I believe that Edwin Herbert Kingdon Died in Plymouth in 1948 Aged 55;
Edwin Herbert Kingdon was awarded the 1914-15 Star, Victory & the British War Medal; He was issued with
his Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal on 25.07.1929; (He is the son of Kingdon, Edwin
Herbert: #125595 Carpenter’s Mate, Royal Navy, Boer War);
Kingdon, Edwin Herbert: #125595 Carpenter’s Mate, Royal Navy, Boer War; ADM 188/166;
Notes: This is Edwin Herbert Kingdon born on 28.01.1862 in Cawsand, Cornwall; He was the son of Henry
Kingdon, a Builder & Mason, b.1829 in Kingsand, Devon & Matilda Burlace from Cawsand in Cornwall who
Married in 1851 in Plymouth; I believe that in 1871 & 1881 Census Edwin was recorded as Herbert Kingdon
living with his parents in Garrett Street, Cawsand, Rame in Cornwall; His Naval Number would indicate
enlistment between 01.01.1883 & 31.12.1884; In 1885 in Stoke Damerel, Devon, Edwin H Kingdon Married
Maria Carne, she was born in Cornwall in 1857; I believe that he had already joined the Royal Navy by the
1891 Census & that he was serving overseas because I cannot find him recorded in England; In the 1891
Census his wife Maria Kingdon is living with her parents in Back Street, Rame in Cornwall; Edwin Herbert
Kingdon served aboard ‘HMS Monarch’, a Guardship at Simons Bay in South Africa during the Boer War; In
the 1901 Census there is a Royal Navy record for Carpenter’s Mate Edwin Kingdon being a crew member, but
not on board ‘HMS Adder’, a Sailing Coast Guard Cruiser stationed in Harwich Harbour on the night of the
Census, Edwin H Kingdon & his wife Maria are also recorded as living in Clematis Villa in Devoncourt,
Harwich, Essex; In the 1911 Census Edwin Herbert & Maria Kingdon & their 2 sons live at #3 Molesworth
Terrace, Millbrook, Plymouth; Edwin Herbert Kingdon is a Naval Pensioner & a Shipwright for a Steam Boat
Company; I believe that Edwin Herbert Kingdon Died on 28.12.1928 whilst living at #3, Molesworth Terrace,
Millbrook, Plymouth at the age of 67; Edwin Herbert Kingdon was awarded the Queen’s South African Medal
for his services in the Boer War; (He is the Father of #M7750 Edwin Herbert Kingdon, Royal Navy WW1);
Kingdon, Edwin Peter Pengelley: Royal Navy Volunteer #27890A & Royal Navy #63488; ADM 139/679 &
ADM 188/44, (1863-1870’s period);
Notes: Edwin Kingdon volunteered for Royal Naval Continuous Service on 16.12.1863; This is Edwin Peter
Pengelley Kingdon born 10.12.1849 in Stoke Damerel, the son of William Kingdon, a Royal Navy Carpenter
& Warrant Officer, b.1803 in Stoke Damerel & Elizabeth Pengelley b.1810 in Devonport who married on
02.06.1830 in Stoke Damerel; In1851 Census Edwin Peter Kingdon lived with his Mother in Stoke Damerel,
his Father was at sea; In 1861 he lived with his parents in Stoke Damerel; In 1871 Census Edwin Peter
Kingdon was an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy but living at home with his parents in Stoke Damerel; (I did
find a Census record for an Able Seaman ‘E. P’. Kingdon serving on ‘HMS Cambridge’, anchored in Tamar
on the night of the 1871 Census, which may be him as this indicates a list of sailors who were ashore?); Edwin
Peter Pengelley Kingdon Married Mary Ellen Coad b.1851 in Stoke Damerel in 1875 in Stoke Damerel; In
1881, 1891 & 1901 Censuses Edwin & Mary Kingdon live in Minster in Sheppey, Sheerness, Kent & Edwin is
a Rigger in HM Dockyard; Edwin Peter Pengelley Kingdon Died in 1908 in Sheppey, Kent Aged 58; (He was
the Father of Kingdom, Albert Edwin: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 213501 Rank: Gunner who served in
WW1); (He was the Son of Kingdon, William: Royal Navy, Warrant Officer, Carpenter, #411 & #415);
(Probably related to Kingdom, Henry Lockyer: Chief Petty Officer, Royal Navy #114720; ADM
188/144/220; & also Thomas Sidney Cornish Kingdom #121062 Royal Navy);
Kingdon, Eli: Royal Field Artillery No: 2348 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Eli Kingdon b.22.04.1896 Rose Ash/Knowstone & lived at Kimmings, Rose Ash, South Molton on
26th October 1915 when he joined the Army for WW1 Service in Exeter. (Initially he served 4th Wessex
Brigade, RFA, his #3143, served in France; Then he transferred to Regt. B/303 Brigade RFA, his #966584,
served in France, Salonika, Alexandria, Egypt, Port Said); He left the Army 31.03.1919; In 1919 he gives his
address as Little Ash Moor, Rose Ash, South Molton; In the 1901 Census for Knowstone Eli is living with his
parents, George Kingdon b.1851 Bishops Nympton & Ann Kingdom b.1862 Knowstone, at Crosside;
Birthplace is recorded as Knowstone; 1911 Census has him as a General Servant working for a Widow Mary
Ann Bushnell at Crosside, Knowstone; He will later live with his widowed Mother Annie at Kimmings Farm,
Rose Ash; The UK Spring 1919 Absent Voters List for South Molton Division, Devon, Parish of Rose Ash has
reference #4153 to Kingdon Eli - Ash Moor (No service details given); The Rose Ash Victory Hall Memorial
in Devon records Private E. Kingdon a driver in the RFA; Eli Kingdon Married Laura Ann Ashelford from
Witheridge in 1920 in South Molton; Eli Kingdon Died in 1st Q 1975 in Bristol Aged 79; Medals Card on file;
(He is the brother of Kingdon, Frederick: #814692 139th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force;
Rank: Private); (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Ernest: Devonshire Regiment No: 8737 Rank: Private 19141920 WO 372/11); (He is also the brother of Kingdon, Bert: Devonshire Regiment No: 8673 Rank: Private
1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is probably also the Brother of Kingdom, Francis W: Devonshire Regiment No:
1775 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Ernest: Devonshire Regiment No: 8737 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is most likely Ernest Kingdon born in 1889 in Bishops Nympton, Devon, the son of George
Kingdon b.1851 Bishops Nympton & Ann Kingdom from Knowstone (she was the daughter of William
Kingdom b.1819 & Eliza Howard) who Married in 1881; In the1891 & 1901 Censuses Ernest Kingdon lives
with his Parents at Crosside Cottage, Knowstone; I believe he enlisted before 1911 as there is a Private Ernest
kingdon, Aged 21, serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment in Malta in the 1911 Census; The
UK Spring 1919 Absent Voters List for South Molton Division, Devon, Parish of Rose Ash has reference
#4154 to Kingdon Ernest – Ash Moor (No service details given); The Rose Ash Victory Hall Memorial in
Devon records Private E. Kingdon a Private in the Devonshire Regiment; Medals Card on file; (He is the
brother of Kingdon, Frederick: #814692 139th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force; Rank:
Private); (He is also the brother of Kingdon, Eli: Royal Field Artillery No: 2348 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO
372/11, who served in WW1 also); ); (He is also the brother of Kingdon, Bert: Devonshire Regiment No:
8673 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is also the Brother of Kingdom, Francis W: Devonshire
Regiment No: 1775 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Ernest: Devonshire Regiment No: 17643 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 - Died in WW1;
# 17643 Ernest Kingdon, Devonshire Regiment on 13.11.1915, buried in the Guards Cemetery, Windy Ridge,
Cuinchy; Also remembered on the Bishops Nympton War Memorial in the Village Church; Notes: This is
Ernest Kingdon b. 3rd Q 1880 Bishops Nympton, the son of William Kingdon b.1846 Bishops Nympton &
Elizabeth Westcott; In 1881, 1891 & 1901 he lived with his parents in Bishops Nympton; In 1911 he works as
a Road Contractor & lived with his 2 Brothers in Rose Cottage, Bishops Nympton; I believe that he enlisted on
01.10.1915? I also believe that there is a Medal Card for him as #17143 (Misprinted) as Kingdom E. in the
Devonshire Regiment? 2x Medals Card on file; (He was the Brother of Corporal Arthur Kingdom,
#SE/21190 Army Veterinary Corps who served in WW1 also); Transferred from the Kingdom List:
Kingdom, E: Devonshire Regiment No: 17143 (Misprint – should read 17643) Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO
372/11,WW1
Kingdon, Ernest: Royal Irish Fusiliers No: 13731 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers Infantry Unit, Dublin; Enlisted for WW1 service on 05.09.1914 &
was Discharged on the 19.10.1914 under AO.265/17.2(d).s for Sickness, which was issued in this case to a
Soldier who under the amended conditions, which stated that the badge will, subject in every case to the
approval of the Army Council, be issued only to the individuals specified below, who have served with the
military forces subsequent to the 4th August, 1914: (d) Those who, have served as soldiers and being now over
military age, have been discharged otherwise than for misconduct; The Royal Irish Fusiliers were also known
as ‘Princess Victoria’s’; His name does not appear on the Boer War for issue of the Queen’s South Africa
Medal Roll for the Royal Irish Fusiliers so he may not have served there; He may well have served in India;
Silver War Badge #299447 awarded; Medals Card on file; Initially there was insufficient information to be
able to follow further, however:Additional Notes: Following contact with this man’s Grandson (living in Canada) in September 2012;
I believe that this is Ernest Kingdon born in Battersea, London on 26.08.1882 & Baptised on 29.09.1882 in
Battersea; He was the son of William Kingdon, a Painter, b.14.06.1840 in Taunton & Mary Ann Rose
b.14.06.1854 from Bristol, Gloucestershire, who probably Married in 1870 in St Saviours, Southwark, London
I believe; (His parents lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1881 as Ernest’s elder siblings were mostly born in
Canada); In 1891 Wales Census Ernest Kingdon aged 8 lives with his parents at #4, Crofts Street, Roath,
Cardiff, Wales, they are also at the same address in the 1901 Census; However, I cannot find Ernest Kingdon
in the 1901 Census, I assume that he was in the Army already; Ernest Kingdon Married Elizabeth Emily Flyn,
Flynn or Flyng in the 3rd Q 1903 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, she was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire,
England on 27.01.1881, Baptised on 20.02.1881 in Bristol & was working as a Tailoress in 1901 Census living
in Roath, Cardiff with her parents; In 1911 Ernest & Elizabeth Kingdon lived at #78, Edenbridge Road, Bush
Hill Park, Enfield, Middlesex & he was a Ladies Tailor;
(He is the Brother of Kingdon, Gordon William: Chelsea Pensioner (No other details), No Military Records
but may have Served in the Guarding & Fighting in the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan); (His Brother was
probably Kingdon, Sidney Walter: #8147, Manchester Regiment); (I also now believe that his Father was
probably Kingdon, William: Private, #3063, 2nd European Light Infantry, East India Company Army); This
Family needs a little more research although I am in touch with a descendant since August 2012 & will
request clearer details;
Could this also be - Kingdon, Ernest J: #21183, Trooper, 2nd Brabant’s Horse, Boer War; WO 127/3?
Kingdon, Ernest: Devonshire Regiment No: 1833 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The Regimental Number of #1833 would indicate enlistment around 10.01.1914; Also served as
#265375 Devonshire Regiment, the 6 figure number being given when the Territorial Force renumbered in
1917; This is Ernest William Francis B. Kingdon Illegitimate son of Mary Ellen (Nellie) Kingdon b.1881
South Molton (she later married Arthur Percy Herbert in 1907 in Lutterworth); Ernest Kingdon was born on
01.02.1898 South Molton & lived with his Grandparents Edwin (Ned) Kingdon b.1858 Kings Nympton &
Mary Jane Gregory in 1901 & 1911 Census; Ernest Married Annie Bellew on 21.05.1921 in South Molton;
Ernest Died on 16.06.1951 in South Molton Aged 53; Research of Colonel Flick’s Diary reveals that #265375
Lance Corporal E. Kingdon served with ‘D’ Company, 6th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment; He is recorded
on the Spring 1919 Absent Voters List for #14 Cooks Cross, South Molton, Devon; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Ernest Arthur: #3345970 Private, 1st Depot Battalion, Manitoba, (Late WW1 period);
Notes: There are draft enlistment papers for Ernest Arthur Kingdon in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada dated
14.05.1918; I believe that this is Ernest Arthur Kingdon born 28.07.1894 in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada,
the son of Henry (Harry) John Kingdon, a Shoemaker, b.01.04.1867 in Wales who emigrated to Canada in
1888 & Minnie ?? b. 02.09.1868 in England who emigrated to Canada in 1890, who were probably Married in
Canada in ca.1891/92? In 1901 Census Ernest A Kingdon is aged 6 & living with his parents in Minnedosa,
Manitoba; At the age of 16 years Ernest Kingdon is a ‘Servant’, probably on a Farm, living in Marquette,
Manitoba in the 1911 Census; In the 1916 Census Ernest Kingdon aged 21 years is a Farm Labourer living at
Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, he gives his tribal origins as Welsh; At the age of 23 years & 10 months Ernest
Arthur Kingdon was drafted into the 10 M.D, 1st Depot Battalion, Manitoba in Winnipeg on 14.05.1918; He
gives his date of birth as 28.07.1894 in Minnedosa & his Mother Minnie Kingdon as his NOK, with an address
of Clanwilliam P.O., Manitoba; His trade is recorded as being a Farmer; (He is the Brother of Alfred Henry
Kingdon who served with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in WW1); (He is also the Brother of
Albert Kingdon who served with the Canadian Forces); (He is also the Brother of #922649 Sapper William
Henry Kingdon of the Canadian Engineers Regiment in WW1); I did not research further;
Kingdon, Ernest G: Welsh Regiment No: 26151 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Served with 17th Battalion The Welsh Regiment (The First Glamorgan Bantams, so called because of
the generally reduced height of the recruits) with the old #26151 & also with the Labour Corps in Nottingham
with the new #352048 in the 302nd Company; The 17th Battalion seems to have been raised in Cardiff in early
1915 & was composed mainly of miners; Ernest Greg Kingdon Enlisted on 15.01.1915 & was Discharged on
24.11.1917 at the age of 28 due to Sickness under King’s Regulations Para. 392 (xvi) (a) (i) probably having
suffered an impairment during his service; According to the records he had served overseas at some time; This
is Ernest Gregory Kingdon, one of Twin boys born on 01.05.1888 in Neath, the illegitimate sons of Elizabeth
Grace Kingdon b.1873 in Neath; In the 1891 Census they lived with their single Mother & her parents in a
Cottage in the Slaughter House in Eastland Road, Neath, the boys Grandfather is Thomas Kingdon a Market
Toll Collector who was born in High Bray Devon in 1823; In 1901 the boys still live with their Grandparents
in a Cottage in Eastland Road, Neath, alongwith step siblings; The boys Mother did marry a Thomas Ellis in
1892 in Neath but she Died on 14.12.1898 in Neath Aged 25, their Step Father will marry again; Ernest
Kingdon Gregory Kingdon also worked as a Shed Labourer for the Great Western Railway Company at Neath
Station from 13.05.1907 but he appears to have been discharged on 09.12.1907; I did not find him in the 1911
Census, however, I understand that Ernest Kingdon Married Ada M Jones in 1912 in Pontardawe; I believe
that Ernest G Kingdon Died in Pontardawe in 1927 Aged 38; Silver War Badge #289218 awarded; Medals
Card on file;
Kingdon, Ernest J: #21183, Trooper, Brabant’s Horse, Boer War; WO 127/3
Notes: The nominal roll of the 2nd Brabant's Horse, a colonial unit of the Boer War of 1899-1902 indicates an
Ernest Kingdon, Trooper, #21183; There were two units of Brabant's Horse, both raised in Queenstown, South
Africa. 1st Brabant's was raised on 5.11.1899 and 2nd Brabant's in January 1900. Both were about 600 strong
and both were disbanded in Cape Town on 31.12.1901; The units were mainly made up of South African
Colonials, Australians, British & Canadians where they saw much action against Boer Commandos; (Brabant’s
Horse are mentioned several times in Conan Doyles book “The Great Boer War”); This Soldier probably
enlisted in the 2nd Brabant’s Horse on 24.11.1900 & appears to have been discharged on 30.05.1901; This is
probably Ernest John Kingdon born 1880 in Exmoor, the son of Master Blacksmith & Postmaster William
Kingdon b.1839 in North Molton & his 2nd Wife Mary Elizabeth Vellacott from Lynton who Married in 1875
(William’s 1st wife Elizabeth Jane Fry Died in 1869); In 1881 Ernest J Kingdon is 6 months old living with his
parents at the Simonsbath Post Office; In 1891 he is 10 years old & with his parents at the same address; In
1901 & 1911 Ernest J Kingdon is recorded as a Farmer but living with his parents still at the Simonsbath,
Exmoor Post Office; Medals Awarded: Queen’s South African Medal plus Date Clasp for 1901; State Clasps Cape Colony 11.10.1899 to 31.05.1902; Orange free State 28.02.1900 to 31.05.1902; Transvaal 24.05.1900 &
31.05.1902; Battle Clasp - Laing’s Nek 12.06.1900 (Natal); I did not research further as there is some
suspicion that I may have the wrong man;
Could this be another possible candidate? Kingdon, Ernest: Royal Irish Fusiliers No: 13731 Rank:
Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, as he had previously served somewhere when he enlisted in 1914?
Kingdon, Ernest John: #220465, Petty Officer, Royal Navy; ADM 188/387, (1902 & WW1 period);
Notes: This is Ernest John Kingdon born on 07.02.1887 in Peckham Rye, Camberwell, baptised on
20.03.1887 in Dulwich, the son of Benjamin George Kingdon, a Greengrocer, b.1858 in Taunton, Somerset &
Elizabeth Turner b.1854 in Taunton, who married in 1884 in Taunton, Somerset; In 1891 Census Ernest
Kingdon is with his Mother visiting Grandmother Sarah Turner at #84, East Reach, in Taunton, Somerset; I
believe that his Father was better known as George Kingdon & that Ernest Kingdon & his sister Gertrude were
admitted on 02.07.1894 & attended Ackmar Road Infants School in Hammersmith & Fulham until 23.03.1895,
at that time they were living at #82, Rectory Road; In the 1901 Census Ernest Kingdom Aged 14 was a
Boarder at #2, Ivy Cottage, Alers Road, Upton Bexley, Kent as a General Labourer, (his parents were running
a Laundry business in Bexley, Kent); His Royal Naval Number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1902
& 31.12.1902; In the 1911 Census #220465 Ernest J Kingdon, a Stoker, Aged 24 & single is serving on board
‘HMS Cadmus’ in Hankow, China; I believe that he was promoted to Senior Petty Officer & served in WW1
as he was awarded medals whilst serving aboard ‘HMS Greenwich’ on the Naval Medals Roll; His Royal
Navy Good Conduct Medal was issued on 12.04.1922 to ‘HMS Columbine’, the Torpedo Boat Destroyer
Depot in Queensferry; I understand that Ernest John Kingdon died in 1971 in Bexley Aged 84; ADM 171/140
records the issue of his Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, the
Victory & the British War Medals; (He is probably the Brother of Kingdom, F: Royal Horse Artillery No:
54710 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – see also Kingdon, Frederick G T: Royal Horse Artillery No:
54710 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (Also the Brother of Kingdon, Walter Henry: #K22413, Stoker
1st Class, Royal Navy; ADM 188/911); I did not research any further;
Kingdon, Ernest W: Royal Field Artillery No: L/5257 Rank: Acting Bombardier 1914-1920 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: This is Ernest William Kingdon born in 1883 in Okehampton, Devon, the son of John Kingdon
b.1859 in Stoke Canon & Kitty Yeo b.1854 in Inwardleigh, who married in 1879 in Okehampton; In 1891
Census Ernest W Kingdon lives with his parents at #2, Station Cottages, Okehampton, his Father is a Railway
Signalman; At the age of 16 Ernest William Kingdon joined the Railways as a Cleaner & on 16.06.1898; In
1901 Census Ernest W Kingdon is living in Honiton, Devon as a Railway Porter; By 07.06.1906 he was at
Waterloo as an Assistant Train Guard; In 1911 he was a Train Guard but I cannot find him on the Census; His
Railway Records indicate that he volunteered for Army Service on 27.05.1915; Ernest W Kingdon appears to
have first gone to France 26.11.1915; His Railway Records indicate that he was demobilised from WW1
service & returned to train duty 09.05.1919 & there is a note on the records which states that he was a
‘Disabled Ex Serviceman’; His medal card records that he reverted from Acting Bombardier to Private at his
own request on 05.05.1916? Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Jack: London Regiment No:
3980 Rank: Private / SEE ALSO: Kingdom, J: London Regiment No: 3980 Rank: Private, who Died in
France on 27.12.1915); (His other Brother was Herbert John Kingdon, born 15.12.1884 in Okehampton,
served as #347413, a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy);
Kingdon, Edwin Erwin J: Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry No: 38687 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO
372/11, WW1;
Notes: This MIC card reads Edwin J Kingdon but there is a Silver War Badge Roll which reads Erwin John
Kingdon for the same man; Also served as #35792 Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry & #44143
Royal Warwickshire Regiment; I believe that this is Erwin John Kingdon because his birth was in 1900
according to the Silver War Badge record; I consider him to be Erwin John Kingdon, born in Helston,
Cornwall on 28.11.1899 & baptised in Helston on the 10.04.1900; He was the son of James Kingdon, a Police
Constable, b.1873 in Linkinhorne, Cornwall, (baptised on 10.01.1878 in St Ive, Cornwall) & Lucy Heddon
from Petherwin Water, (baptised 09.02.1879 in South Petherwin) who married in South Petherwin on
15.06.1898; In the 1901 Census Erwin John Kingdon lives with his parents at # 64, Godolphin Road, Helston,
Cornwall; In the 1911 Census Erwin John Kingdon lives with his parents at #20, Beacon, Camborne,
Cornwall; This soldier served for some time, from 19.03.1918 until being Discharged under King’s
Regulations Para 392 (xvi) (a) for Sickness at the age of 19 years on 05.05.1919; The records indicate that he
had served overseas at some point; I believe that Erwin John Kingdon Died at the age of 20 in Redruth,
Cornwall in 1920; He was Awarded the Silver War Badge #B/208871 when serving as a Private, #44143 in the
Royal Warwickshire Regiment; Medals Card on file for the award of the British War & the Victory Medals;
Kingdon, Esau: Served in the Royal Navy in the African Wars, 1870’s;
Notes: There is very little to go on here but there is a record for an Able Seaman Esau Kingdon serving with
the Royal Navy on a ship only recorded as C.A? The record gives his birth year as 1850 in Barnstaple, Devon;
The only Esau Kingdon born in that year 1850 was actually born in South Molton, Devon & is the son of John
Kingdon, an Agricultural Labourer b.1816 South Molton & Catherine ?? from North Molton who Married pre
1832 in Devon; In 1851 Census Esau Kingdon lives with his parents in Back Lane, South Molton, Devon; By
the 1861 Census his family have moved to Glamorgan in Wales & Esau Kingdon is aged 10, a Scholar &
living with his parents in Aberavon; I have failed to find Esau Kingdon in 1871 but if I am correct then he was
serving in the Royal Navy & probably engaged overseas in the 9th Cape Frontier War (the last of the Xhosa
Wars) in 1877 to 1878; There is a Marriage Record for Esau Kingdon & Emily Thompson, (baptised
13.10.1850 Pensford, Somerset) in 1874 in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales; I believe that Esau Kingdon then
decided to follow one of his brothers to the USA & he emigrated to Chicago, Illinois, via Philadelphia on
23.09.1879; In the 1880 US Census I found Esau Kingdon aged 29, living with his Brother John Kingdon in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (This record is almost unreadable); I could not find the 1890 US Census for
Chicago, Illinois, however Esau Kingdon appears to have applied for US Naturalisation on 06.12.1893 giving
his Brother John Kingdon as a witness; He gives his address as 677 Hoyne Avenue in Cook county; In the
1900 US Census Esau & Emily Kingdon live in Winnebago Avenue, West Town, Chicago, Cook County,
Illinois; All data information fits his profile & he is now working as a Stationary Engine Engineer, the records
state that his wife emigrated to USA in 1880; I failed to find a Death record for Esau Kingdon but his Wife
Emily is recorded as a Widow & living with their married daughter Emily Fross in Chicago in the 1910 Census
for Cook county, Illinois; I did not research further;
Kingdon, Eustace W: Welsh Regiment No: 59624 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This Soldier’s Records have him as Eustace W Kingdom; This is Eustace William Kingdon born
03.12.1895 in Newton Nottage, Glamorgan, Wales, a son of John Kingdon, a Greengrocer, b.1862 in Newton
Nottage, Glamorgan & Mary Wylde from Laleston, Glamorgan, who married in 1888 in Bridgend, Glamorgan,
Wales; (Grandson of John Kingdon b.1830 North Molton, Devon & Mary Rees from Newton, Glamorgan,
Wales & Great Grandson of Philip Kingdon b.1801 North Molton & Ann Smith b.1804 North Molton); In
1901 Eustace W. Kingdon lived with his parents in Church Street, Newton Nottage, Glamorgan; In 1911
Eustace W. Kingdon is living with his parents at Chestnut Cottage, Newton, Glamorgan, working as a
Butcher’s Assistant; I believe that he was first attested on 02.04.1917 Aged 21, working as a Coal Haulier; It
was noted that he had already lost the greater part of his little finger; He served about 6 months in England
before being posted to France where he served for 13 months until he was Wounded in Action on 30.08.1918
with a Shrapnel Wound to his leg; He was shipped to England & treated in hospital in Aberdeen, Scotland; On
23.01.1919 he was again declared fit for military service & discharged from hospital with a 7 inch scar,
however, a Medical Board assessed him fit for discharge with only a 30% disability; Private Eustace William
Kingdom was Transferred to the Reserve on 22.02.1919 & gave his Father’s address as Rock Cottage, Church
Street, Porthcawl, Glamorgan, Wales & his discharge address as #2, Greenmeadow Cottage, Newton,
Porthcawl; He was awarded a Pension; I believe that Eustace William Kingdon Married Mary A. Hartrey in
Bridgend in 1923 & that he died in 1987 in Mid Glamorgan aged 91; Medals Card on file; (He was the brother
of Kingdon, Philip Henry: 226th Overseas Battalion, No: 100529 Rank: Private Canadian Over-Seas
Expeditionary Force); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Albert John: 226th Overseas Battalion, No: 100873
Rank: Private Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force); (He was the brother of Kingdon, Arthur R,
(Richard Arthur Kingdon): Royal Welsh Fusiliers No: 75494 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, who
Died in WW1 on 14.06.1918 in Flanders); I researched no further;
F
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, F.C: Canadian Army WW1, Captain, ‘A’ Company, 1st Battalion, 63rd Regiment, (The Halifax
Rifles), WW1;
Notes: There is a Canadian record for a Captain F C Kingdon, commissioned on 14.02.1914, having served
with the 63rd Regiment, The Halifax Rifles during WW1; I believe that he was promoted to Major on
15.07.1920 & continued to serve with the 2nd Reserve Battalion until at least the 15.01.1924; I doubt very
much if this Officer served overseas in Europe as the Halifax Rifles were destined to remain in Canada to
protect the Fortress of Halifax in Nova Scotia; I failed to find any further records for this man; Insufficient
information to identify further;
Kingdon, Fletcher M: Army Service Corps No: T/401 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: I believe that he served with a Territorial Force of the A.S.C. but also Served with the Army Service
Corps with the Regimental #T4/249765, the prefix ‘T’ indicating that he served in a Horse Transport Unit;
Served in France since 13.04.1915; Disembodied on 08.05.1919; This is Fletcher Monroe Kingdon born in
1890 in Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, the son of Oliver Kingdon, Headmaster of a Board School, b.1858 in South
Molton, Devon & Fanny Susannah Nutt b.1860 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, who married in 1882 in
Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales; In 1891 Fletcher M Kingdon lives with his parents in the Board School,
Bishopside in Pateley Bridge; In 1901 Census he lives with his parents in School Road in Pateley Bridge,
Yorkshire; At the age of 20 in 1910 Fletcher M Kingdon sails on the SS Lusitania from Liverpool to USA, he
is a Clerk; In 1911 his Father Oliver Kingdon was the Enumerator for Pateley Bridge Census & lived in The
School House, King Street; Fletcher Monroe Kingdon Married Letitia May Wissler b.1894 Leeds, in St
Martin’s Church, Potternewton in Leeds on 15.09.1920; I believe that Fletcher M Kingdon dies in 1960 in
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire aged 69; Medals Card on file; (He is the Father of Oliver Wissler Kingdon who was
awarded the DFC in WW2 in August 1941);
Kingdon, Francis: Book 1670, Exeter, Devon Militia for 1803;
Notes: The Devon: Exeter Militia List for 1803 has reference to a Francis Kingdon, Lacemaker who served in
the Militia; This is probably Francis Kingdon baptised 31.10.1781 in St Peter’s Cathedral, Exeter, the son of
Zachariah Kingdon, b.1746 & Elizabeth Ball, b.1773, a family of Exeter Coach Lace & Fringe Makers; I
believe that Francis Kingdon Married Mary Ann Bodley on 07.03.1818 in St Mary Steps, Exeter; Mary Ann
Bodley came from an elder branch of the family of which came Sir Thomas Bodley, statesman to Queen
Elizabeth & founder of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England; In 1821 I think that Francis & Mary Ann
Kingdon were living in Fore Street, Exeter? In the 1951 Census Francis & Mary Anne Kingdon live at #24,
High Street, Exeter St Stephen; In the 1861 Census Francis & Mary ann Kingdon are Retired Lace Makers &
live in South Town, Kenton, Devon; I understand from the Kingdon Family Book, 1932 version, that Francis
Kingdon died on 15.01.1867 in Kenton, Exeter, Devon, Aged 85; (He was the Great Grandfather of Zachary
Harris Kingdon, OBE. Principal Electrical Engineer in HM Dockyards); (He was the Great Great Grandfather
of Kingdon, George Bodley: Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy & Flying Officer in Royal Air Force;
ADM 196/150; - Died in WW2);
Kingdon, Francis John: #130259, Royal Navy; ADM 188/175/259, (1885 period);
Notes: The ADM 188 Register of Seamen’s Services has reference to a Francis John Kingdon, born
02.09.1869 in Barnstaple, Devon; His official Naval number #130259 would indicate issue between
01.01.1885 & 31.12.1885; I have searched all Kingdon & Kingdom births for September 1869 in the
Barnstaple Area but failed to find any records for this person; Unable to identify;
Kingdon, Francis W: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 63137 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Medals Card on file for the Victory & the British War Medals; Insufficient information to be able to
follow further; Same person as below?
Kingdon, Francis William: Labour Corps Southern Command ex North Somerset Yeomanry No: 341693
Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1; Notes: Enlisted on 28.03.1910 & finally Discharged under
King’s Orders Para 392 (xvi) s. on 19.09.1917 for Sickness; Awarded Silver War Badge #B205561; No
Medals but Record Card on file; Insufficient information to be able to follow; (Same person as above?)
Kingdon, Francis Richard: Boer War Records Service No. 1810; See his attestation papers WO97-3237047; - Died in the Boer War; He was involved in a skirmish whilst serving with Commander in Chief’s
Bodyguard, in Boer War, on 3rd January 1901 at Reitz. Died as a result of his injuries 4th January 1901; Notes:
Francis (Frank) Richard Kingdon was aged 18 years and 3 months when he enlisted on 18th June 1878 with
the 6th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, so he was born March 1860 at St Thomas (Exeter); According to BMD
records his birth was registered 1st Q 1861 at Exeter St Thomas, reference 5b.64. He was the son of Richard
Kingdon b.1816 from Chawleigh and Elizabeth Guscot from Alphington who married on 26.04.1846 in
Sanford; In 1861 Census Frank was living with his parents and siblings at Turnpike House, Cowley Bridge
Road, Exeter St David’s; His father Richard is shown as aged 44, occupation Toll Gate keeper; In 1871 Frank
Richard Kingdon is not shown on the census but his family were living in Boutport Street, Barnstaple; Maybe
he went to Scotland? In 1871 his Father Richard was the Innkeeper at the Lamb Inn, Boutport Street,
Barnstaple; I think his Father died 3rd Q 1874 Barnstaple 5b.307 Aged 57; Francis Richard Kingdon’s
occupation prior to enlisting was Barman; Originally his next of kin was his sister Rose Kingdon in Barnstaple
before she married William Furneaux & lived in London, however, he changed this on 01.01.1887 to his other
sister (Elizabeth) Grace (nee Kingdon) Berry in Barnstaple, married to Ebenezer Robert Berry & living in
Barnstaple;
During his Military Service Francis Richard Kingdon was stationed in Edinburgh 21st June 1878; Home
service from 19th June 1878 to 10th January 1881; South Africa from 11th January 1881 to 23rd January 1888;
Service in Natal 11th February 1881; Transvaal in 1881; Bechuanaland in 1885; Zululand in 1884 – 1887; In
Aldershot Signal Training 1888; Home Service 24th January 1888 to 1st January 1889; South Africa from the
2nd January 1889 to 12th July 1889; A Total of 8 years Army Service & 4 years Reserve Service;
Aged 39 he attested for the Body Guard of the Field Marshall Commander-in-Chief in South Africa at
Bulawayo on 30th October 1900;
Francis Richard (Frank) Kingdon was involved in a skirmish whilst serving with Commander in Chief’s
Bodyguard, in the Boer War, on 3rd January 1901 at Reitz; Unfortunately he died as a result of his injuries on
4th January 1901; His service number in the Commander in Chief’s Bodyguard was #22447; At the time of his
attestation in October 1900 he was 38 years old; He declared that he was a member of the Police Force in
Bulawayo, Rhodesia; His next of kin was given as Miss F Kingdon of Barnstaple (but I failed to find her or
work out who she was?).
Kingdon, Frank: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 4022 Rank: Gunner, 1914-1920 WO 372/11,WW1;
Also incorrectly Recorded as: Kingdom, Frank: Army Service Corps No: M/344511 Rank: Private, 19141920 WO 372/11,WW1;
Notes: This is Frank Kingdon who Served as #4022 in 145 Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery having
enlisted on 27.09.1915 in Stockport & was then discharged on 20.12.1915 under King’s Regulations Para 392
(iii).c on Medical Grounds; I think that he served as well as #M/344511 in the Army Service Corps being
called up for Service on 09.09.1917 & finally being discharged on 24.11.1919; This is probably Frank
Kingdon born in 1897 in Stockport, Cheshire; At his first Short Service enlistment in Stockport in 1915 he
was aged 19 years & 40 days, was a Storekeeper by trade & lived at #8, Forrester Street, Heaton Norris,
Stockport with his Mother Elizabeth Kingdon; He was Discharged as not being likely to become an efficient
soldier on 20.12.1915; Frank was the son of William Kingdon b.1858 in Oxton, Birkenhead & Elizabeth Saxon
from Stockport who married in Stockport 1887; In 1901 Census the family lived at #72, Oxford Street,
Stockport, his Father was a Cotton Machine Roller Operator & Frank Kingdon was aged 3 years; In 1911 this
family lived in #8, Forrester Street, Stockport Third, Stockport, the records indicate that they had 11 children
of which 5 had died by 1911, Frank Kingdon aged 13 was living with them; I have a suspicion that he tried to
sign up for WW1 service in 1915 but was only just aged 17 & therefore was discharged; Now we turn to other
records for Frank Kingdon as #M/344511 in the Army Service Corps, the M prefix indicating that he served
with a Mechanical Transport Unit; The date was 09.09.1917 & Frank Kingdon was now aged 19 years & 11
months, a Hoist-man living at #38, Love Lane, Stockport; He now gives his next of kin as his Father William
Kingdon of the same address; The records are obliterated but I believe that at some stage he was in the Central
Military Hospital in Chatham, probably just before his second & final discharge from the 613 Motor Transport
Company on 24.11.1919, suffering from Malaria, which he may well have contracted when he served in
Egypt; I believe that he was awarded some form of pension; Awarded the Silver War Badge #20124 from the
Royal Garrison Artillery (Dover); RGA Records Card & ASC Medals Cards on file;
Kingdon, Frank Denys: Royal Field Artillery Rank: Second Lieutenant, 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This Officer first served in France from 31.10.1917; This is Frank Denys Kingdon born on 04.09.1898
in Holsworthy, Devon, son of Reverend Frank Hawker Kingdon b.1860 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire &
Jessie Freyberg from Belgravia, London who married in 1886 in Richmond, Surrey; In 1901 Frank lived with
his parents in the Vicarage in Bridgerule, Devon; In the 1911 Census Frank Kingdon was a 12 year old
Boarder at a Private Boarding School in Upcott House, at Burn Hill House in Okehampton, Devon, which I
believe was attached to the Vicarage; He was promoted from an Officer Cadet Unit to 2nd Lieutenant in the
Royal Field Artillery, Special Reserve of Officers on 31.08.1917; Frank Denys Kingdon studied Mathematics
at Hertford, Oxford University in 1920; In the London Gazette of 02.12.1918, 2nd Lt. Frank Denys Kingdon,
Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserve), attached to 29th Battery, was awarded the Military Cross for
conspicuous gallantry; (When heavy enemy fire killed 2 men & wounded several others of his battery he
organized a stretcher party & got them to a place of safety under heavy shelling. By his example of coolness he
kept the battery in action & saved several lives. Later, while observing under heavy enfilade fire, he showed
marked devotion to duty, & kept up communication with his battery by visual, & got back valuable
information); In the London Gazette of 01.04.1920 2nd Lieutenant F. D. Kingdon MC was promoted to
Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 28.02.1919; On 01.04.1920 Lieutenant F.D. Kingdon MC
relinquished his Command but retained the rank of Lieutenant; Frank Denys Kingdon became the Governor of
the Upper Nile Province between 1946 & 1949, prior to that he travelled extensively to the Sudan through
Egypt & in Military Service between 1920 & 1937; He also held Sudanese Political positions & appointments
in White Nile, Bahr al-Ghazal, Blue Nile, Kordofan & Upper Nile provinces between 1921 & 1948; He was
awarded the Order of The Nile in 1932; His Diaries are held in Durham University; Frank Denys Kingdon died
in 1971 in Devon Aged 72; Medals Card on file; His medals card records that he applied for his medals on
29.93.1923, including El Dulim & Sudan, address given as Bridgerule Vicarage, Holsworthy, North Devon;
Medals were issued on 15.05.1923; I believe that he was awarded the Military Cross? (He is the Brother of
Second Lieutenant Robert Claude Hawker Kingdon, Royal Field Artillery who died age 27 on 19 April
1917); (He is the Brother of Bridget Mary Kingdon, Women’s Royal Air Force in 1918);
Kingdon, Frank G: Devonshire Regiment No: 317 Rank: Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Also Recorded as: Kingdon, F: Devonshire Regiment No: 317 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/24, WW1;
Note: In order to have this number Frank G. Kingdon must have enlisted initially with a Special Reserve
Battalion or one of the Territorial force Battalions, his WW1 military records indicate Enlistment on
11.06.1908, however he probably was not mobilised until WW1; Corporal Frank Kingdon was Discharged
under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) on 26.12.1916 for Wounds he had received; He was wounded in
action at Es Sinn on 08.03.1916; The records show that he served with ‘C’ Company of the 6 th Battalion The
Devonshire Regiment overseas during his service; For his service as a Private in the Devonshire Territorial
Force Frank Kingdon was also awarded the Territorial Force War Medal; As a Corporal he also appears on the
Silver War Badge list; Following further research this Devonshire Soldier’s name is mentioned in Colonel
Flick’s Devon Regiment Diary Book on page 70-71 which confirms his Regimental Number & his wounds at
Es Sinn; This is Frank (Frederick) Greenslade Kingdon born in 1878 in South Molton, Devon, he was the
son of John Keys Kingdon, a Cabinet Maker, b.1844 South Molton & Mary Webber Greenslade from Charles,
Devon who Married in 1868 in South Molton; In 1881 Census Frank Kingdon lives with his parents at #10,
Duke Street South Molton, Devon; In the 1891 Census Frank G Kingdon is a 12 year old scholar living with
his parents at #11, Duke Street, South Molton & in 1901 he is aged 22 & a General Carpenter still living in
Duke Street, South Molton with his parents; Frank Greenslade Kingdon Married Susie Ann Loosemore in
1905 in South Molton, she was born ca.1880 in Rose Ash, Devon; In 1911 Census Frank Greenslade Kingdon
works as a Journeyman Carpenter living at #40, East Street, South Molton in Devon; I believe that Frank & his
Wife Susie both Died in Devon in the 4th Q of 1960, both aged 82; Frank Kingdon was Awarded the Silver
War Badge #96685; Medals Card for Frank G. Kingdon only on file, Awarded the Territorial Force Medal, the
Victory & the British War Medals; No Medals Card on file for F. Kingdon; (He was the Brother of Kingdon,
Percy: Devonshire Regiment No: 267684 Rank: Acting Sergeant 1914-20);
Kingdon, Frank Neville: #928576 Private, 153rd (Wellington) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
WW1;
Notes: This is Frank Neville Kingdon born 21.03.1893 in Yeovil, Somerset, England; He is the son of
William Henry Kingdon, a Railway Clerk, b.1862 in Barnstaple, Devon & Annie Tilley b.29.02.1860 in
Dorchester, Dorset who married in 1889 in Dorchester; In 1901 Census Frank N Kingdon is aged 8 years &
living with his widowed Father (his Mother died in 1894) at #21, Colmer Road, Yeovil, Somerset, England;
On 11.04.1910 Frank Neville Kingdon is aged 17 & is working for the Great Western Railway as a Cleaner in
the Bristol Division; On 04.02.1911 Frank Neville Kingdon was discharged from the Great Western Railway
because he decided to emigrate to Canada; On 03.04.1911 he sails from Liverpool to Portland, Maine on the
‘SS Southwark’ at the age of 18 years anticipating working as a Farmer in Ontario; On 11.02.1916 in Mount
Forest, Ontario, Frank Neville Kingdon enlists in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as #928576 & is sent to
the 153rd Battalion; He gave his NOK as his Father, William Kingdon of #23, Elton Road, Bishopston, Bristol
England & his own address as Conn, Ontario; (The 153rd (Wellington) Battalion, CEF was based in Guelph,
Ontario; It started recruiting in late 1915, sailed to England on ‘SS Olympic’ on 29 th April 1917 & was
absorbed into the 4th & 25th Reserve Battalions on 07.05.1917); I believe that Frank Neville Kingdon served in
England & France until his return to Canada on board the ‘SS Northland’ on 05.04.1919 from Liverpool to
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for dispersal to the 4th Reserve Battalion; He again gives his Father as his NOK
& his proposed address as Mount Forest, Ontario; (I believe that he is the Brother of Mark Leslie Kingdon,
#23346 & #6747 who served in UK with Territorials 6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment & later with the
4th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force); I researched no further;
Kingdon, Frank S: Army Service Corps No: M/303737 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Frank Stanley Kingdon born on 08.07.1886 in Stamford Hill, Hackney, London, (He was
baptised on 01.08.1886 in Upper Clapton, St Matthews Church), the son of William John Kingdon, a
Gardener, b.1852 Somerset & Louisa Jones from Hoxton, Middlesex who married on 26.04.1883 in Hackney
& who lived at #16, Winslade Road, Clapton, Hackney; In 1891 Frank S Kingdon lives with parents at #7,
Barry Road in Willesden; In 1901 Frank Kingdon was aged 14 & working for the Railway as a Carboy, living
with his parents at #32, Barry Road, Willesden; Frank Stanley Kingdon first joined the Army for duty on
15.03.1917 at White City, London, Aged 33 years, he was a Motor Mechanic in Sloane Square, London, he
was first attested on 10.12.1915 at Chelsea Town Hall aged 29 years & 115 days; He served in East Africa as a
Fitter in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) from April 1917 to May 1918 & suffered with Malaria in
November 1917; He was sick enough to warrant several hospital periods in UK & Overseas in Dar es Salaam;
He was Transferred to the Reserve on 24.10.1919; His civilian address was given as #3, College Place, Kings
Road, Chelsea, London, SW3; Frank Kingdon appears to have been awarded a Pension for having contracted
Malaria whilst in the Army; I think his wife was Daisy Matilda Ward from Leamington Spa who he married on
16.01.1910 in St John’s, Leamington, Warwick; In 1911 Census Frank & Daisy Kingdon live at #20, Barry
Road in Willesden (his parents still live at #32), Frank is a Laundry Carman; Their children were Frank
Stanley Kingdon born 07.08.1910 Willesden; Frederick Ernest Kingdon born 03.04.1912 in Willesden &
Albert T V Kingdon born 05.03.1915 in Chelsea; The family continued to live at #3, College Place, Chelsea
until the 1930’s; In 1935 Frank Stanley & Daisy Matilda Kingdon lived at #1, Groom Place, City of
Westminster; In 1938 they were at #17, Whittingstall Road, Fulham but had returned to #1, Groom Place in the
City of Westminster in 1939; I believe that Frank Stanley Kingdon died in Brent, London in 1966 Aged 79 &
Daisy Matilda Kingdon died in 1968 in Greater London, Aged 82; Medals Card on file; (He was the Father of
Albert Thomas Victor Kingdon, Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, who served in WW2);
Kingdon, Frank V: London Regiment No: 2283 Rank: Private. 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Enlistment dates for this Regimental #2283 were between 02.09.1914 & 14.10.1914; This Soldier also
served as Corporal Kingdon #21047 in the Machine Gun Corps; I believe that he served in France from
17.03.1915; I understand that Frank V Kingdon lived most of his life in London; This is Frank Vyvyan
Kingdon born in India in 1894, son of Oliver Kingdon, b.1857 Clerkenwell who served in India as a Warrant
Officer & Maud Matilda Bateman from Cork, Ireland, who married in Bengal, India in 1882, returning to UK
around 1895; In 1901 Census Frank Kingdon lives with his parents Oliver & Maud Kingdon in Goring Road in
Southgate, Enfield, Middlesex; In 1911 Frank Vyvyan Kingdon was a scholar, aged 16, living with his parents
at #84, Brownlow Road, New Southgate, London; In 1927 Frank Vyvyan Kingdon Married Gladys Rosalie
Beryl Stephens from Bath in Somerset; Frank Vyvyan Kingdon Died in Christchurch Hospital, Hampshire on
01.11.1965 whilst living at ‘Pentiles’. #71, Dilly Lane, Barton-on-Sea, New Milton, Hampshire, he was aged
70 years; Medals Card on file; (Brother of Captain Oliver Kingdon MC who Died in WW1 in 1918 in
France); (Son of Oliver Kingdon #1120 6th Dragoon Guards 1873 to 1891); (Also the Brother of Lieutenant
George Alfred Blee Kingdon, Royal Field Artillery);
Kingdon, Frank Wm: Devonshire Regiment No: 7862 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
SEE ALSO: Kingdom, Frank W: Devonshire Regiment No: 7862, Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1
Notes: With a regimental number of #7862, this soldier’s enlistment would have been between 24.01.1904 &
09.03.1905; There are records to indicate that Private Frank Wm. Kingdon #7862 originally enlisted on
05.01.1905 & was Discharged under King’s Regulations Para 392 xvi for Sickness on 07.04.1916 & also
indicating that he had served overseas; Private Frank W Kingdom #7862 appears to have initially gone to
Africa on 24.08.1914 & his MIC indicates that he was ‘Discharged’; Another MIC is on record for a
Temporary Sergeant, F.W. Kingdom, attached to the Nigeria Regiment, his records state that he ‘Resumed
Civil Duties’ but there are no dates or indications as to what this means? This record also confirms that he first
went to Africa on 30.09.1914;
This soldier could be Frank William Kingdom born in 1888 in Knossington, Somerset, the son of James
Kingdom, a Gamekeeper, b.1839 Swimbridge & Elizabeth ?? from Buckland Filleigh who married in ?? in ??;
In the 1891 Census Frank William Kingdon lived with his parents at the Market House in Black Torrington,
Halwell, Devon; I think his mother is a Widow living in Attleborough, Norfolk in 1901 Census but I failed to
find Frank William; In the 1911 Census I have found a Frank William Kingdon b.1887 in Exeter, serving as a
Private in the 2nd Battalion The Devonshire Regiment in Malta; However, on the 26.08.1915 I did find a Frank
William Kingdon of the Military returning from Lagos Nigeria on the ‘SS Mendip’ & he gave a contact as a
Mrs. Fox of Kewstoke, Somerset; Despite searching the 1911 Census for Kewstoke, Weston Super Mare &
locating a Fox family I can find no link to Frank William Kingdon or Kingdom; Awarded the Silver War
Badge #226276 under #7862 Private Frank William Kingdon; Medals Card for T/Sgt. F.W. Kingdom,
attached to the Nigeria Regt. is on file for the Victory & the British War Medals, however this MIC is also
marked, ‘on 1915 Star Roll, col/5/40-11; Medals Card on file for award of the 1915 Star for #7862 Private
Frank W. Kingdom, Devon Regt. & marked ‘Discharged’; The Medals Record Card for Private #7862
Frank Wm Kingdom (changed to Kingdon) indicates award of the Victory & the British War Medals; I did
not research this Soldier any further as there is too much conflicting information; There may be two
different soldiers here?
Kingdon, Fred: Devonshire Regiment No: 23938 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as #70395 2/8 Battalion Worcestershire Regiment; This is (Fred) Frederick Kingdon
b.1885 in South Molton, a Boot Maker from Barnstaple; He was the son of Thomas Kingdon, a Gardener,
b.1847 South Molton & Anne Hierford b.1847 in Meshaw who married on 29.04.1873 in South Molton,
Devon; In 1891 Census Fred Kingdon lived with his parents at #82, East Street, South Molton & also in 1901
when Fred was aged 16 & a Shoemaker’s Apprentice; Fred Kingdon was aged 31 years & 6 months when he
enlisted in Barnstaple on 08.12.1915, he gave his address as #7, Pulchrass Street, Barnstaple, Devon; He also
gave his next of kin as his wife Henrietta Emma Francis Kingdon (nee Rudall) who he married in the Parish
Church in Barnstaple on 16.11.1910; (His wife was born in Teignmouth in 1880); In 1915 he was with the
Army Reserve until being mobilised on 01.06.1916; He served with the 2nd & 3rd Battalions of the Devonshire
Regiment in the first 2 years; He served at Home from 08.12.1915 to 10.11.1916; Served in France from
11.11.1916 to 29.03.1917; He may well have been wounded or sick (Trench Foot I believe) in 1917 as he was
at the Convalescent Hospital in Woodcote Park in June of 1917; He served at Home station between
30.03.1917 & 27.03.1918; He was sent back to the front line in France again on 28.03.1918 & stayed there
until 27.11.1919; However, one record has his theatre of War as Egypt in 1919; He was wounded in September
of 1918 in France I believe; He may well have served in Alexandria in 1919; He was transferred to the Class Z
Reserve in Warwick on 28.06.1919 & finally Discharged on Demobilisation on 31st March 1920 having served
a total of 3 years & 209 days; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, William: Wiltshire
Regiment No: 203121 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Fred: East Lancashire Regiment No: 8/17311 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
SEE ALSO: Kingdom, Fred: Royal Defence Corps No: 72672 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
SEE ALSO: Kingdom, F: East Lancashire Regiment No: 17311 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The 8th (Service) Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment was formed as part of the New Army in
Preston in September 1914 & were sent to France in late July 1915; The Silver War Badge record for this
soldier indicates that Private Fred Kingdon #72672 Royal Defence Corps, Enlisted on 16.11.1914 & was
Discharged on 18.09.1918 having been declared Unfit for Service (King’s Regulations 392) due to wounds
received, at the age of 35 years; This would indicate that he was born ca.1883; This also records that he had
served overseas; His service with the RDC was obviously brought about by his having been wounded
previously & subsequently not fit to be returned to the war front? The Medals Card for #8/17311 Private
Kingdom F. 8th East Lancs Regt. states that he first served in France 01.08.1915, that he also served as #72672
Royal Defence Corps & that he was Discharged on 18.09.1918; Awarded Silver War Badge #B15344; 3x
Medals Cards on file; Insufficient information to enable identification, (there is however, a Frederick
Kingdon born 1883 in Barnsley, Yorkshire?);
Kingdon, Frederick: West Yorkshire Regiment No: 10614 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: His Regimental number of #10614 would indicate enlistment after the 8th July 1914; Also served with
the Machine Gun Corps as #14069; He served in Gallipoli & the Dardanelles from 11.07.1915; Medals Card
on file; Insufficient information to enable further research;
Kingdon, Frederick: 1st Class Boy, #J8541, Royal Navy; ADM 188/664/41 (pre & WW1 period);
Notes: This official Naval Number indicates enlistment between 01.01.1910 & 31.12.1910 & the prefix ‘J’ that
he was a Seaman; This is Frederick Kingdon born 01.12.1893 in Lambeth, London, he was the son of
Frederick Kingdon, a Costermonger (street fruit seller) born in Westminster, London in 1868 & Jane Belleini,
b.1865 in Lambeth, who Married on 29.01.1894 in Walworth all Saints, Newington, Southwark, London, (1
month after Frederick’s birth); In the 1901 Census, Frederick Kingdon & this family are incorrectly recorded
as ‘Hingdor’ but live at #62, Tufton Street, St John the Evangelist, Westminster, London & the Father is
recorded as a Fruiterer; In the 1911 Census Frederick Kingdon was aged 17 & serving in the Royal Navy as a
1st Class Boy onboard ‘HMS Essex’ with the 4th Cruiser Squadron, stationed at Palma Bay in the Balearic
Islands in the Mediterranean; No Medals info on file? (He was the Brother of Kingdon, John Ernest: 1st Class
Boy, #J85582, Royal Navy, who served in WW1); I researched no further;
Kingdon, Frederick: #23742, Private, 13th Works Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, WW1;
Notes: I can find no Military Records for this soldier probably because the unit he served with was only
formed in Saltash in June 1916, moved to Plymouth & in April 1917 became the 3 rd Labour Battalion, staying
in England for the duration of the War. His details appear on the 1919 Absent Voters List for Barnstaple
Division, Parish of Heanton Punchardon, but all research of this area & his address in Wrafton has failed to
identify him for the time being? This could be Frederick William Kingdon born in Barnstaple in 1897? There
is no medals card on file; Insufficient information to be able to identify him for certain;
Kingdon, Frederick: Suffolk Regiment No: 63203 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: There is no indication of when or where this Soldier served, however, he may well have been with the
12th (Service) Battalion (East Anglian); Medals Card on file for the Victory & British War Medals only;
Insufficient information to enable further research;
Kingdon, Frederick: Registration for United States Army as a Declared Alien, WW1;
Notes: Registration was signed 12.09.1918; This is Frederick (Curly) Kingdon born 16.09.1885 in South
Molton, Devon, England; He was the son of Edwin (Ned) Kingdon b.31.12.1858 in Kings Nympton & Mary
Jane Gregory from Barnstaple who married on 31.03.1878 in South Molton; In 1891 Census Frederick
Kingdon was living with his parents in South Molton; In 1901 he was a Stable Boy/Groom but living with his
parents at #10, Cooks Cross, South Molton; On 16.07.1910 Frederick Kingdon Married Laura Jane Turner
from Chawleigh, in Chulmleigh, South Molton & immediately left England for emigration to the United States
of America; The family lived in Illinois for the remainder of their lives; Frederick Kingdon Died on
23.08.1950 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA;
Kingdon, Frederick: Devonshire Regiment No: 265495 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Medals Card on file for award of the Victory & British War Medals only; Insufficient information to
enable identification?
Kingdon, Frederick: #814692 139th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force; Rank: Private; WW1;
Notes: This is Frederick Kingdon born in Bishops Nympton, Devon on 05.10.1882 & baptised on
12.11.1882; He was the son of George Kingdon, a Farm Labourer b.1851 in Bishops Nympton & Ann
Kingdom b.1863 in Knowstone, who married in 1881 in Knowstone, Devon; In the 1891 Census Frederick is
living with his parents in Crosside Cottages, Knowstone in Devon; The 1901 Census for Knowstone, Devon
has Frederick Kingdon as an 18 year old Farm Labourer living with his parents at Crosside Cottages,
Knowstone, Devon; (His parents will live at Kimmings Farm in Rose Ash, Devon from 1911); Fredk Kingdom
Emigrated to Canada at the age of 28 years in 1911, sailing from Bristol, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada on the ‘SS Royal George’ arriving on 28.03.1911; The Canadian immigration arrival information
indicated that he had been a Farm Labourer for 14 years & that he intended to live in Toronto, Ontario;
Frederick Kingdon went to live & work as a Farm Labourer in Camborne, Ontario; He enlisted in the Canadian
Army, #814698 in the 139th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, on 27.01.1916 in Cobourg; He
stated that he had previously served for 2 years with the 4th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment in England,
there is no indication of when or where & he gave his Mother’s name, Annie Kingdon, Kimmings Farm, Rose
Ash, South Molton, Devonshire, England as his next of kin; I have no other Canadian WW1 records & have to
assume that Frederick Kingdon served overseas with the Canadian Forces in WW1; On 10.04.1919 Private
Frederick Kingdon, #814692, sailed on the SS Saturnia arriving in St John, New Brunswick, Canada from
Glasgow in Scotland, for transfer back to Canada for Dispersal & to the 12th Reserve; The 1919 UK Spring
Absent Voters List for South Molton Division, Parish of Rose Ash, has reference #4155 to Kingdon Fred, Ash
Moor, #814692 ‘C’ Company, 4th Battalion, Canadians, 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade being out of England;
The Rose Ash Victory Hall Memorial in Devon records Private F. Kingdon in the Canadian Expeditionary
Force; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Ernest: Devonshire Regiment No: 8737 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO
372/11); (He is also the Brother of Eli Kingdon who served in WW1 #3143, #2348 & #96658 RFA until
31.03.1919); (He is also the brother of Kingdon, Bert: Devonshire Regiment No: 8673 Rank: Private 19141920 WO 372/11); (He is probably also the Brother of Kingdom, Francis W: Devonshire Regiment No: 1775
Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); I did not research further;
Kingdon, Frederick: Devonshire Regiment No: 45622 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in
WW1; Private Frederick Kingdon #45622, 8th Bn., Devonshire Regiment, who died age 23 on 9th May 1917,
Son of William (CWGC has the Father as James) & Martha (Toms) Kingdon, of Filleigh, Devon; Husband of
Lucy Brewer (formerly Kingdon), of Gosford Lane, Ottery St. Mary, Devon. (I think her name was Lucy C
Bastin & they married in Honiton in 1916)? Remembered with honour ARRAS MEMORIAL; Notes: This is
Frederick Kingdon who was born in 1894 in Filleigh, his parents were William Kingdon b.1850 North
Molton & Martha Toms from Filleigh who married in 1873 in Filleigh; In 1901 Census Frederick Kingdon
lived with his Mother, (widowed since 1895) in Filleigh Alms Houses; I cannot find him yet in 1911 Census?
Frederick Kingdon married Lucy C Bastin in Honiton in 1917; (I believe that his widow remarries to a Brewer
later)? Ancestry.com has his birthplace as Teignmouth, Devon, his place of enlistment as Teignmouth; Medals
Card on file;
Kingdon, Frederick G T: Royal Horse Artillery No: 54710 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Transferred from Kingdom List: Kingdom, F: Royal Horse Artillery No: 54710 Rank: Driver 1914-1920
WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Served with the ‘A’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in France from 11.11.914; This is probably
Frederick George Turner Kingdon born 06.07.1893 in Poplar, Bow, Greater London (baptised 10.09.1893
in Lambeth), son of Benjamin George Kingdon b.1858 in Taunton, Somerset & Elizabeth Turner from
Taunton who married in 1884 in Taunton; In 1901 Census Frederick G Kingdon is aged 7 & living with his
parents in 61, Lion Road, Bexley, Kent who are both Laundry workers; In 1911 Census Frederick George
Kingdon Aged 19 is a Driver serving with the AA Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in Cantonments,
Patchejstroom, Transvaal, South Africa; Frederick G T Kingdon Married Alice Wade in Woolwich, Kent in
1922; 2x Medals Card on file; (He is probably the Brother of Ernest John Kingdon #220465 Royal Navy);
(Also the Brother of Kingdon, Walter Henry: #K22413, Stoker 1st Class, Royal Navy; ADM 188/911); I
have not researched this Soldier any further;
Kingdon, Frederick George: - Died in WW1; Private Frederick George Kingdon, #22491, 16th Waikato
Coy. 1st Battalion, Auckland Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who died aged 29 on 23rd June
1917; Remembered with Honour Messines Ridge (N.Z.) Memorial in Belgium;
Notes: This is Frederick George Kingdon who was born in 1887 in Silverton, Devon, England the son of
George Kingdon, a Butcher b.1861 Silverton & Emily Harriett Norris from Forest Hill, London, who married
on 14.06.1886 in Silverton, Devon; In the 1891 Census Frederick G. Kingdon lived with his parents in
Silverton Village in Devon; In the 1901 Census Frederick Geo Kingdon lives with his parents at #25, Dalmain
Road, Lewisham, London & in the 1911 Census is now aged 23 & working as a Carman, living with his
parents at #40, Dalmain Road in Lewisham; On the 29.09.1911 Fredk G. Kingdon sailed from London,
England to Sydney, Australia onboard the ‘SS Orvieto’, his occupation is given as being a Packer; He travelled
onwards to New Zealand; I believe that Frederick George Kingdon Enlisted at #5 Group Office, Buckle Street,
Wellington, New Zealand, on 15.06.1915; In the New Zealand Army Nominal Roll for 1916, #22491 Private
Frederick George Kingdon is recorded as being in ‘J’ Company of the Otago Infantry Battalion, 16th
Reinforcements who departed from New Zealand on board the “Navua” on 20.08.1916, sailing from
Wellington, New Zealand to Devonport, England; His occupation is recorded as Labourer & his Mother’s UK
address is given; #22491 Private Kingdon F.G. is reported Missing in Action on 18.07.1917, Casualty List
#625/3, by the 16th Reinforcements Force, under the 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment list of the
NZEF Summary of Casualties, up to & including 14.08.1917; Notification of this soldier’s death was recorded
in the Summary of Casualties dated up to & including 14.11.1917 as #22491 Private Kingdon F.G. of the 1 st
Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, 16th Reinforcements was Killed in Action, report dated 23.09.1917
under Casualty List #676/1, NZEF; I have no doubt that Frederick George Kingdon died following the Battle
of Messines on 07.06.1917 when the New Zealand Division retook this heavily defended strong strategic
position from the Germans; The Messines Ridge Cemetery Memorial commemorates those Soldiers who died
but have no known grave; Frederick George Kingdon’s name is also included on his parents Gravestone in the
Ladywell Cemetery in Lewisham, Greater London, England; I understand that his name is also recorded on the
New Zealand National War Memorial located at Buckle Street in Wellington; (He was the brother of Kingdon,
Walter F: 16th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) No:
555062 Rank: Rifleman 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Frederick J: #129253, Devon Regiment, WW1 period;
Notes: On the Absent Voters Spring 1919 List there is reference to a Fredk J. Kingdon of the above unit being
absent from the Ellacombe Polling District, Torquay Division; I have failed to identify this soldier as there are
no Military Records for this #129253 on file? A search of his given address of #37, Princes Road West,
Tormoham, Torquay in the 1911 Census also fails to identify him? Insufficient information;
Kingdon, Frederick Percy: Dorsetshire Regiment No: 10616 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Transferred from the Kingdom List: Kingdom, Frederick P: Royal Army Medical Corps No: 126610
Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: (Both his Service & Pension Records were badly damaged by fire & water during WW2); This is
actually Frederick Percy Kingdon born 1896 in Portland, Dorset; He is the son of William Kingdon, a Mason
b.1853 in Goodleigh, Devon & Louisa Jane Bond from Wincanton, Somerset, who married in Wincanton in
1876; (For my family records he is the Grandson of William Kingdon b.1819 Bratton Fleming & Susan ??); In
the 1901 Census Frederick Kingdon lived with his parents at #9, Victoria Square in Portland, Dorset; In the
1911 Frederick Percy Kingdon lives with his parents at #54, Nortoft Road in Bournemouth Hampshire, His
Father is a Stone Mason, his Mother owns a Sweet Shop & Frederick Percy Kingdon is an Errand Boy for
Welshbank; Frederick Percy Kingdon appears to have already been placed on the Dorset Special Reserve when
he enlisted at the age of 19 years & 7 months, in Bournemouth on 28.08.1914, giving his occupation as a
Grocer, but I believe that he joined in Dorchester for service with the 5th Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment;
Unfortunately he only served until 26.10.1914, a total of 59 days as he was medically re-examined &
Discharged under Kings Regulations Para 392 (iii), marked as ‘For Medical Reasons’? I believe that he had
Flat Feet & Hammer Toes & had not served overseas during his service time; I understand that he was
awarded the Silver War Badge;
Additional service & pension records would indicate that Frederick Percy Kingdon, incorrectly recorded as
Kingdom, managed to get himself re-enlisted for military service with the Royal Army Medical Corps on
24.09.1917 when he was aged 21, giving his occupation as a Porter; He initially served with the 5th Training
Battalion, RAMC but I believe that he then served for 1 Year & 329 days with the R.A.M.C. under #126610 at
20th Station Hospital; He served this period with a downgraded Medical Fitness Grade; He served at Home
from 24.09.1917 to 18.03.1918, he was sent to join the British Salonika Army (BSF) between 19.03.1918 &
13.04.1918, arriving in Constantinople on 14.04.1918, where he continued to serve both there & with the
British ‘Army of the Black Sea’ until returning to the UK on 02.07.1919; He was finally discharged on
18.08.1919; I believe that Frederick P Kingdon married Florence E. Harris in 4th Q 1941 in Bournemouth &
died in Bournemouth in 1st Q 1948 Aged 50; Claimed & awarded the Silver War Badge #157462 on
23.03.1917; Medals Card on file; Awarded the Victory medal for his RAMC service; (He is the Brother of
Henry William Kingdon who served with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, initially with ‘D’
Company #440914 & later with the 76th Depot Battery #1250407); (He is also the Brother of John Kingdon
b.1877 in Wincanton, who served in a Militia Unit);
Kingdon, Frederick R: Royal Engineers No: 286416 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1;
Sapper Frederick Robert Kingdon #286416, "G" Depot Company, Royal Engineers who died age 29 on 18th
March 1919, Son of William and Mary Ann Kingdon, of 51, Manor Row, Dawlish. Remembered with honour
Dawlish Cemetery;
Notes: This is Frederick Robert Kingdon born in 1890 in Dawlish, Devon; He was the son of William
Kingdon, a Gardener b.1852 in Silverton, Devon & Mary Ann Routley from Sowton, who Married in 1882 in
St Thomas; In the 1891 Census Frederick R. Kingdon lived with his parents at #8, Brook Street, Dawlish,
Devon; In the 1901 Census Frederick Kingdon lives with his parents in Manor Row, East Dawlish; In the 1911
Census Frederick Robert Kingdon is a Plumber, Aged 21 & living with his parents at #36, Manor Row,
Dawlish, Devon; Frederick Robert Kingdon’s Death record in England is 1st Q 1919 Newton Abbot 5b.196
Aged 29; Medals Card on file for the Victory & British War Medals only; (He was the Brother of Kingdom,
Arthur George: Royal Engineers No: 6886 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11; SEE ALSO: Kingdon,
Arthur G: Royal Engineers No: T6886 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is the Brother of
Kingdom, Charles: Royal Engineers No: 172009 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11; Transferred from
Kingdom to Kingdon List);
Kingdon, Frederick S: Rifle Brigade No: B/200829 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The prefix B to his Regimental number indicates that he was an Army Reservist whose number had
been re-allocated, or that he was a previously discharged Army Reservist who was re-enlisting for WW1
service; I would assume the latter in this case; He was attested 09.12.1915, put on the Reserve 10.12.1915 &
Rejoined 29.05.1916; Frederick S Kingdon also served as #186408 in the Army Service Corps; This is
Frederick Stanley Kingdon born in Dalston, Middlesex in 14.11.1889 & baptised in Hackney on 05.01.1890;
The son of Henry James Kingdon, a Brass Finisher, b.1851 in Cardiff, Wales? (some records have him born in
Clerkenwell, London) & Elizabeth Green Lowe from Hackney who married on 04.11.1871 in St James,
Shoreditch, Hackney; In1891 Frederick S Kingdom is aged 1 year & living with his parents at #14 Downham
Road, Hackney; In 1901 Frederick S Kingdon lived with his Widower Father at #35, Sidney Road, Hackney; I
have a London Schools Record for Fred Stanley Kingdon attending Sidney Road School from 18.10.1898 until
25.08.1902; In the 1911 Census Frederick Stanley Kingdon lives with his Brother Percy Victor Kingdon at
#33, Clifden Road, Clapton; At the time of enlistment at Hackney Baths in London he gives his address as #33,
Clifden Road Lower Clapton, London; His records have him working as a Tailor’s Cutter; Frederick Stanley
Kingdon Married Rebecca Cracknell on 23.12.1911 in Hackney; (I believe that she was a Pauper in 1901 in
Edmonton Strand Union Infant Workhouse School); He enlisted in 1915 & served for 311 days with the Army
Service Corps, for 1 year & 307 days with the Rifle Brigade for a total service time of 2 years & 253 days, 110
days of which were spent in France; During his service in France he was gassed at least once & probably
wounded in 1917; Transferred to the Reserve on 04.02.1919 from the 5th Battalion Rifle Brigade in
Winchester; Frederick Stanley Kingdon claimed a pension for having been gassed during WW1 on 10.07.1918
but I believe that this was denied & rejected in March 1920; His medals were delivered to him on 28.07.1921;
I believe that Frederick S Kingdon Dies in Hackney in 1946 Aged 56; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother
of Kingdon, Herbert James: #143716, Royal Army Medical Corps, Rank: Private, who served in England in
WW1);
Kingdon, Fred S: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 162987 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Fred Sherwood Kingdon born 28.09.1887 in Backwell, Somerset, the son of John Kingdon, a
Railway Station Master, b.1846 in Selworthy, Somerset & Caroline Sherwood from Farnborough Hampshire,
who married in 1878 in Taunton, Somerset; In 1891 Census the family lived in the Railway Cottages,
Backwell, Somerset; In 1901 Fred Sherwood Kingdon lives with his parents in Moorside, Backwell, Somerset;
Fred Sherwood Kingdon enlisted on 19.11.1915 Aged 28 years, he was a Railway Porter living at #83, St
John’s Lane, Bedminster, Bristol; He was sent to the Army Reserve on 20.11.1915 & finally Mobilised on
02.06.1917; He served in France & then Germany with the 14th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; It
would appear that he actually joined his Unit on 02.06.1917 in Plymouth Citadel; On 07.03.1919 whilst
serving in Germany he overstayed a leave permit for 6 days & was fined 7 days pay as a result; I believe that
Fred Sherwood Kingdon Married Winifred Norris Mead, b. 20.05.1894 in Bristol, on 19.01.1918 in Holy
Trinity Church, Clifton, Bristol; At the end of his service he was sent to a Discharge Area for Demobilisation
on 27.09.1919; He was transferred to the Z Reserve on 23.10.1919; After discharge Fred Sherwood Kingdon
went to work for Great Western Railway on 11.05.1925 being ex Bristol Joint Staff previously; I believe that
Fred Sherwood Kingdon Died aged 85 in Weston Super Mare in 1973 & his wife Winifred Norris Kingdon
in1979 in Weston Super Mare Aged 85; Medals Card on file; (He was the Brother of Andrew Henry Kingdon
#219925 RASC who also served in WW1);
Kingdon, Frederick W: Royal Engineers No: WR/335967 Rank: Acting Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: The prefix WR to his Royal Engineer’s number indicates service with the Waterways & Railways
Units; (I would presume that Frederick W Kingdon may well have been a Liverpool Docker before the War);
This soldier also served as #17875 with the Liverpool Regiment (The King’s) & his number suggests that he
enlisted along with many others after 04.08.1914; Medals Card on file; Insufficient information to identify
this man clearly;
G
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, G: Dorsetshire Regiment No: 13228 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
SEE ALSO: Kingdom, George: Dorsetshire Regiment No: 13228 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: Served in France from 03.09.1915; Transferred to Class Z Reserve on 04.04.1919; 2x Medals Card on
file; Insufficient information to identify this man clearly;
Kingdon, George: Devonshire Regiment No: 1424 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Also Recorded as: Kingdon, G: Devonshire Regiment No: 265174 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/24,
WW1;
Notes: Also served as #1424 Devonshire Regiment with a Regimental number which does not help identify his
enlistment date as this is a Territorial Force number & #265174 in WW1; Colonel Flick’s Diary for the 6th
Battalion the Devonshire Regiment, serving in Mesopotamia has reference to a Private G. Kingdon #1424
serving with ‘C’ Company; George Kingdon is recorded on the Spring of 1919 Absent Voters List for the
Parish of Queens Nympton, South Molton, Devon; His address is given as Cheyney which confirms his
identity as follows: This is George Kingdon born 03.05.1892 in George Nympton, Devon, baptised
29.05.1892 in George Nympton, the son of William Kingdon, a Farm Labourer, b.1863 in Kings Nympton,
Devon, & Elizabeth Jane Webber from Chulmleigh, Devon who Married in 1884 in South Molton; In 1901
Census George Kingdon lives with his parents in Kings Nympton, Devon; In 1911 Census George Kingdon is
aged 18 & a Farm Labourer living with his parents at Cheyney Cottage, Queens Nympton; George Kingdon
married (Bessie) Elizabeth Westcott from Bishops Nympton on 07.08.1920 in the Ebenezer Chapel in South
Molton, Devon; I believe that George Kingdon died on 18.12.1968 Aged 76; This soldier was awarded the
Territorial Force War Medal for service with the Devon Regiment TFM; Medals Card on file; His
Granddaughter Jan Preston has his medals at home; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, William H: Devonshire
Regiment No: 2705 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, George: London Regiment No: 800308 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as #5749 when first enlisted in the 30th Battalion London Regiment at the age of 38,
enlisted on 23.03.1916 & discharged on 08.12.1918 – Record Card gives cause of discharge as Army Order
291/18 2a which equates to Silver War Badge, this was issued on 09.01.1919 for Wounds received during his
service; George Kingdon was aged 25 at the time of his discharge; His Army Service Records say he had a
Shrapnel wound on 08.04.1918 in his forearm; He was reported Missing on 30.08.1918, Reported as a Prisoner
of War also on 30.08.1918; He was captured at Bullecourt & interned in Giessen, Germany; Repatriated &
Posted to Depot on 04.12.1918; On 08.12.1918 he was declared no longer physically fit for War Services; He
was awarded a small Pension on 09.12.1918 which was to be reviewed in 52 weeks; This is George
Howardson (Hoursdon) James Kingdon born in 1877 in Hoxton, London, the son of James Kingdon b.1846
North Molton, Devon, a Tailor & Sophia Lightfoot from Peckham who married in 1876 in Clerkenwell;
George Kingdon lived with his parents in Finsbury in 1881, he was a Port Errand Boy living with parents in
Shoreditch in 1891 & a General Labourer living with parents in Shoreditch in 1901 Census; In 1911 Census
George Kingdon still lives with his parents, is single & a Florist’s Salesman, at #38, Bevenden Street, Hoxton,
Shoreditch, London; At the time of enlistment in 1916 he was a Florist’s Salesman; In 1922 George Houdson
James Kingdon lives with his Mother Sophia, brother Zealey William & sister Sarah Ann at #38, Bevenden
Street in Hoxton; In 1939 George Howardson James Kingdon lives in #76, Aske House, Shoreditch with his
Brother Zealey William Kingdon & Sister Sarah Ann Kingdon; In 1957 George Kingdon lives at #48, Aske
House, Academy Buildings in Ashford Street, with his Brother Zealey William & his sister Sarah, none of
them seem to have married; George H J Kingdon died in 1959 in Shoreditch Aged 81; Awarded the Silver War
Badge #B60923; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Zealey William: #14659, Private,
Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division; ADM 159/60);
Kingdon, George: Devonshire Regiment No: 2621 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Enlistment dates for the #2621 Regimental number were between 02.01.1889 & 11.06.1890; This
soldier also served as #265977 in the Devonshire Regiment; Medals Card on file; There are many George
Kingdons to choose from therefore insufficient information to enable a proper identification;
Further research of the records from Colonel Flick’s Diary for the 6 th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment who
served in Mesopotamia refer to a Private G. J. Kingdon #2621, Serving with ‘C’ Company; This is probably
George J Kingdon born ?? in ??; Still insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, George: Ship’s Pay Book #581, ‘HMS Swiftsure’, Royal Navy in 1794, Seaman’s Wills; ADM
48/50/91 & ADM 142/7, f.126; (1794 period);
Notes: The ADM 48 Records has reference to a Will for Seaman, George Kingdon, Ship’s Pay Book number
581, serving on ‘HMS Swiftsure’ & dated 01.08.1794; There are no other details; At that time in Naval history,
‘HMS Swiftsure’ was on the Irish Station escorting British convoys & had earlier, on 05.05.1794, captured the
French ship ‘Atalante’; Following this engagement she was repaired at Portsmouth in England & sailed for
Jamaica where the ship remained until returning to Portsmouth for refitting in early 1796; Insufficient
information to identify this Sailor;
Kingdon, George: #1799, Colour Sergeant - 2nd Afghan War (1880’s);
Notes: Colour Sergeant George Kingdon, #1799 of the 2nd Battalion the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, the 60th
Foot, was serving in the Second Afghan War & fought at the Battle of Ahmed Kehl on 19.04.1880 & on the
March to Kandahar 01.09.1880; The 60th Foot marched with General Stewart from Kandahar to Kabul &
fought at Ahmed Kehl en route, they then marched back from Kabul to Kandahar with General Roberts a few
months later; The Medal Roll for George Kingdon was recorded on 31.03.1882 & the indications are that he
was still with the Service Corps, at this date in time they were just over 2 months back in England, having
returned from South Africa in January 1882; Awarded the Afghan War Medal, the Ahmed Kehl Clasp & the
Kandahar Clasp plus the Kandahar Bronze Star; I failed to identify this soldier further;
Kingdon, George: Royal Naval Dockyard Stoker, Paddle Tugs in Devonport, (1870-1880 period);
Notes: There are no ADM records that I can find for this man but he is recorded in 1861 & 1871 as a Stoker; I
do believe that this is George Frederick Kingdon, b.1830 in Devonport & Baptised on 19.09.1830 in Stoke
Damerel; He was the son of Joseph Kingdon, a Shipwright born 1799 in Devonport & Susanna ?? b.1803 in
Ottery Saint Mary, Devon; In the 1841 Census George Kingdon is aged 11 & living with his parents at the
Back of higher Somerset Place, Stoke Damerel, Devonport, Devon; In the 1851 Census George Kingdon is
aged 21, working as a Labourer & living with his parents at the Back of Church Place Cottage in Stoke
Damerel; George Kingdon Married Jane Giles, b.1831 in Walkhampton, Devon, in Stoke Damerel in 1851;
(Note – there is however a 2nd 1851 Census which may be a duplicate for this family which has them living at
#35, Tavistock Street, Stoke Damerel, with slight differences in individual ages); In the 1861 Census George &
Jane Kingdon live in Johns Street, Stoke Damerel, George is a Stoker & Jane is a Seamstress; In the 1871
Census George Kingdon is at sea as a Stoker onboard the Paddle Tug “Trusty” around Devonport Dockyard;
In the 1871 Census, his wife, Jane Kingdon is living in Wilcove, Antony, Cornwall with their young family; In
the 1881 Census George & Jane Kingdom, now a Naval Pensioner, live at #5, Mary Street, Antony, Cornwall;
In the 1891 Census George & Jane Kingdon live at #94, James Street in Stoke Damerel, Devon, George is
recorded as a Pensioner HM Navy; I understand that George’s wife, Jane Kingdon, Died aged 63 on
17.02.1894 & was buried in the Stoke Damerel Burial Ground, Milehouse, Plymouth; In the 1901 Census
George Kingdon, now a Widower, aged 72 & a Retired Naval Worker, lives at #10, Ross Street, Tamar,
Devonport; I understand that George Kingdon Died at the age of 81 years on 28.12.1910 & was buried
alongside his wife in the Stoke Damerel Burial Ground; (He was the Father of #81288, Able Seaman, Joseph
John Kingdon, Royal Navy); (He was the Father of Kingdon, John: #82600, Stoker, Royal Navy; ADM
188/76/189); (He was the Grandfather of Kingdon, William Edgar: Royal Engineers Regiment No: T1005
Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11; See also: Kingdom, W E: Royal Engineers No: 514302 Rank: Sapper
1914-1920 WO 372/24); (He may be the Brother of Kingdom, John Joseph: Royal Navy, No: #30146; ADM
139/302/46);
Kingdon, George: Royal Field Artillery No: 45713 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is George (Henry) Kingdon born 1890 in Barnstaple, Devon, the son of John E. Kingdon a
Fisherman, Shipbuilder & Bargeman b.1855 in Barnstaple & Elizabeth Limebeer from Barnstaple who married
in ?? (she may have been previously married as there is a stepdaughter in 1891 Census); In 1891 George lived
with his Parents in Potters Lane, Barnstaple; In 1901 George Kingdon was aged 11 & living with his Parents in
Signal Terrace, Barnstaple, Devon;
Kingdon, George: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 174744 Rank: Sergeant, WW1;
Notes: This Soldier is also #174744 Sergeant George Kingdon of the Royal Garrison Artillery; Served in
France from 18.08.1914; Records are very mutilated but he enlisted in Barnstaple originally on 01.01.1907;
Further research reveals that he probably was attested on 31.12.1906, was a Chauffeur by trade & joined the
Army on 02.01.1907 in Newport; He initially served as a Horseman with the 78th Battery, No 4 Depot, Royal
Field Artillery & served as a Gunner #45713 for the next 6 years until being Transferred to the Reserve on
expiration of his Service on 11.12.1913; During that period he may well have served in Rawalpindi, probably
from 18.11.1908 to 09.12.1913, as a Sobriety Certificate was issued there on 15.11.1913 despite the fact that
his Regimental Conduct Sheet had an entry for drunkeness dated 15.07.1912, then his record sheet was
destroyed in Rawalpindi on 15.11.1913; Follow up research indicates that Gunner G. Kingdon was serving
with the 4th Battery, Royal Field Artillery in Rawalpindi in India in the 1911 Census; At the outbreak of WW1
he was Mobilised at Newcastle On Tyne to 26th Brigade Royal Field Artillery on 07.08.1914; He was
promoted to Acting Bombardier on 26.11.1914 but seems to have committed a Criminal Act for which he was
given a Field General Courts Martial on 16.12.1914 & reduced to the ranks on 25.12.1914, but there is some
confusion as to when or where this happened as the unit records in France state that he was evacuated ‘Sick’ in
November of 1914? Another record sheet states that he was Courts Martialled at the Base Camp during his
sickness; He was again promoted to Bombardier on 23.05.1915 & posted generally as a Corporal through
1915, 1916 & 1917; He was appointed to Sergeant on 01.02.1917 & then posted & transferred up to
27.02.1917 in that rank; I believe that he was invalided to UK from France on 08.07.1915 but the records are
vague, however a Notice was sent to his records office in July 1915 stating that Corporal G. Kingdon #45713
of the 50th Battery, RFA had been wounded in action on 18.07.1915 & had been sent to Queen Mary’s Military
Hospital; It would appear from the records that in 1913 he gave his Next of Kin as his Father John Kingdon of
#15, Highfield Road, Ilfracombe, Devon; He also recorded an elder Brother Sidney Kingdon living at #10,
Union Road, Barnstaple, Devon; Another Brother Bruce Kingdon but who had already emigrated to Canada &
will serve as #622376, 44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment), and die aged 27 on
25.10.1916 in the Somme; He also reported a younger Brother Jack Kingdon who was serving with the Royal
Artillery; He added at some stage Mrs. E Canon of #37, Princess Street, Derby, Barnstaple as a contact; None
of these addresses turned up a Kingdon result in a 1911 Census search; There is then a sequence of letters
written from 1917 through June 1920 which the Army seemed to pass from unit to unit regarding this soldier?
They originated in Long Buckby, Rugby from a Rose Cope (previously living at #75, Meeson Road, Stratford,
West Ham) & deal with payments for an illegitimate child born on 27.07.1917 (probably Charles C. Cope); It
seems that an order for payment was made against George Kingdon on 03.02.1917 in the County Borough of
West Ham for Child Maintenance; This order was paid & the woman received 5 shillings a week up until
08.05.1919 but then payment ceased & she took out a warrant against #174744 Gunner George Kingdon at #4
Higher Maudlin Street, Barnstaple Derbyshire? Throughout the course of this situation Sergeant George
Kingdon had been continuing payments but then a sequence of events seemed to cause them to stop & the
correspondence re-started; A Bastardy Order was taken out in West Ham Police Court on 03.09.1917; As a
Sergeant, George Kingdon was transferred on 27.02.1917 to the 52nd Anti-Aircraft Company, Royal Garrison
Artillery in Glasgow; At this later stage he was also serving as an Officer’s Groom; I believe that Sergeant
George Kingdon was transferred to the Z Reserve on 11.07.1919; He may have been awarded a small pension
in April 1919 as I understand that he made a disability claim for having lost some fingers on his right hand in
1915 due to a Gun Shot Wound; In 1930 he lives in #14, Princess Street, Castleford, Yorkshire; There are over
113 paper records for this man in his Army files, not all of which are legible; Amongst his records is a
notification that George Kingdon Married Lily Fawcett, aged 20, on 01.12.1917 in Allerton, Bywater,
Yorkshire & that she lived at #3, Providence Place, Castleford, Yorkshire; His Marriage records state that his
name is George Henry Kingdon, a 29 year old serving soldier on active service; George & Lily Kingdon had a
son Bruce Edwin Kingdon born 13.07.1918 in Castleford who will Die in 1944 whilst serving in WW2; I
believe that George Kingdon Died in Pontefract in 1952 Aged 61; Medals Card on file; (Probably the Brother
of Kingdon, John (Jack): Royal Field Artillery No: 49756 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/23); (He was
the Brother of Kingdon, Bruce: #622376, Private, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment), who died in
WW1); (He was the Brother of Sydney John Kingdon, WW1 Merchant Seaman); (He was the Father of
Bruce Edwin Kingdon: #4692108, Private, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry who Died in WW2);
Kingdon, George: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916, (WW1 period);
Notes: I do not believe that this man actually served in WW1, but he is recorded as a Reservist in the 1st
Division in 1916, recruited in #9 Recruitment Centre in Christchurch, stating that he was a Labourer in
Yaldhurst; This is George Kingdon b.1872 in New Zealand, the son of Josiah Stephens Kingdon, b.1842 in
Bodmin, Cornwall, England & Catherine Johnson who Married in 1868 in New Zealand; In 1896, through
1919 George Kingdon is recorded as a Labourer living in Yaldhurst, Riccarton, Canterbury; I believe that
George Kingdon never married; In 1928, 1935 & 1938 he is recorded living at #20, Peer Street, as a Labourer
& his sister Frances Mary Kingdon lives there also; George Kingdon died in 1946 Aged 74; (He was the
Brother of Kingdon, Albert John: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916 WW1); (He was the Brother of
Kingdon, Charles Ford: New Zealand, 2nd Division Reservist, 1917 WW1); (He was the Brother of
Kingdon, James Alexander: #41577, ‘F’ Company, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Army,
WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Stanley Craig: #8/3828, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment,
New Zealand Army, WW1);
Kingdon, George Alfred Blee: Royal Field Artillery Rank: Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is George Alfred Blee Kingdon born in Birmingham in 1888 (but lived initially in India with his
parents), he is the son of Oliver Kingdon b.1857 Clerkenwell who served in India as a Warrant Officer &
Maud Matilda Bateman from Ireland (who married in Bengal, India in 1882), finally returning to UK around
1895; In the 1901 Census young George Kingdon lives with his parents in Goring Row, Southgate, Enfield,
Middlesex; (Lieutenant George Alfred Blee Kingdon is the Grandson of Oliver Kingdon b.1831 South Molton
& 1st Wife Jane Blee, who married in 1856 in Hackney, London); In 1911 George Alfred Blee Kingdon is aged
22 & living with his parents at #84, Brownlow Road, New Southgate, London, he is a Clerk in a Coat Factory;
On 12.06.1915 George Alfred Kingdon was promoted from being a Corporal with the 14 th (County of London)
Battalion, The London Regiment (London Scottish) to be a 2nd Lieutenant with the London (Howitzer)
Brigade, Royal Field Artillery; George Alfred Kingdon served in France as a 2nd Lieutenant from June 1916;
He was promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to Temporary Lieutenant whilst serving with the London (Howitzer)
Brigade on 21.02.1916 – London Gazette Supplement 09.03.1916 page 2551; Lieutenant G.A. Kingdon of the
8th London Brigade, Royal horse & Royal field Artillery, was promoted to Captain on 21.05.1920; His WW1
Medals were sent to him at #84, Brownlow Road, London N.11 on 25.11.1920; This Officer was still serving
with the Territorial Army Reserve when he was Gazetted from the rank of Provisional Major to Captain on
23.01.1924; Medals Card on file; (Brother of Captain Oliver Kingdon MC who Died in WW1 in 1918 in
France); (Son of Oliver Kingdon #1120 6th Dragoon Guards 1873 to 1891); (Also the Brother of Kingdon,
Frank V: London Regiment No: 2283 Rank: Private. 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, George Brice: Army Catering Corps, No: 159923 Rank: Private 1939-1945 – Died in WW2;
Private George Brice Kingdon Died age 29 on 25th February 1945, Son of William George & Lucy Kingdon,
of Bridgewater, Somerset; Remembered with honour Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium;
Notes: This is George Brice Kingdon born in 1916 in Bridgewater, Somerset, the son of William George
Kingdon, a Journeyman Carpenter, b.1882 in Kittisford, Somerset, & Lucy Brice from Wivelscombe, who
Married in 1907 in Bridgewater, Somerset; Awarded the 1939-45 Star & 1939-45 War Medals;
Kingdon, George Bodley: Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy & Flying Officer in Royal Air Force; ADM
196/150; - Died in WW2;
Notes: This is George Bodley Kingdon born on 22.03.1908 in Blackheath, the son of Zachary Harris
Kingdon, a Civil Engineer, b.1856 in Exeter & Florence Kate Brindley from Sheffield, Yorkshire who married
on 24.07.1890 in Greenwich, Kent; In 1911 Census George Bodley Kingdon was aged 3 & living with his
parents at #5, Grimstone Villas, Plymouth, his Father was working as an Electrical Engineer with the
Admiralty & was a Civil Servant at Devonport Dockyard in 1925; On 01.01.1929 George Bodley Kingdon
went to Devonport High School & “HMS Worcester” Naval Training Ship; He joined the Royal Navy as a
Cadet on “HMS Thunderer” & later as a Sub Lieutenant at the age of 20 years; I believe that Midshipman G.B.
Kingdon was serving onboard ‘HMS Royal Oak’ in 1926, 1927 & in 1928; He was promoted from Acting Sub
Lieutenant to Sub Lieutenant on 01.01.1929 & then to Lieutenant on 01.10.1930; (He attended a Lieutenant’s
Course in Portsmouth in 1929); On 11.05.1930, at the age of 22, he was granted a temporary Commission as
Flying Officer on attachment with the Royal Air Force on 11.05.1930, passing his Aviator’s Certificate on
18.12.1930; In 1931 he was a Pilot Lieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm, #448 Flight, serving onboard the Aircraft
Carrier ‘HMS Glorious’ in the Mediterranean; His promotion to Pilot Lieutenant was dated 01.10.1930 & in
January 1933 he was attached to the Royal Air Force serving onboard ‘HMS Victory’ in #409 Flight based in
Portsmouth; His Flying Officer RAF rank was dated 11.05.1930; In 1934 he was attached to the RAF, serving
with Fighter Squadron 802, onboard the Aircraft Carrier ‘HMS Courageous’; From 1935 to 1937 he was
serving with #403 Flight onboard the Cruiser ‘HMS Berwick’ in the 5th Cruiser Squadron, China Sea; By
16.12.1938 George Bodley Kingdon was in Command of the Destroyer ‘HMS Boadicea’ (H65) at the age of
30 & on North Sea Patrol in 1939; On 01.08.1940 he was Killed in an air crash at the age of 32, whilst serving
as a Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy on ‘HMS President’ with the Naval Intelligence Department (NID)
& he is buried in Plymouth, Weston Mill, Military Cemetery; Awarded 1939-45 Star & War Medals; (He is the
Brother of Kingdon, John Francis: Royal Army Medical Corps No: 434077 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO
372/11 who served in WW1); (He is also the Brother of Kingdon, Roger: Royal Engineers Rank: Lieutenant
1914-1920 WO 372/11 who served in WW1); (He is also the Brother of Kingdon, William Stephen: Served
in the Royal Air force in WW1, AIR 76/277); (This family originates from the Thorverton, Devon line of
Kingdons);
Kingdon, George Charles: Register Number: #11322; Division: Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth
Division; When Enlisted/Date of Enlistment: 29 August 1901; ADM 159/19, WW1; SEE ALSO: Kingdon,
George Charles: Register Number: #23622; Division: Royal Marine Light Infantry: Chatham Division; When
Enlisted/Date of Enlistment: 29 August 1901; ADM 159/139, WW1; Notes: This is George Charles Kingdon
born 10.04.1886 in Lambeth, Surrey, the Son of John Kingdon b.1851 in South Molton & his 1st wife
Elizabeth Piller from Drewsteignton, Devon; In 1891 Census George Charles Kingdon lives with his parents at
#123 Mayall Road, Lambeth, his Father is a Carpenter; In 1901 Census George Charles Kingdon is now 14
years old & works as a Milkman, living with his Father & Step Mother, (Mary Cecilia Coomber from
Hastings, who married his Father in 1894 in Lambeth), at #127, Mayall Road, Lambeth; (Note that in 1911 his
parents live in #72, Mayall Road); I have also found in the 1911 Census for Royal Navy Vessels a Private
George Charles Kingdon Aged 28 (born 1883 Brixton), serving on board ‘HMS Minotaur’ at Hong Kong in
China; Even though there are birth date discrepancies I believe that this is the same young man; (His elder
Brother also enlisted in the Royal Marines, Kingdon, Abraham John: Register Number: #11852; Division:
Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division); (He is also the Brother of William Henry Kingdon who
served with The Durham Light Infantry & The Sherwood Foresters);
Follow up research reveals that Royal Marine Light Infantry Private, #PO/11322, George Charles Kingdon,
(Portsmouth Division) was transferred to the Royal Marine Light Infantry Chatham Division as Private
#CH/23622 at some point in his Army service; The record says that he was Discharged to Pension but this may
be a mistake; I also understand from the records that George Charles Kingdon Died on 25.12.1943 in Hendon,
Middlesex & is buried in Lambeth Cemetery, he was Aged 57; I therefore believe that this soldier/sailor served
for a long time with the Royal Marines; ADM 171/169 records that #PO. 11322 Private Geo. C. Kingdon’s
WW1 medals were forwarded to him at the Royal Marine Light Infantry Depot in Gosport at the time of issue;
He was awarded the WW1 Victory Medal, the British War Medal & the 1914-15 Star;
I also have noted his name associated with service in South Africa in the Boer War during 1901;
Further research revealed a record for Service in WW2 for Marine George Charles Kingdon #CH/23622, the
son of John & Elizabeth Ann Kingdon who also served in the 1914 – 1918 WW1, who died on 25.12.1943
Aged 57; He is buried in Lambeth (Tooting) Cemetery, London, in Section J.3. Cons Grave 190 (I have a
picture of his grave marker on file); He was awarded the 1939-45 War Medal & the 1939-45 Star; His Royal
Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal was issued on 14.02.1936;
Kingdon, George Frederick: #7881, Sergeant, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division; ADM
159/48, WW1;
Notes: (These notes should be read in conjunction with those recorded against #568, Henry Kingdon,
Grenadier Guards as there is some very confusing information associated with this family); This is probably
George Frederick Kingdon, born in Chelsea on 17.09.1874, Baptised on 22.10.1874 in Christchurch,
Chelsea; He is likely to be the son of Henry Kingdon b.28.06.1837 in South Molton, a Grenadier Guardsman
from the mid 1850’s who served for over 20 years; His wife was Elizabeth Perryman from Bishops Nympton,
Devon & they married in Bishopsgate, London on 19.05.1857 but then appear to have lived separate lives?
George Frederick Kingdon’s baptism record has his parents as Henry & Caroline Wenham (Caroline Wenham
being a woman that Henry Kingdon lived with in Chelsea?) & indicates his Father was a Soldier; In 1881
Census George Fred Kingdon is aged 6 & living with his Father, Henry Kingdon an Unemployed Pensioner, at
#67, St Philip Street, Battersea, London, (Caroline Wenham is recorded as a Housekeeper at that address &
also as Henry Kingdon’s sister in Law); In 1891 Census I believe that Frederick Kingdon, now aged 16, is
living in the Working Boys Home, Shaftsbury Avenue, St Giles, London as a Domestic Page Boy; I believe
that George Frederick Kingdon Enlisted in the Chatham Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry on
07.05.1894; In 1901 Census for Scotland I found a George Kingdon aged 26 (b.1875 in Chelsea), serving as a
Private in the Crew of Royal Navy ship ‘HMS Caledonia’, probably as a Royal Marine; I then found a
Marriage record for George Frederick Kingdon, (aged 34) & Sarah Ruth Aylett, (aged 27), on 08.10.1908 in St
Matthew’s Church, Fulham, his occupation is Marine & his Father is recorded as Henry Kingdon (Guardsman,
Deceased); In 1911 Census there is a Private George Kingdon, Married, aged 36 (born Chelsea), serving on
board ‘HMS Argyll’ in Gibraltar; I believe that George Frederick Kingdon was promoted to Sergeant at some
point & served in WW1; There is a Manifest Record for the ‘SS Empress of Russia’ sailing from Yokohama
on 20.12.1917 to Vancouver, arriving on 08.01.1918, & on board is a 43 year old British male, who turns out
to be #7881 Sergeant George Frederick Kingdon, Royal Marine; George Frederick Kingdon was eventually
Discharged to Pension; Awarded 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals; (Probably the son of Kingdon,
Henry; #568, Grenadier Guards); His family needs further research;
Kingdon, George Frederick Samuel: #4570 North Staffordshire Regiment Rank: Private, WW1;
Notes: This is probably George Frederick Samuel Kingdon born 1881 in Feltwell, Norfolk, the son of James
Kingdon, an Excise Officer b.1853 Thetford, Norfolk & Jessie Pratt from Northwold, Norfolk who Married in
1878 in Thetford; In 1881 Census George F S Kingdon is aged 3 Months & lives with his parents at The Beck
in Feltwell, Norfolk, his Father is Ride Officer of the Excise Inland Revenue; In 1891 George F S Kingdon
lives with his parents at #75, Poolstock Lane, Wigan, Lancashire; In 1901 Census George F S Kingdon is aged
20, a Brewer’s Clerk & living with his parents at #185, Horninglow Road, Horninglow, Burton on Trent,
Staffordshire; In 1911 George Frederick Samuel Kingdon is living with his married Brother Edward G
Kingdon at #20 Pelham Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire & is a Collector for a Gramophone Record
Company; On 01.01.1916 in Burton on Trent George Frederick Samuel Kingdon, aged 35 years, enlisted in the
Army to serve 4 years’ in the United Kingdom as #4570 in the 3/6 th North Staffordshire Regiment; He gives
his address as c/o #7, Union Street, Burton on Trent, where I believe his Mother was living; It appears from his
records that his Embodied Service was only from 0101.1916 until 06.03.1916 when he was Discharged in
Derby under King’s Regulations, Para 392 (iii a) on Medical Grounds, probably mental instability, having
served only 66 days; There may well be a female member of this family who is in an asylum ca.1916? No
Medals card on file as he never served overseas; (He was probably a Cousin of #5633 RSM Albert Arthur
Kingdon, Norfolk Regiment); (He was a Cousin of #1445 WOII Edward Kingdon of the Coldstream Guards
& the Military Provost Corps); (He was a Brother of Private Edward Pratt Kingdom #24594, 11th or 15th
Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment), who died on 17 July 1916 in France); I think that
his Great Grandmother was Mary Kingdon b.1787 in Penarth, Glamorganshire, Wales, Widow of a Customs
Excise Officer in 1871 in St Cuthbert’s Norfolk? Her Husband was George Kingdon b.1779 in Launceston,
Cornwall; (Note: There is another Cousin also named Henry Capp, the brother of Albert Arthur & Edward
Kingdon above, who was born in 1888 in Yarmouth, thereby probably making him too young to have enlisted
in 1904/5, although it is possible that I have the two Henry Capp Kingdons mixed up; In any case they are
probably all related in the Norfolk Kingdon line; Further research reveals that this brother also served & died
in WW1 as Private H C Kingdom, #34736, 3rd Bn., The King's (Liverpool Regiment, who died on 30 March
1916, Remembered with honour Birmingham (Witton) Cemetery); (I now believe that there is a Henry
Charles Kingdon who also served with the Lincolnshire Regiment); (This Family & my X-References need
some more research work)?
Kingdom, George Henry: Served with the Royal Air Force in 1918-1919; AIR 76/277, Late WW1;
This should be: Kingdon, George Henry: #F1155, Rank L.M (Landsman) Royal Navy & Royal Naval Air
Service in WW1, ADM 188/562/155;
Transferred from the Kingdom List:
Notes: I have no other military record for a George Henry Kingdom other than the RAF in WW1, but this
record does indicate a birth date of 09.10.1893; Research would suggest that this is therefore likely to be
George Henry Kingdon born 09.10.1893 in Islington & baptised along with his elder sister Rosie in the
parish of Holy Trinity, Islington on 31.03.1895; This is the son of George Kingdon, a Brass Finisher & Cab
Driver, b.1854 in Clerkenwell, London & Harriett Susannah ?? ,b.1862 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk who Married
in 1st Q 1888 in Islington, but I cannot be certain? (This family couple had 8 children in total but it appears that
6 had died by 1911 & only 2 were still living); In the 1901 Census George Kingdon is aged 7 years & living
with his parents at #20 Barnsbury Grove, Lower Holloway, Islington, London, (his age & his sister’s age are
mixed up in the records); In 1911 Census there is a George Kingdon, a single man working as a Clerk & aged
17 living with his parents in #14, Barnsbury Grove, Lower Holloway, Islington; In 1919 I believe that he still
lived with his parents in Barnsbury Grove, Lower Holloway & he is still living there in 1935; I did not
research any further due to uncertainty;
Follow Up Notes: New research effort now indicates that this should be L.M. #F1155 George Henry Kingdon;
(LM was the abbreviation used in the Royal Navy for Landsman (later Landman), which was a term for a man
without any Naval training who served on board a warship); George Henry Kingdon was serving in the Royal
Navy as #F1155, the ‘F’ prefix indicating that he was serving with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS); The
official #F1155 would indicate that his initial enlistment was between 01.01.1914 & 31.12.1914; He was
subsequently Transferred on Enlistment into the newly formed Royal Air Force as #201155 Kingdon G. H. on
01.09.1915, however the AIR 76/277 reference would indicate that this probably occurred between 01.01.1918
& 31.12.1919, which needs looking into; This is George Henry Kingdon born 09.10.1893 in St Mary’s,
Islington, London, as originally thought above; On the WW1 Naval Medals Roll it indicates that he was
awarded the Victory Medal, the British War Medal & the 1914-15 Star;
Kingdon, George Herbert: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: This Officer served in WW1 in Gallipoli from 30.06.1915; On 30.07.1917 temporary Lieutenant G.H.
Kingdon was promoted to the rank of temporary Captain, attached to the Nottinghamshire & Derby Regiment,
(The Sherwood Foresters); A London Gazette Supplement dated 04.09.1918 confirmed that temporary
Lieutenant G.H. Kingdon, from a Service Battalion, was to be promoted to a temporary Lieutenant on
26.03.1918 but with seniority from 31.12.1914; Further research reveals that George Herbert Kingdon may
have also served with the Royal Air Force in WW1 between 1918 & 1919 – see AIR 76/277 records; His
medals were sent to Byshotte Rayles, Wokingham, Berkshire on 11.09.1921; I believe that this is George
Herbert Kingdon born 22.07.1891 in Sheffield, son of William Edward Kingdon, a Tobacconist, b.1861 in
Worcester & Annie Lock from West Buckland in Devon, who married in Barnstaple in 1 st Q 1886, later of
Bemerton, Buxton, Derby; They lived in Sheffield in 1901 Census at #81, Fitzwalter Road; In 1911 his brother
James manages the family Tobacconists shop at #39, Fitzwalter Road, Sheffield & George Herbert & Arthur
Francis Kingdon live with their brother there; I believe that George Herbert Kingdon Died in Worthing, West
Sussex in 1975 Aged 84; Medals Card on file; (Brother of Captain Arthur Francis Kingdon, 6th Bn., York
and Lancaster Regiment, who died on 09 October 1917 on the Somme); (Brother of Kingdon, William
Edward: Royal Army Medical Corps Rank: Captain 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, George Wesley: Private #1282609, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, (post WW1 period);
Notes: Canadian enlistment papers exist for this George Wesley Kingdon, dated 07.07.1919 in London,
Ontario; There is no indication of Unit but his Regimental Number is #1282609; I believe that this is George
Wesley John Kingdon born 25.07.1900 in Nissouri Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, the son of
William J Kingdon, a Farmer, b.14.08.1856 in the USA (but recorded as being English) & Elizabeth (Sarah
Elizabeth) Lidstone b.25.07.1867; (His Grandmother is Elizabeth Kingdon born in England in 1828 I believe,
& a Widow in 1901); In 1901 Census George Kingdon is 8 months old & living with his parents in Nissouri,
Ontario; In 1911 Census George Kingdon is aged 10 years & lives with his parents in the Nissouri West
Township, Middlesex County, Ontario; At his enlistment in 1919 he gave his address as #463, Tecemesh
Avenue, London, Ontario, his Father William Kingdon of R.R No3, Thorndale, Ontario as his NOK & his
occupation as a Farmer; I believe that George Wesley Kingdon Marries Olive Isabella Garbuth (b.06.03.1896)
on the 11.06.1921 in Hamilton, Ontario; I have not researched further;
Kingdon, Gerald V: Sergeant, #14094, Royal Marines; (1951-1969 period);
Notes: ADM 171/155 records the issue of a Long Service Gratuity Payment to Sergeant Gerald V. Kingdon,
#14094, of the Royal Marines; A Claim was made, #121445 on 04.11.1969, Approval was given on
21.11.1969 & the Award issued in January 1970; This award was issued to Royal Marines who had served a
minimum of 15 to 18 years service, indicating enlistment around 1950-51 in this case; I believe that this is
probably Gerald Vincent Kingdon, born 14.12.1936 in St Pancras, Greater London, & who Died in 1990 in
Plymouth, Devon Aged 53; He was the son of Charles J L Kingdon & Florence M Felton who Married in 1923
in Northampton; I understand that Gerald V Kingdon Married Jayne E Dean in 1961 in Devon, probably in
Plymouth; Awarded the Royal Marine Long Service & Good Conduct Medal in 1969; I did not research
further;
Kingdon, Godfrey Pennington: Royal Fusiliers & Machine Gun Corps Rank: Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO
372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Godfrey Pennington Kingdon born 14.04.1896 in Paddington, London & baptised 08.06.1896
at St Saviours, Paddington; He was the son of Harry Kingdon b. 1860 Paddington & Lilian Sophia Bedford
from St James, his Father was a Barrister at Law & lived at #31 Mansion Hill Court in 1901; In the 1911
Census Godfrey Pennington was aged 14 & lived with his Widowed Mother at Bath Street House, East Street
in Farnham, Surrey; 2nd Lieutenant G.P. Kingdon from the Royal Fusiliers was promoted to Lieutenant in the
Machine Gun Corps on 13.12.1915 but with Seniority from 04.12.1914; I believe that he was still serving with
the Machine Gun Corps in 1921; His address in 1925 was #21, Alexandra Mansions, King’s Road, London
S.W.3; His address in 1938 was #102, Colesherne Court, London S.W.5, he was recorded as an Artist; He
obtained a Certificate to fly a Gipsy Aeroplane at Hampshire Aeroplane Club on 26.10.1938; He may have
worked in the Oil business & traveled 1st Class from India to London on the SS Rawalpindi in 1933; He Died
in 1974 in Winchester Aged 78; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Gordon James: #91593, Staff Sergeant, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 31st Battery, Canadian
Artillery: Canada records 439433a & 439433b, WW1;
Notes: Also called James Gordon Kingdon & Kingdom in various Canadian Records; I believe that this is
Gordon James Kingdon born 19.06.1887 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the son of James Brayley Kingdon, a
Blacksmith & Iron worker b.08.03.1857 in Wentworth & Minnie Brown b.10.11.1859 in Cainsville, Ontario,
who Married on 23.05.1882 in Wentworth, Ontario; (Grandparents were Abraham Kingdon/Kingdom b.1828
in South Molton, Devon & Elizabeth Lock Brayley b.1834 in Filleigh in Devon, who Married in South Molton
in 1852 & emigrated to Canada ca.1853); In 1891 Gordon Kingdon lived with his parents in Hamilton,
Ontario; In 1901 Census Gordon Kingdon is aged 14 & lives with his parents in Hamilton; In 1911 Census
Gordon Kingdon is a Bookkeeper, probably in his Father’s Iron Manufacturing business, living with his
parents in Hamilton, Ontario; In this period, Gordon James Kingdon had already been in Detroit, USA, from
23.09.1911 to 22.12.1911; However, there may be a bit of a record mix up here because on 01.01.1912 there is
another border crossing in Detroit, Michigan for a 23 year old Tire Builder Gordon Kingdon, visiting the USA;
On 08.08.1915 Gordon James Kingdon, Aged 28 years & 1 Month, enlisted in the Canadian Artillery, giving
details which match my records; He was working in Structural Steel at the time; I then lose him until he
returned from WW1 in 1918 suffering from ‘Shell Shock’ on board the ‘SS Araquaya’, having served with the
31st Battery, Canadian Artillery; There is a further border crossing record in Buffalo, from Canada to the USA,
for a James Gordon Kingdon, born 19.06.1887, working as a Journalist & visiting the USA on 16.10.1926;
This record indicates a wife, Olive Kingdon living in Winona, Ontario, Canada; I have not researched
further;
Kingdon, Gordon William: Chelsea Pensioner (No other details), No Military Records but may have Served
in the Guarding & Fighting in the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan; (1891-1911 period);
Notes: There is a Chelsea Pensioner Records list which includes a Gordon William Kingdon, born 1875 in
Toronto, Canada but there are no other details available, however, I believe that this Pensioner was William
Kingdon born 08.06.1875 in York, Ontario, Canada; (His later marriage record 7 also his death record
confirms his parentage but has his name as Gordon William Kingdon); He was the son of William Kingdon
born in Taunton, Somerset, England on 14.06.1840, (records at St Mary’s Church), & Mary Ann Rose, born
06.10.1854 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, who probably Married in 1870 in St Saviours, Southwark, London I
believe; I cannot locate a sailing or passenger record for his parents but they did emigrate to Canada ca.1874;
In 1881 Canada Census William Kingdon lived with his parents in Toronto, Canada; I also could not find any
passenger or sailing return records from Canada to UK for this family but In 1891 Census William & Mary
Ann Kingdon had returned to UK with their family & were living at #4, Crofts Street, Roath, Cardiff, Wales,
& they were also at this same address in the 1901 Census; Young William Kingdon aged 15 lived with his
parents in Roath, Cardiff in 1891; I would suggest that between 1891 & 1911 this Gordon William Kingdon
served in the Army in India but there are no details available; Gordon William Kingdon Married Emily (Jane)
Eastman, born 1872 in Hampshire, England, in the 4th Quarter 1895 in Hartley Wintney, Hants; In the UK
1911 Census we find Gordon William & Emily Kingdon living & working as a Painter at #1, Eton Villa Park
Road, Farnborough, Hampshire; At this stage they have already Adopted the Orphaned son of Gordon
William’s brother, Frederick Kingdon, a Tailor who died in 1909, Ernest Kingdon who was born in 1905 in
Winchester, Hants; The problem now occurs that there is even more confusion with this family’s names as the
only Kingdon birth in 1905 in Winchester, Hants is for Charles Thomas Kingdon; Gordon W & his wife Emily
Kingdon, with adopted son Ernest kingdon, then sail to Canada on 16.05.1911 on board the vessel ‘Albania’;
In the 1911 Canadian Census William & Emily & Ernest Kingdon live in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; I
believe that Gordon William Kingdon Died on the 25.02.1919 in Canada Aged 45; ; (His Brother was probably
Kingdon, Sidney Walter: #8147, Manchester Regiment); ); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Ernest: Royal
Irish Fusiliers No: 13731 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (I also believe that his Father was probably
Kingdon, William: Private, #3063, 2nd European Light Infantry, East India Company Army); This Family
needs a lot more research although I am in touch with a descendant since August 2012 & will request
clearer details as there are discrepancies in names despite confirmation in many records that we are
dealing with the same persons;
Kingdon, Guy Havelock: 2nd Division, New Zealand Army, Reservist ,WW1 period;
Notes: This is Guy Havelock Kingdon born 1872 in New Zealand, the son of Paul Kingdon, a Lawyer
b.21.08.1824 in Devon of the Kingdon/Thorverton line, & Rachel Ellen Parker who married in 1857 in
Islington, England & soon after moved to Wellington, New Zealand; In 1896 & 1900 Guy Havelock Kingdon
is recorded as a Farmer in Riversmere, Otaki, Wellington; Guy Havelock Kingdon Married Annie Ellen Booth
in New Zealand in 1898 but unfortunately she Died in childbirth in 1899 Aged 34; In 1903 Guy Havelock
Kingdon Married his Sister in Law, Alice Elizabeth Booth, 4 years after the death of his first wife; In 1905 &
1906, Guy is a Sheep Farmer in Otaki; In the 1911 & 1914 Electoral Rolls Guy Havelock Kingdon is a Stock
Agent & with Alice Elizabeth is in Weraroa, Otaki, Wellington; Guy Havelock Kingdon was recruited for
WW1 Service as a Class ‘B’ recruit (married with 2 children) in Levin in 1917, he is recorded as a Stock
Agent; I do not believe that this man was ever called up or that he actually served during WW1; In 1919 they
are recorded at the same address in Weraroa, he is a Stock Agent; In 1928 & 1935 he is a Stock Agent living in
Somersal Lane, Marton, Rangitkei, Manawatu-Wanganui; In 1938 Guy Havelock & Alice Elizabeth Kingdon
are recorded in Bulls, Rangitkei, Manawatu-Wanganui; I have not found a death record, but I understand that
his 2nd Wife, Alice Elizabeth Kingdon, nee Booth, Died between 1939 & 1945 as in the 1946 electoral records
for Guy Havelock Kingdon, his (3rd)wife is declared as Gertrude Emma Kingdon & they are living at #15,
Gray Street, Rangitkei, Manawatu-Wanganui; Guy Havelock Kingdon died in 1949 Aged 76; I believe that
Gertrude Emma Kingdon died in 1967 Aged 80; (This family is well documented in the Kingdon Book ‘A
Second Look’ dated 1974); (He is the brother of Kingdon, Thomas Medland: #29419, ‘E’ Company, 1st
Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 12th Reinforcements, WW1);
H
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, H: Private #1901, 11th Hussars, Light Camel Regiment, Egypt & Sudan, (1884 period);
Notes: The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own), the Light Camel Regiment, in general remained in Korti in
1884 to guard supplies but later they did participate in operations on the Nile River as part of the “Gordon
Relief Expedition”, the 11th providing 2 Officers & 43 other ranks; This Soldier was awarded the Egypt Medal
& Clasp for Operations on the River Nile in 1884 – 1885 in Sudan; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, H: Sapper, Royal Engineers (Volunteers) – (pre 1900 period);
Notes: The Bristol Times & Mirror newspaper for 23.08.1897 has a report under the heading ‘The Volunteers’
which records various military items; At the Bristol Engineers’ fifth regimental cup competition, for C
Division, which was held at Bedminster Rifle Ranges Sapper H. Kingdon of ‘E’ Company (posted to ‘B’
Company) won the shooting match; Insufficient information to enable identification;
Kingdon, Hamilton R D; #432136, Sergeant, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force; Served WW1, Died
during WW2;
Notes: This is Hamilton Roger Dennis Kingdon born 25.07.1878 in Brailsford, Derbyshire, England, the son
of Clement Boughton Kingdon, Justice of the Peace for Derbyshire & Cornwall, b.1833 at Broomhill & Ann
Cullen from Nottinghamshire who married in 1865; Hamilton Kingdon was Baptised on 04.09.1878 in
Hulland, Derbyshire; In 1881 Census Hamilton Kingdon lives with his parents in Ednaston Lodge, Brailsford,
Derbyshire; In 1891 Census Hamilton R D Kingdon is a Junior Pupil at the Kings School, Archbishop’s
Palace, Canterbury, Kent; In 1901 Census Hamilton R D Kingdon is living with his 2 Brothers at #62 Falcon
Road, Battersea, London & is a Fire Assessor; In 1911 Census Hamilton Kingdon is aged 32, Single & is a
Farmer residing at Wooldown, Marhamchurch, Bude, North Cornwall; In 1913 Hamilton Kingdon is aged 34
& sailed to Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada, on board the ‘SS Virginian’ giving his future address as Hull,
Ontario & registering that he was a Farmer; On 04.01.1915 Hamilton Roger Dennis Kingdon enlisted in
Edmonton in the Canadian Army for service in WW1, he recorded that he was already serving with the 19 th
A.D. Militia for 1 month; A search of other records reveals that he joined the 49 th Battalion, Canadian
Expeditionary Force & served in WW1 in France. He was wounded in Ypres in January 1916; I then lost him
until he married Gertrude R Momfray in Kidderminster, Warwickshire, England in 1918; I believe that
Hamilton R D Kingdon Died in 1942 in Stratton, Cornwall, England;
Follow Up Notes: The Internet Site ‘Forces War Records’ has a reference to Lieutenant H. R. D. Kingdon
serving in WW2 with the “Home Guard”, recorded year was 1941, but no other information is freely available;
I am presuming that this is the same person as the one who served in WW1?
Kingdon, Harold: Royal Field Artillery No: 18812 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: I believe that his is Harold Finning Kingdon born on 24.02.1896 in Teignmouth, Devon, birth
registered in Newton Abbot, Devon; He was the son of Francis Kingdon, an Ironmonger b.1851 in Rackenford,
Devon & Lucy Ellen Finning, b.1857 in Coffinswell, Devon, who Married in 1880 in Teignmouth, Devon;
Harold Finning Kingdon’s Father Francis Kingdon Died in 1899 in Teignmouth, Devon; In 1901 Census
Harold Kingdon lives with his widowed Mother at #26, Regent Street, Teignmouth, Devon; In 1911 Census
Harold Finning Kingdon is aged 15, an Apprentice in Ironmongery learning away from home but living with
his Widowed Mother who is an Ironmonger at #26, Regent Street, Teignmouth, Devon; Harold Kingdon
enlisted on 08.09.1914 in Exeter, declaring himself as a 19 year old Shop Assistant; He was stationed at Hilsea
on 12.10.1914; Harold Kingdon first went to France on 07.07.1915; He received a Gun Shot Wound in his Left
Thigh 23.04.1917, spent 187 days in Wanstead Hospital, Margate from 27.04.1917 to 08.10.1917, transferred
to Kent & Canterbury Hospital from 08.10.1917 until19.10.1917, moved to the Military Hospital in
Shorncliffe on 19.10.1917, had one of his toes amputated whilst in The Command Depot, South Camp, Ripon,
Yorkshire between 30.10.1917 & 04.01.1918; Gunner Harold Kingdon was awarded some Gratuity in 1919;
He was Discharged on 31.05.1919; He was re-assessed on 20.07.1920; I believe that Harold Finning Kingdon
Died in Devon in 1969 Aged ??; Medals Card is in the name of Herold Kingdon on file;
Kingdon, Harold A J: Royal Field Artillery No: 238591 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Harold Arthur James Kingdon born on 25.02.1898 Knowstone the son of James Kingdon
b.1858 Bishops Nympton & Emma Jane Heale from Rose Ash who married in 1896; In the 1901 & 1911
Census, Harold lived with his parents at Little Comfort Farm in Knowstone, Devon; Harold Arthur James
Kingdon Married Lucy Earles in 1925 in Tiverton; He Dies in 1969 in Devon; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Harry: #208949 Leading Seaman, Royal Navy; ADM 188/364, WW1;
Notes: This is Harry Kingdon born 04.10.1884 in Fratton, Portsmouth, Hampshire, the son of James George
Kingdon, a Royal Navy Seaman, b.1837 in Portsmouth & his 2nd Wife Elizabeth Male who married in 1877 in
Portsea, Portsmouth; In 1891 Census Harry Kingdon lived with his parents in Portsmouth; I could not initially
find Harry Kingdon in the 1901 Census, I presume that he was in the Royal Navy, as his Official Naval
Number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1900 & 31.12.1900; A second detailed search revealed that
Harry Kingdom, Aged 16 was serving as a Boy on board the Training Ship St Vincent in Portsmouth; I believe
that there were other brothers who served in the Royal Navy as well: Namely William George, James John &
Edward Arthur Kingdon from Portsea, Portsmouth; In 1911 Census Harry Kingdon is Aged 26 & serving as an
Able Seaman on board ‘HMS Vernon’, a Torpedo School Ship in Portsea & Landport, Portsmouth Harbour,
Hampshire; I believe that Harry Kingdon died in Portsmouth in 1942 Aged 58; Awarded 1914-15 Star, Victory
Medal & British War Medal, but his Medal roll indicates that he was #208949 AB Harry D. Kingdom & that
he was serving on the Light Cruiser, ‘HMS Champion’; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Charles Walter:
Royal Field Artillery No: 47983 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, who served in the Royal Navy as a
boy & then in the Army in WW1); (He was also the Brother of Kingdon, Edward Arthur: #220316 Leading
Seaman, Royal Navy who served in WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, James John: Royal Navy,
#PO/128972; who died on ‘HMS India’ in 1915); (He is also the Brother of Kingdon, William George: Petty
Officer 1st Class, , #155575, Royal Navy); (He was the Son of #40040 James George Kingdon, who served in
the Royal Navy from 01.07.1853);
Kingdon, Harry: Devonshire Regiment No: 15866 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1;
Private H Kingdom
#15866, 8th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
who died on 21 July 1916;
Remembered with honour
Daours Communal Cemetery Extension; Notes: This is Harry or Henry Kingdon
born in South Molton; He enlisted probably on 24.08.1915 & served in France; His Brother W. F. Kingdon
living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada requested his medals on 16.11.1931? (Ancestry.com records have Harry
Kingdom born in South Molton & residing in South Molton but I can find no record of a Henry or a Harry
Kingdon or Kingdom that would fit this data? He seems to have enlisted in Exeter & served with the 8th
(Service) Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment; His WW1 Medals Card says he served in France and
probably went there on 24.08.1915; A search of the 1916 Canadian Census does come up with a William F
Kingdon, aged 23, born 1893 in England, Immigration in 1909 & married to May Kingdon from Wales, he is a
Bartender; At that time they are recorded as being Canadian Citizens; I think that this is William Fowler
Kingdon)? Notes 2: Follow up; If I am correct then this is John Henry (Harry) Kingdon born either in 1896
or 1897 in South Molton; His Father was William Kingdon b.1849 South Molton, whose 1 st wife Eliza Ann
Bridgeman died on 22.12.1882 in South Molton; Harry’s Father, a Solicitor’s Clerk, then married again in
1891 in Weymouth, Dorset to the then South Molton Workhouse Schoolmistress; In 1901 William Kingdon
had become the Master & his 2nd wife Elizabeth was Assistant Matron of the South Molton Workhouse; This is
Harry’s Mother, Elizabeth Reid b.1868 in Auchnell, Aberdeen, Scotland, she died in 1907 in South Molton;
His Brother William Fowler Kingdon emigrated to Canada in 1909 & lived in Calgary, Alberta onwards;
Harry (John H) Kingdon lived with his parents at the South Molton Workhouse in 1901; Both of his parents
died in April 1907; In 1911 Census I believe that John Henry Westlake Kingdon was aged 14 & living as a
Boarder with a Bessie Hobbs Adams, a 50 year single private school teacher @ #2, Church Street, South
molton & that he was working as an Office Boy in a Solicitor’s Office; Medals Card on file; This Soldier
needs further research;
Kingdon, Harry: Royal Field Artillery No: 2595 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1;
Gunner Harry Kingdom, #2595, 1st Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery who died on 08 October
1916; Remembered with honour Karachi 1914-1918 War Memorial in Pakistan; Notes: This is Harry
Kingdom born in Clapton, Middlesex & served as #2595 Territorial force, Royal Horse Artillery & Royal
Field Artillery; Gunner Harry Kingdon died in Pakistan, India; Medals Card on file; I have no other
information on this soldier?
Kingdon, Harry: #464504 Private, ‘C’ Company, Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force: Canada Records
439435a & 439435b, WW1;
Notes: Canadian Attestation papers for Harry Kingdon, a Teamster aged 33 years & 3 months, born
04.07.1882 in London, England on 25.11.1915 in Vancouver were found in my WW1 Canadian Military
Records; This recruit gives his Nok as his Mother – Sarah A. Kingdon of #27, New Street, Kensington,
London; Research would indicate that this address is probably incorrect as it does not exist in Kensington,
London & should read “Kennington”; There are no other WW1 records for this soldier in the Canadian
Records; Using my research records for military service personnel I would suggest that this man is actually
Francis Harry Kingdon, born in Aldershot, Hampshire in England, ca.1884; There are UK records for a
Harry Kingdon born 04.07.1882 in Hackney, London but I doubt if this is the correct man; There is however a
birth record for a ‘Male’ Kingdon born in 1884 in Farnham, Surrey which would be the recording office for
births in Aldershot; Following further searches for matching family data it becomes more obvious that there is
conflicting information in most of the Canadian records; I am therefore fairly certain that this is Francis
Harry Kingdon, born 1884 Aldershot, Hampshire, England; He is the son of Walter Kingdon b.1852 in West
Monkton, Somerset & Sarah A. Gardiner from Canterbury, Kent; They Married in 1881 in Bengal, India,
volume 175 folio 138 – she must have been a Widow because her name is recorded as Bull nee Gardiner in the
Bengal Marriage Index; In his Attestation records he gives his next of kin as his Widowed Mother Sarah A
Kingdon #27, New Street, Kennington, London & we find him living there in 1911 UK Census & working as a
single man, a Restaurant Porter aged 27; This would establish that his Father was Sergeant Walter Kingdon
of the Royal Horse Artillery, serving at the District Grand Depot Barracks in Woolwich Arsenal in 1891
Census, with his family living in Army Married Quarters there, Francis H Kingdon included; His Father died
in 1896 in Lambeth; In the 1901 UK Census Francis H Kingdon is aged 16 & living with his Widowed Mother
at #23, Tenison Street in Lambeth & working as a General Porter; (Follow up has his Mother & another
Brother John Albert Kingdon working as Cleaners at the British Government House of Commons in 1911);
There are Canadian Passenger Records for a Harry Kingdon, a 22 year old Labourer arriving in Montreal,
Quebec on the ‘SS Sicilian on 15.05.1907; Also Passenger Records for a Harry Kingdon, on the ‘SS Empress
of Ireland’ on 22.05.1908; There is a further Border Crossing & Passenger Record for a Harry Kingdon, a
Porter aged 30 years, arriving in Halifax on the 09.03.1913 on board the ‘SS Cymric’, which also records this
persons earlier 2 year stay in Canada; (His Father served with the Royal Horse Artillery in the 1890’s,
Sergeant Walter Kingdon b.1852 in West Monkton, Somerset); (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Walter G:
Royal Field Artillery No: 47379 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11 See also Kingdom, W G: Royal Field
Artillery No: 47379 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11); I did not research further;
Kingdon, Harry Bail: #11093, Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division; ADM 159/54 &
ADM 157/1623/50; (Boer War period);
Notes: This is Harry Bail Kingdon born 25.06.1882 in Hackney, London; He is the son of Harry Bail
Kingdon, a Tailor b.1839, & Alice Amelia Stafford (nee Crossland) b.1844 in Clerkenwell, who Married in
Hackney, London in 1872 & she appears to have used her maiden name of Alice Amelia Crossland in the
records; (His Mother was previously married to James Thomas Stafford who died in 1872); (I believe that his
parents gave birth to an earlier son also named Harry Bale Kingdon born in 1873 in Bethnal Green who died
ca.1880 & was a Twin Brother to John Sidney Kingdon?); (His Father Harry Bail Kingdon may have died in
London ca.1886); (Whilst this may not be relevant to this soldier’s records it is noted that in the 1881 Census,
his Mother was recorded as Alice Bale, aged 34, Married & living at #8, Great Hampton Street,
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire & I have failed to find his Father Harry Bail Kingdon); Harry Bail Kingdon
lived with his Widowed Mother at #14, Durrington Road, Hackney, London in 1891 Census; In 1899 Harry
Bail Kingdon enlisted in the Chatham Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 31.08.1899 at the age of
17, (probably because his brother Edward was already serving with the Royal Marines); I did not locate Harry
B Kingdon in 1901 Census but he was probably serving abroad & more than likely serving in South Africa in
the Boer War? The ADM Records confirm that he was Discharged because he was Invalided out of the
Marines in 1904; In the 1911 Census Harry Bale Kingdon is aged 29, a civilian, still single & working as a
Hall Porter at # 27, Victoria Road, Springbourne, Bournemouth, (his sister in law, Emma Kingdon from
Manchester is a Domestic Worker for an elderly widow at the same address); (He is the Brother of Private
Edward (Arnold Bail) Kingdon, #8679, Chatham Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry; ADM 159/49); (It
is likely that there is another brother, Kingdon, John Sidney: #280767, Stoker, Royal Navy; ADM 188/448;
& who also appears on the Chelsea Pensioners List);
Kingdon, H.S: #313 Private, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Regiment, Canada, Boer War;
Notes: This Regiment was formed in November 1901 following requests from the British Government to
Canada, a quarter of their strength had perhaps already served in South Africa; The 2 nd Regiment Canadian
Mounted Rifles sailed to South Africa in January 1902 & fought the Boers until the end of the War in May
1902; There is a Medals Roll for this Regiment dated 21st December 1902 in Winnipeg which records #313
Private H.S. Kingdon having left the Army when the Regiment was disbanded but having received his Medals
on 10.01.1904 at the address – PO Box 315, Kruggersdorpf; I presume that this soldier remained in South
Africa? Medals notes: Not eligible for the King’s South Africa Medal, awarded the Queen’s South Africa
Medal & the Transvaal Clasp;
Follow Up Notes: Further research reveals that this is probably Hugh Sewell Kingdon who was born
23.04.1882 in Tottenham, London, Middlesex, England; He was a son of Abraham Kingdon, a Printer b.1846
in Combemartin, Devon, England & Elizabeth Anna Crawley, b.1852, Finsbury, Middlesex, who Married in
1872 in Islington, London; This family initially lived in Middlesex & Sussex but also travelled to Madagascar
to live for short periods, working as a Master Printer, (2 of their children were born in Antananarivo,
Madagascar); In 1897 I believe that they moved to Canada on doctor’s advice, initially in Kenora where they
got caught up in the Gold Rush & Abraham Kingdon took shares in a Brewery (against the family’s
principles), which failed; Abraham Kingdon lost all his capital but subsequently set up a successful printing
firm in Winnipeg, Canada; I understand that the Kingdons spent some years in retirement in Los Angles,
California, USA but Abraham Kingdon Died in 1927 in Winnipeg, Canada; In 1891 Hugh S Kingdom lived
with his parents in ‘Lawshall’ in Tottenham, London, Middlesex. Hugh Sewell Kingdon moved with his
parents to Canada in 1897 & in the 1901 Canadian Census lived as a Lodger & Stenographer in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada, he was Aged 18; On 11.12.1901 Hugh Sewell Kingdon, claiming to be aged 22 years & 9
Months & working as a Newspaper Reporter, enlisted in the Canadian Yeomanry in Portage la Pasine, he also
claimed to be serving in the 5th Regiment C.A. Militia; It appears that he was enlisted into the 2nd Canadian
Mounted Rifles either as #331 or #831 & shipped off to South Africa with the Irregular Forces to fight in the
Boer War; It was around this period that things started to go wrong for this Kingdon; It appears that he was
Court Martialled in South Africa for ‘Leaving his post of guarding a herd of horses’ on 13.04.1902 & for
‘Disobeying a lawful command’; Hugh Sewell Kingdon was sentenced to 14 Days Imprisonment & Hard
Labour; The 2nd Battalion the Canadian Mounted Rifles were disbanded shortly afterwards; I have an idea that
Hugh Sewell Kingdon may have married a girl of Dutch origin, the daughter of the Principal of a South
African School although I can find no records & that he also applied for various Land Issues awarded to
Soldiers who had served in South Africa, (there are numerous land records on file); From this period Hugh
Sewell Kingdon appears to have been involved in many Real Estate Agency deals, traveling regularly across
Canada, South Africa & England; I failed to find Hugh Sewell Kingdon in 1911 Records; Hugh Sewell
Kingdon spent most of his picturesque career & life, making & losing 3 fortunes; He once controlled property
worth hundreds of thousands of pounds but died a humble Clerk having been declared Bankrupt in 1931 &
again in 1938; I understand that he once bought the film rights of a world championship boxing fight & carried
it in a box to Australia where he showed it across the land, earning ten thousand pounds in 10 weeks; In 1930
Hugh Sewell Kingdon built the Streatham Theatre in London, Middlesex, England; Unfortunately Hugh
Sewell Kingdon was killed on 20.10.1940 by a German Bomb during WW2 in Streatham, he lived at Gresham
Lodge, Streatham Common North & is buried in Lambeth Cemetery in London; Despite the possible South
African marriage, Hugh Sewell Kingdon married 3 further times in England, on 24.07.1915 to Mary Law from
Peckham (she died in 1919), on 12.06.1920 to Hilda Maud Surridge from Finchley & finally to Gwendolen
Jessie Toms in 1933; Awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal & the King’s South Africa Medal; Needs
further research;
Kingdon, Harry Stanley: Private, #13691, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division; ADM 159/58;
(Boer War & WW1 periods);
Notes: This is Harry Stanley Kingdon born 17.11.1884 in #5, Mansell Road, Islington, Edmonton, London
(RMLI records have 17.07.1885), Baptised on 14.12.1884 in St Thomas, Finsbury Park, Middlesex; He was
the son of George Alexander Kingdon, a Bricklayer’s Labourer b.26.08.1854 in West Monkton, Taunton,
Somerset & Emily Bryant from Edmonton who Married on 01.03.1884 in St Mathews, Upper Clapton,
Middlesex; In 1891 Census Harry Kingdon is living with his parents at #2, Dorset Villas, Tottenham; In 1901
Census Harry S Kingdon is a Waiter in a Restaurant but living with his parents at #14, Neville Road, Stoke
Newington, London; Prior to enlistment in the Royal Marines I believe that Harry Stanley Kingdon served
with a Militia Unit; Harry Stanley Kingdon Enlisted in the Chatham Division of the Royal Marine Light
Infantry on 31.12.1902 & may very well have served in South Africa in the Boer War as his name appears on a
1902 list for that conflict; I believe that in the 1911 Census Private Harry Stanley Kingdon, Aged 25, was
serving as a Royal Marine onboard ‘HMS Egmont’ located at Malta in the Mediterranean; RMLI records state
that he was ‘Discharged Invalided’ but there is no date given? However, further searches of the ‘Applications
for War Badges’ reveals that he was awarded the Silver War Badge, #29736 on 08.08.1918; Harry Stanley
Kingdon Married Lilian Rose Hicks on 17.10.1915 in the United Methodist Church in Edmonton, Middlesex;
Awarded the British War Medal; Issued the Silver War Badge #29736 in 1918; I did not research further;
Kingdon, H W: Army Service Corps No: DM2/117846 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This Soldier served in France from 13.12.1915 with the Royal Army Service Corps & was eventually
Transferred to the Class Z Reserve on 13.07.1919; The prefix DM2/ on his Regimental Number denotes that
he was a Mechanical Transport Learner but this prefix was discontinued in November 1916; Medals Card on
file; There is insufficient information to identify this soldier further;
Kingdon, Hedley Villers: Royal Navy, Apprentice, (Victorian conflict period);
Notes: This is actually Hedley Vicars Kingdon was born in 1866 in The Mumbles, Swansea, Glamorgan, the
son of John Gaylord Kingdon, a Tailor & Draper, b.1842 in Swansea & Sarah Maria Jones b.1843 from
Mumbles but she died in Glamorgan in 1877; (John G Kingdon remarried in 1878 to Ann Eliza Gillard from
Tiverton); In 1871 Census Hedley Kingdon is aged 4 & lives with his parents in #4, Dunn’s, Oystermouth,
Swansea, Glamorgan; In 1881 Census Hedley Kingdon is still living with his parents in #11, Somerset Place,
Oystermouth; In 1891 Census I failed to find him so I assume that he was serving with the Royal Navy; The
Royal Navy records for Victorian conflicts has Hedly Villers Kingdon, b.1866 & serving as an Apprentice
onboard ‘HMS Vigil’, (there are no dates or other information given, should this be ‘HMS Vigilant’?); Hedley
Vicars Kingdon, a 30 years old Seaman, Married Ada Ann Thurston, aged 21 from Rotherham in Yorkshire,
on 25.12.1897 in Christ Church, Everton, Lancashire; In 1901 Census Hedley V & Ada Kingdon live at #98,
Olivia Street, Bootle, Lancashire & he is a Seaman working on the Dock Board; In the 1911 Census he is
recorded incorrectly as Hedley & Ada Hingdon (now corrected), is A Dock Labourer & lives at #100, Olivia
Street, Bootle, Liverpool, Lancashire; (It appears that they had 5 children but 2 of them had died by 1911); I
understand that Hedley Kingdon died on 25.01.1951 at 374, Wigan Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire Aged 84; (I
believe that he is the Brother of Octavius Gillard Kingdon who emigrated to Canada & served in WW1 as
#109436 in the Canadian Expeditionary Force); (I believe that he is also the Brother of Hubert Kingdon who
emigrated to Canada in 1912 & served in WW1 as #109435 in the Canadian Expeditionary Force); (I believe
that he is the Brother of Kingdon, Benjamin Rufus: Liverpool Regiment No: 56170 Acting Colour Sergeant
1914-1920 WO 372/11 who served in England in WW1); I have not researched this Sailor further;
Kingdon, Henry: Royal Navy; Died at the Battle of Navarino, Greece 1827;
Notes: This is Henry Kingdon baptised 07.12.1801 in Marhamchurch, Cornwall, and son of John Kingdon,
Parish Clerk, b.1768 in Devon & Mary Marsh from Devon; Henry Kingdon passed his Admiralty Certificate &
obviously served with the Royal Navy because he Died at the Battle of Navarino on 20.10.1827 in the Ionian
Sea during the Greek War of Independence; As a note – this battle was the last major naval battle to be fought
entirely with sailing ships; The Exon. Archdeaconry Probate Court has a Will for Henry Kingdon in 1830
which leaves his estate to his Father Reverend John Kingdon; This also records that the ships he probably
served on were ‘HMS Severn’ & ‘HMS Impregnable’; (He is a part of the Holsworthy, Devon Kingdon family
& is recorded in the Kingdon Family Books);
Kingdon, Henry; #568, Private, Grenadier Guards; (1858-1879 period);
Notes: This Devonshire man enlisted in the Grenadier Guards as a Private on the 21st December 1858 at
Marylebone Police Court at the age of 21 years, he was a Baker by trade; I believe that this is Henry Kingdon
b. 28.06.1837 in South Molton who married Elizabeth Perryman (b.1834 Bishops Nympton, Devon) in
19.05.1857 in Bishopsgate, London; They appear to have lived apart for most of their marriage, there are odd
children born in Chelsea & some links to a Caroline Wenham from Hastings; His children’s Baptisms in
Chelsea all have Kingdon as their names but parents are detailed as Henry & Caroline Wenham, Henry being a
Soldier, so it all gets quite confusing? Henry Kingdon’s parents were Oliver Kingdon b.1801 in South Molton,
Devon & Sarah Bowden from South Molton who married on 25.11.1823 in South Molton; In 1841 & 1851
Censuses Henry Kingdon lived with his parents in Mill Lane, South Molton; In 1861 Census Private Henry
Kingdon was serving at Windsor in the Grenadier Guards; In 1871 Census he was serving at Wellington
Barracks, St Margaret, London; In the 1881 Census Henry Kingdon was aged 43 & an unemployed Army
Pensioner living in Battersea; Henry Kingdon served with the Grenadier Guards for at least 20 years until his
discharge on the 2nd April 1879 aged 41 years; The records state that he intended to live in London; There are
Army Records of a 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards Regiment of Foot Guards of a Regimental Board being
held in London on 31.03.1879 to verify Henry Kingdon’s Discharge; It appears that he was discharged having
been found unfit for service despite his general character being good he had once been tried by Courts Martial
for Absence during his career; He served as a Private from 21.12.1858 to 10.09.1867, then Re-engaged at
London for 12 years 7 101 days, serving from 11.09.1867 to 20.09.1870; He was Courts Martialed in
September 1870 & continued to serve until 31.03.1879; He had served in Aldershot, Windsor, London, Dublin
& Shorncliffe during his Army career; The Board considered that he was suffering from Heart Disease brought
on by rheumatic origin which had been aggravated by his Service & whilst his disability was permanent he
was assessed as being able to contribute to his own livelihood; I also believe that Henry Kingdon Died in 1885
in St George’s, Hannover Square London Aged 48; (This man may be the Father of George Frederick
Kingdon, #9025, Private, Royal Marines or Royal Navy); (In our Family Tree we had some missing info &
confusing issues with him – our internal family Mail #224, subsequently I have simply recorded the base
information as this needs more research);
Kingdon, Henry: Army Service Corps No: M2/034115 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: His MIC card was officially renamed to Kingdon as it was originally incorrect & had the name
Kingdom shown; The regimental number prefix M2 indicates that he was an Electrician; This Soldier also
served as #M/352753 Army Service Corps, MT which indicates serving with Mechanical Transport units; This
is Henry Robert H. Kingdon born 1890 in Chertsey, Surrey the son of Henry Kingdon, a Police Constable,
b.1865 in Witley, Surrey & Fanny Smith from Frensham, Surrey who married in 1889 in Farnham, (& I
believe that he was also a Chelsea Pensioner but I can find no Military Service Record); In 1891 Census
Henry R H Kingdon lived with his parents in Chertsey, Surrey; In 1901 Census he lived with his parents in St
Giles, his Father was now a Brewer’s Drayman; (Henry Robert H Kingdon is the Grandson of Robert Kingdon
b.1835 in Chulmleigh & Mary Jane from Swansea); Henry Kingdon Attested & Joined for the Duration of the
War on 19.01.1915 & Served in France from 25.01.1915 having embarked on the ‘SS Twickenham’ at
Avonmouth to Rouen, France; At enlistment he gave his address as #13, Little White Lion Street, Long Acre,
London WC which is a flat, he was Married, aged 25 years, elected to make payments of 3/6d per day to his
wife & a Motor Driver by trade; At some stage in 1918 he was promoted to Corporal in the Royal Army
Service Corps; His wife was Ellen Body, b.1890 in the City of Westminster, who he Married on 20.12.1909 in
St Giles’ Registry Office; In 1911 Henry & Ellen Kingdon lived in a Flat at #50, Castle Street, St Giles in the
Field & Bloomsbury, St George in London; In 1915 they already had 3 children all born in St Giles – Ellen Ida
b.10.02.1910; Henry James b.03.02.1912 & Emily Francis b.18.11.1914; Henry Kingdon appears to have been
wounded on 29.09.1917 & was hospitalised in England with a Chest Wound; He was again shipped to France
on 23.07.1918 on board the ‘Huntscape’; Throughout his service the reports all confirmed that he was highly
intelligent & an excellent driver, he seems to have spent a lot of time with the New Zealand Supply Column;
In April 1918 I believe that he suffered a leg injury in an accident & was again invalided to England to the
Beaufort War Hospital; I believe that he was finally Transferred to the Reserve on 11.06.1919; This soldier did
not suffer any disability from his earlier chest wound; I understand that Henry R H Kingdon died aged 78 in
Harrow in 1969; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdom, Edgar: Royal Garrison Artillery No:
73969 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served in WW1); (He is the Brother of Kingdon, John:
Royal Scots Fusiliers No: 8503 Rank: Private1914-1920 WO 372/11, South Africa & WW1; Kingdon, John:
Private, #Q50587 & #Q123713 & #143274, Australian Army; WW2);
Kingdon, Henry: Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry No: 3637 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Enlistment date for #3637 DCLI is between 02.01.1892 & 31.01.1893; Also served as #202491 in The
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry; Medals Card on file; Insufficient information to identify clearly;
Kingdon, Henry: Boy, Training Ship ‘Exmouth’ in 1911;
Notes: There is a 1911 Census record for the Metropolitan Asylum Board’s Boys Training Ship “Exmouth”,
on the River Thames at Grays in Essex, which has a 15 year old Henry Kingdom born 1896 in Battersea
living on board; I understand that this Training Ship was intended as a Reformatory or Industrial Training
School for Pauper Boys from families who had been placed in workhouses, having fallen on hard times, from
the Metropolitan Boroughs who normally joined at the age of 11 & remained until the age of 15; A search of
all male Kingdom births in 1895-1897 for the Battersea, London area does not indicate a suitable candidate for
this boy; However, there is only a birth for Henry Francis Kingdon in 1896 registered in Wandsworth,
London & I have subsequently assumed that this could be this boy; Henry Francis Kingdon was the son of
Henry Kingdon, originally a Shipwright, then a Cabman & then a General Labourer, born 1860 in Monkton,
Somerset, & Florence Louise Goddard, born 1861 in Peckham, who married on 09.03.1886 in Hatcham St
James, Lewisham; Henry Francis Kingdon was Baptised on 16.03.1896 in All Saints Church, Battersea Park,
London, his Father was a Cabman living at #43, Gladstone Terrace at that time; In 1901 Census Henry F
Kingdon is living with his parents at #11, Kirtley Road, Lewisham, London, his Father is a General Labourer;
In 1911 Henry’s Father Henry Kingdon is recorded as a Widower, Lodging at #25, De Laune Street,
Kennington Park, Kennington, London & working as a Cab Driver, which would support the reason for his
young son being onboard the Training Ship ‘Exmouth’ in 1911; There is no evidence that Henry Francis
Kingdon went on to serve in the Royal Navy or any of the forces in WW1; I believe that Henry Francis
Kingdon was living at #3, Gibson street, Princess Park, Liverpool when he Died on 05.03.1932; No evidence
of Military Service;
Kingdon, Henry: Royal Navy, #M/7421; ADM 188/1032; - Died in WW1; Shipwright 2nd Class Henry
Kingdon, #M/7421, H.M.S. "Monmouth", Royal Navy, who died age 27 on 01 November 1914; Husband of
Maud Kingdon, of Fore St., Kingsand, Plymouth; Remembered with honour Plymouth NavalL Memorial;
Notes: This is Henry Kingdon born on 31.10.1887 in Cawsand, Cornwall; He was the son of Alfred Burlace
Kingdon (b.1853 Maker, Cornwall who died on 31.03.1937 in Cornwall) & Helena Augusta Cotton Cock from
Gosport, Portsmouth who married in East Stonehouse in 1876; In 1891 his Father was a Stone Mason & the
family, with young Henry, lived in Rame Road, Rame, Cornwall & then in 1901 lived in Millpool, Cawsand,
Rame, Cornwall; In 1911 Census Henry Kingdon is aged 23 & living with his parents in Millpool, Cawsand,
he is working as a Shipwright in the Government Dockyard; Henry Kingdon Married Maud White in 4th Q
1913 St Germans, Cornwall 5c.74; Henry Kingdon joined the Royal Navy at the onset of WW1, between
01.01.1914 & his date of death; Henry Kingdon died as a direct result of enemy action onboard ‘HMS
Monmouth’ on 01.11.1914, his body was not recovered for burial, he was killed at the Battle of Coronel off the
coast of Chile; Medals Awarded – 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals; (He is the Brother of
Reginald Charles Kingdon, #M18224, Cook’s Mate, Royal Navy);
Kingdon, Henry: Royal Navy, Rating, served pre 1853 Listing;
Notes: The records for Navy personnel pre 1853 has reference to Page 230 of the Navy Pay Office: Entry
Books of Certificates of Service, which has a Henry Kingdon: Royal Navy Rating, having entered the service
at the age of 14 years & having served from 09.08.1849 to 15.01.1855; This would indicate a birth year of
ca.1835, unfortunately no birth place is recorded; This Rating appears to have served from age 14 to age 20 (a
period of 6 years) & I believe that he or his executors may have made an Application for a Greenwich or Naval
Pension to Whitehall on 28.05.1855;
My searches of Census records for the Navy & UK for a Henry Kingdon born ca.1835 & in the Royal Navy
did reveal one prospect; I have a Henry Kingdon b.1836 in Plymouth & his Wife Ellen Kingdon b.1836
Ugborough, Devon both visiting #13, Russel Street, Plymouth St Andrew on the 1861 Census, Henry Kingdon
is recorded as a Seaman in HM (could be RM?) Service; (This is obviously a boarding house of sorts as there
were 9 other Royal Navy Seamen staying there on the same night); I did not find this couple in any other
Census records? However, I did find a Ellen Hard from Ugborough (b.1836) living with her parents in
Ugborough in 1841; Also found her aged 15 & working as a House Servant in Heaton Cottage, Modbury,
Devon; I then found a Marriage between Henry Kingdon & Ellen Hard in 1 st Q 1861 in Totnes, Devon which
could well be them? I have no other information;
Kingdon, Henry: Royal Marines, Private, served in China 1856 to 1860;
Notes: The ADM 171/31 reccords have information for the issue of the China War Medal to a Private, Henry
Kingdon who was serving on board ‘HMS Camilla’ during the China War; It would appear that this Marine
probably died on board ‘HMS Camilla’ in late 1860 off the east coast of Japan as this vessel sailed from
Hakodate on 01.09.1860 bound for Tokyo Bay but was never seen again following a tropical storm in that area
on 09.01.1860; His medal roll nomination records that he was “DD” under the medal issue column, this
normally indicates “Discharged Dead”; There is no other information other than he was #15 on the ship’s
books; Medals Roll on File; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, Henry: Royal Navy, 1st Class Boy, Ship’s Pay Book #561; Crimean War 1855; ADM 171/21 &
ADM 171/24;
Notes: I have a Medal Record from ADM 171/21 for sailors serving onboard ‘HMS Nile’ & another from
171/24 for Sailors who served on ‘HMS Arethusa’ in the Crimean War (1854 to 1856) which indicates that 1st
Class Boy, Henry Kingdon & Hy Kingdom were present onboard the ‘Nile’ & the ‘Arethusa’; He was
awarded the Crimean War Medal, which was sent to him in Plymouth on 27.03.1857; This Sailor needs more
research to find out who he is;
Kingdon, Henry Capp: Lincolnshire Regiment No: 7108 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Henry Capp Kingdon born in 1886 in Methwold, Thetford, Norfolk, son of James Kingdon
Inland Revenue Officer) b.1853 Thetford & Jessie Pratt from Norfolk who married in 1878 in Thetford; In
1891 he lived with his parents in Wigan, Lancashire; In 1901 Henry Kingdom is a 15 year old Pawn Broker’s
Assistant, living with his parents in Horninglow, Staffordshire; The Regimental #7108 indicates an enlistment
date between 16.05.1904 & 31.05.1905 making Henry Capp Kingdon aged 18 when he first joined the Army;
In 1911 Census I found Henry Charles Kingdon b.1887 in Thetford serving as a Lance Corporal, Cook in the
1st Lincolnshire Regiment, Absent at the time of the Census, serving in India; Henry Capp Kingdon also served
in France from 13.08.1914, may have been a Prisoner of War; I think that he may also have died in
Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1916 Aged 32; Medals Card on file;
Further Notes: Following research of a H.C. Kingdom who is buried in Witton Cemetery, Birmingham it
would appear that the following soldier is the same person:
Kingdom, H. C: The King’s Liverpool Regiment; #34736 Private; - Died in WW1; In Memory of Private H
C KINGDOM, #34736, 3rd Bn., The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died on 30 March 1916, Remembered
with honour Birmingham (Witton) Cemetery; Notes: This soldier served with the 3rd Battalion which was a
Reserve Battalion made up from recalled Reservists & remained in the UK during WW1; This would explain
why H C Kingdom is buried in Witton Cemetery in Birmingham as this was attached to one of the
Birmingham War Hospitals; A Death Record indicates that this is Henry C Kingdon who was born ca.1884;
The CWGC record has him as a Kingdom but the Memorial Wall in Witton Cemetery has him as Kingdon? No
Medals Card on file; (He is Cousin of #5633 RSM Albert Arthur Kingdon, Norfolk Regiment); (Cousin of
#1445 WOII Edward Kingdon of the Coldstream Guards & the Military Provost Corps); (Brother of Private
Edward Pratt Kingdom #24594, 11th or 15th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment), who
died in July 1916 in France); His Great Grandmother was Mary Kingdon b.1787 Penarth, Glamorganshire,
Wales, Widow of a Customs Excise Officer in 1871 in St Cuthbert’s Norfolk? Her Husband was George
Kingdon b.1779 in Launceston, Cornwall; (Note: There is another Cousin also named Henry Capp, the brother
of Albert Arthur & Edward Kingdon above, b.1888 in Yarmouth, thereby probably making him too young to
have enlisted in 1904/5, although it is possible that I have the two Henry Capp Kingdons mixed up; In any case
they are probably all related in the Norfolk Kingdon line); (I now believe that there is a Henry Charles
Kingdon who also served with the Lincolnshire Regiment); (Also a George Frederick Samuel Kingdon
#4570 North Staffordshire Regiment who is related);
Kingdon, Henry Francis: #R/483, Able Seaman, Royal Navy; ADM 339/1/21166, WW1;
Notes: This man’s records are incorrectly noted in the ADM 339 as Kingdom; I understand that the Official
Naval Service Number of R/483 was issued for WW1 Service between 1914 & 1919; This is Henry Francis
S. Kingdon, (not Kingdom as some records indicate), born 19.04.1898 in Fremington, near Barnstaple, Devon,
the son of Frank Kingdon b.1866 Knowstone & Sarah Washer from Exeter who married in 1893 in South
Molton; In 1901 Census Henry F. Kingdon lived with his parents at the Holy Trinity Vicarage in Barnstaple
where his Father was the Gardener; In the1911 Census the family lived in Cemetery Lodge, Bear St Road in
Barnstaple, Henry Kingdon was at School Aged 13 & his Father was the Caretaker of the Cemetery; Henry
Francis Kingdon married Hilda Eva Benoke from Exeter in Barnstaple, Devon in 1921; Henry Francis
Kingdon Died in 1974 in Tiverton, Devon Aged 76; ADM 171/127 records Henry F. Kingdon, A.B. #R/483,
Awarded the Victory & the British War Medals; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Hyla F: Royal North
Devon Yeomanry No: 2750 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Henry Foulkes: Hon. Major in Queen Victoria’s Rifles; (pre WW1 period);
Notes: There are records for Henry Foulkes Kingdon born 16.04.1862 & baptised in Hampstead on
22.06.1862, the son of Paul Augustine Kingdon, a Barrister, b.10.03.1820 in Bridgerule, Devon (Son of
Thomas Hocking Kingdon Vicar of Bridgerule) & Elizabeth Fortescue Foulkes (daughter of Vicar of
Shebbear, Devon) who married in 1854; There is indication that Henry Foulkes Kingdon was a Major in the
Queen Victoria’s Rifles which was the designation of the 9th Battalion the London Regiment, a Territorial unit
of the British Army; This unit was formed in 1908 in order to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions
in the newly formed County of London, Queen Victoria's Rifles were one of twenty eight units brought
together in this way; They did serve in WW1 but I can find no record of Major Kingdon having been overseas
& there are no medals card for him on file; In 1871 Census Henry Foulkes Kingdon is aged 9 & visiting a
Gibbs family at St Dunstan’s Villa, Regents Park in London (I think that this was Regents Park College); In
1881 Census Henry F Kingdon is aged 18 & a Commercial Clerk, living with his parents at #29, Marlborough
Hill, Marylebone; I believe that Henry Foulkes Kingdon was Apprenticed to a London Feltmaker (Henry
Sawtell) on 04.07.1881 & became a Freeman of London on 08.04.1907; In 1891 Henry Foulkes Kingdon lives
with his younger Brother Stephen Murray Kingdon, working as a Marine Insurance Underwriter & living in
Hall of Staple Inn & is also at the same address in 1901 Census; In the 1893 Army List for Volunteer
Battalions, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, under Middlesex Regiments, the 1st (Victoria & St. George’s) we
find reference to Lieutenant H.F. Kingdon & a notation indicating p.03 Jan 92, which I presume is the date of
his promotion from Second Lieutenant?; On 14.02.1905 Henry Foulkes Kingdon Married Mary Kathleen Weld
in Lancaster Gate, Westminster, (she was 12 years his junior & born in Madras, India in 1875 the daughter of
an (India) Civil Servant born in Ireland); In 1911 Census Henry Foulkes Kingdon is Aged 48, an Insurance
Underwriter, and living with his wife & 3 children at Maybury Wood, Maybury Hill, Woking, Surrey; I
believe Henry Foulkes Kingdon Died 07.07.1922 in Woking, Surrey Aged 60;
Kingdon, Henry Maurice: #J14253, Able Seaman, Royal Navy; ADM 188/675, WW1;
Notes: This is Henry Maurice Kingdon born 25.11.1894 in Clerkenwell, Holborn, London, however, he often
went by the name Maurice Kingdon; He was the son of Henry (Harry) Kingdon, a Fitter b.1866 in Stepney &
Sarah (Sally) Chown, (b.1870 Kilburn), who Married in 1894 in Lambeth; In the 1901 Census Maurice
Kingdon is aged 6 & living with his parents at #136, Hornsey Park Road, Wood Green, Middlesex; I believe
that this sailor probably enlisted between 01.01.1911 & 31.12.1911 which is indicated by his official number
series, however, in the 1911 Census record Henry Maurice Kingdon is aged 16 & working as a Builder’s Boy
but living with his parents at #12, Luxor Street, Camberwell; Henry M. Kingdon was serving on ‘HMS
Ambrose’ at the end of WW1 when his medals were issued; I understand that Henry Maurice Kingdon Married
Charlotte Rose Clara Williams, (b.25.08.1893 in Lambeth), on 25.12.1916 in St Peter’s Church, Islington &
that he was a Sailor at the time, living at #5, Rheidol Terrace, Islington; I believe that this Sailor made a career
out of the Royal Navy as the ADM 171/146 records indicate issue of his Royal Navy Long Service Medal on
30.03.1928; He stayed at #5, Rheidol Terrace, Islington, London, up until 1933 & in 1939 he lived at #16,
Halstead Street, Brixton; I believe that Henry Maurice Kingdon Died in Lewisham in 1977 Aged 82; Awarded
the 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals; Issued with Royal Navy Long Service & good Conduct
Medal; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Cecil James: #1703 Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery & #15621 Royal
Marine Artillery);
Kingdon, Henry Rodney Robert: #429, 10th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade, Australian
Imperial & Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: There are more Records for this soldier in the Australian Military Files; This is Henry Rodney Robert
Kingdon, a Farmer, born on 15.04.1885 in Wellington, New Zealand; He attended School in Wellington,
worked for a short time as an Accountant with a Mercantile firm & then joined his Father on their home farm;
In 1908 Henry Rodney Robert Kingdon went to Western Australia & took up a block of land in Denmark; He
enlisted in the Australian Army on 20.10.1914 in Guildford, Western Australia & gave his Mother’s name,
Jane Kingdon, Lower Hut, Wellington, New Zealand as his next of kin; (Kingdon Family research would
suggest that he was from the Thorverton, Devon Kingdon family originally, who emigrated to New Zealand
from Holsworthy/Exeter in England around the 1850’s); He is son of John Holman Kingdon & Elizabeth Jane
Rayner; His Father was a Lawyer & Secretary to the Seddon Government in New Zealand; There is a record
for this New Zealander serving with the Australian Expeditionary Forces in WW1 which is in the form of a
nominal roll for the 10th Light Horse Regiment; This soldier joined for duty as a Private in the Light horse
Regiment on 20.10.1914 & embarked for Europe on 17.02.1915 from Freemantle on board the ‘HMAT
Surada’ with ‘C’ Company, 10th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade; He was promoted to Sergeant
by 16.08.1915, & served at Gallipoli on 24.12.1915; By 14.06.1916 he was debilitated to hospital with
Gonorrhea until 27.06.1916; He was again in hospital on 24.04.1917 in Egypt suffering with total Venereal
Disease & sent to a rest camp in Port Said until 14.10.1917; Henry Rodney Robert Kingdon was
Commissioned to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in 1917 whilst serving in Egypt with ‘C Squadron’, the 10th Light
Horse Regiment, the Desert Mounted Corps; The records show that he was promoted to Lieutenant on
21.02.1918 & served throughout the Gallipoli Campaign, also in Sinai, Palestine & Syria; This Officer was
finally struck off strength on 27.09.1919; I understand that Henry Rodney Robert Kingdon Married Florence
Belmont Reed (nee Byleveld) on 25.02.1920 in Denmark, Western Australia; I believe that he continued to
farm the land he first settled on in 1908, becoming Secretary of the William Bay Settlers’ Association; I
believe that Henry Rodney Robert Kingdon died on 20.09.1956 in Denmark, Western Australia Aged 72;
Awarded 1914-15 Star for Service as a Lance Corporal with the 10th Light Horse Regiment & The British War
& Victory Medals; I understand that his daughter, Mrs. Norah (Nell) Boyce (nee Kingdon), of Box 2,
Cranbrook, Western Australia 6321, requested her late Father’s Anzac Commemoration Medallion & Badge
on 10.01.1968; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Roy Raynor: #10/1873, Wellington Regiment, New Zealand
Expeditionary Force; - Died in WW1 - aged 24 on 16 June 1915 at Gallipoli);
Kingdon, Henry William: Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force; ‘D’ Company, #440914, WW1;
Notes: This is Henry William Kingdon born 30.05.1884 in Glastonbury, Somerset; He is the son of William
Kingdon, a Mason b.1853 in Goodleigh, Devon & Louisa Jane Bond from Wincanton, Somerset, who married
in Wincanton in 1876; (For my family records he is the Grandson of William Kingdon b.1819 Bratton Fleming
& Susan ??); In 1891 Census Henry William Kingdon lived with his parents at #76, Bove Town in
Glastonbury, Somerset; In 1901 he was probably recorded as ‘Harry’ Kingdon Aged 16, a Mason’s
Apprentice, living with his parents at #9, Victoria Square, Portland, Dorset; There is a Militia Service note on
record for Harry William Kingdon, b.1884, Glastonbury, Gloucestershire, so I assume that he joined the local
militia at some point from here? This young man then sailed to Canada, probably on board the ‘SS Sicilian’ to
Quebec in May 1907 Aged 22, Harry Kingdon a Labourer intending to work as a Railroad Labourer in
Winnipeg; Canadian Army Records 3439436a & 439436b indicate that, on 18.11.1915 Hy William Kingdon
signed his Canadian Attestation papers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, stating that he was aged 31 years & was a
Labourer living at the Northern Hotel, Winnipeg; He gave his next of kin as his Father William Kingdon, #54,
Nortoft Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England; He was enlisted into ‘D’ Company of the Canadian
Overseas Expeditionary Force as #440914; I then found a record indicating that #440194 Private Henry
William Kingdon returned to Canada onboard the ‘SS Scandinavian’ (Olympic in Records), on 22.07.1916
suffering from some form of blood inflammation, serious enough to be repatriated home form a Field Casualty
Centre; I then discovered a second set of Canadian Army Records #439437a & 439437b, indicating that on
28.05.1917 Henry Wm Kingdon, now aged 32 years was again Attested into the 76th Depot Battery C.F.A with
the #1250407; He gives his trade as Stonemason & lives at #348 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, He did not
declare that he had served previously but gives his date & place of birth as 30.05.1884, Glastonbury,
Somersetshire, England; He also declared that his next of kin was his Father Wm Kingdon, #54, Nortoft road,
Bournemouth, England; I presume that he was enlisted into the 76th Battery; Having again served overseas
Private Henry William Kingdon is returned home to Winnipeg, Canada for Dispersal & Discharge on the ‘SS
Cedric’ in 1919; I believe that there is a Chelsea Pensioner’s record for Harry Kingdon, b.1885 Glastonbury,
Somerset on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Frederick Percy: Dorsetshire Regiment No: 10616 Rank:
Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 SEE ALSO Kingdom, Frederick P: Royal Army Medical Corps No: 126610
Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is also the Brother of John Kingdon b.1877 in Wincanton, who
served in a Militia Unit); I have not researched this soldier any further;
Kingdon, Herbert E: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 782 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served in the Royal Field Artillery as #866172; Herbert E. Kingdon Enlisted on 07.03.1913; He
was Discharged on 21.06.1918, having previously served overseas, under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) 2
(a) (i) at the age of 23 for Sickness; He was discharged as a Staff Sergeant from the 4 th Reserve Battery
(Territorials) Royal Field Artillery serving at Charlton; & Woolwich; This is probably Herbert Edward
Kingdon who was born in Braunton in 1896, registered in Barnstaple, Devon as there are no other
possibilities; If I am correct then Herbert Edward Kingdon was the son of Samuel Kingdon, a Tailor b.1870 in
Braunton or Goodleigh, Devon & Ida Evelyne Mitchell from Braunton who married in 1894 in Braunton; In
1901 Herbert E Kingdon lived with his parents in Heanton Street, Braunton; I believe that Herbert E Kingdon
Married Doris Edith Challacombe in 1932 in Barnstaple, Devon; Herbert E Kingdon may well have died in
1965 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Aged 69; Awarded the Silver War Badge #412252 as Staff Sergeant
Herbert Edwd. Kingdon; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Herbert James: #143716, Royal Army Medical Corps, Rank: Private, WW1;
Notes: This is Herbert James Kingdon born in Hoxton, London in 1879; This man was already a Reservist
(probably with the 20th Training Reserve Battalion in Northampton) & called up for service joining in
Whitehall, London on 11.08.1917 & gave his trade as a Furrier; I believe that he had originally enlisted on
30.05.1917 for the Duration of the War; He gave his status as Married but may well have been separated from
his wife as he gave his Next of Kin as Mrs. Theodora Picault with whom he was living with as husband &
wife; His medical records indicate that he suffered with mild elephantitis, poor physique & had no teeth in his
upper jaw; His original unit for the 1st month was recorded as #334445 with the 2/25th (Cyclist) The London
Regiment but this was changed when he was transferred to #143716 Royal Army Medical Corps on
24.04.1918; On 06.06.1918 he was posted to No. 82 Battalion, No. 7 Company RAMC in Devonport until
11.02.1919 when he joined 35 Company RAMC at Millbank; He gave his address as #262, Goswell Road,
London EC1; On 8.03.1919 his Protection Certificate indicates that he was #143716 a Private in the 35th
Company, RAMC, that his Theatre of War was in London District & that his address was #39, Gerrard Street,
Islington; I understand that he was finally discharged & demobilised in London on 14.04.1919; Further follow
up research reveals that this is Herbert James Spencer Kingdon, a Furrier, born 25.07.1881 in Shoreditch,
(Baptised in Haggerston St Columba, Hackney on 28.02.1882), the son of Henry James Kingdon, a Copper
Smith, b.1851 in Clerkenwell, London (some records have him born in Cardiff, Wales?) & Elizabeth Green
Lowe from Hackney who married on 04.11.1871 in St James, Shoreditch, Hackney; There are some confusing
London School Records on file, with this boy’s name being recorded as Herbert James Kingdon, Herbert
Kingdon & James Henry Kingdon but all with the same birth date & Father’s name; I have chosen to go with
him having been in Infants School in Hackney prior to 17.10.1887 when he went to Bay Street Temporary
School, as Herbert Kingdon, until 28.05.1888, his address is given as #99, Holly Street; In 1891 Census
Herbert J Kingdon lives with his parents in Hackney; In the School’s records it shows Jas Henry Kingdon,
living at #27 De Beauvoir Road attending Holy Trinity School in Hackney from 07.02.1893 to 03.09.1894;
This record states that his previous school was in Daubeney Road; His final school years are shown as Herbert
James Kingdon at the newly opened Enfield Road School in Hackney from 05.09.1894 until 16.01.1895, his
address is given as #27, De Beauvoir Road & his previous school as Holy Trinity; In 1901 Herbert J Kingdon
is a Bootmaker living with his parents in Hackney; Herbert James Spencer Kingdon Married Mary Ann E
Webb (born 14.09.1876 Bethnal Green) in the Parish Church of St Leonard in Shoreditch on 12.12.1909, their
address is given as #99, Hackney Road; In 1911 Census he calls himself James & lives with Mary Kingdon
195, Richmond Road, Hackney, he is a Credit Draper; I believe that Herbert J Kingdon died in 1946 in
Hackney Aged 65; No Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Frederick S: Rifle Brigade No:
B/200829 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served in WW1);
Kingdon, Herbert H: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 110412 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: There are no real clues as to this soldier’s identity on the MIC card; However, there was a possible
Herbert Harry B. Kingdon born on 15.06.1887 in Williton, Somerset who died in Somerset in 1977 Aged
89; He married Christina Blake in 1912 in Williton, Somerset; Medals Card on file; Not researched further;
Kingdon, Herbert H: Devonshire Regiment No: 8162 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Medal Card on file states that he also Died? I can find no other references to this soldier?
Notes: This #8162 Devonshire Regiment needs checking as the records also refer to Kingdon, Albert H:
Devonshire Regiment No: 8162 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 - Died in WW1 on 21.01.1915 & is
recorded elsewhere in this document;
I believe that this should be Kingdon, Herbert James: Devonshire Regiment No: 205418 Rank: Private; Died in WW1; Private Herbert James Kingdon, #205418, 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, who died
aged 46, on 27th June 1917; Son of John and Elizabeth Kingdon, of George Nympton; Husband of the late
Bessie Kingdon. Remembered with honour in the George Nympton (St. George’s) Churchyard Extension in
Devon; Notes: This is Herbert James Kingdon born on 05.03.1872 & baptised on 28.04.1872 in George
Nympton, Devon, the son of John Kingdon b.23.11.1828 in Rose Ash & Elizabeth Wotton b.09.05.1830 in
George Nympton, who married on 05.12.1852 in George Nympton; In 1881 Herbert James Kingdon lived with
his parents in George Nympton Village; In 1891 he was an Agricultural Labourer living with his married
brother in George Nympton; Herbert James Kingdon Married Bessie Speed (b.1876 George Nympton) on
18.04.1900 in George Nympton; Herbert & Bessie lived in the same village of George Nympton in 1901 &
also in 1911; I can find no Military Service Records for him; Enlistment dates for the #8162 number are
between 08.05.1906 & 13.02.1907; Ancestry.com has a WW1 Death Record which states that he was born in
Plympton, Devon, resided in South Molton, Devon & enlisted in Plymouth but I find this to be probably
incorrect; No Medals Card found?
Kingdon, Herbert John: #347413, Chief Ships Cook, Royal Navy; ADM 188/527; (Pre & WW1 period);
Notes: This is Herbert John Kingdon born 15.12.1884 in Okehampton, Devon, the son of John Kingdon
b.1859 in Stoke Canon & Kitty Yeo b.1854 in Inwardleigh, who married in 1879 in Okehampton; In 1891
Census Herbert John Kingdon lives with his parents in the Station Cottages, Okehampton, his Father is a
Railway Signalman; In 1901 Census Herbert John Kingdon may have been in the Royal Navy but I could not
find him in the Census, however, a check of his Official Naval Number would indicate that he enlisted
between 01.01.1904 & 31.12.1904 so this needs more 1901 research; (His parents still lived in Station
Cottages in Okehampton & he is not recorded there); In the 1911 Census he is living with his Widowed
Mother in North Street, Okehampton, he is aged 26 & is a Leading Cook’s Mate in the Royal Navy; He does
become a Chief Ship’s Cook later, serving on ‘HMS Glorious’; A Devon Newspaper article regarding the
death of his Brother Jack Kingdon in France in 1916 records that Herbert Kingdon is a Petty Officer in the
Royal Navy; This Chief Petty Officer (Cook) remained in the Royal Navy at least until the 1920’s; I believe
that he Married Marjery Miriam Guard from Yarnscombe in 1923 in South Molton, Devon; In February 1957
Herbert Kingdon sailed on the SS Iberia from Australia, via the Cape to UK, arriving on 03.03.1957; He was
aged 72 at that time & travelled with Miriam Kingdon, his wife, who was born 31.05.1891, they are both
recorded as being Retired; The address given on their return to UK is c/o Mrs. Marks, #34, Pembroke
Crescent, Hove, Sussex; I also understand that Herbert John Kingdon died in 1973 in Abingdon, Berkshire
Aged 89; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals; He was issued the Royal Navy Long
Service & Good Conduct Medal on 26.07.1927; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Jack: London Regiment No:
3980 Rank: Private / SEE ALSO: Kingdom, J: London Regiment No: 3980 Rank: Private, who Died in
France on 27.12.1915); (He was also the Brother of Kingdon, Ernest W: Royal Field Artillery No: L/5257
Rank: Acting Bombardier 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Herbert William: Hampshire Regiment, Territorial Force, Rank: Second Lieutenant 1914-1920
WO 372/11, WW1; & Kingdon, H W: Royal Flying Corps Rank: Captain; AIR 76/277 – WW1 Service;
Notes: (Much of this Officer’s Records in the London Gazette Notices appears to refer to him as Hubert
William Kingdon); This is Herbert William Kingdon born on 20.01.1888 in Hackney, London, & he was the
son of William Frederick Kingdon b.1844 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire & Catherine Ann Gibbons from
Manchester, who married on 08.01.1884 in Barton Upon Irwell, Lancashire; In 1891 Census William H
Kingdon lived with his parents at #118, mead Road, Stoke Newington, London, his Father was a Book Seller; I
failed to find this person in the 1901 & the 1911 Census; I presume that this young man enlisted for WW1
service in 1915; 2nd Lieutenant (temporary Lieutenant 12.08.1915) Hubert W Kingdon was promoted to
Temporary Captain in the Hampshire Regiment on 14.11.1915 but this was later corrected to 12.08.1915; This
Officer later served with the (Royal Flying Corps) Royal Air Force as a Captain, see AIR 76/277 records;
Served in Gallipoli & the Dardanelles from 29.07.1915 whilst with the Army; He was promoted from 2nd
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Hampshire Regiment, Territorial Force, & to Flying Officer with the Royal
Flying Corps (RFC) on 07.12.1916 where he had been Seconded to; His Secondment from the Hampshire
Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps was dated 10.12.1916 when he was a 2 nd Lieutenant (temporary Captain);
On 05.10.1917 his Secondment to the RFC was Gazetted & his promotion to Captain confirmed; On
20.01.1918 Captain H W Kingdon was promoted from a Flying Officer to a Flight Commander; Further
research revealed that Captain Hubert (probably a mis-spelling in the Flight Magazine of 21.11.1918) William
Kingdon, of the 8th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment & the RAF, was Married to the Widow of Captain Lunt of
the 5th Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 12.11.1918 at Keston Parish Church in Kent – her name was Annie
Isabelle Gretchen Lunt; Address for his medals claim was c/o T. Cook & Son, 15, The Bund, Shanghai, China
on 29.11.1922 & he also claimed his dead brother’s medals from this address; (I presume that he worked for
Thomas Cook & Sons since at least 1921?); Medals Card on file;
Follow Up Research:
Kingdon, Hubert William: Royal Army Pay Corps, #123488, Rank: Major, WW2 – DIED in WW2;
Notes: This Officer who also served in WW1, initially with the Hampshire Regiment & in 1916 with the newly
formed Royal flying Corps & the Royal Air Force, appears to have also re-enlisted for service in WW2; In this
event he took the rank of Major & served with the Royal Army Pay Corps; Unfortunately Hubert William
Kingdon Died at the Age of 58 on 16.10.1946 whilst serving as a Major with the Royal Army Pay Corps
following WW2; He is buried in Grave #74, block 2 of Kidderminster Cemetery in Worcestershire; The
CWGC Records state that he was the son of William Frederick & Catherine Ann Kingdon; He was the
husband of Ann Isabel Gretchen Kingdon of Kidderminster; At the time of his death his address was #33,
Batham Avenue, Kidderminster & Probate was by the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, I believe
that he had lived in Shanghai, China, working for T. Cook & Sons as a Banker, returning to UK with his wife
Annie, via the USA &/or Canada on board the ‘SS Empress of Australia’ on 21.04.1924; There is also a
Sailing & Transit Record for Hubert Kingdon & Ann Kingdon, (birth place of Manchester is incorrect) for
Quebec, Canada dated 26.10.1929 on board the ‘SS Duchess of Atholl’ confirming that they were in transit to
China; Hubert William Kingdon’s UK Passport was issued in London on 24.11.1926, #162491; His sister’s
address in 1929 is given as his next of kin at Mrs. Winifred Croisdale, Soberton, Droxford, Hampshire
Awarded the 1939-45 Star & War Medals; (He was the Brother of Second Lieutenant Leonard Kingdon, 12th
Squadron, Royal Flying Corps & the Worcestershire Regiment who died on 12th January 1916 in WW1);
Kingdon, Herbert Theodore: East Lancashire Regiment Rank: Captain 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Also Recorded as: Kingdon, H T: East Lancashire Regiment Rank: Temporary Captain WO 372/24, WW1;
Notes: This Officer served in France from 30.09.1915; His Medals were applied for on 25.02.1923 & sent to
him on 22.09.1923; Addresses given were #125, Sinclair Road, Kensington, London W.14 & Stoneycroft,
Camberley, Surrey; His medals card indicates that he may have been ‘Mentioned for Bravery’ during his
service as the card is endorsed “Emblems”; The London Gazette Supplement dated 10.05.1917 records
Temporary Captain H.T. Kingdon, from a Service Battalion, to be a temporary Captain (Attached) to the East
Lancashire Regiment on 23.02.1917, with seniority from 30.05.1915; He appears to have been promoted from
Temporary Captain to Acting Major whilst serving as 2nd in command of the 9th Battalion of the East
Lancashire Regiment on 25.10.1918; This rank was relinquished on 09.03.1919 when he ceased being the 2nd
in Command; Captain Herbert Theodore Kingdon of the East Lancashire Regiment completed his service on
12.03.1919; This is probably Herbert Theodore Kingdon born on 24.07.1895 in Dorchester, Dorset, the son
of Herbert Napier Kingdon, Schoolmaster, b.1850 Bridgerule, Devon & Janet Isabel Bannatyne from Scotland
who married on 01.01.1891 in Dorchester; In 1901 Census this family lived at The Briary, Canterbury Road,
Garlinge, Kent, where Herbert’s Father ran a small boarding school for boys; In the 1911 Census Herbert
Theodore Kingdon is aged 15 & a School Boarder at Clifton College, #28, College Road, Clifton Bristol in
Gloucestershire, England; I believe that following the War & later in life he was involved as a Mining
Engineer & Mine Manager for many years in Kalgoorlie, Australia; Herbert Theodore Kingdon Died
06.07.1975 in Exeter Aged 80; Shadow Card on file & Medals Card on file; (Brother of Commander William
Napier Kingdon, Royal Navy); (Brother of John Bannatyne Kingdon, Lieutenant Commander, Royal
Navy); (Brother of Kingdon, Janet L (Female): Voluntary Aid Detachment 1914-1920 WO 372/23);
Kingdon, Hubert: #109435 Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: I believe that this is Hubert Kingdon born 01.10.1892 in Oystermouth, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of
John Gaylord Kingdon, a Tailor & Draper, b.1842 in Swansea & (his 1 st wife Sarah Maria Jones b.1843 from
Mumbles died in Glamorgan in 1877), John G Kingdon remarried in1878 to his 2 nd wife Ann Eliza Gillard
from Tiverton, Hubert’s Mother; In 1901 Census Hubert lived with his parents in #3, Woodland Villas,
Oystermouth, Glamorgan, Wales; In 1911 Census Hubert lives with his parents at the same address in
Oystermouth & is a Baker; Hubert Kingdon emigrated to Canada, arriving in Quebec in 1912 aged 20, aiming
to settle in Montreal; He sailed from England on the ‘SS Royal George’; Upon enlistment in Canada on the
02.07.1915 in Montreal, Hubert Kingdon was aged 22 years & 10 months & was a Baker; Hubert Kingdon
served overseas with the 60th Battalion CEF, returning to Canada from Witley, Surrey, England to Quebec, for
discharge from the Army onboard the ‘SS Baltic’ in 1919; This soldier served with the 4 th Canadian Mounted
Rifles as a Trooper from 06.07.1915 to 01.01.1916 & as a Private from 01.01.1916 to 27.08.1919;; (I believe
that he is the Brother of Kingdon, Benjamin: Liverpool Regiment No: 56170 Acting Colour Sergeant 19141920 WO 372/11 who served in England in WW1); (I believe that he is also the Brother of Octavius Gillard
Kingdon who also emigrated to Canada but in 1913 & served in WW1 as #109436 in the Canadian
Expeditionary Force); (He was also the Brother of Royal Navy Apprentice Hedley Vicars Kingdon); I have
not researched this soldier further;
Kingdon, Hugh: Royal Navy in 1696; (Seamen’s Wills Records); PROB 11;
Notes: In 1696 there is a Record for a Seaman’s Will for Hugh Kingdon, in which he left all of his estate to
his friend Francis Richards; The record has him serving aboard ‘HMS Boyne’ which was an 80 gun 3rd rate
ship of the line, Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 21.05.1692; I believe that she was broken up
in 1763; I have no other information on this sailor or his family background;
Kingdon, Hugh E: Royal Scots Fusiliers No: 266083 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as #5670 5th Battalion “The Queen’s” Royal West Surrey Regiment who I believe were a
Territorial Force Battalion; This Soldier also served as #21454 in the Army Pay Corps; This is Hugh Emerson
Kingdon who was born in Kensington in London on 19.09.1897 (baptised in Earls Court on 20.07.1897), the
son of Frederick William Washington Kingdon, a Barrister b.1861 in Colyton, Devon & Gertrude Walker from
Bayswater who married in St Marylebone on 02.07.1895; In 1901 Census Hugh Kingdon lives with his parents
in Kensington Mansions in Kensington, London; (In 1911 Census Hugh Emerson Kingdon is a Student living
with his parents at #30, Craven Hill Gardens, Paddington South, Paddington, London; Hugh E Kingdon was
examined for enlistment on 06.04.1916 in Hammersmith aged 19 years & was a Law Student; He was however
originally enlisted on 29.02.1916 with the 5th Battalion ‘The Queen’s’ on Reserve & then transferred to the 11th
Scots Fusiliers on 19.04.1917; He was a Signaller & I believe served in France in 1918; He was eventually
transferred to the Army Pay Corps on 26.07.1918 & promoted to Corporal on 26.07.1919 where he was
employed as the Base Cashier in Amiens, France; His records show a Next of Kin as his Father Mr. F.W.
Kingdon of #1, Masons Court, Bayswater, London; At discharge he gave his permanent address as #9,
Moscow Court, Bayswater, London W2; Hugh Emerson Kingdon Married Laura May Masey from London in
1928 in Kensington; Researching the shipping passenger lists it would appear that Hugh Kingdon did a lot of
travelling throughout his life as he was also a Barrister at Law; I believe that Hugh Emerson Kingdon died in
1976 in Kensington Aged 78; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Hyla F: Royal North Devon Yeomanry No: 2750 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served with Devonshire Regiment as # 345901; This is Hyla Frederick Kingdon born 28.07.1894
in Knowstone, son of Frank Kingdon b.1866 Knowstone & Sarah Washer from Exeter who married in 1893 in
South Molton; In 1901 Census Hyla lived with his parents at the Holy Trinity Vicarage in Barnstaple where his
Father was the Gardener; In1911 Census the family lived in Cemetery Lodge, Bear St Road in Barnstaple,
Hyla was his Father’s Assistant as Caretaker of the Cemetery; Hyla Frederick Kingdon Married Ethel C.
Richards in Barnstaple in 1920; Hyla Frederick Kingdon Died in 1980 Aged 86; Medals Card on file; (He was
the Brother of Kingdon, Henry Francis: Able Seaman, #R/483, Royal Navy; ADM 339/1/21166);
I
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, Irwin Wendon: Private, #48650, ‘A’ Company, Auckland Infantry Regiment, New Zealand
Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This is Irwin Wendon Kingdon born in 1895 in New Zealand, the son of James Kingdon, b.1844 in
Advent, Cornwall, England & Elizabeth Jane Wendon, b.1848 in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, who had married in
Cornwall, England in 1868 & sailed to New Zealand, arriving in Cambridge West in 1880 & established a
Blacksmith’s business on the corner of Shakespeare & Cook Streets; (His Grandparents, Jonathan Kingdon &
Mary Orchard Hill had arrived in New Zealand from Cornwall, England in 1872 on the ‘Celestial Queen’); (I
understand that one of Irwin’s elder brothers, Samuel Wendon Kingdon, died by drowning in a river at a
Wesleyan Picnic in 1883 at the age of 11 years); Irwin Wendon Kingdon lived with his parents in Shakespeare
Street, Cambridge up until 1911; Irwin Wendon Kingdon, now working as a Labourer, Married Eva Hilda May
Garmonaway in 1916 in Cambridge, New Zealand; Irwin Wendon Kingdon enlisted for WW1 Service with the
Auckland Infantry Regiment & Embarked on 26.04.1917 from Wellington with the 25th Reinforcements of the
New Zealand Expeditionary Force, sailing for Plymouth in England on board ‘HMNZT 83 Tofua’; There are
no other military records for this soldier other than those held in the Wellington Records Office which I have
not researched; His Father died around 1919 & from then on Irwin Wendon & Eva Hilda May Kingdon lived
in Shakespeare Street with his widowed mother Elizabeth Jane Kingdon; Irwin Kingdon was a Labourer; They
continued to live in Shakespeare Street, Cambridge West up until 1949; I believe that Irwin Wendon Kingdon
died in 1953 Aged 58; (He was the Brother of Percy James Kingdon, 2nd Division New Zealand Reservist,
WW1): (He was the Brother of Dick Kingdon, 2nd Division New Zealand Reservist, WW1): (He was the
Brother of Archibald Henry Kingdon, 2nd Division New Zealand Reservist, WW1): This family could be
researched further;
Kingdon, Isaac: Royal Navy in 1775; (Seamen’s Wills Records);
Notes: In 1775 there is a Record for a Seaman’s Will for Isaac Kingdon, son of Samuel Kingdon, of St
Leonard’s, Shoreditch; The record has Isaac Kingdon serving aboard ‘HMS Northumberland’ – I presume that
this refers to the ‘HMS Northumberland’ which was launched in 1750, Commissioned in 1753, Renamed
‘HMS Leviathan’ in 1777 & used as a Storeship until finally foundering on 27.02.1780 whilst sailing from
Jamaica to Britain; I have no other information on this sailor or his family;
Kingdon, Ivor H: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 114450 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: I believe that this is Ivor Henry Kingdon born in 1892 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of
Thomas Kingdon, originally a Baker, b.1844 in Bampton, Devon & Frances (Fanny) Akhurst from Faversham
in Kent who died; Ivor’s Father remarried his 2nd wife Mary Ann ?? from Crumlin, Monmouthshire, Wales &
lived at #6, Radlaver Street, Canton, Cardiff in 1901 Census, his Father is a Dock Labourer now; In 1911 Ivor
Kingdon lives with his parents at the same address as previously, he is a Warehouseman & his Father is an Oil
Dealer; I believe that Ivor H Kingdon Died in 1956 in Cardiff Aged 64; Medals Card on file; I did not follow
this Soldier any further;
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KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, J: Royal Field Artillery No: 49756 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/23/133352, WW1;
Recorded also as: Kingdon, John: Royal Field Artillery No: 49756 Rank: Bombardier 1914-1920 WO
372/11/167972, WW1;
Notes: Medals Card has him as John Kingdon, #49756 RFA as a Bombardier & who served in France from
19.01.1915; He was promoted to Sergeant & I believe was awarded the Military Medal; This is (John) Jack
Kingdon born in 1891 in Barnstaple, Devon, he was the Son of John E. Kingdon (b.1855), of Barnstaple,
England, a Fisherman, Shipbuilder & Bargeman & Elizabeth ??, also from Barnstaple; (She may have been
previously married as there is a Stepdaughter recorded living with the family in the 1891 Census called
Elizabeth Jane Limebear, b.1875 Barnstaple, who marries Richard Johns in 1899 in Barnstaple & emigrates
to Manitoba, Canada in 1906); In 1901 Jack Kingdon was aged 10 & living with his Parents at #10, Signal
Terrace, Barnstaple, Devon, his Father is a Shipwright & Bargeman; Further research indicates that John
Kingdom aged 21 (born 1890 in Barnstaple) was serving as a Private in the 75 th Battery, Royal Field Artillery
in India in 1911 Census, & I believe this to be the same person; Unfortunately I have yet to find any record of
this soldier’s enlistment date to confirm this; Medals Card on file; I believe that he may have been awarded the
Military Medal as well; (He was the Younger Brother of #174744 Sergeant George Kingdon of the Royal
Garrison Artillery); (He was also the Brother of Kingdon, Bruce: #622376, Private, Canadian Infantry (New
Brunswick Regiment) who died in WW1); (He was also the Brother of Sydney John Kingdon, WW1
Merchant Seaman);
Kingdon, Jack: Indian Army 1914-1920 WO 372/11 Rank: Captain, WW1;
Also Recorded as: Kingdon, J: 86th Infantry Rank: Captain 1914-1925 WO 372/27, WW1;
Notes: This is Jack Kingdon born 02.10.1883 in the West Indies, in St. Vincent, the son of Alfred Kingdon, a
Barrister at Law, b.1853 in Kensington, London & Bessie Bruce Aitken from Glasgow, Scotland who married
in 1879 in Leeds; (They are from the Thorverton Branch of the Kingdon family); (His Father Alfred Kingdon
was a Barrister: Inner Temple 1878: Acting Attorney General in St Vincent in 1883; Solicitor General in
British Guiana & Q.C. in that colony in 1890; Senior Puisne Judge, British Guiana 1898/1900); In 1901
Census Jack Kingdon is a Boarding Scholar at the Agricultural School, at Winchester College, in Kingsgate
Street, Winchester, Southampton; I believe that he later went to Oxford University in mid 1901, I believe that
his parents lived in Sussex having returned from overseas; Jack Kingdon was first commissioned as a 2 nd
Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Devon Regiment & then on 29.11.1905 as a British Officer of the Indian Army;
(Jack Kingdon was still a Lieutenant in 1912); He served as a Lieutenant from 29.02.1908 & as a Captain in
the Indian Army in the 92nd Punjabis Regiment; (His parents lived in Chagford, Devon in the 1911 Census);
His promotion to Captain was 29.11.1914 whilst serving with the 86th Carnatic Infantry, Indian Army; There is
a Ship’s Passenger Record for a Captain J. Kingdon sailing from England to Bombay on 02.10.1915 on board
the ‘Malwa’; At some stage later in his Army career he was Brigade Major G.S.O, 2nd Grade from 20.09.1918,
which was later relinquished on 31.08.1919 whilst serving with the 86th Carnatic Infantry, Indian Army; This
Officer was also awarded for distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in the Balkans &
with the British Army of the Black Sea & promoted to Brevet Major on 03.06.1919; The London Gazette dated
17.05.1921 records the promotion of (Battalion Major) J. Kingdon, Indian Army to Major on 29.11.1920; The
London Gazette dated 20.02.1925 records that The King had approved the resignation of this Officer’s
commission on 01.01.1925; I don’t believe that he married & understand that Major Jack Kingdon died in
Kenya of a heart attack on 15.10.1952; Medals Card for Captain Jack Kingdon on file; No Medals Card on file
for Captain J. Kingdon; He also received the Somaliland Medal & Clasp which was awarded by the
Somaliland Camel Corps HQ on 09.12.1916 & sent to India for issue;
Kingdon, Jack: London Regiment No: 3980 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1;
Rifleman Jack Kingdon
#3890, "C" Coy. 1st/8th Bn., London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
who died
aged 20
on 27 December 1915,
Son of the late John and Kitty Kingdon, of 53, North St., Okehampton,
Devon.
Remembered with honour
in the Loos Memorial, in France;
Transferred from the Kingdom list: Kingdom, J: London Regiment No: 3980 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO
372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Jack Kingdon born 1896 in Okehampton, son of John Kingdon b.1859 Stoke Cannon & Kitty
Yeo, who married in 1879 in Okehampton; In 1901 Jack lived with his parents in Okehampton, his Father was
a Railway Signalman; In 1911 Census Jack lives with his Widowed Mother at #53, North Street, Okehampton,
Devon (a boarding house) & is a Post Office Messenger Boy; In 1914 Jack Kingdom was appointed as a Rural
Postman in Ilfracombe; I believe that his Regimental #3980 indicates that he enlisted between 09.03.1915 &
01.04.1915; From his medals card it appears that Jack Kingdon served in France from 28.10.1915; According
to a Devon Newspaper report in 1916 Jack Kingdon was shot in the heart by a German sniper; Note that in
1923 Ernest William Kingdon b.1883 Okehampton applied for his medals, he is Jack’s next of kin on his
WW1 Medals receipt, living #33, Nelson Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 in 1923, he had also served in
WW1; 2x Medals Cards on File; (His Brother Herbert John Kingdon, born 15.12.1884 in Okehampton,
served as #347413, a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy); (He was also the Brother of Kingdon, Ernest W:
Royal Field Artillery No: L/5257 Rank: Acting Bombardier 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, James: Gunner, 9th Field Battery, 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery, (1861 Census record);
Notes: In the 1861 Census there is a record for a Gunner James Kingdon born 1839 in Barnstaple, serving in
Christchurch Barracks, Hampshire with the 9th Field Battery, Royal Artillery; Unfortunately there is
insufficient information to enable positive identification of this soldier, there is however, a James Kingdom
born in Barnstaple in 1839; Needs more research;
Kingdon, James: Welsh Regiment No: 2941 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1;
Private James Kingdon #2941, Welch Regiment, also transferred to #545103 of the 552nd Home Service
Employment Company, Labour Corps, who died aged 36 on 26 July 1921; Son of Thomas and Hannah
Kingdon; Husband of Elizabeth Kingdon, of 2, Cadle Cottages, Raven Hill, Fforestfach. Glamorganshire,
Wales; Remembered with honour Fforestfach (Calfaria) Welsh Baptist Chapelyard; He probably died in a
Training Accident or from Illness or Disease; Notes: This is James Kingdon born 2nd Q 1884 in Swansea, son
of Thomas Kingdon & Hannah Jones b.1865 in Swansea, who married in Swansea in 1882; In 1901 he is
living with his Widowed Mother in Chapel Street, Swansea, he is a Tram Conductor; In 1911 he is married to
Lizzie (Elizabeth) Thomas, b.1887 Swansea), since 1905 and they have 2 living children, an earlier child had
died; James is a Plasterer & they live at #2, Cadle Cottages, Ravenhill, near Swansea, his brother Thomas is a
Mason boarding with them; James Kingdon Married Lizzie Thomas in 4th Q 1905 in Swansea; James Kingdon
has a UK Death Record 3rd Q 1921 Swansea 11a.957 Aged 36; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, James: Royal Engineers No: 105699 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as #WR289539 indicating that he served with a Waterways & Railway Unit; This Soldier
served in Egypt from 30.12.1915; Medals Card on file; Insufficient information to identify with any
certainty; Further Notes: Further research following discovery of an entry Reference #212 in the Spring
1919 Absent Voters List for South Molton Division, Devon, Parish of Bishops Nympton for James Kingdon
of Kerscott Cottage, who was serving with the 116th Railway Company, Royal Engineers as a Sapper #105699;
This is James Kingdon born in 1886 in Rose Ash, Devon the son of William Kingdon, a Farm Labourer
b.1863 Bishops Nympton & Charlotte Tucker Loosemore from Mariansleigh, Devon who Married in 1882 in
Barton Regis; James Kingdon lived with his parents at Stone Lake, Bishops Nympton in 1891 Census; In 1901
Census James Kingdon lived with his parents at Higher Fyldon in North Molton & is an Agricultural Horse
Carter on a Farm; In 1911 Census James Kingdon is aged 26, a Farm Labourer & living with his parents in
Kerscott Cottage, Bishops Nympton, Devon; (He could also be the Brother of one of the Ernest Kingdons
who served in WW1 – See comments on Ernest ‘choices’ in this paper);
Kingdon, James: Royal Navy, Wills 1796;
Notes: There is a Royal Navy Wills Record for a James Kingdon of Blackawton, Devon, in 1796, serving
onboard ‘HMS Bull Dog’; Admon was granted to Widow Elizabeth Kingdon (was this his Mother or his
Wife?); (I have a possible child who was baptised as James Kingdom in Blackawton on 12.02.1793, son of
James & Elizabeth Kingdom); There is no other information; ‘HMS Bulldog’ was a 16 gun sloop, launched in
1782, served in & won the Battle Honour for St Lucia 1796 in the French Revolutionary War & was later
converted to a Bomb Vessel in 1798; No other information for this sailor or his family;
Kingdon, James A: Devonshire Regiment No: 6856 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: I believe that this is James Arthur Kingdon born in Exeter in 1883, son of ?? Kingdon b.?? ?? & ??;
(This could be James Arthur Kingdon b.1883 in Dawlish who is living in Black Torrington, Halwell in 1891
Census with parents, James Kingdon b.1838 Swimbridge a Gamekeeper & Elizabeth? b.1850 Buckland
Filleigh – but this needs more research; His Father James may well have served in the 11th Regiment of
Infantry, as #49513 or #3727 who served 21 years in the Army, of which 12 years were in the East Indies; He
served from 15.06.1855 to 01.05.1877); Enlistment dates for this number were between 03.01.1901 &
10.03.1902; Private James Arthur Kingdon was serving in St George’s Barracks in Malta in 1911 Census with
the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment, he is single & aged 28. He obviously served before the WW1; He also
served with the 3/4 Devonshire Regiment with the numbers #3853 & #267027; He also had additional Clasps
and Roses for the 1914 Star which he had to have applied for; Medals Card on file; This Record needs a lot
more research by me? Lt Col Flick's book has Private J. A. Kingdon, #267027 serving with ‘D’ Company of
the 6th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment:
Kingdon, James Alexander: #41577, Private, ‘F’ Company, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, New Zealand,
WW1;
Notes: This is James Alexander Kingdon b.1880 in New Zealand, the son of Josiah Stephens Kingdon,
b.1842 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England & Catherine Johnson who Married in 1868 in New Zealand; In 1905 &
1906 James Alexander Kingdon is recorded as a Labourer in Yaldhurst, Courtenay, Wellington, New Zealand;
I believe that James Alexander Kingdon married Elizabeth Kennedy in 1907, I don’t believe that they had any
children; In 1914 he is a Yardman & living with his wife in Raurimu, Waimarino, Bay of Plenty; James
Alexander Kingdon enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is recorded as having ‘Gone into
Camp’ on 04.01.1917 & finally Embarked from Wellington for Devonport England with ‘F’ Company of the
Canterbury Infantry Regiment on 14.03.1917 on board ‘HMNZT 29 Ruapehu’; By 10.10.1917 I understand
that J.A. Kingdon was reported as being ‘Not a Severe Case’ but there are no details, was he simply sick? On
27.11.1918 there is a Casualty List #1009/2 for this Soldier, advising that he had been wounded; On the
17.07.1919 I understand that J.A. Kingdon was returning from the War to Raurimu, New Zealand on board the
‘HMNZT Briton’ sailing from Tilbury, England to Auckland; In 1919 electoral roll he is again recorded as a
Yardman in Ohura, Waitomo; I seem to lose him then until 1935 & 1938 when James Alexander & Ann
Kingdon, a Yardman, are living in Ongarue, Waimarino, Bay of Plenty; (I have no proof but would query
whether his wife Elizabeth Kingdon died, changed her name or left him in the period prior to 1935 & would
therefore suggest that James Alexander Kingdon remarried an Ann ??, although I have no records); In 1946 I
found James Alexander & Ann Kingdon registered at Park Avenue, Otahuhu, Auckland; In 1949 James
Alexander & Ann Kingdon are registered at #20, Peer Street, Selwyn, with no occupation shown & his spinster
sister Frances Mary Kingdon is registered at the same address; In 1957 James Alexander & Ann Kingdon are
registered as Pensioners at #28, Wilkinson road, SE6, Onehunga, Auckland; James Alexander Kingdon died in
1958 Aged 77, & I believe that his wife Ann Kingdon Died in 1963 Aged 89; (He was the Brother of
Kingdon, Albert John: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916 WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon,
Charles Ford: New Zealand, 2nd Division Reservist, 1917 WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Stanley
Craig: #8/3828, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Army, WW1); (He was the Brother of
Kingdon, George: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916 WW1);
Kingdon, James George: Royal Navy, Continuous Service #832 & #40040; ADM 139/9 & ADM 188/5;
(1855-1880 period);
Notes: This Sailor’s Records would indicate that he was James George Kingdon, born 18.03.1837 in
Landport, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire; He was the son of John Kingdon, a Shipwright b.1793 in
Barnstaple, Devon, & Sarah Bevis from Portsea, who Married on 13.05.1815 in St Mary’s Portsea, Hampshire;
In the 1841 & the 1851 Census James Kingdon lives with his parents in Spring Street, Portsea, Portsmouth,
Hampshire; I believe that James George Kingdon Volunteered for the Royal Navy 0n 01.07.1853 & served as
a Boy until the 17.03.1855 when he signed on for a full 10 years service in the Royal Navy; I believe that his
first ship was the ‘HMS Prince Regent’ (launched in 1823); I also believe that James George Kingdon served
in the late stages of the Crimean War on ‘HMS Neptune’ as his name appears on the Medal Roll, the Baltic
Medal being issued to him on 19.08.1857 when he was serving aboard ‘HMS Swallow’; In the 1861 Census
Able Seaman Jas G Kingdon Aged 24 is serving on board ‘HMS Renard’ as Ship’s Book #51 Able Seaman, at
Chefoo; I understand that James George Kingdon Married Elizabeth Elms (b.1836 in Sheffield) in Portsea in
1868; In 1871 Census James G. & Elizabeth Kingdon live at #14, Taylor’s Court in Portsea, he is still a
serving RN Seaman; His 1st wife Elizabeth Kingdom (nee Elms) seems to have died in 1875 in Portsea Aged
39 & James George Remarried to Elizabeth Male, (b.1852 Portsmouth), in Portsea in 1877; In the 1881 Census
James G & Elizabeth Kingdom, now a Royal Naval Pensioner, live in Eagle Cottage, Cottage Lane, Portsea,
however, there is also a Census record for James Kingdon, Aged 44, ‘Not on Board’ ‘HMS Asia’ in
Portsmouth & recorded as an AB Pensioner; In 1891 James & Elizabeth Kingdon live at #32, Alver Road,
Portsea; In 1901 James & Elizabeth Kingdon live at #6, Ethel Road, Portsmouth; In 1911 Census James &
Elizabeth Kingdon live at #6, Ethel Road, Kingston & East Southsea, Portsmouth; I believe that James George
Kingdon Died in 1918 in Portsmouth Aged 81; Awarded the China Medal for service on ‘HMS Renard
(Reynard)’ 1856-1860; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Edward: Royal Navy, Continuous service #28405A;
ADM 139/685); (He is the Father of the following - James John Kingdon, a Coast Guard Petty Officer
#PO/128972 who Died in WW1 aboard HMS India on 08.08.1915 off Norway; - Kingdon, Charles Walter:
Royal Field Artillery No: 47983 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11; - Kingdon, Edward Arthur:
#220316 Leading Seaman, Royal Navy who served in WW1; - Kingdon, Harry: #208949 Leading Seaman,
Royal Navy; - Kingdon, William George: Petty Officer 1st Class, #155575, Royal Navy);
Kingdon, James L: Highland Light Infantry No: 4570 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: I believe that with a Regimental number of #4570 that James L Kingdon served in the Territorial
Force of the Highland Light Infantry prior to WW1; This Soldier also served with the King’s Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry as # 64312, probably the 1st or 2nd Battalions; Insufficient Information to identify;
Kingdon, James John: Royal Navy, #PO/128972; ADM 188/172; - Died in WW1; Petty Officer (NS, Coast
Guard), died on HMS India, armed merchant cruiser, which was torpedoed and sunk by the German
Submarine U.22 off Norway on Sunday 8th August 1915; Remembered with honour Narvik Old Cemetery;
Notes: This is James John Kingdon who was born in Portsea on 20.08.1869, the son of James George
Kingdon, a Royal Navy Seaman, b.1837 in Portsmouth & his 1st Wife Elizabeth Elms b.1852 from Portsmouth
who married in 1868 in Portsmouth; In 1871 he lived with his parents in #14, Taylor’s Court, Portsea,
Portsmouth; In the 1881 Census James John Kingdom was a Scholar at the Greenwich Hospital School,
Greenwich East, Greenwich, London Aged 12, (At the School in the 1880s better physical care and more
nautically directed 'trades' training, made pupils an asset to all branches of the Navy. More than 10,000 boys
from Greenwich joined from 1874 to 1930. Of these, five became admirals); I failed to find James John
Kingdon in 1891 Census but his Official Naval Number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1884 &
31.12.1884 so I presume that he was already serving in the Royal Navy; James John Kingdon Married
Elizabeth Harriett Rudd, (b.1874 in Burnham Overy, Norfolk) on 28.06.1900 in Docking, Norfolk; In 1901
Census they lived in Green Street, Thornham, Norfolk, James was a Coast Guard Boatman; At the time of his
death his Wife, Elizabeth H. Kingdon (c/o Mrs. Clay, #24, Greenfield Road, Gillingham, Kent) was informed
& notified; (Elizabeth Harriet Kingdon died on 05.01.1940 aged 66 at #57, Woodlands Road, Gillingham,
Kent); I believe that there were other brothers who served in the Royal Navy as well: Namely William George,
Harry & Edward Arthur Kingdon from Portsea, Portsmouth; Medals Record Roll on File; (Brother of
Kingdon, Charles Walter: Royal Field Artillery No: 47983 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, Royal
Navy as a boy & then in the Army in WW1); (Brother of Kingdon, Edward Arthur: #220316 Leading
Seaman, Royal Navy who served in WW1); (He is also the Brother of Kingdon, William George: Petty
Officer 1st Class, #155575, Royal Navy); (Brother of Kingdon, Harry: #208949 Leading Seaman, Royal
Navy); (He was the Son of #40040 James George Kingdon, who served in the Royal Navy from 01.07.1853);
Kingdon, James William: Sergeant, Royal Marines, Discharged in the 1870’s;
Notes: There is a record for a James Kingdon, from Barnstaple, serving with the Royal Marines at their
Barracks in East Stonehouse, Plymouth in 1861; There are other records, with little information, that indicate a
Sergeant James Kingdon being Discharge from the Royal Marines in 1870/1871? I believe that this is probably
James William Kingdon, born 1827 in Barnstaple, the son of William James Kingdon (b.1787/91 in
Torrington, Devon) & Mary Baron Baker from Barnstaple who Married in 1822 in Barnstaple; In 1841 James
Kingdon lived with his parents in Barnstaple but I cannot find him in 1851 Census? In 1861 I found a Sergeant
J Kingdon serving at the Royal Marine Barracks, Plymouth Division, in East Stonehouse, Plymouth; James
William Kingdon Married Elizabeth Ann Prout (b.1832 in Modbury) in Plymouth in 1862; In 1871 Census
James & Elizabeth Kingdon are the Innkeepers at the ‘Salutation’ Pub in Castle Street in Barnstaple, Devon; In
1881 Census James & Elizabeth Kingdon live at #10, Green Lane, Barnstaple, he is recorded as a Greenwich
Pensioner; In 1891 Census they live on their own means at #37, Richmond Street, Barnstaple; I believe that
James William Kingdon Died at that address on 21.04.1894, he was aged ??; (He was the Father of Kingdon,
Thomas Baron Baker: #113097, Royal Navy);
Kingdon, Janet L (Female): Voluntary Aid Detachment 1914-1920 WO 372/23; WW1;
Notes: The Voluntary Aid Detachment worked alongside military nurses during the two World Wars. The
VAD were formed in August 1909 and the role of the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses and assistants were to
provide nursing and medical assistance during a time of war. These roles saw the VADs work in a variety of
roles, which included nursing assistants, ambulance drivers, chefs, and administration roles. The majority of
VADs worked within Britain and some were posted overseas such as those with the British Expeditionary
Force (BEF) in France during the Great War and in other countries such as Belgium, France, Gallipoli and
Mesopotamia. This could very well be Janet Lucy Kingdon born on 20.10.1891 in Dorchester, Dorset, the
Daughter of Herbert Napier Kingdon, Schoolmaster & Clergyman, b.1850 Bridgerule, Devon & Janet Isabel
Bannatyne from Scotland who married on 01.01.1891 in Dorchester; In 1901 Census Janet L Kingdon lived
with her family at The Briary, Canterbury Road, Garlinge, Kent, where her Father ran a small boarding school
for boys; In 1911 Census Janet Lucy Kingdon is aged 19 & living with her parents at Heathdene, Camberley,
Surrey, her father is a Clergyman; I believe that Janet Lucy Kingdon remained unmarried & Died in 1970 in
Stratton, Cornwall Aged 78; No Medals Card on file? (She is the Sister of Kingdon, Herbert Theodore: East
Lancashire Regiment Rank: Captain 1914-1920 WO 372/11, also recorded as: Kingdon, H T: East Lancashire
Regiment Rank: Temporary Captain WO 372/24); (Sister of Commander William Napier Kingdon, Royal
Navy); (Sister of Kingdon, John Bannatyne: Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy; ADM 196/145 & ADM
196/56);
Kingdon, Jesse: ‘The Buffs’ (East Kent Regiment), No: #103; (1881-1890 period);
Notes: This is Jesse Kingdon born in 1860 in South Molton, the son of James Kingdon b.05.05.1822 in
Knowstone & Susanna Smith from Bishops Nympton, who married in South Molton in 1849; In 1861 he was
10 months old & lived with his parents in South Molton, Devon; In1871 Census he lived with his parents in
East street, South Molton; In 1881 I believe that he was a platelayer labourer in Swansea, Wales; Jesse
Kingdon enlisted in Bristol on 29.11.1881 and joined the Army at Dover on 03.12.1881, he was 21 years & 6
months old and a Labourer; He served for 12 years & was discharged on 28.11.1893, with 7 years & 161 days
counting towards his Pension; He had served for 3 years & 62 in England & Dublin; For 226 days in Malta in
1885; For 1 year & 179 days in Shaib Settlements in the Himalayas from 1885 to 1887; For 2 years & 46 days
in India and finally for 4 years & 217 days in England; (His records accurately record his elder siblings at the
time he enlisted); (As was usual with serving soldiers in those days, Jesse had 2 cases of Gonorrhea in 1882 &
a dose of Syphilis in 1888); In 1891 he lived with his brother George in Fishponds, Gloucestershire and is a
General Labourer; Jesse Kingdon Marries Bessie Fry from Highbridge, Somerset in Barton Regis in 4 th Q
1891; Unfortunately Jesse Kingdon died in 1897 in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire & in 1901 his Widow lived
in Bristol, she then remarries to her 2nd husband William Jenkins in 1907 but he dies and finally she marries to
Jesse’s brother George Kingdon in 1916 in Bristol (his wife had died in 1915);
Kingdon, John: Private, 2nd Devonshire Regiment, Boer War;
Notes: Devon Heritage Site has a reference to DEVON'S 2nd BOER WAR ROLL OF HONOUR 1899 – 1902 KINGDON, J - (Son of John Kingdon 1852 & Mary Ann Lock - Bishops Nympton); Private John Kingdon of
the 2nd Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment; Son of John and Mary Ann Kingdon. Born in Bishops Nympton
in 1880. Wrote a letter about the Battle of Colenso in the Boer War, the last big battle of the war, which was
published in a newspaper; The Battle of Colenso was fought on the 15.12.1899; I believe this soldier to be
John Kingdon born 1882 in Bishops Nympton, Devon; He is the son of John Kingdon, an Agricultural
Labourer, b.1852 in Romansleigh, Devon & Mary Ann Lock from Bishops Nympton who Married in 1873; In
1891 Census John lived with his parents at Knowles Down, Bishops Nympton; In 1901 John Kingdon is a
Farm Labourer living with his parents at Poole Cottage, Bishops Nympton; I believe that he is a Police
Sergeant in Bishops Nympton in 1928? I found no Medal Rolls for him; ((He is the brother of Charles
Kingdon who served in WW1 as #28483 in the Grenadier Guards); (He is also a brother of William Kingdom
who also served in WW1 as #19131 Devonshires & #P13292 Military Foot Police); (He is also the brother of
Bertram Kingdon who served in WW1 #4/122407 Army Service Corps & #41026 Gloucestershires & #5881
Leinster Regiment);
Kingdon, John: Royal 1st North Devon Yeomanry No: 2418 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served with the Devonshire Regiment as #345181; Served in Gallipoli & the Dardanelles from
23.09.1915; (The Royal North Devon Yeomanry 1/1st history: August 1914: in Barnstaple, Part of the 2nd
South Western Mounted Brigade; October 1915: dismounted and moved to Gallipoli. Withdrew back to Egypt
on 30 December 1915; In February 1916: Brigade was absorbed into 2nd Dismounted Brigade; 4 January
1917: merged with Royal 1st Devonshire Yeomanry to form the 16th (Royal 1st Devon and North Devon
Yeomanry) Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment and came under orders of 229 th Brigade in 74th (Yeomanry)
Division. Moved to France, landing at Marseilles 7 May 1918); Medals Card on file; Insufficient
Information to identify further;
Kingdon, John: No exact Military Records found but Recorded as serving with the Militia between 1880 &
1915;
Notes: I believe that this is probably John Kingdon born in 1877 in Wincanton, Somerset as this matches the
basic information contained in the Militia List; He is the son of William Kingdon, a Mason b.1853 in
Goodleigh, Devon & Louisa Jane Bond from Wincanton, Somerset, who married in Wincanton in 1876; In the
1881 Census John Kingdon, Aged 4, lived with his parents in West Hill, Wincanton, Somerset; In the 1891
Census John Kingdon, Aged 14 & already working as a General Labourer, lived with his parents at #76, Bove
Town in Glastonbury, Somerset; Unfortunately I lost this man after 1881? (He is the Brother of Kingdon,
Frederick Percy: Dorsetshire Regiment No: 10616 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11; See also Kingdom,
Frederick P: Royal Army Medical Corps No: 126610 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is the
Brother of Henry William Kingdon who served with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, initially
with ‘D’ Company #440914 & later with the 76th Depot Battery #1250407); I have not researched this
soldier any further;
Kingdon, John: No Military Records found but Recorded as a Chelsea Pensioner in 1851 Census;
Notes: Extensive research would indicate that this is John Kingdon baptised 10.02.1805 in Fremington,
Devon; If I am correct then this is the son of Richard Kingdon, b.1779 Fremington & Mary Holland, who
Married on 17.04.1803 in Fremington, Devon; I cannot find any Census Records for John Kingdon until the
1851 Census for Bishops Tawton Village where John & Patience Kingdon are recorded; John Kingdon is
shown as being a Chelsea Pensioner & there is a Record for a John Kingdom from 1837 Barnstaple in the
Chelsea Pensioner’s list; In 1851 Census there is also a Son in Law named Thos’ Down living with them;
Further searches reveal that John Kingdon had Married a Widow named Patience Down in the 3 rd Q of 1845 in
Barnstaple & that she was previously married to a William Down on 04.04.1824 in Bishops Tawton, her
Maiden name being Patience Shapland or Shopland; Patience Shapland was baptised in Bishops Tawton on
31.07.1794; (In the 1841 Census Patience Down & her son Thomas Down were living 7 working as a Nurse
for an elderly Elizabeth Grey in Bishops Tawton Village); In 1861 Census John & Patience Kingdon still lived
in Bishops Tawton Village but John Kingdon Died in the 2nd Q 1865; In 1871 Census Patience Kingdon is a
Widow living in Landkey Town, Devon; Patience Kingdon Died in the 1st Q 1874 in Barnstaple, Devon; I
have no other information;
Kingdon, John: #27941 Royal Engineers, WO97-3237-051, WW1;
Notes: This is probably John S. Kingdon born 1872 in Kingswear, Dartmouth; His Father was George
Kingdon a Millwright of Dart View, West Dartmouth, Devon, born 1831 & baptised in Broadclyst on
27.03.1831 & Sarah from Broadclyst; In 1881 John lived with his parents at #1, Agra Cottages, Kingswear; In
1891 the family lived in Dart View in Brixham, Devon, both John & his Father are Engineers; John Kingdon
was a Fitter in Civilian life & he enlisted in Newcastle Upon Tyne on 13.01.1894 into the Royal Engineers as
#27941; He seems to have suffered with Bronchitis for 40 days of his service & spent much of this time in
hospital; Sapper John Kingdon was eventually Discharged on 13.04.1894 at Chatham – his records are marked
“Fitter Indifferent”? He had only served for 91 Days & was discharged in consequence of his not being
qualified as a Fitter for the Corps of Royal Engineers & probably also for his bronchitis; I did not originally
research any further;
Kingdon, John Sampson: Trimmer, Mercantile Marine - Died in WW1;
Further research has revealed that this is also John Sampson Kingdom who is Remembered on the Tower
Hill War Memorial in London for his Death during WW1, at the age of 40, when he was serving in the
Mercantile Marine as a Trimmer & was on board the ‘RMS Hesperian’ when she was sunk by the German
Submarine U20 on 04.09.1915; There is some proof that he may have been employed by the Canadian
Merchant Service at that time as there are Canadian Great War Project records for Trimmer John Kingdom’s
Death also; The CWGC Certificate indicates that he was the son of the late George & Sarah Kingdon &
Husband of Emilie Kingdon (nee Perry), of #38, Cranmer street, Stanley Road, Liverpool, Lancashire,
England; This record also has his birth place as Dartmouth in Devon; I failed to find John Kingdon in the 1901
Census, perhaps he was at sea; In the 1911 Census I found John Sampson Kingdon, (b.1870 in Torquay) &
Wife Annie Kingdon, (b.1870 in Liverpool), boarding & working as a Dock Labourer at #27, Borland Street,
Bootle, Liverpool, Lancashire; I believe that they Married on 22.01.1908 in St Nicholas Church, Liverpool &
that her name at that time was Annie Bethel & not Emilie Perry (her wedding banns record her Father as
Richard Perry); Follow up research indicates that she was a 43 year old Widow at the time of her marriage &
John Sampson Kingdon was a 40 year old Engineer; Awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal & the
Victory Medal;
Further Research:
I came across another reference to this Merchant Seaman at BT 377/7/128529 record, which indicates that
John Sampson Kingdon was born on 07.06.1871 in Dartmouth, Devon & had a Merchant Marine Number of
U1464; Royal Naval Reserve ADM 171/122 records have John S. Kingdon, Stoker, #1464/U being awarded
the British War Medal; I have still not found a suitable birth record & did not research further;
Kingdon, John: No Royal Navy Records found but Recorded as having made a Will in 1702;
Notes: The Kingdon Family Book (1932) has reference to a John Kingdon of the Royal Navy having made a
Mariner’s will in 1702; A letter of Administration (admon.) was granted to Huldah Knight, (no identification),
& a ship “Merchant” is noted; I believe that this was referring to the “Muscovia Merchant”, a Storeship, a
Hired Vessel, which was acquired by the British Royal Navy on 28.05.1702, she carried a Crew of 45 men, 24
guns & was 94 feet keel length; I understand that this vessel was Captured & Out of Service on 10.04.1703;
Insufficient information to enable identification;
Kingdon, John: No Military Records found but Recorded as serving with the Militia between 1806 & 1915;
Notes: I believe that this is probably John Kingdon born in 1877 in Exeter as this closely matches the basic
date of birth information of ‘1878 in Exeter’ contained in the Militia List; If I am correct then this is the son of
Francis Kingdon, a Painter b.1838 in Exeter & Eliza Taverner b.1837 in Moretonhampstead, Devon, who
Married in 1859 in Exeter; This John Kingdon comes from a large family & lived with his parents in Arthur’s
Buildings in Exeter St Paul in 1881 Census; In 1891 Census John Kingdon is aged 14 & working as a Port
Errand Boy & living with his parents in #2, Chapples Court, Exeter; In 1901 Census John Kingdon still lives
with his parents in St Mary’s Place, Exeter, he is aged 24 & is also working as a Painter; I believe that John
Kingdon then married a Widow called Emma Holcombe (nee Whitefield), originally b.1876 from South
Molton, in 1905 in Exeter & lived in #77, South Wonford Terrace in Heavitree, Devon with his wife & 2 Step
Children in 1911, (he is recorded here as John Kingdom); (I note that Emma’s dead husband, Frederick
Holcombe, was also a House Painter in Exeter); I did not research further;
Kingdon, John: Wiltshire Regiment No: 35369 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served with the Worcestershire Regiment as #42230; Medals Card on file; Insufficient
information to identify;
Kingdon, John: Private, 43rd Regiment & Australian Enrolled Pensioner Force, (1850’s);
Notes: I have no other information on this soldier other than the fact that he sailed to Australia as a Pensioner
Guard on the ‘Scindian’, which is widely considered to be the first convict ship to transport convicts to
Western Australia; Private John Kingdon & his wife & 5 children all sailed from Portsmouth, England on
04.03.1850 & docked at Freemantle on 01.06.1850; There were 75 male convicts & 163 pensioner guards on
board; John Kingdon, aka Kingdom, was aged 41 years at the time & therefore was born in 1809/1810 in UK; I
believe that he had to have served with the 43rd Regiment The Monmouth Light Infantry; He enlisted for
Western Australia in England in 1849; I understand that he died on 02.10.1851 Aged 42 years & is buried in St
George’s Cemetery Perth; I have not researched this soldier any further;
Kingdon, John: Private #2933, 6th Battalion The Welsh Regiment, WW1;
Notes: The 6th Battalion Welsh Regiment was a Territorial force which recruited men for 4 years’ Service in
the United Kingdom; John Kingdon was Attested & Embodied on 13.01.1915 in Neath, he gave his address
as #9, New Henry Street, Neath, Glamorgan but on checking I find this to be a house owned by the Bevan
Family although there are 3 young Kingdon men lodging there at the time; I later discovered that his Mother
may be Jane Bevan born in1859 in Neath & that Private John Kingdon records her as his “Mother” & next of
kin in the records; At the time of his enlistment he gives his age as 23 years & 3 months, making him born in
1892, but this could also be aged 25 making him born in 1890; Birth records for a John Kingdon in Neath seem
to support this argument; John Kingdon was Posted to the Welsh Regiment on 16.01.1915; However, he was
found to be Medically Unfit for further Military Service after 157 days service on 18.06.1915 & was
discharged; On his Discharge Papers he was serving with the 2/6th (Glamorgan) Battalion of the Welsh
Regiment & suffering from feeble muscular development & a systolic heart murmur; His records also show
that later on 19.01.1918 he was again assessed & awarded a Pension Gratuity of 15 pounds for having a 30%
degree of Disablement; This is probably John Kingdon born 1890 in Neath, the possible son of David
Kingdon b.1858 in Neath, a tin worker, & Jane Davies b.1861 in Neath who married in 1880 in Neath; (This
family lived at #4, Bowen Street, in Neath in 1901 Census); I believe that John’s Father David Kingdon Died
in Neath in 1904 aged 45 & that John’s Mother Jane was remarried to a Albert Bevan, a Sawyer from
Herefordshire & lived in New Henry Street in 1911 Census, (but in the record Jane has been crossed out to
read Margaret)? (Albert Bevan’s 1st wife was called Margaret Ann & she had died in Neath in 1903); David &
Jane Kingdon’s other 3 sons certainly were lodging there in 1911, David Kingdon b.1888 Neath, Edwin
Kingdon b.1889 Aberdare & Oliver Kingdon b.1894 Neath; Follow up research shows that Albert Bevan aged
41 was serving a prison sentence in Carmarthen Prison in 1901 Census; Follow up research indicates that
Widow Jane Kingdon did marry Albert Bevan in 3rd Q 1905 in Neath; The issue of their being married for 27
years with 8 children & Jane being called Margaret, as marked on the 1911 Census, is yet to be resolved, but
these people weren’t too trustworthy & Albert’s 1st wife was called Margaret so maybe it is just a slip of the
memory when making out the census record; My other problem is that I cannot find a John Kingdon living
with David & Jane Kingdon in Neath in 1891 or 1901 Census despite John Kingdon stating that his Mother
was Jane Bevan on the Army Records? Why would he call her as his Mother if she wasn’t? Was this John
Kingdon also a little feeble minded as well as being feeble in stature? I would suggest that his Father was
David Kingdon; (Brother of #14508 David Kingdom, South Wales Borderers who enlisted for WW1 Service
but was also rejected & discharged); (He is also the Brother of Kingdon, Edwin: Private #78084, Royal Field
Artillery & # 12650); Note: He may well be mixed up with my records on Kingdon, John: Leicestershire
Regiment No: 10192 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 or is a Cousin of his – needs more research;
Kingdon, John: Private, #11642, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division; ADM 159/150; (pre &
WW1 service);
Notes: ADM records have a John Kingdon born 29.06.1884, no birthplace, but I cannot find any suitable
candidates in any ancestry records? The records state that he joined the RMLI, Plymouth Division on
17.07.1902, served in WW1 & was Discharged to Pension; At the time of his medal issue, this Soldier was
serving at the Royal Marine Barracks in Plymouth; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals;
Needs more research;
Kingdon, John: No Royal Navy Records found but Recorded as a Lieutenant in 1850;
Notes: The Pigot’s UK County & City Directory for Plymouth, Devon for the year of 1850 indicates that a
Lieutenant John Kingdon, Royal Navy, lived at #20, Prospect Street but I failed to find any other records or
reference; Insufficient information to enable identification;
Kingdon, John: Welsh Regiment No: 26214 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
See also below: Kingdon, John: Machine Gun Corps No: 102248 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11
Notes: Medals Card on file; Insufficient Information to identify further;
Kingdon, John: Machine Gun Corps No: 102248 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
May also be recorded as, see above: Kingdon, John: Welsh Regiment No: 26214 Rank: Private 1914-1920
WO 372/11
Notes: This young man also served in the 3rd Welsh Regiment, which I believe was raised in August 1914 in
Cardiff. A depot/training unit, it remained in UK throughout the war. Moved to Barry in August 1914, thence
to Kinmel Park (June 1916) and in May 1917 to Redcar where it remained as part of Tees Garrison; There is a
confusing Attestation Record on file which is dated 08.12.1915 in Cardiff & then dated a second time for his
enlistment approval as 13.03.1917? However, this is probably John (Jack) Kingdon born in Somerset ca.1887
I believe; His address is given either as #29 Planet Street; #27, Alfred Street or #16, Bruce Street, Cardiff,
Glamorgan, Wales; At enlistment he gives his age as 28 years & 7 months, unmarried & is a Retail Coal
Seller; His Next of Kin is his Father, Richard Kingdon of #36, Andrews Road, Llandaff North, Glamorgan; I
have found a John Kingdon born 1887 in Luccombe, Somerset, who is a Boarder & a Coal Carter living at
#91, Alfred Street, Roath, Cardiff in 1911 Census, the owner is a Widow Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Frampton (nee
Down) who is his Maternal Aunt; If I am correct then he is the son of Richard Kingdon b.1865 in Luccombe,
Somerset & Sarah Down from Luccombe also who married on 1885 in Somerset; In 1891 Census the family
lived in Canton, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales & John Kingdon is aged 4 years; In 1901 Census John is aged 14,
a Grocer’s Assistant & living with his parents in Canton; In 1918 in Cardiff John Kingdon married Minnie
James; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Richard Thomas: Cheshire Regiment No: 53786
Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served in WW1);
Kingdon, John: London Regiment No: 7530 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as #1667 with the 18th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Irish
Rifles) enlistment period between 01.03.1914 & 10.08.1914 & #7530, enlistment between 15.08.1916 &
21.12.1916, & #633727 with the 20th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Blackheath &
Woolwich); This is John Herbert Kingdon born 1892 in Lambeth, the son of John James Kingdon, a Carman,
b.1868 in Westminster, London & Eliza Black also from Westminster who married on 17.07.1892 in Lambeth
St John the Evangelist; In 1901 John H Kingdon aged 8 years lived with his parents in Westminster, London;
In 1911 Census John Kingdon still lives with his parents but now at #45, Glasshouse Street, Kennington,
Lambeth, London; John Kingdon aged 22 years & 1 month was Attested & Embodied on 05.08.1914 in
London & was appointed to serve with the London Royal Irish Rifles as a Rifleman; At enlistment he gave his
trade as that of Clerk in the Army & Navy Stores; He was transferred to the Reserve Battalion, (a Territorial
Force Unit) on 23.12.1914 & to the Provisional Battalion on 19.06.1915, finally being Transferred & shipped
to France in July of 1916 to join 2oth London Regiment; During his service in France he suffered from
Pleurisy & Asthma in 1916 & 1917 & departed Boulogne for England on 07.04.1917 & attached to Depot
Supply Unit & then to the 20th Reserve on 10.06.1917; He was Discharged from the Territorial Force (London)
on 31.07.1917 under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) for Sickness after some 2 years & 262 days service;
His SWB records state that he had served overseas at some point in his service; I understand that he received a
small disability pension from 1917; His address was given as #50, Glasshouse Road, Vauxhall, London SE2; I
believe that John Herbert Kingdon Married Helen Florence Mason (born 21.06.1895 & baptised 14.07.1895
Lambeth) on 31.05.1917 in Kennington St Mark, he was a Private in the 20 th London Regiment at the time; I
understand that John H Kingdon Died in Lambeth on 08.11.1924 Aged 32, his Probate is dated 09.12.1924 &
he was living at #42, Carroun Road, Clapham, Surrey at the time of his death, he died in St Thomas’s Hospital
Surrey; Awarded the Silver War Badge #222145; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, John: #SB 1584, Landsman, Royal Navy; Napoleonic Wars;
Notes: ADM 36/15837, with a date range of 01.07.1805 to 31.12.1805 has records for a John Kingdon, Aged
22 years (born ca.1782), from Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, who served onboard ‘HMS Levianthan’
until 25.02.1804 with the rank of “Landsman”; The record also states that he did not fight at the Battle of
Trafalgar but he had previoulsy served on ‘HMS Wolverine’, late Commerce Tender; Insufficient
information to identify;
Kingdon, John: Royal Scots Fusiliers No: 8503 Rank: Private1914-1920 WO 372/11, South Africa & WW1;
Kingdon, John: Private, #Q50587 & #Q123713 & #143274, Australian Army; WW2;
Notes: Served with the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers in France from 30.09.1915; The Regimental number #8503
would indicate enlistment between 29.01.1904 & 10.01.1905; Private John Kingdon Enlisted on 10.01.1905
but I have no records indicating this date other than the Silver War Badge; Follow up research found Private
John Kingdon, serving with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in South Africa in 1911; At the Age of 31 years he
appears to have been discharged & put on the Silver War Badge list; This is probably John ‘Jack’ Kingdon
born in Tongham, near Frensham, Surrey on 24.05.1887, the son of Henry Kingdom, a Police Constable &
later a Brewer’s Drayman, b.1865 in Wibley, Surrey & Fanny Smith from Frensham who married in 1889 in
Farnham; (John is the Grandson of Robert Kingdon b.1835 in Chulmleigh & Mary Jane from Swansea); In the
1891 Census Jack Kingdon is aged 4 & living with his parents at #1, Selby Cottages, Chertsey, Surrey, his
Father was a Police Constable at that time; In the 1901 Census Jack Kingdon is aged 13 & living with his
parents in Great Earl Street, St Giles in the Fields & St George Bloomsbury, Holborn, London, his Father is
now a Brewer’s Drayman; In the 1911 Census Private John Kingdon is aged 24 & serving as a Private &
Groom with the 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers in Roberts Heights, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa; I
understand that he emigrated to Australia after his South Africa service & pre WW1 on 05.06.1913 at the age
of 25 on board the ‘SS Miltiades’, where he became an ‘Imperial Army Reservist’ living in Brisbane,
Queensland; I then found a Miscellaneous File under ‘Imperial Force’ in the Australian Government Records
for #8503 Private Kingdon J., Royal Scottish Fusiliers which shows him as an Imperial Reservist, embarking
at Melbourne on board H.M.A.T. A15 ‘Star of England’ on 13.04.1915; This record states that he is single &
that his Next of Kin is his Mother Mrs. F. Kingdon, #22, Great Earl Street, Longacre, London WC England, &
that he was mobilised for WW1 Service on 25.02,1915; I believe that he then served again with the Royal
Scots Fusliers from 30.09.1915 in WW1 in France; This Soldier was eventually discharged from the Royal
Scots Fusiliers, under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) Army Order Para 2Bi on 15.04.1916, being no longer
medically fit for service; Having been medically discharged from the Army, John Kingdon Married Marjorie
May Ringwood on 15.04.1916 in St Giles in the Fields, London; In October 1921, John & Marjorie Kingdon,
& a son Arthur Harold, emigrated to Australia on board the ‘SS Euripides’ & lived in Brisbane, Queensland;
During WW2 John Kingdon was Mobilised in Australia on 04.10.1940 at the #1 Garrison Battalion for service
in Queensland, his Army number was #Q50587, but I believe that he was Discharged on 29.10.1940; His wife
was recorded as Marjorie May Kingdon, Ridge Street, Greenslopes, Brisbane; On 06.01.1942, John Kingdon
re-enlisted in the Australian Army for War Service in Brisbane with the 4 th Battalion VDC as #Q123713, but
was Discharged with severe Arthritis in his right shoulder on 13.04.1942; Not being capable of giving up, I
then believe that John Kingdon again tried to re-enlist in the Australian Army at Area 9X Recruiting Depot in
Brisbane, Queensland on 07.09.1942 with the 32nd Garrison Battalion & was given the number #Q143274; He
was Approved for Service but again Discharged as being Medically Unfit on 10.04.1943; ; Awarded WW1
Silver War Badge #419749; WW1 Medals Card on file for 1915 Star, British War & Victory Medals, but these
were returned under King’s Regulations 992 in 1923 due to this soldier having been discharged; Served in
Australia in WW2 but no medals records found; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Henry: Army Service Corps
No: M2/034115 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is the Brother of Kingdom, Edgar: Royal
Garrison Artillery No: 73969 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served in WW1); (He was the
Father of Allan Harry Kingdon, Private, #QX31010 (Arthur Harold Kingdon) who went AWOL in 1942,
Fraudulently enlisted as #Q151628 & #QX59786 in 1944, who was Court Martialed in 1945 imprisoned for 15
months & finally discharged in 1946);
Kingdon, John: Royal Navy No: 283670 Rank: Stoker; ADM 188/454/170; (Late 1890’s period);
Notes: The ADM Records have a #283670, Stoker, John Kingdon, born 23.08.1877 in Exeter, Devon; This
Official Navy number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1896 & 31.12.1896; I have double checked all
Kingdon births for Exeter district in 1877 & can only find one John Kingdon born in March? This John
Kingdon can be traced through all 1881 to 1911 Census records & there is no indication of him ever being
involved with the Royal Navy, subsequently I have discarded him as a candidate? Not identified, needs more
research?
Kingdon, John: Private Soldier in the Cornwall Militia, (1881 period);
Notes: This is probably John H Kingdon born 1862 in Withiel, Cornwall; He was the son of Henry Kingdon,
a Police Officer, b.22.09.1833 in Blisland, Cornwall & Mary Louisa Kestell from Withiel who married in 1859
in Bodmin; In 1871 Census John Kingdon lives with his parents in Forrabury, Cornwall; In 1881 Census John
Kingdon is aged 19, a Carpenter & serving as a Private in the Militia, at the 35 th Brigade Depot, Thomas
Chivers, Bodmin, Cornwall; I have not researched this man any further;
Kingdon, John: Royal Navy, Rank: Stoker; ADM 171/17; 1853 Kaffir Wars;
Notes: The ADM 171/17 Records have reference to a Jno Kingdon serving onboard ‘HMS Styx’ & being
awarded medals for conflicts between 1850 & 1853, the Kaffir Wars; Awarded the India Medal, Pegu Clasp
for service on ‘HMS Styx’, the medal being sent to ‘HMS Hogue’ on 17.11.1856 where he was probably
serving; Insufficient information to identify, but may be the same person as below;
Kingdon, John: Royal Navy, Rank: Carpenter’s Crew; ADM 171/18; 1853 Kaffir/ Caffre Wars;
Notes: The ADM 171/18 Records have reference to a Jno Kingdon serving onboard ‘HMS Styx’ during the
Caffre War, which commenced on the 24.12.1850 & ended on 06.02.1853; Awarded the South African War
Medal which was sent to him on 09.05.1856; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, John: Skipper of Brixham Trawler ‘Premier’ during WW1;
Notes: John Kingdon was one of 2 Skippers who sailed on board the Brixham Trawler/Smack “Premier”, a
Ketch, #BM129, Reg #114256, which was launched in Brixham in 1904; On 27.11.1917 the “Premier” was
captured by the German Submarine U-67, skippered by Hans Nieland, about 16 miles SE of Start Point in the
English Channel & was sunk by gunfire; There were no casualties; The German Submarind U-67 surrendered
on 20.11.1918 & was Broken Up at Fareham in 1921; Not identified, needs more research;
Kingdon, John: Royal Navy, Lieutenant & Commander; Served at Trafalgar; ADM 107/32 & ADM 36/13296
(Ship: Shannon, Muster, from 01.02.1796 to 31.12.1796), & ADM 196/5/42 & /44;
Notes: This is John Kingdon baptised 08.05.1776 in Crediton and the son of Peter Kingdon b.1725 Coldridge
& Sarah Reedwood of Burchen Park, Middle Hollacombe, Crediton, (his Father died when John was aged 3)
who married in St Petrock, Exeter on 15.05.1775; At the age of 20 John Kingdon was probably a Pressed Man
& forced into the Royal Navy as part of the Northam quota system; He joined ‘HMS Shannon’ at Sandwich on
09.03.1796 & served first as an Able Seaman & later as a Leading Mate in the North Sea, Newfoundland &
Downs Station; There is also a reference to John Kingdon, Sub Lieutenant in 1797, having served in the
Napoleonic Wars of 1793 to 1815, contained in the Services Reunited Web Site lists; In September 1798 he
joined ‘HMS Chapman’ at Plymouth as a volunteer; In 1801 he transferred to ‘HMS Rosario’ & then as a Sub
Lieutenant in ‘HMS Hibernia’ until in October 1805 he was serving on ‘HMS Pickle’ in Nelson’s fleet off
Trafalgar; ‘HMS Pickle’ took no part in the battle but was sent back to England to carry the news of the
victory & Nelson’s death back to Falmouth; After Trafalgar Sub Lieutenant John Kingdon served with ‘HMS
Intelligent’ & then ‘HMS Inveterate’ but this vessel was wrecked near St Valery-en-Caux in 1807 & John
Kingdon was taken prisoner by the French & imprisoned for the next 7 years, although he was not forgotten in
England as he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1812; A short time before Trafalgar John Kingdon had married
Emilia ?? & produced 2 daughters, Emilia in 1806 & Caroline in 1807; After his release by the French in 1814
there were 2 more daughters born, Stephena Charlotte in 1816 & Deborah Clarissa in 1817, but John Kingdon
never went to sea again; John Kingdon was retired on promotion to Commander in 1855 at the age of 79 until
his death in St Helier, Jersey in 1862; In 1851 Census John Kingdon was a Retired Naval Lieutenant on Half
Pay living at #4, John’s Road, #2, York Place, St Helier; In 1861 he lives with his widowed daughter Caroline
Howard at #23, Gloucester Street, St Helier, Jersey in the Channel Islands;
I believe that Commander John Kingdon’s Will, dated 1856 is referenced as MISC Jersey HT – D/Y Judicial
Greffe D/Y/A/31/ Commander; R.N.; [Testament] in Probate & Will Lists for Devon?
Follow up notes: Additional records found which give his Pay Book number as #SLVO 33471; This record
confirms that he fought at Trafalgar; Reconfirms his parent’s names as Peter & Sarah; Confirms that at the age
of 29 he served on ‘HMS Pickle’ as a Sub Lieutenant & was Discharged from hospital on 18.10.1797 as
‘unserviceable’; The record states that he was Baptised on 08.05.1776 in Crediton, Devon; He appears to have
passed his Lieutenancy examination on 06.03.1805; ADM 196/5/42 & 44 is dated 27.09.1801 & has his rank
as Commander; Awarded the Trafalgar Naval General Service Medal in 1847; Appears as John Kingdom on
the Trafalgar Roll 21.10.1805;
Additional Notes: The ADM 27/3/481 for Naval Pay Allotments to Next of Kin has reference to a John
Kingdon, Pay Book #SB 359, a Master’s Mate, serving onboard ‘HMS Chapman’ making an Allotment to his
Wife, Emelia in 1801; There is also a further remark: Discharged 28.09.1801 to ‘HMS Rosario’;
Kingdon, John: Leicestershire Regiment No: 10192 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served with the 1/124 Royal Fusiliers, known as the City of London Regiment, as #6489 that has
an enlistment date of between 27.03.1916 & 23.05.1916; His medal card says that he re-enlisted on 15.04.1919
with the Leicester Regiment #10192; He had also originally served with the Royal Defence Corps as a Private
#76582 from 11.08.1914 until Demobilisation on 15.04.1919 to Class Z Reserve; Private John Kingdon first
went to France on 20.07.1915 & also served in France in 1919; At re-enlistment on 14.06.1919 he was given
the #G/132193 & as he was aged 28 years & 120 days, a Butcher by trade, living at #32, Britton Ferry Road,
Neath, Glamorgan he was duly appointed to Garrison Duty; He had served until 1920 with promotions but
reverted to Private for misconduct on 02.10.1920 when he was apparently discharged on 20.10.1920 ,but I
believe that he again extended his service into the 1st Welsh Field Battalion RE & #2203198 on 02.11.1920 but
this number may well have been changed to #6451529 at some later stage; In 1919 this Soldier was
hospitalised with Gonorrhea for 4 days & again for 81 days from 17.11.1919 to 06.02.1920; This is John
(Jack) Kingdom born in Neath Glamorgan in 1890; (For my own records this is a Grandson of Thomas
Kingdon of High Bray & Sarah Davies from Wales); His Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Kingdon was recorded
as his Next of Kin when he enlisted; This is the son of Thomas Kingdom b. 27.11.1856 in Neath, Port Talbot
& Elizabeth Ann Owens from Neath who married in 1877 in Neath; In 1891 & 1901 Census John Kingdon is
living with his parents in Colliery Row, Neath; I finally managed to locate him in 1911 Census, living with his
parents & working as a Butcher in a Slaughterhouse at Manthant Cottage, Eastland Road, Neath; I also
understand that our subject soldier John Kingdon married a Christiana Channon in Neath in 1928, (Christiana
was born Evans & she was previously married to Ernest Channon in 1915 in Neath – her 1st husband had died
in 1920 in Neath); I also understand that John Kingdon died in Neath in1953 Aged 63 & that his wife
Christiana Kingdon Died in Neath in 1961 Aged 64; Medals Card on file; Note: He may well be mixed up with
my records on Kingdon, John: Private #2933, 6th Battalion The Welsh Regiment or is a Cousin of his – needs
more research; He is the Brother of Private David Kingdon of the Royal Horse Artillery who served pre
WW1;
Kingdon, John: #82600, Stoker, Royal Navy; ADM 188/76/189; (1870-1880 period);
Notes: ADM 188 records have John Kingdon born in New Passage, Devon 23.09.1853 having served with the
Royal Navy; (New Passage is a short street generally called New Passage Hill in Stoke Damerel); I believe that
this sailor is John Joseph Kingdon born in 1852 in Stoke Damerel & that he was the son of George Frederick
Kingdon, a Naval Dockyard Stoker & Naval Pensioner b.1830 in Devonport, & Jane Giles, b.1831 in
Walkhampton in Devon, who Married in 1851 in Stoke Damerel; In the 1861 Census John Kingdon was living
with his parents in Johns Street, Stoke Damerel; This sailor’s official Naval number of #82600 would indicate
enlistment between 01.01.1873 & 31.12.1873; In the 1871 Census John Kingdon aged 18 is recorded as a First
Class Boy serving on ‘HMS Carron’ in Devonport Dockyard (I believe that this was a Naval Tug; Young John
Kingdon’s Father, George Kingdon was serving on a similar Devonport Dockyard Tug called ‘Trusty’ in the
same 1871 Census); I understand that John Kingdon Married Ann Maria Deacon, b.1852 in Wilcove, Antony,
Cornwall, in 1877 in Wilcove, Cornwall; In the 1881 Census Ann Maria Kingdon is living with her parents at
#9, Wilcove, Antony in Cornwall, she is recorded as being a Stoker’s Wife; In the 1881 Census I believe that
Stoker John Kingdon is serving onboard ‘HMS Iron Duke’ stationed in Hong Kong Harbour; In the 1891
Census John J & Ann M Kingdon live at #13, Morice Street, Stoke Damerel, Devonport, John is a Royal Navy
Pensioner; John Kingdon appears to have Died on 04.10.1891 in Stoke Damerel at the age of 38 & was buried
with his sister in a grave in the Stoke Damerel Burial Ground, Milehouse, Plymouth (his sister was ‘Bessie’
Elizabeth Susannah Bickford, nee Kingdon who dies 17.08.1892); In the 1901 Census his Widow Ann Maria
Kingdon is living as her Father’s Housekeeper in Wilcove, Antony, Cornwall; In the 1911 Census Maria
Kingdon still lives with her aged Father William Deacon (89) in Wilcove, Cornwall; I believe that Ann M
Kingdon died in 1918 in Wilcove, Cornwall aged 65; (He was the Son of Kingdon, George: Royal Naval
Dockyard Stoker, Paddle Tugs in Devonport); (He was the Uncle of Kingdom, W E: Royal Engineers No:
514302 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/24, See also: Kingdon, William E: Royal Engineers Regiment No:
T1005 Rank: Sapper 1914-20 WO 372/11); (He was the Brother of #81288, Able Seaman, Joseph John
Kingdon, Royal Navy); (He was the Father of Kingdon, William John: #183694, Seaman, Royal Navy;
ADM 188/308/94);
Kingdon, John A: Royal Field Artillery No: L/35284 Rank: Gunner, 1914-1920 WO 372/11/167980, WW1;
Notes: Served in France from 27.11.1915; The L/ prefix in his Regimental number marks him as a WW1
enlistment; Medals Card on file; (Insufficient Information to safely identify this soldier);
Kingdon, John Alfred: King’s Shropshire Light Infantry No: #4031317 Rank: Private, Died in WW2;
Notes: John Alfred Kingdon who Died during WW2 on 24.06.1946, Aged 35, he is Remembered with
Honour in the Llanwynno (St. Gwynno) Churchyard in Glamorganshire, Wales; This is John Afred Kingdon
was born in 1910 in Potypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales, the son of Joh Percy Kingdon, a Gas Stoker b.1882 in
Dulverton, Somerset, & Bessie Jemima Salmon who Married in 1902 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales; In
the 1911 Census John Alfred Kingdon lived with his parents at #5, New Street, Ferndale, Glamorganshire,
Wales; I understand that John A Kingdon Married Myfanwy Williams in Newport Market, Glamorganshire,
Wales in 1936; At the time of his death, his wife was living in Pontygwaith, Merthyr Valley, South
Glamorgan, Wales; Awarded the 1939-45 Star & the 1939-45 War Medals;
Kingdon, John Andrew Ford: #60947, Private, ‘C’ Company, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 30th
Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This is John Andrew Ford Kingdon who was born in 1885 in New Zealand & aged between 20 & 46
years in September 1916; He was the son of John Stevens Kingdon, a Carter, & Margaret O’Brien who lived at
#40, York Street, Opawa, Christchurch, New Zealand in 1911; At that time John Andrew Ford Kingdon lived
with his parents & was working as a Picture Framer; This family lives at the same address in 1914; In
September 1916 John Andrew Ford Kingdon enlisted in the 1st Division Reserve at #9 (Christchurch)
Recruiting District for possible WW1 service; He is still working as a Picture Framer in Opawa; I believe that
this Reservist was called up for Embarkation to Europe in 1917, giving his mother Mrs. M. Kingdon as his
Next of Kin; The Nominal Roll for ‘C’ Company, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, records his trade as a Joiner
& his address as #40, York Street, Opawa, Christchurch; John Andrew Ford Kingdon sailed from Wellington,
New Zealand for Liverpool, England & then Europe as part of the 30th Reinforcements group on board the
‘HMNZT Corinthic’ on 13.10.1917 so they would have been in time for the battles of Passchendaele towards
the end of the year; On the 07.05.1918 there was a Wounded Soldier Report, #849/10, for Private J.A.F.
Kingdon, probably due to the fighting around La Signy Farm area during the 1918 German Offensive; I have
yet to find any other military records for This soldier; However, in 1919 there is a Supplementary Electoral
Roll for Christchurch East showing John Andrew Ford Kingdon living at #40, York Street & working as a
Picture Framer; He then appears to continue to live at this same address for many years; By 1935 there is an
electoral record for John Andrew Ford & Mary Kingdon at that address, I presume that this was his wife? He
continues to live at #40 York Street as a Picture Framer in 1946 & 1949 but there was no indication of a Mary
Kingdon in either of these records; I understand that John Andrew Ford Kingdon died in 1952 Aged 68; I
researched no further;
Kingdon, John Bannatyne: Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy; ADM 196/145 & ADM 196/56, WW1;
Notes: This is John Bannatyne Kingdon born 09.11.1893 in Dorchester, Dorset; He is the son of Herbert
Napier Kingdon, a Schoolmaster & Clergyman, b.1850 Bridgerule, Devon & Janet Isobel Bannatyne from
Scotland who married on 01.01.1891 in Dorchester; In the 1901 Census this family lived at The Briary,
Canterbury Road, Garlinge, Kent, where John’s Father ran a small boarding school for boys; On 15.09.1906
John Bannatyne Kingdon joined the Royal Navy as a Cadet; In the 1911 Census John Bannatyne Kingdon is
aged 17, is a Naval Cadet & was living with his parents at Heathdene, Camberley, Surrey, his Father is a
Clergyman; John B. Kingdon was made a Midshipman on 15.05.1911; In August 1912 he is a Midshipman
serving onboard the Battle Cruiser ‘HMS Inflexible’ & also still serving on her in the Mediterranean in
October 1913; He became an Acting Sub Lieutenant since 14.01.1914 & in April 1914 was serving onboard
the Battleship ‘HMS Conqueror’; In November 1914 he is serving onboard the Torpedo Boat Destroyer ‘HMS
Angler’; In April 1915 Sub Lieutenant John B. Kingdon is serving onboard the Torpedo Boat Destroyer ‘HMS
Bulldog’; John B. Kingdon was promoted to Lieutenant on 05.09.1916 & was serving onboard another torpedo
Boat Destroyer ‘HMS Rapid’ in October 1916; He is serving onboard ‘HMS Osiris’ in August 1917;
Lieutenant John B. Kingdon is serving onboard the Torpedo Boat Destroyer ‘HMS Nymphe’ in January 1919;
Lieutenant J.B. Kingdon Royal Navy, was Gazetted on 02.06.1920; Lieutenant J.B. Kingdon Royal Navy was
promoted to Lieutenant Commander by the Admiralty on 15.05.1924, however, I understand that he Retired
with a Gratuity in 1924 also; In 1936 John Bannatyne Kingdon is living at #49, Oxford Gardens, Kensington,
London; I believe that John Bannatyne Kingdon Died in 1985 in Worthing, West Sussex, Aged 91; Awarded
the 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Herbert Theodore: East
Lancashire Regiment Rank: Captain 1914-1920 WO 372/11, also recorded as: Kingdon, H T: East Lancashire
Regiment Rank: Temporary Captain WO 372/24); (Brother of Commander William Napier Kingdon, Royal
Navy); (Brother of Kingdon, Janet L (Female): Voluntary Aid Detachment 1914-1920 WO 372/23); I did
not research further;
Kingdon, John Ernest: 1st Class Boy, #J85582, Royal Navy; ADM 188/818; (Late WW1);
Notes: This official Naval Number indicates enlistment between 01.01.1918 & 31.12.1918 & the prefix ‘J’ that
he was a Seaman; This is John Ernest (Ernie) Kingdon born 14.07.1902 in Westminster, London, he was the
son of Frederick Kingdon, a Costermonger (street fruit seller) born in Westminster, London in 1868 & Jane
Belleini, b.1865 in Lambeth, who Married in 29.01.1894 in Walworth all Saints, Newington, Southwark,
London, & John Ernest Kingdon was baptised on 24.08.1902 in St George’s Battersea; His parents lived at
#62, Tufton Street, St John the Evangelist, Westminster, London at that time; (In the 1901 Census this family is
incorrectly recorded as ‘Hingdor’ but live at #62, Tufton Street, & the Father is recorded as a Fruiterer); In
the 1911 Ernie (John Ernest) Kingdon was living with his parents at #18, Howard Road, Brighton, Sussex, his
Father was a General Dealer; John Ernest Kingdon must have joined the Royal Navy as a Boy in 1918 & was
serving onboard ‘HMS Malaya’ at the end of WW1; I understand that John E Kingdon Married Jenny M Pryke
in Brighton, Sussex in 1934; I believe that John Ernest Kingdon Died in 1978 in Brighton Aged 75; Awarded
the British War Medal; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Frederick: 1st Class Boy, #J8541, Royal Navy;
Kingdon, John F: Royal Army Medical Corps No: 434077 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as #2070 with Warwickshire Yeomanry as an Acting Sergeant; Served in Egypt from
22.04.1915; Reduced to Private in the RAMC by F.Y.C.M on 19.09.1919; This is John Francis Kingdon born
on 21.09.1893 in Blackheath, Kent, the son of Zachary Harris Kingdon, a Civil Service Electrical Engineer,
b.1856 in Exeter & Florence Kate Brindley from Sheffield, Yorkshire who married on 24.07.1890 in
Greenwich, Kent; In 1901 John Francis Kingdon lived with his parents at #6, Belmont Hill in Lee, Lewisham,
London; John Francis Kingdon went to the City of London School & studied as an Engineer’s Chemist &
Metallurgist; In the 1911 Census John Francis Kingdon is found aged 18, boarding at #18, Wellington Road,
Smethwick, Worcestershire & working for a Tool Manufacturer as a Metallurgist Chemist ; Private John
Francis Kingdon had Enlisted on 30.01.1914, had served overseas during his service both in Egypt & the Sinai
Peninsular & was Disembodied from the Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force) at Woking on
15.08.1919 under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) at the age of 25 years & 6 months; I understand that John
Francis Kingdon Married Mary Foster Nicol (born 02.10.1900 in Taunton) in Cuckfield, Sussex in 1923,
(Mary’s Father was quite wealthy & from Liverpool, her Mother from the USA); I believe that John Francis
Kingdon tried emigration to South Africa and may have ended up as an orange grower in the Transvaal,
returning to England in March 1923, presumably to get married, but he is recorded as having Died in Surrey,
England in December 1972 & his wife Died in Canterbury, Kent in 1976; Awarded the Silver War Badge
#B343085; Medals Card on file; (He is the brother of Kingdon, Roger: Royal Engineers Rank: Lieutenant
1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is also the Brother of George Bodley Kingdon who served in the Royal Navy &
the Royal Air Force from 1929 to 1940); (He is also the Brother of Kingdon, William Stephen: Served in the
Royal Air force in WW1, AIR 76/277); (This family originates from the Thorverton Branch of Kingdons);
Kingdon, John George: Able Seaman, #J1615, Royal Navy; ADM 188/650, WW1;
Notes: This Sailors Official Naval Service Number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1908 &
31.12.1908 & the prefix ‘J’ was issued to identify that he was a Seaman; John George Kingdon was born on
03.08.1892 in Torpoint, Cornwall according to the Navy records, however this could be a records issue as the
only John George Kingdon born in that period was one registered in Stoke Damerel, Devon in the 3rd Q 1891;
a Death record for this John George Kingdon in 1976 in Plymouth at the age of 85 confirms his birth date as
03.08.1891; In the 1901 Census there is a George Kingdon, Aged 9 & born in Cornwall living with his Mother
& Grandfather in Antony, Cornwall, his Mother is named as Maria Kingdon, a Widow, aged 47 (b.1854 in
Cornwall), a Housekeeper & they live with her Father, William Deacon, a Mason, in Wilcove; (I believe that
her real maiden name may have been Mary or Maria Jane Deacon); I have failed to locate or identify his
Father’s name or his parents? In the 1911 Census for the Royal Navy, Jno Geo Kingdon was aged 18 &
serving as an Ordinary Seaman on board the Cruiser ‘HMS Monmouth’ stationed with the China Squadron &
located in Colombo, Ceylon on the night of the Census, he is recorded as being born in Anthony, Cornwall; I
understand that Able Seaman John G. Kingdon was still in the Navy & serving with ‘HMS Indus’, probably
the training establishment in Devonport at the time of his medals issue; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, the Victory
& the British War Medals; This needs more research;
Kingdon, John H: Assistant Cook, Mercantile Marine Reserve; WW1; ADM 171/131;
Notes: ADM 171/131 has records for the issue of WW1 medals to John H Kingdon, an Assistant cook,
serving with the Mercantile Marine Reserve onboard ‘HMS Crescent; Awarded the British War Medal;
Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, John Henry: Private, #4679, 6th Dragoon Guards & 3rd Bn Dragoon Guards; (1880’s & Boer War);
Notes: This is probably John Henry Kingdon born in 1867 in St John’s, Bristol, the son of John Henry
Kingdon, a Bootmaker b.1841 St James, Bristol & Sarah Sophia Greenham from Bristol who married in 1866
in Bristol; In 1871 Census John Hy Kingdon lives with his parents at #3, Pomphrey Court in the Castle
Precincts, Bristol; In 1881 Census this family lives at #4, Tower Lane, Bristol; John Henry Kingdon must have
enlisted in the Army some time between 1885 & 1901 because in 1891 Private John Kingdon Aged 24 & born
in Bristol, Somerset is serving with the 6th Dragoons in the Cavalry Barracks in Preston Brighton, Sussex; The
6th Dragoons had been in South Africa from January 1881 until November 1890 & then returned to Brighton;
(The following Soldier was awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal for service in the Boer War- #4679
Private Kingdom J.H. 3rd Dragoon Guards – this may not be the same man as this medal is only awarded for
men who served in South Africa between 11.10.1899 & 3.05.1902); I have a Chelsea Pensioner record for
John Henry Kingdon b.1868 Bristol on file & have assumed this is the same person; I believe that John Henry
Kingdon Married Annie Louisa Jenkins, born 1874, in Bristol (Keynsham) in 1900 & then moved to Canton,
Cardiff in Wales to work as a Police Constable; In 1901 Census they live at #52, Penypeel Road in Canton,
Cardiff; By 1911 John Henry Kingdon had died in 1904 Aged 37 in Cardiff & his Widow & 3 children lived at
the same address in Cardiff, she is working as a lavatory attendant; Awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal
& Clasps for Orange Free State, 1902 South Africa & Natal; (These may well have been forfeited later?);
Follow Up Research indicates that this is the same person below:
Kingdon, J. H: #4348 Private 12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers – Boer War Deserter;
Notes: There are Records for Private J H Kingdon (or J H Kingdom) having served in the 12th Royal Lancers
in South Africa as he is recorded on a Supplementary Medal Roll for that Regiment dated 25 th May 1903 in
Umballa, South Africa; He appears to have been eligible for the Cape Colony Clasp & the South Africa Clasp
1902 but unfortunately these medals were forfeited as he had Deserted in South Africa; No applications were
made for the issue of the Queen’s South Africa Medal for this soldier although these clasps are associated with
that medal; There is also a record for a Trooper J. H. Kingdom, service number unknown, who served in the
Boer War with the Imperial Light Horse during 1899-1902 but I can find no other details
I believe that this is the same soldier but it needs more research;
Kingdon, John K: Royal Engineers No: 530107 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as #264 Royal Engineers (Territorial Force); I believe that this is John Knight Kingdon
born 1881 St Pancras, the son of John Kingdon b.1835 South Molton, Devon & 2 nd Wife Matilda ‘Tilly’
Knight Count from Nottinghamshire who married in Newark in November 1875, (John Kingdon’s 1 st wife
Elizabeth Case died in 1875); In 1891 & 1901 Censuses John K Kingdon is aged 9 & 19 years respectively &
lived with his parents at #32 Hastings Street, St Pancras, he is a Carpenter in 1901; I believe that John Knight
Kingdon Marries in St Pancras in 1906 to Annie Ellen Dimes, b.1882 Saint Pancras, London; In 1911 Census
John Kingdon is a Married Carpenter & Builder living/working at #9, Cromwell Hill, Maldon in Essex; I
believe that his wife is living in Little Waltham, Chelmsford in 1911; I understand that John K Kingdon Died
in 1949 in Chelmsford, Essex Aged 67; Medals Card on file; (Brother of Kingdon, Charles Oliver: #6878,
Corporal, Royal Army Pay Corps); (Also Brother of Dr. Frank Kingdon who emigrated to USA & was
Advisor to President Roosevelt);
Kingdon, John Phillips: British Red Cross Soc. & Order of Saint John of Jerusalem 1914/20 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: Also Served with the 1st Battalion the Bedfordshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant & on the General List
as a Captain; Served in France from 15.09.1916; He was promoted from an Officer Training Corps Cadet to
temporary 2nd Lieutenant with the Bedfordshire Regiment on 10.01.1916; His name appears frequently in the
Bedfordshire Regiment’s War Diary from the battle front in 1917; This Officer was promoted from temporary
2nd Lieutenant to temporary Lieutenant on 10.07.1917 with the Bedfordshire Regiment; On 05.08.1918
Temporary Lieutenant J.P. Kingdon, Bedfordshire Regiment was transferred to the General List & promoted to
Acting Captain whilst employed as Assistant Instructor of a School of Instruction; An application for his
medals, with Emblems was made on 26.10.1921 & the medals sent on 01.12.1921, address was Corne House,
Rottingdean, Sussex; This is John Phillips Kingdon born on 21.04.1881 in Brighton, (baptised 17.09.1881
Ovingdean, Sussex); (My Kingdon family tree for the Thorverton Kingdon line Chart XIV); He was the son of
James Durant Kingdon, Vicar of Loose, b.1830 in ?? & Eleanor Katherine Stead from Ovingdean who married
in Ovingdean on 30.07.1867; John P Kingdon went to Cantab for his BA in 1903 & Assistant Master for 19
years; John Phillips Kingdon Married Olive Gardner from London in Kensington in 1923; He also was Head
Master of a School for Boys at ‘The Golden Parsonage’ Hemel Hempstead, Herts; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, John Samuel: #7827, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division; ADM 159/48; (Late 1890’s
period);
Notes: Records for the Royal Marine Light Infantry have John Samuel Kingdon born 06.06.1871, (no
birthplace given), on their cards, with an Enlistment date of 24.04.1894; I have searched for matching ancestry
records but there is nothing certain? Needs research;
Kingdon, John Sidney: #280767, Stoker, Royal Navy; ADM 188/448; (Mid to late 1890’s period);
Notes: The ADM 188/448 Record has a Birth Date of 29.03.1877 in Hackney for this Sailor, but following a
very detailed search of Kingdon & Kingdom family birth records for the period 1872 to 1879, I believe that I
can safely say that there were no male Kingdons born in the area of Hackney, Tower Hamlets or Bethnal
Green, Middlesex which would fit this information; This may well be John Sidney Kingdon born 1873 in
Bethnal Green, London, Middlesex, a twin brother to Harry Bale Kingdon who later died in ca.1880, (his
parents gave birth to another son named Harry Bale Kingdon in 1882 in Hackney); I believe that John Sidney
Kingdon was the son of Harry Bail Kingdon, a Tailor b.1839, & Alice Amelia Stafford (nee Crossland) b.1844
in Clerkenwell, who Married in Hackney, London in 1872 & she appears to have used her maiden name of
Alice Amelia Crossland in the records; (His Mother was previously married to James Thomas Stafford who
died in 1872); In 1881 Census John S. Bale (assumed to be Kingdon) lived with his Mother Alice Bale (should
read Kingdon) at #8, Great Hampton Street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, but & I have failed to find his
Father Harry Bail Kingdon in that Census; (His Father Harry Bail Kingdon may have died in London ca.1886);
His Widowed Mother lived at #14, Durrington Road, Hackney, London, in the 1891 Census but I failed to find
any John Sidney Kingdon in 1891; His official Naval Service Number of #280767 would indicate that he was a
Stoker & that he enlisted between 01.01.1895 & 31.12.1895; However, I still cannot find this man after 1881?
Additional Notes: This may be the same man?
Kingdon, John Sidney: No Military Records found but Recorded as a Chelsea Pensioner;
The Chelsea Pensioners List includes a John Sidney Kingdon born in 1875 London Middlesex; This may well
be John Sidney Kingdon born 1873 in Bethnal Green, London, Middlesex;
I failed to locate this person after 1881? (He was probably the Brother of Kingdon, Harry Bail: #11093,
Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division; ADM 159/54; (& the brother of Private Edward
(Arnold Bail) Kingdon, #8679, Chatham Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry; ADM 159/49);
Kingdon, John Sottridge: WW2 Home Guard Service, 1940 to 1945; WO 409/27/98/485;
Notes: Too young to have served in WW1, this is John Sottridge Kingdon b.14.08.1900 Hartlepool, Durham,
son of Bank Manager William Sottridge Kingdon, b.05.05.1860 in South Molton, Devon & Emily Jane
Willcocks Loosemore, from Charles in Devon, who Married on 21.03.1891 in Bishops Nympton, Devon; John
S. Kingdon was 7 months old & lived with his parents above the National Provincial Bank in Hartlepool in
1901 & in Norton Lodge, Norton, Stockton on Tees in the 1911 Census; I believe that John Sottridge Kingdon
Died in Darlington, Durham, Aged 93 in November 1993; (He was the younger Brother of Kingdon, William
L: Honourable Artillery Company No: 6825 1914-1920 WO 372/11) who served in WW1);
Kingdon, John Stewart: #23/473, Rifleman, ‘B’ Company, 1st New Zealand Rifle Brigade, New Zealand
Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This is John (Jack) Stuart Kingdon born in 1892 in Nelson, New Zealand, the son of Roger William
Wellesley Kingdon, a Solicitor, & Annie Evelyn Curtis, living in Fielding, Oroua, New Zealand; (His original
family are from the Thorverton & Exeter, Devon, Kingdon line); His Father Died in 1903 Aged 42; In 1914
Electoral Roll, John Stuart Kingdon is recorded as a Farmer, in Kimbolton Road, Fielding, Oroua; This Soldier
enlisted in New Zealand in 1914 & is recorded on the Alphabetical Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force
with an address Care of Mrs. A. Dermer, Fielding & his next of kin is shown as his Mother Mrs. R.W.W.
Kingdon, Cheltenham, Fielding; I believe that this soldier Embarked from New Zealand on 09.10.1915 &
served in Egypt & then France; (On the 27.01.1916 the newspaper ‘The Colonist’ had reported that his
brother Sergeant Basil Kingdon had been visiting Nelson on final leave before being shipped to France & that
he was the last of the 3 Kingdon Brothers to go to the Front; Both of his brothers were serving in Egypt in
January 1916, one of which was this ‘Jack’ Kingdon); #23/473 Rifleman Kingdon J.S., 1st New Zealand Rifle
Brigade, was reported as having been Wounded in Action on 14.10.1916, Casualty List #430/19; In 1919
Electoral Roll, John Stuart Kingdon is recorded as a Farmer, in Kimbolton Road, Fielding, Oroua; In the 1928
Electoral Roll his Mother Annie Evelyn Kingdon, his Brother Basil & his wife Emily Susette Kingdon & John
Stuart Kingdon, were Farming at Ohaeawai in Bay of Islands, Northland; By 1935 I understand that John
Stuart Kingdon was Farming at Walton, Rotarua; There are numerous later Electoral Rolls which could be
researched further; I understand that John Stuart Kingdon Died in 1960 Aged 67; (He was the Brother of
Kingdon, Roger Audley: #2698, Private, 28th Battalion, 6th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Force,
WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Basil: New Zealand Rifle Brigade No: 24/1915 Rank: Sergeant
1914-1920 WO 372/24); Could be researched further;
Kingdon, John Victor: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, #147999, Rank: Flying Officer, 1939-1945 –
Died in WW2; Flying Officer John Victor Kingdon, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve died on 10th
November 1944; Remembered with honour on the Ottawa Memorial in Ontario, Canada;
Notes: This is John Victor Kingdon born in 1915 in Pontypridd, South Glamorgan, Wales, he was the son of
Samuel John Kingdon b.1876 in Ystrad, Rhonda, Glamorgan & Agnes Goulding, b.1880 Abercan, glamorgan,
who Married in Pontypridd, Wales in 1900; During a Night Navigation Mission whilst training in Canada in
flying a B-24J Liberator, their plane crashed into a mountain near Flora Lake on Vancouver Island & the entire
crew were killed; There is a grave marker at the crash site; At the time of his death John Victor Kingdon’s
address was #37, Tyntyla road, Ystrad, Rhonda, Glamorganshire, Wales;
Kingdon, John W: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 165664 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is John William Kingdon born in Tavistock in 1886; I believe that he was a 33 year old married
Gardener living at Keepers Cottage, Adderley, Market Drayton, Shropshire when he was called up on
16.06.1917 in Shrewsbury & he was probably in the Reserve & being re-called for service in WW1 as his
enlistment date was deemed to be 24.06.1916; There is correspondence on his file regarding his final release
status & why he had to return from Ireland at the time of his call up (he was working there as a Gardener), but
I believe that this was eventually resolved; His wife was Alice Kingdon (nee Hall) & I believe that they were
married in 1911 in Pershore, Worcestershire, (there appears to have been 3 living children, Olive Kingdon
b.1812 in Eton, Buckinghamshire, Arthur Kingdon & Ernest Kingdon born 09.03.1918 in Market Drayton;
There may have been an earlier daughter Elizabeth born in 1911 Eton, Bucks. Who may have died); I believe
that John William was wounded with a Gun Shot Wound to his left hand whilst serving in France around
21.09.1918 but his records are very damaged & difficult to read; He appears to have served until 08.02.1920
when he was transferred to the Class Z Reserve; John W Kingdon may have worked at Buckshaw Lodge,
Sherbourne, Dorset after leaving the Army as this is the address for his medals to be issued; Medals Card on
file; This person needs more research;
Kingdon, John Wesley: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916, WW1;
Notes: I do not believe that this man actually served in WW1, but he is recorded as a Reservist in the 1st
Division Roll of #14 (Southland) Recruiting District in 1916, his address is recorded as being a Farmer at
Kingsdale Farm, Gore, Southland, New Zealand; This is John Wesley Kingdon born in 1876 in New Zealand,
the son of Nehemiah Stephens Kingdon & Mary Grose Webber who Married in Bodmin, Cornwall in 1862 &
who sailed from London, England on 30.09.1865 to New Zealand arriving in Lyttelton on 01.01.1866 on board
the ‘Mermaid’; In 1911, 1914, 1919 John Wesley Kingdon is a Farmer at Croydon Siding, Wakatipu, Otago;
In 1928 he is recorded as a Farmer at Kingsdale, Croydon; In 1935, a Farmer in Croydon, Wallace, Southland;
In 1938 John Wesley Kingdon is registered as a Farmer in Croydon siding, Mataura; I lost him from here?
However, there is a John Wesley Kingdom recorded as dying in 1945 Aged 68; (He is the Brother of Kingdon,
William Fletcher: New Zealand, 2nd Division Reservist, 1917, WW1); More research required;
Kingdon, John William: #V65309, Private, Australian Imperial Force, WW1;
Notes: There are more records for this soldier in the Australian Military files; This is John William Kingdon
born 1896 in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Joseph William Kingdon of East Caulfield,
Melbourne; John William Kingdon, a Labourer, enlisted at the age of 21 years on 09.05.1917 in Prahran,
Victoria & joined the 9/59 Battalion of the Australian Imperial force on 11.07.1917; For being found to be
under the age of 18 his Attestation was Cancelled on 01.08.1917 by the Commanding Officer of Troops,
Broadmeadows Camp; There is also a second Attestation for a John William Kingdon, a Chemist, aged 18,
enlisting in September 1916 as #6393, a Private in the 20th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion; According to the
records this soldier embarked for Europe from Melbourne on 11.09.1916 on board the ‘HMAT Euripides’ with
the 20th Reinforcements of the 5th Infantry Battalion, he disembarked on 20.10.1916 but was returned to
Australia on 26.12.1916 for being under age; I believe that he had also tried to enlist under the name of Eric
Balkan (alias John William Kingdon), #6393 or #6392, claiming birth in North Carlton, Victoria in 1894 &
giving his next of kin as an Aunt living in #108, Newry Street, North Carlton; According to the records this
soldier embarked for Europe from Melbourne on 11.09.1916 on board the ‘HMAT Euripides’ with the
Reinforcements of the 5th Infantry Battalion; As a young soldier this man appears to have been constantly in
trouble throughout 1916; He had been shipped off to the War but was returned to Australia under escort on
09.03.1917 for being under age; On 04.08.1916 his Father Joseph William Kingdon of #290, Ross Street, Port
Melbourne, wrote directly to the Minister of Defence explaining that his son had enlisted under an assumed
name as he was under 21 years old & had been refused parental consent to enlist, but that he was now willing
to allow his son to join the army; There are however, more documents that would indicate that this soldier
should really be John Joseph Kingdon & that he had previously served with the Australian Imperial force as
36393 John William Kingdon with 20/5th Bn. & as #66577 John William Stanlake who had escaped in
Durban but had been arrested & returned to Australia on 26.11.1918; I believe that Private John William
Kingdon, #71792, serving with ‘A’ Company, 3rd District Guard, Domain Camp, Australian Imperial Force
was Court Martialed on 26.06.1918; In order to try & clarify this soldier’s records a Précis of Service of
#6393/66577 Private J.W. Kingdon 5th Battalion, alias E. Balkan, alias J.W. Stanlake 21st G.S.R was issued
for Forfeiture of Medals Board on 27.02.1922; This states – 11.09.1916 Embarked; 26.12.1916 Embarked at
Plymouth for Return to Australia as Under Age; 10.03.1917 Discharged; At this stage he refused to sign any
papers, stating that he was only 16 years old; 02.04.1918 Re-enlisted; 22.10.1918 Re-embarked; 19.11.1918
Broke Ship in Durban; 26.11.1918 Re-embarked for Return to Australia; 06.01.1919 Discharged; Both
enlistments are fraudulent; He received a War Gratuity for the 2 nd embarkation only & all medals were
forfeited;
On the Australian War Memorial internet site, www.awm.gov.au, there is a photograph showing troops prior to
boarding ‘HMAT Euripides (A14)’. Identified (front row, centre, holding a kitbag) is #6392 Private John
William Kingdon. Pte. Kingdon enlisted using an alias (Eric Balkan) on 24 June 1916. In August 1916
Kingdon's mother wrote to the Minister of Defence and asked that her son's records be changed to show his
real name. He embarked on 11 September 1916 as J W Kingdon but was under age (16) and was returned to
Australia on 26 December 1916. He later re-enlisted as #66577 Pte. John William Stanlake and embarked on
‘HMAT Boonah (A36)’ at Adelaide on 22 October 1918.
Medals were Forfeited; This Soldier could still be researched further;
Kingdon, John William: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916, WW1;
Notes: I do not believe that this man actually served in WW1, but he is recorded as a Reservist in the 1st
Division in 1916, recruited in #5 Recruitment Centre in Wellington, stating that he was living in Buick Street,
Petone, Hutt, Wellington as a Picture Framer; This is John William Kingdon but I have yet to properly
identify him or find a birth date for him? From the Electoral Rolls & Records I would suggest that he was
probably the son of Walter Kingdon, a Fell Monger b.ca.1850 & Anne ?? as he lives at the same address as
them on a number of occasions; In 1896 John William Kingdon lives in Victoria Street, Petone, Wellington,
working as a Labourer; In 1905 & 1906 he lives in Buick Street, Petone & is recorded as being a Wool
Classer; In 1911 & 1914 Rolls he is at #17, Buick Street, Petone, first as a Wool Classer & secondly as a
Picture Framer; In 1916 John William Kingdon is recruited for WW1 New Zealand Army 1 st Division
Reserves at #5, Wellington Recruiting District; I failed to find any military records for this man so assume that
he did not serve in WW1? In 1919 he is back at the address in Buick Street, Petone, Hutt, Wellington working
as a Picture Framer; In 1935 he is once again a Wool Classer living at #58a, Sydney Street, Petone; In 1938
John William Kingdon is at #30, Birdwood Street, Lower Hutt, Wellington as a Wool Classer; I do not believe
that he ever married & that he died in 1940 Aged 70; Needs more research;
Kingdon, Joseph: English Naval Mariner ca.1798;
Notes: There is a reference in the Kingdon Family Book (1932) indicating that a Seaman’s Will was prepared
for Joseph Kingdon in 1798; A letter of Administration (admon.) was granted to a Widow Ann Kingdon but
there is no clue as to her relationship with this mariner, was she his Wife or his Mother? The ships mentioned
are the” Attack”, the “L’Eclaire” & the “Terror Bomb”, however I can find no information on any of these
vessels except that the Sloop “L’Eclaire” may have been a French Privateer at one point & may have been
captured & in Sheerness for repairs in 1793; Not identified;
Kingdon, Joseph Arnold: #Z-13364, Ordinary Seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; WW1 War Fleet
Division, Tyneside; ADM/337/83/958;
Notes: This is Joseph Arnold Kingdon, born 25.08.1888 in Horton, Yorkshire (Bradford), he was often
recorded as Arnold Kingdon; He was the son of James Moore Kingdon, a Clothing Manufacturer Cashier &
Bookeeper born in Great Horton, Yorks on 30.04.1864 & Elizabeth Jaggaer Pulman b.1865 in Great Horton,
who married in Bradford in 1886; In the 1891 Census Joseph A Kingdon lives with his parents in West Lane,
Embray, Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding; Unfortunately his Father Died on 08.10.1894 aged 30 years & in
the 1901 Census Arnold Kingdon is now aged 12 & living with his Widowed Mother, a Confectioner, at #6, St
Margaret’s Road, Bradford, with his Pulman Grandparents; In the 1911 Census Arnold Kingdon, now aged 22
years, is working as a Municipal Clerk for Bradford Corporation & living with his Widowed Mother & his
Widowed Grandmother Pulman at #286, Great Horton road, Bradford, Yorkshire; Joseph Arnold Kingdon
Married Ethel Maud Yates in 1914 in Leicester; (She was a Nurse in Bradford in the 1911 Census); I believe
that Joseph Arnold Kingdon Died on 09.06.1935 whilst living at #50, The Avenue, Clayton, Bradford, he was
aged 46; Awarded the British War Medal, ADM 171/127;
Kingdon, Joseph John: Able Seaman, #81288, Royal Navy; ADM 188/74/88; (1873-1891 period);
Notes: ADM 188 records have Joseph John Kingdon having served with the Royal Navy a #81288 & born in
Devonport on 28.01.1858; This Sailor’s Official Naval Number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1873
& 31.12.1873; I believe this man to be Joseph John/William Kingdon born in Stoke Damerel in 1858; He
was the son of George Frederick Kingdon, a Naval Dockyard Stoker & Naval Pensioner b.1830 in Devonport,
& Jane Giles, b.1831 in Walkhampton in Devon, who Married in 1851 in Stoke Damerel; In the 1861 Census
Joseph Kingdon was living with his parents in Johns Street, Stoke Damerel; In the 1871 Census Joseph
Kingdon is aged 13 & living with his Mother in Wilcove, Antony, Cornwall; Joseph John Kingdon enlisted in
the royal Navy in 1873; In the 1881 Census Joseph J Kingdon is a single serving Able Seaman onboard the 1st
Class Ironclad ‘HMS Agincourt’ of the Channel Squadron, situated in Gibraltar; In 1882 this Sailor served
with ‘HMS Agincourt’ in the Egyptian Campaign, both at Alexandria & Tel-El-Kebir between 16.07.1882 &
14.09.1882, his Ship’s Number was 5.799; The medals for this campaign were sent to him on 11.05.1883 at
‘HMS Agincourt’ where he was still serving; I understand that Joseph John Kingdon Married Elizabeth Jane
Bickford, b.1861 in Plymouth, in Stoke Damerel in 1883; In the 1891 Census Elizabeth Kingdon is living
alone with 2 young children at #48, Duke Street, Stoke Damerel, Devon, her husband is recorded as being
away at sea; I failed to locate Joseph J Kingdon in the 1891 Royal Navy Census; In the 1901 Census Joseph &
Elizabeth Kingdon live at #48, Duke Street, Stoke Damerel, Devonport, Joseph is a General Government
Labourer; In the 1911 Census Joseph & Elizabeth Kingdon still lived at #48,Duke Street, Devonport, Devon,
he is a Government Labourer; I believe that Elizabeth Jane Kingdon Died in 1931 in Devonport, Aged 77 &
that Joseph John Kingdon died in Cornwall in 1935 Aged 78; Awarded the Egyptian Medal & Alexandria
11.07.1882 & Tel El Kebir Clasps; (He was the Son of Kingdon, George: Royal Naval Dockyard Stoker,
Paddle Tugs in Devonport); (He was the Father of Kingdom, W E: Royal Engineers No: 514302 Rank:
Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/24, See Also: Kingdon, William E: Royal Engineers Regiment No: T1005 Rank:
Sapper 1914-20 WO 372/11); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, John: #82600, Stoker, Royal Navy; ADM
188/76/189);
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KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, ??: Captain, Regiment unknown, served in Madras, India ca. 1817;
Notes: There are records in the ‘Families in British India Society Database’ that show a Captain Kingdon
Departing from Madras for England on 23.03.1817 aboard the Ship ‘Lucy Maria’; I have no other
information;
Kingdon, K.H.: Assistant Physicist, The Admiralty; (1919)
Notes: There are records for the Department of The Director of Experiments And Research at the Admiralty in
Whitehall for the year 1919, which refer to a K.H. Kingdon, Esq., M.A. working as an Assistant Physicist
under the direction of Professor J.C. McLennn in the Mining Section of the Department of the Director of
Torpedoes & Mining, however, I failed to find any other records for this person; Insufficient information to
enable identification;
Kingdon, Karen F: #W130396S, Wren, Steward 1st Class, Women’s Royal Naval Service; (1975);
Notes: There is an ‘In Service’ death record for a young Wren serving with the WRNS at ‘HMS Vernon’,
(shore base), dated Sunday 30.11.1975, she was aged 19 years; I believe that this is probably Karen
Francesca Kingdon, born 20.09.1956 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, (Mother’s maiden name
Russell), who’s death was registered in the 1st Q 1976 in torbay, Devon; Insufficient information to identify
further;
Kingdon, Kenneth Roy: Private, #3036436, 1st Depot Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment; Canada,
WW1;
Notes: I believe that this is Kenneth Roy Kingdon born 08.09.1897 in Lampton Hills, Ontario, Canada, the
son of James Kingdon, a Farmer, born 01.08.1860 in Ontario & Annie Agnes Mason or Moran b.03.10.1862
Ontario who Married in Peel, Ontario on 11.03.1885; In 1901 Census Kenneth Kingdon lives with his parents
in Etobicoke, York, Ontario, Canada; On 06.05.1918 in Toronto, Kenneth Roy Kingdon, a Farmer aged 20
years & 7 months was drafted for WW1 service into the 1st Depot Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Depot
Regiment which in reality was a unit based in Canada feeding soldiers into the system; In 1919 Private K.R.
Kingdon was recorded as being transferred from Kinmel Park to Toronto for Dispersal to the Royal Canadian
Dragoons, Canadian Reserve Cavalry Regiment; On both occasions his Mother Annie Kingdon was his NOK;
I believe that Kenneth Roy Kingdon Married Lorna May Howett (b.1907 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England) on
12.03.1926 in Etobicoke, Ontario & that they had at least 3 children; I understand that Kenneth Roy Kingdon
died in 1977 aged 80; I have not researched further;
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KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, L W: 27th Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: The Auckland Weekly Newspaper reports on the 15.03.1917, that this soldier was part of the 27 th DraftWaikato Men contingent for service in WW1 with the New Zealand Army; Unfortunately I failed to find any
other references to L W Kingdon in New Zealand;
Kingdon, Leslie: #260483; Canadian Migrant, #12 OASC Service Company, #12, Artillery Depot Canadian
Field Artillery, 1st Battalion, Saskatchewan Regiment, WW1;
Notes: This is Leslie Kingdon born 22.07.1893 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, the son of Henry John
Hutchings Kingdon, a French Polisher, b.1864 in Barnstaple & Florence Copp from Barnstaple, who were
Married in Barnstaple in 1885; In 1901 Leslie Kingdon lives with his parents in Barnstaple; I have not found
this family in 1911 UK Census yet? In 1913 Leslie Kingdon is aged 20 years & emigrated to Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada on board the ‘SS Ascania’ to work in farming; By 1915 he was already a Canadian Citizen
& had visited England as he returned to Canada on board the ‘SS Scandinavian’ in 1915; In the 1916 Canadian
Census Leslie Kingdon is a Farm Labourer living in Saskatchewan; On 08.03.1917 Leslie Kingdon was
medically examined at Saskatchewan for WW1 service in the Canadian Army, he was a Miner by trade at that
time; He was called up on 09.05.1918 & finally Discharged in July 1919; (He is the Brother of Kingdon,
Stanley: Royal Engineers No: 122479 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who Died in WW1 Drowned at
Sea on 26.05.1917 in Iraq); (I have not researched this Soldier further);
Kingdon, Leonard: Worcestershire Regiment Rank: Second Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in
WW1; Second Lieutenant Leonard Kingdon, 12th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps & the Worcestershire
Regiment who died on 12th January 1916; Remembered with honour Tournai Communal Cemetery, Allied
Extension in Belgium; Notes: This is Leonard Kingdon, born 13.04.1890 in London, the son of William
Frederick Kingdon b.1844 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire & Catherine Ann Gibbons from Manchester; In
1891 Leonard lived with his parents in Stoke Newington, London, his Father was a Book Seller? In 1901
Leonard Kingdon aged 13 was a pupil at Piermont College in St Peter Intra, Kent; Leonard Kingdon obtained
his flying licence on 04.08.1915 at the Military Flying School in Farnborough, he was already a 2nd Lieutenant
in the Worcestershire Regiment at the time & was Seconded to the Royal Flying Corps on 25.09.1915 & his
appointment was Gazetted on 11.10.1915; He first went to France in November 1915; 2nd Lieutenant Leonard
Kingdon was shot down by German Flying Ace Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke in Belgium at Luingne; See the
Internet for a lot of information on this guy; Lieut. Leonard Kingdon was born in London on the 13th April
1890, son of William Frederick Kingdon (a bookseller) and Catherine Ann (nee Gibbons). His father William
had remarried in 1884 after his first wife Maria (nee Maynard) had died in 1880. As a child Leonard was
brought up in Stoke Newington, London. The family later moved to Beckenham, Kent and as a teenager
Leonard was educated at the Pierremond College, Broadstairs, Kent. He later studied at London University
and on 12.11.1913 joined the Northumberland Fusiliers on probation as a 2nd Lieutenant but later received a
full Commission in the Worcestershire Regiment. Leonard was only 25 years old when he died; The local
Belgian community held a funeral for him on the 16th January 1916; His UK Will & Probate leave his effects
to Frank Maynard Kingdon, Schoolmaster; His brother H.W. Kingdon Esquire, c/o Messrs.’ Thos. Cook &
Son, Shanghai made the request for his medals; Medals Card on file; (He was the Brother of Herbert William
Kingdon: Hampshire Regiment Rank: 2nd Lieutenant & Captain & then Served in the RAF);
Kyngdon, Leslie Herbert: Brigadier-General, Australian Army, the Boer War & WW1;
Notes: This is Leslie Herbert Kingdon born 1860 in Exeter, Devon, England; (His family are from the
Holsworthy Kingdon line – see the Kingdon book A Second Look published in 1974); His Grandparents &
subsequently his parents adopted the old fashioned spelling of the name Kyngdon after emigration to New
Zealand & Australia; He was the son of Boughton Kingdon b.1819 in Bodmin, Cornwall & Elizabeth Maria
Cobb from Margate, Kent who Married in 1848 in Kent, (Boughton Kingdon was a Physician in Exeter, Devon
& Croydon, Surrey before Emigrating to Sydney, Australia in 1878, his parents & other siblings had already
emigrated to New Zealand in 1850); In 1861 Leslie H Kingdon was living with his parents in Exeter St
Sidwell, Devon, he was aged 9 months; In 1871 Leslie H Kingdon lived with his parents in Topsham Road,
Heavitree, Devon; This family emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1878 I believe; Leslie Herbert Kyngdon
became a regular soldier (rare in colonial Australia, which began with the NSW Volunteer Forces (Artillery) in
1878); He fought in the Sudan Campaign in 1885 with the New South Wales, Australian Infantry Battalion and
later in the Boer War with the British Royal Artillery; In 1896 he was a Captain, & a Colonel from 1914; By
1919 Leslie Herbert Kyngdon had risen to the honorary rank of Brigadier-General after conspicuous service on
the home front during WW1 as Commandant of Western Australia and Chief Inspector of Coastal Defences;
At the time of his death on 13 April 1923, Kyngdon was the last surviving Australian officer who had served at
Sudan in 1885; Could be researched further;
Kingdon, Louis Francis Edward: #36141, Australian Navy; Post WW2 period;
Notes: The Australian records have details for Louis Francis Edward Kingdon, born 03.01.1929 in Hong
Kong, having served with the Australian Navy; This is the son of Cecil James Kingdon, a British Crown Agent
employee & Warder in Hong Kong & later Australia, who was born 27.01.1900 in Islington, London, & Una
Maud Falla, who Married in Hong Kong ca.1926; There are passenger trip records for Louis F E Kingdon
between Hong Kong & UK in 1934 & 1939; The Australian Military Records indicate that Louis Francis
Edward Kingdon enlisted in Sydney on 06.05.1948 for a period of 12 years; He was a Merchant Seaman at that
time giving his Mother’s address in Brixton, Lambeth, London, England as his Next of Kin; I believe that he
was transferred to the British Royal Navy on 11.06.1949 & served on board ‘HMS Belfast’ & ‘HMS Jamaica’;
I believe that Louis F E Kingdon Married Phyllis J Wink in Ipswich, Suffolk, England in 1954, where they
remained until at least 1965 as far as I can make out? However, Louis F & Phyllis Kingdon were living with
his parents at #44, Strathleven road, Brixton, Lambeth in 1957; (He is the son of Kingdon, Cecil James:
#1703 Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery; WW1; Who is also Kingdon, Cecil James: #15621 Gunner, 2nd
Class, Royal Marine Artillery; ADM 159/91; WW1); Needs more research;
Kingdon, Luther J: Wiltshire Regiment, No: 25466 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Also Recorded as: Kingdon, John Luther: Royal Army Service Corps No: M/410958 Rank: Private 19141920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Luther John Kingdon who was born on 18.07.1889 in Corsham, Wiltshire; The son of Tom
Kingdon, a Mason b.1863 in Dulverton & Louisa Gardener from Corsham, Wiltshire who were married in
1888 in Chippenham, Wiltshire & living in Chapel Street, Dulverton on Somerset in 1916; In 1891 Census the
family lived in Ystradyfodwg, Glamorgan, Wales next door to widowed Grandfather Jacob Kingdon; In 1901
Census Luther John Kingdon Aged 11 lives with his parents in Dulverton, Somerset; In the 1911 Census
Luther Kingdon is a 21 year old Carpenter living with his parents in Mill Green, Dulverton, Somerset; John
Luther Kingdon Enlisted on 08.02.1916 in Basingstoke at the age of 26 years & 7 months, he was a Joiner &
gave his father’s name, Tom Kingdon as his next of kin & his address as Chapel Street, Dulverton, Somerset;
His original Attestation has him serving with the Wiltshire Regiment as #25466 & also # 22887 with Somerset
Light Infantry but this has been crossed out on his record; His military record indicates that he served at Home
from 08.02.1916 until 08.11.1916, he was then sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force until
07.08.1917 when he was sent back to England; He had received a Gun Shot wound to his left cheek & head on
31.07.1917 giving him a 30% disability; He also suffered from Pleurisy in 1918; He was finally Discharged on
25.02.1919 from the Royal Army Service Corps in Woolwich due to the wounds that he received; Awarded a
30% disability Pernsion for 12 months from 17.03.1919 but he was continually re-assessed for further
Pensions awards through 1922; Luther John Kingdon Marries Amy Callaway from Dulverton in 1927 in
Dulverton, Somerset; Luther John Kingdon Dies in 3rd Q 1951 in Exmoor Aged 62; Did they have a daughter
Beryl L Kingdon born 1931 in Dulverton, who later married a Geoffrey John Scoins in Exmoor in 1954;
Awarded the Silver War Badge #B287925 as John Luther Kingdon; Medals Card x2 on file; (He was the Son
of Kingdon, Tom: Royal Defence Corps No: 7970 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
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Kingdon, Mark: #1817 of the 36th Regiment of Foot; W097 Records; (Mid 1870’s period);
Notes: Mark Kingdon enlisted in the Army on 01.03.1874 & served in England until 15.06.1874, however, he
may well have attested in 1871? I believe that he was then posted to the East Indies; Private Mark Kingdon
was considered to be unfit for further Military Service at a Regimental Board held on 23.06.1876 in Netley,
England after having served in the East Indies for a period of 2 years & 33 days & with the Regiment for 2
years & 301 days; It would appear that he had been suffering from a general debility as a result of tropical
climate service since September 1873; In 1874 he was recorded as being in a very weak & nervous state with
heart palpitations & was subsequently declared unfit for further service, (he may well have had a drink
problem too); Mark Kingdon was a Carpenter by trade & was born in the Parish of Tiverton & on discharge
intended to live in Exeter, Devon; I believe that this is Mark Kingdon born in 1839 in Rackenford, the son of
George Kingdon, a Carpenter b.1809 Bishops Nympton & Elizabeth Loosemore from Rackenford who
married in 1833; Mark lived with his parents in Rackenford, Devon in 1841; In 1851 he was an 11 year old
servant for a Butcher in Tiverton; In 1861 he was a Carpenter working in Plymtree, Devon; I cannot find Mark
Kingdon in 1871 records? Mark appears again in the 1881 Census living as a Carpenter in the Tiverton Union
Workhouse; I cannot find him in 1891 but in 1901 Census he is a Journeyman Carpenter working in
Cullompton; Mark Kingdon died in Tiverton in 1910 Aged 71, I do not believe that he ever married;
Kingdon, Mark: No Military Records but noted on the Chelsea Pensioners List;
Notes: The list for Chelsea Pensioners has reference to a Mark Kingdon born 1847 in Exeter, Devon; I believe
that this is actually Oliver Mark Kingdon born 1846 in Exeter, the son of Abraham Kingdon, a Carpenter
b.1807 Exeter & Elizabeth Melden, who Married pre 1835 in Exeter; In 1851 Census Oliver M Kingdon is
aged 5 & living with his parents in Barrett’s Court, Magdalen Street in Exeter Holy Trinity, Devon; In 1861
Census Oliver M Kingdon is an Errand boy, living with his parents in St Leonards, Exeter; In 1871 Census
Mark Kingdon is now aged 25 & working as a Painter, living with his parents at #2, Lock Beare Cottages,
Holloway Street, Exeter St Sidwell; I believe that Oliver Mark Kingdon Married Jessy Stark Jarman (b.1852
Exeter) in 1873 in Exeter, Devon; In 1881 & the 1891 Censuses, Oliver M. & Jessy S. Kingdon live at #5,
Lansdown Terrace, Exeter Holy Trinity & is working as a House & Home Decorator; I understand that Oliver
mark Kingdon Died aged 51 years in Exeter in 1899; His Widow Jessy S. Kingdon lived alone as a Coffee
House owner, Fried Fish & Tobacco Dealer at #100, Black Boy Road, Exeter in 1901; In 1911 she worked as a
Cook/Servant for a Scottish Barrister at Bentham, Kingsbridge, Exeter; I understand that Jessy S. Kingdon
(nee Jarman) remarried to a Thomas Sobey in 1915 in Exeter; I did not find any Military Records for this
man?
Kingdon, Mark Leslie: #23346 & #6747, DUBB Depot Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, WW1;
Notes: There are more records for this soldier in the Australian military Files; This is Mark Leslie Kingdon
born 16.08.1891 in Yeovil, Somerset, England; He is the son of William Henry Kingdon, a Railway Clerk,
b.1862 in Barnstaple, Devon & Annie Tilley b.29.02.1860 in Dorchester, Dorset who married in 1889 in
Dorchester; In the 1901 Census Mark L. Kingdon is aged 9 years & living with his widowed Father (his
Mother died in 1894) in #21, Colmer Road, Yeovil, Somerset, England; In 1906 Mark Leslie Kingdon worked
for the Great Western Railway in Lawrence Hill Station as a Clerk; In the 1911 Census Mark Leslie Kingdon
is a Railway Clerk with the Great Western Railway & visiting with his Uncle Thomas Charles Kingdon, a
School Headmaster at Rackenford School in Creacombe, Morchard Bishop, Devon; Mark Leslie Kingdon
probably served with the British Territorial Army, 6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment for 3 years
prior to emigrating to Australia; I believe that Mark Leslie Kingdon resigned from the Great Western Railway
Company & was paid up to 31.03.1911; I also believe that Mark Kingdon sailed to Australia at the age of 19
on the Ship ‘Wakool’, arriving in Sydney on 20.06.1911, (this was around the same time that his brother Frank
Kingdon emigrated to Canada); Mark Leslie Kingdon enlisted in the Australian Army in Cootamundra, New
South Wales on 17.04.1916, claiming to be employed as a Journalist & giving his Father, William Henry
Kingdon, #23, Elton Road, Bishopston, Bristol, England as his next of kin; He served initially with ‘D’
Company, 1st Battalion, Cootamundra Depot & then with ‘A’ Company, 4th Battalion, Liverpool, ‘B’ Company
the 4th Battalion Cootamundra & the DBBO Depot Battalion; By this time he was promoted to Acting Sergeant
specifically for the journey to Europe & on 08.11.1916 he was sent to England on board the ‘SS Port
Nicholson’ sailing from Sydney, arriving Devonport, England on 10.01.1917, with the 22nd Reinforcements, 4th
Infantry Battalion; After some further military training at Dorrington & reverting to the rank of Corporal he
was then sent to France on 10.04.1917, where he appears to have been wounded by gun shots to the legs &
arms on 06.05.1917, initially being treated in Rouen, France & declared seriously ill he was again reverted to
the rank of Private & then treated in Edgebaston, England from August 1917 through July 1918; He was
returned to Australia for Discharge on 21.07.1918 on board the H.M.A.T. ‘Boonah’ & finally discharged on
21.09.1918; Mark Leslie Kingdon Died on 24.05.1972 in New South Wales, Australia aged 80 & is buried in a
Cemetery outside Riverina; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal & the Victory Medal; (He was the
Brother of Kingdon, Frank Neville: #928576 Private, 153rd (Wellington) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary
Force);
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Kingdon (or Kingdom), Nathaniel: Royal Navy, Original page #260, Rating, served pre 1853;
Notes: There are Royal Navy records for a Nathaniel Kingdon (also recorded as Nathaniel Kingdom) serving
in the Royal Navy as a Rating from 16.10.1840 to 08.11.1843 with an Application made to the Admiralty on
16.11.1843 (I presume for a pension?); No other information on Year of Birth, Birth Place or his Age on Entry
are given; There is, however, another record for Nathaniel Kingdon, Able Seaman, Royal Navy having served
in the French Revolutionary Wars on ‘HMS Triumph’; He is recorded as having fought at the Battle of
Camperdown on 11.10.1797; In addition, Services Reunited web site on the internet has a record for Nathaniel
Kingdon, Able Seaman in 1848 having served in the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815; There is little or no
information to enable identification of this sailor but the possibilities are: Nathaniel Kingdon, a Mariner living
in Brixham & his wife Mary had a number of children baptised there in the early 1800’s; Nathaniel Kingdon
Married Patience Roach in Tiverton on 27.06.1789; Nathaniel Sanders Kingdom was Baptised in Topsham,
Devon on 20.07.1775; Any one of these could be a candidate; Awarded the Naval General Service Medal
Clasp, Camperdown T/20, for service on ‘HMS Triumph’; Insufficient information to identify accurately;
Kingdon, Nelson: #K27663, Stoker, Royal Navy, WW1; ADM 188/922, WW1;
Notes: This is Nelson Kingdon born 24.03.1891 in Yatton, Somerset; He is the son of William Bradford
Kingdon, a Railway Signalman b.1860 in Stoke Canon, Devon, & Sarah Emily Methin from Nailsea in
Somerset, who Married in 1884 in Bristol; In 1891 Census Nelson is recorded as ‘Moses’ aged 12 days, living
with his parents in Horsecastle, Yatton, Somerset; In 1901 Nelson lives with his parents in Horsecastle at the
same address, his Father is a railway signalman; In 1911 Census the family still live in Horsecastle, Yatton in
Somerset & Nelson is a Railway Engine Cleaner aged 20; Nelson Kingdon joined the Railway on 21.09.1908
in Yatton; He was a Railway Fireman 3rd Class in 01.01.1912 & continued to work for the railways until
joining the Colours for WW1 Service in July 1915; Nelson Kingdon served with the Royal Navy until
returning to work for the Railways on 23.04.1919 when he was demobilised, I do not know what capacity he
served in the Navy but believe that it was as an Acting Leading Stoker as the prefix ‘K’ to his official number
would indicate service as a Stoker; His official number also indicates enlistment between 01.01.1915 &
31.12.1915; In 1918 Edith May Shave & Nelson Kingdon, separately used the same Penny Street address for
their voters records in Chalcombe Regis, Weymouth, so I presume that they were living together at that time; It
was in 1919 that Nelson Kingdon then married Edith May Shave (nee Churchill) in Weymouth, Dorset, she
was a Widow, previously married in 1902 to a Domestic Chauffeur Herbert Arthur Shave who had died in
1914, she was born in 1885 in Radipole, Dorset; Unfortunately I believe that Edith May Kingdom may well
have died in 1921 in Marylebone aged 36 years; It then appears that Nelson Kingdon remarried on 13.10.1923
in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales to Catherine Mabel Morgan, b.06.04.1901 in Neath; They had 6 children, 3 born
in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales & the other 3 born in Weymouth, Dorset, & Nelson Kingdon appears to have
continued to have worked for the railways as an Engine Driver until his death on 13.10.1948 at Portwey
Hospital in Weymouth, Dorset, Aged 57; He was living at #13, Wesley Street, Weymouth at the time of his
death; I believe that his 2nd wife, Catherine Mabel Kingdon then Married Walter N Hawkins in Weymouth in
1958; She died in 1961 in Bridport, Dorset Aged 77; Awarded the Victory & British War Medals;
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Kingdon, O: London Regiment No: 1114 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1; Captain
Oliver Kingdon died age 31
on 24 April 1918 in France. He is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial.
Notes: This is Oliver Kingdon born in North West India in the Province of Ranikhet on 14.12.1886, son of
Oliver Kingdon b.1857 Clerkenwell who served in India as a Warrant Officer & Maud Matilda Bateman from
Cork, Ireland (who married in Bengal, India in 1882), returning to UK around 1895; Oliver’s Father was a
serving Warrant Officer in India & was an Army Pensioner after his discharge; In 1901 Oliver & Maud lived
in Goring Row in Southgate, Enfield, Middlesex; (Captain Oliver Kingdon is the Grandson of Oliver Kingdon
b.1831 South Molton & 1st Wife Jane Blee, who married in 1856 in Hackney, London). Oliver Kingdon, aged
14, lived with his parents at #9, Goring Row, Southgate, Middlesex in 1901 UK Census (previous to that this
family were in India); In 1911 Census Oliver Kingdon is aged 24, an Insurance Clerk & living with his parents
at #84, Brownlow Road, New Southgate, London; #1114 Private Oliver Kingdon first served with the London
Regiment, he was Commissioned on 21.05.1915 & served with the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire
Regiment
where he earned promotion from temporary 2nd Lieutenant to temporary Lieutenant on 04.02.1917,
& then to temporary Captain on 15.07.1917; He was Mentioned in Despatches and received the Military Cross
(MC) before he died age 31
on 24 April 1918 in France. There were quite a few requests for additional
medals made; Whilst serving as a Temporary Captain with the Bedfordshire Regiment Oliver Kingdon was
noted for conspicuous gallantry & devotion to duty in the London Gazette Supplement dated 16.09.1918, This
Officer, at the end of 5 days constant fighting & marching, led his company in a dashing counter-attack
against a village held by German troops, which resulted in its recapture & severe losses to the enemy, besides
covering the retreat of other troops across a river; Medals Card on file; (He was also the Brother of
Lieutenant George Alfred Blee Kingdon, Royal Field Artillery); (Son of Oliver Kingdon #1120 6th Dragoon
Guards 1873 to 1891); (Also the Brother of Kingdon, Frank V: London Regiment No: 2283 Rank: Private.
1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, O: #8315, Private, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards; (Boer War period);
Notes: I believe that this is Oliver Abraham Francis Kingdon born on 07.04.1880 in Shoreditch & baptised
on 02.05.1880 in Bethnal Green, son of Oliver Abraham Kingdon b.1847 Bristol & Elizabeth Durham
Stephens from Liskeard in Cornwall who married in 1874 on 08.03.1874 in Lambeth; In 1881 & 1891 Oliver
lives with his parents in Shoreditch, his father is a Police Constable but had previously served with the
Grenadier Guards; Oliver Kingdon went to the Shap Street Infants School in Hackney until 1887; He was
living with his parents at #45, Dunloe Street at the age of 7 when he went to Shap Street School in Hackney
from 12.12.1887 until 18.04.1892; During his schooling he was exempt from receiving religious education;
His Regimental #8315 indicates that Oliver Abraham Francis Kingdon must have enlisted in the Grenadier
Guards between 05.01.1899 & 01.01.1900 & subsequently served in the Boer War in South Africa; In the 1901
Census Oliver Kingdon is now a soldier living in The Grenadier Guards Wellington Barracks in Westminster,
London; I have a Medals Record that has a Private O. Kingdon #8315 being eligible for the South Africa Boer
War Medal; I believe that Oliver Abraham Francis Kingdon died in 1907 in Orsett, Essex Aged 26; (His Father
Kingdon, Oliver: Private, Grenadier Guards also served in the Army & in 1871 Census was at the Barracks in
Brentwood, Essex);
Kingdon, Octavius Gillard: #109436 Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: I believe that this is Octavius Gillard Kingdon born 03.07.1891 in Oystermouth, Glamorgan, Wales,
the son of John Gaylord Kingdon, a Tailor & Draper, b.1842 in Swansea & (his 1 st wife Sarah Maria Jones
b.1843 from Mumbles died in Glamorgan in 1877), John G Kingdon remarried ca.1878 to his 2 nd wife Ann
Eliza Gillard from Tiverton in 1878, Octavius’s Mother; In 1901 Census Octavius lived with his parents in #3,
Woodland Villas, Oystermouth, Glamorgan, Wales; In 1911 Census Octavius lives with his parents at the same
address in Oystermouth & is a Shunter with the Great Western Railway; Octavius G Kingdon emigrated to
Canada, arriving in Quebec on 24.06.1913 aged 21, aiming to settle in Montreal; He sailed from Liverpool on
the ‘SS Teutonic’; Upon enlistment in Canada on the 27.11.1914 in Toronto, Octavius Gillard Kingdon was
aged 23 years & 4 months & was a Railway Man; After WW1 I believe that Octavius Gillard Kingdon
returned to England & married Nell Goddard in Wallingford in the 1st Q of 1919; Octavius Gillard Kingdon
served as a Trooper with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles from 27.11.1914 until 01.01.1916 & as a Private
from 01.01.1916 until 20.04.1919 but was a Prisoner of war from 02.06.1916 & finally Repatriated on
29.11.1918; (I believe that he is the Brother of Kingdon, Benjamin Rufus: Liverpool Regiment No: 56170
Acting Colour Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who served in England in WW1); (I believe that he is also the
Brother of Hubert Kingdon who also emigrated to Canada in 1912 & served in WW1 as #109435 in the
Canadian Expeditionary Force); (He was also the Brother of Royal Navy Apprentice Hedley Vicars
Kingdon); I have not researched this soldier further;
Kingdon, Oliver: #1120, Garrison Sergeant Major & Special Constable, 6th Dragoon Guards; (1873-1901);
Notes: This is Oliver Kingdon born in 1857 in Clerkenwell, London, the son of Oliver Kingdon b.1831 South
Molton, Devon & 1st Wife Jane Blee who married in 1856 in Hackney, London; In 1861 Census he was aged 4
& visiting with his Grandfather Oliver Kingdon b.1802 in Mill Lane, South Molton, Devon; In 1871 Census
Oliver was a 14 year old Painter living with his parents in St Pancras, Marylebone, London; Oliver Kingdon
enlisted into the 6th Dragoon Guards on 17th July 1873; On 29th November 1885, having attained the rank of
Troop Sergeant Major, he transferred to the Unattached List (Ghazipur Volunteer Rifle Corps) as 1st Class
Sergeant Instructor, and on 28th September 1891 was promoted Garrison Sergeant Major; Oliver Kingdon was
finally discharged to pension on 7th February 1901 having served for over 24 years in India; Whilst in India
Oliver Kingdon Married an Irish girl from Cork, Maud Matilda Bateman in 1882 in Bengal; In 1901 Census
Oliver & Maud Kingdon lived at #9, Goring Road, Southgate, Middlesex, Oliver was a Retired Warrant
Officer & an Army Pensioner; In 1911 Census Oliver & Maud Kingdon lived at #84, Brownlow Road, New
Southgate, London, he is an Army Pensioner & an Insurance Company Secretary; Oliver Kingdon died in
Edmonton, Middlesex on 27.08.1946 Aged 89; Medals awarded to him were for Afghanistan 1878-80, no
clasp; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal G.V.R. 1st TYPE, with ‘The Great War 1914-18’ clasp
(Oliver Kingdon) NEF, all of which have been on sale on the internet for ca. £325; (He was the Father of
Lieutenant George Alfred Blee Kingdon, Royal Field Artillery who served in WW1); (He was also the Father
of Captain Oliver Kingdon MC who Died in WW1 in 1918 in France); (Also the Father of Kingdon, Frank
V: London Regiment No: 2283 Rank: Private. 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Oliver: Private, Grenadier Guards; (1870’s period);
Notes: This is Oliver Abraham Kingdon born in 1847 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the son of Abraham
Kingdon, a Railway Clerk & Station Master, b.1814 in South Molton, Devon & Eliza Eades born 1815 from
Reading, Berkshire who married in 1837 in Reading; In 1851 Census Oliver Abraham Kingdon was living
with his parents in Bedminster, Gloucestershire; In 1861 Census he was a scholar living with his parents in
Stixwold, Woodall, Lincolnshire; In 1871 Census he was aged 23 & serving with the Grenadier Guards at the
Depot Foot Guards Barracks in Little Warley, Brentwood, Essex; Oliver Kingdon Married Elizabeth Durham
Stephens, a Widow from Liskeard, Cornwall on 08.03.1874 in Lambeth, he was a Private serving in the
Grenadier Guards at that time & took on her children; I believe that he joined the Police Force when he left the
Army; In 1881 Census Oliver & Elizabeth Kingdon live in #45 Dunloe Street, Shoreditch; In 1891 Census
Oliver & Elizabeth Kingdon live at #26, York Street, Shoreditch, he is still a Police Constable; I believe that
Oliver Abraham Kingdon Died in the 3rd Q 1894 in the Strand Aged 46; (He was the Father of Kingdon,
Oliver Abraham Francis: #8315, Private, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards who served in the Boer War);
Kingdon, Oliver Alfred: Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry; ADM 65/92 & ADM 157/325/57; (Service in
1881);
Notes: This record was picked up via the 1881 Census that has an Oliver Alfred Kingdon, Single, Aged 22,
serving as a Private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry on board ‘HMS Miranda’ in Sydney, Australia; I
believe that this is Oliver Alfred Kingdon born in 1859 in Exeter St Thomas; He is the son of Abraham
Robert Kingdon, a Painter, b.1835 Exeter & Elizabeth Lake from Exeter, who Married ca.1856; In 1861
Census Oliver A Kingdon lives with his parents at #1, Garden Square, St Mary Arches, Exeter; In 1871 Census
(Oliver) Alfred Kingdon lives with his parents in #3, Colleton Buildings, St Sidwell, Holy Trinity, Exeter; (The
ADM File Records have Attestation forms for the Plymouth Division, Folios 57-65, for Oliver Kingdon, born
in Devon, to serve in the Royal Marines at Plymouth, 1876 (when aged 17) & record that he was Discharged
in 1882 as Paid 20 Pounds); In 1881 Oliver Alfred Kingdon is serving with the Royal Marines; Oliver Alfred
Kingdon Married Emily Battershill from Woodleigh, Devon in Exeter in 1884 & in the 1891 Census they live
at #6, Jubilee Street, St Leonards, Exeter & he is a Painter & Decorator; Emily his 1st wife Died in 1897 Aged
35 & Oliver Alfred Kingdon Married for a 2nd time to Mary Jane Tett from Exeter in 1898 in Exeter; In 1901
Census Oliver A & Mary J Kingdon live in #1, Russell Street, St Sidwell, Exeter, he is a Painter; In the 1911
Census Oliver Alfred & Mary Jane Kingdon were living at #106.Cowick street, St Thomas, Exeter, he is a
House Painter; I understand that Oliver A Kingdon died at the age of 68 in Exeter in 1928;
Kingdon, Oliver James: #3035621, Private, 70th Overseas Battery, #2 M.D., 1st Depot Battalion, 1st Central
Ontario Regiment, WW1 period;
Notes: The 1st Central Ontario Regiment was part of the "Territorial Regiment System" that was created in
Canada to recruit and provide basic training for the overseas Expeditionary Force after 1917; The 1st Central
Ontario Regiment was basically a reinforcement unit based in Canada, and an umbrella organisation, which
included other battalions. It fed soldiers into the system in a directed manner; Drafted under the Military
Service Act of 1917, Oliver James Kingdon was medically examined in Toronto on 10.10.1917 & probably
called up for service on 26.04.1918 in Toronto; He was a single Farmer living in Weston, Toronto & aged 21
years & 4 months at the time; I believe that this is Oliver James Kingdon born 24.12.1896 in Weston, York
County, Ontario, the son of John Francis Kingdon, b.14.08.1866 Etobicoke, Ontario & Arabella Gracie or
Gracey, b.in 1869 in Ontario, who were Married on 15.01.1896 in York County, Ontario, Canada; (I believe
that his Grandparents were James Kingdon b.14.03.1827 in Devon, England & Catherine McKnight
b.15.03.1837 in Ireland who married on 24.03.1856 in Toronto; James Kingdon emigrated to Canada from
England in 1855; This needs more research); I cannot find Oliver James Kingdon’s family in 1901 Census; In
the 1911 Census for Etobicoke, York County, Ontario Oliver James Kingdon lives with his parents & next
door to his future wife’s family; After his WW1 service, Oliver James Kingdon Married Alice Elizabeth Sims
on 08.09.1920 in Weston, York County – he is a Farmer & she is a School Teacher; His wife was born in
Ontario on 06.04.1899;
Kingdon, Oliver Wissler: Royal Air Force, #1196221, WW2;
Notes: This is Oliver Wissler Kingdon born on 16.01.1922 in Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire the son of Fletcher
Monroe Kingdon, a Schoolteacher, b.1890 in Pateley Bridge & Letitia May Wissler b.1894 Leeds who married
in St Martin’s Church, Potternewton in Leeds on 15.09.1920; Oliver Wissler Kingdon served in the Royal Air
Force in WW2 & was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (#120149) on the 20 th August 1942; On
17.04.1952 Oliver Wissler Kingdon Married Joan Dyer Frazer, the second daughter of Lt. Colonel & Mrs.
D.R. Frazer in Jersey; I believe that Oliver received other awards during his life for Public & Political Services
in 1993; I understand that Oliver Wissler Kingdon Died in 1995 in Nottingham Aged 73; (He was the son of
Kingdon, Fletcher Monroe: Army Service Corps No: T/401 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
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Kingdon, Paul Kent: #13556, Sapper, New Zealand Field Engineers, Divisional Signaling Company, New
Zealand Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This is Paul Kent Kingdon born 1895 in New Zealand, the son of Thomas Medland Kingdon b.1859
New Zealand, a Sheep Farmer, & Emma Eleanora Reimenschnieder, who married in ca.1894 (she was the
daughter of a German Missionary who had been in New Zealand since 1843); In 1896 this Kingdon Family
are recorded as Settlers, living in Mangaone, Pahiatua; In 1900, 1905 & 1906, they are in Mangaone, Pahiatua,
Manawatu-Wuanganui; In the 1911 & 1914 Electoral Rolls they are Farming in Levin, Otaki, Wellington; Paul
Kent Kingdon joined for WW1 Service in early 1916; He embarked from Wellington in New Zealand for
Plymouth or Devonport in England on board either the ‘HMNZT 55 Tofua’ on 27.05.1916 or the ‘HMNZT 54
Wilochra’; He served with the New Zealand Field Engineers in Europe & was wounded in January 1917; He
was reported as being dangerously & seriously ill from 31.01.1917 to 02.03.1917 when he was taken off the
seriously ill Lists; Sapper Paul Kent Kingdon returned home to New Zealand on 06.05.1918 with Draft #159;
In 1919 he was an Engineer living at #9, Priestley Road, Napier, Hawke’s Bay; Paul Kent Kingdon Married
Rosina Emily Judd in 1921, she was b.1894 in Carterton, Wairarapa; In 1928 they lived in Marine Terrace,
Bayswater, Waitemata, Auckland; In 1935 they are recorded twice, as an Engineer at #36, Nile Street, Nelson
& as a Traveller at #61, Cowper Street, Greymouth, Westland; In 1938 Paul Kent Kingdon is recorded as a
Draughtsman at #104, The Terrace, Wellington North; In 1946 & 1949 they are both recorded living at #9,
Boucott Terrace, Wellington Central, Paul is an Engineer; In 1954 & 1957 they are living at #222, The
Terrace, Wellington Central; In 1963 Paul Kent Kingdon has Retired & they still live at #222, The Terrace,
Wellington; I believe that Rosina Emily Kingdon died on 25.11.1963 Aged 69; In 1969 & 1972 Paul Kent
Kingdon, Retired, lives at #57, Skerman Street, Marton, Rangitkei, Manawatu-Wanganui; In 1978 he is
recorded as Retired at #61/63, Allendale Road, Mt Albert, Auckland but also recorded at Retired #57, Skerman
Street, Marton, Rangitkei, Manawatu-Wanganui; In the 1981 Electoral Roll he is Retired, living at #20/30
Bond Street, Merton Rangitikei; I understand that Paul Kent Kingdon Died on 10.01.1986 in Marton; Paul
Kent Kingdon was a Design Engineer & Artist, also a Member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts &
this family are well documented in the Kingdon Book ‘A Second Look’ dated 1974); (He was the son of
Kingdon, Thomas Medland: #29419, ‘E’ Company, 1st Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 12th
Reinforcements, WW1);
Kingdon, Percival: Royal Engineers No: 449101 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Served also with The Glamorgan Yeomanry as #90100 & Lovat Scout’s (probably as an attached
Sapper) with the regimental number of #126716; Promoted to L/Cpl with the RE’s; This is Percival Kingdon
born ??; Medals Card on file; Insufficient information to be certain of which Percival Kingdon?
Kingdon, Percy: Devonshire Regiment No: 267684 Rank: Acting Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served # 368786 with Royal Engineers; When he first enlisted he was given #4603; Born Percy
Edward Kingdon in 1884 South Molton, son of John Keys Kingdon, a Cabinet Maker, b.1844 South Molton
& Mary Webber Greenslade from Charles, Devon who Married in 1868 in South Molton; They lived in Duke
Street, South Molton in 1891 & in 1901 Percy Edward Kingdom was a Carpenter; In 1911 Percy Edward
Kingdon is aged 28, is a Cabinet Maker & living with his parents at #13, Duke Street, South Molton; Percy
Kingdon enlisted on 21.06.1916 in South Molton aged almost 32 years; Served at Home from 21.06.1916 to
20.07.1916, served in India from August 1916 to November 1917 & served in Mesopotamia from November
1917 to February 1919; He served attached to the Royal Engineers and then was compulsorily transferred to
the ‘Sappers’ on 01.01.1918; He was examined for discharge in Baghdad on 21.02.1919 & discharged in UK
on 03.05.1919; Recorded as an Absent voter in 1919 list for South Molton, Devon; Medals Card on file; (He
was the Brother of Kingdon, Frank G: Devonshire Regiment No: 317 Rank: Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11
Also Recorded as: Kingdon, F: Devonshire Regiment No: 317 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/24);
Kingdon, Percival Hocking: #290562, 7th Battalion Devonshire Regiment & #R2564 Leading Seaman, Royal
Navy, ADM 339/1, WW1;
Notes: This is probably Percival Hocking Kingdon who’s records are marked up with service with the 7th (C)
Devons & later the 2/7th on 18.05.1916; (2/7th (Cyclist) Battalion formed at Totnes in October 1914 but
remained in the UK throughout the war, moving to Sevenoaks in 1916, Margate in 1917 and Southminster in
1918. By November 1918 this unit was at Maldon & then under the orders of 73rd Division from October 1917
to January 1918); The records indicate that Percival Hocking Kingdon’s Army enlistment date was on
01.11.1915 for 4 years service in the UK with the allocated #2196, at the age of 22 years & then #290562; On
14.06.1917 Percival Hocking Kingdon then appears to have been discharged from the Devon Regiment for reenlistment in the Royal Navy where he appears to have served until the end of the War; At the time of his
Army discharge in 1917, he had served 1 year & 226 days in the Army at Home Stations in the UK; I then
researched in Royal Naval files & found Percival Hocking Kingdom, born 28.05.1893, serving as #R/2564
Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, Acting Leading Seaman paid, & Leading Seaman, see Catalogue Ref: ADM
339/1; ADM 171/127 records him as Acting Petty Officer, #R/2564; This is Percival Hocking Kingdom born
1893 in Plymouth, the son of James Hocking b.1867 in Plymouth & Mary Grace Coghlan or Mary Elizabeth
Higgs b.1868 in Plymouth who married in 1886 in Plympton St Mary; (In 1891 Census James Kingdom, a
Fisherman, b.1867 Plymouth & Mary Ann ?? b.1868 Exeter live at #11, Lambhay Street, Plymouth); In 1901
Percival Hocking, Aged 8 lives with his parents James & Mary Hocking in Plymouth, his Father is a Boatman;
In 1911 Percival Hocking, Aged 17 lives with his parents James & Mary Ann Hocking (b.1869 in Exeter) at
#11, Lambhay Street, Plymouth, his Father is a Seaman; Following the War, I understand that Percival H
Kingdom may have Married Sarah E. Blight in Devonport in 1923; I believe that Percival H Kingdom died in
1938 in Plymouth Aged 44; I was having great problems with the name Hocking Kingdom as some records
have simply Hocking, despite Percival’s records giving James Hocking Kingdom of #11, Lambhay Street,
Plymouth? ADM 171/127 for the Royal Naval Reserve issue of WW1 Medals has a record for Percival H.
Kingdom, Acting Petty Officer, #R/2564, Awarded the Victory & British War Medals; I have not researched
this man further; (Probably related to Kingdom, Charles Michael Steer: #272243, Engine Room Artificer,
Royal Navy; (Became an Officer, Engineering Lieutenant Commander); ADM 188/437 & ADM 171/107);
Kingdom, Percival John: #Z/1801, Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, Royal Naval Reserve, Wales Division,
WW1; ADM 337/86 & ADM 339/1; Transferred from the Kingdom List;
Notes: This is Percival John Kingdon born 13.04.1897 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales; This is probably the
son of Noel Kingdon, a Tailor b.1870 in Mumbles, Glamorgan & Eva Leonard Grant from Cardiff who
Married in 1892 in Gower; In 1901 Census Percival Kingdon is living with his parents at #22, Park Place,
Swansea; In 1911 Census Percy Kingdon is aged 13 & lives with his parents in #25, Park Place, Brynmill,
Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales; Percival John Kingdon Married Jeannie Elizabeth Irvine in 1919 in Carlisle,
England; In 1944 I understand that they lived in Lonlas, Skewen, Neath in Wales; I believe that Percival J.
Kingdon Died in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1968 Aged 71; ADM 171/127 records #W.Z/1801, AB
Percival J. Kingdon was Awarded the WW1 Victory & British War Medals; (He was the Father of Ronald
Noel Kingdon, #6462880, Fusilier, 12th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) who Died
18.04.1944 in WW2);
Kingdon, Percy: Royal Field Artillery No: 28726 Rank: Bombardier 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes; This is Percival Henry Kingdon born in 4th Q 1884 in Gloucester; He is the son of Alfred A. William
Kingdon b.1861 Bradninch & Emily Aldridge of St Mary Church Road, Torquay; His Father was a Domestic
Gardener in 1891 & a Cycle Agent Repairer in 1901; In 1891 & 1901 he lived with his parents in St Mary
Church, Torquay, Devon; He was a Cycle Fitter when he enlisted on 17.11.1902 in Devonport, Extended his
Service to 8 Years in 1904, Served in India from 19.10.1906 to 23.12.1910, Transferred to Army Reserve on
23.12.1910 & intended living at #32, Ellacombe Terrace, Ellacombe, Torquay; In 1911 Census he is recorded
as an Army Clerk living with his mother Emily, a Nurse Attending at #32, Ellacombe Road, Tormohan,
Torquay; Re-engaged on 07.07.1914 in Sheffield; Home based until 19.03.1915, posted to ME Force Egypt on
20.03.1915 until 29.08.1916; Returned Home on 30.08.1916; He suffered a Gun Shot Wound to his Right Leg
& Arm on 28.06.1915 in Gallipoli; He Served in France in 1917; In 1917 his Wife lived at #52 Ecclesall Road,
Sheffield; In 1918 his wife lived at #107 Eldon Street, Sheffield; He was Discharged 14.01.1919; He had
Married Emily Olive Jeffery b.1892 in Sheffield on 04.07.1914 in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire West Riding;
Percival Henry Kingdon died in Sheffield in 1934 Aged 49; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of
Kingdon, Alfred Gerald: Royal Army Service Corps No: M2/079207 Rank: Private, served in WW1 also);
Kingdon, Percy: Dorsetshire Regiment No: 30957 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1;
Private Percy Kingdon is remembered with Honour
in Hautmont Communal Cemetery in France; His Name
also appears on the Littleham & Northam War Memorial in Devon;
Notes: Private Percy Kingdon
#27670, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment
who died aged 19
on 12th
September 1918, Son of John and Alice Ann Kingdon, of Heale Lodge, Littleham, Bideford, Devon; Also
served as #30957 Dorset Regiment; Percy Kingdon was born 2nd Q 1899 Bideford 5b.462, in Littleham, the
Son of John Kingdon b.1869 Landcross & Alice Ann Shortridge from Bulmercott who married in 1892; In
1901 he lived with his parents in Littleham, Devon; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Percy: Private, #5030, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division; ADM 159/69; (Late
1880’s period);
Notes: The ADM records have Percy Kingdon born 06.04.1870 (no birthplace mentioned), but I have failed to
find any Kingdons who would match this name or profile? The RMLI records have him Enlisting in the
Plymouth division on 06.08.1889 but again I can find no record of him in any Census? Awarded the WW1
British War Medal; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, Percy James: Class ‘D’, 2nd Division Reservist, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1917, WW1;
Notes: This is Percy James Kingdon born in 1875 in Cornwall, England, the son of James Kingdon, b.1844 in
Advent, Cornwall, England & Elizabeth Jane Wendon, b.1848 in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, who had married in
Cornwall, England in 1868 & sailed with young Percy J Kingdon & the rest of their family on 09.09.1879 from
England to New Zealand on board the ‘Famenoth’, arriving in Cambridge West in 1880, where he established
a Blacksmith’s business on the corner of Shakespeare & Cook Streets; (His Grandparents, Jonathan Kingdon
& Mary Orchard Hill had arrived in New Zealand from Cornwall, England in 1872 on the ‘Celestial Queen’);
(I understand that one of Percy’s brothers, Samuel Wendon Kingdon, died by drowning in a river at a
Wesleyan Picnic in 1883 at the age of 12 years); Percy James Kingdon lived with his parents in Cambridge
West as a Compositor in 1896 & 1900; In 1905 & 1906 Percy James Kingdon is recorded in Whangarei,
working as a Printer; Percy James Kingdon Married Corinth Marie Louise Mullions on 29.09.1909 & in 1911
they are recorded living in Victoria Road, Cambridge; In 1914 Percy James & Corinth Marie Louise Kingdon
are living in Cameron Road, Tauranga; In August, September, October of 1917 Percy James Kingdon
registered for WW1 Service with the 2nd Division, New Zealand Expeditionary Force & was classified in
‘Class D’, having 3 children; There are no other military records for this soldier but I do not believe that he
actually served in WW1; In 1919 they live at the same address in Tauranga, Percy James is a Printer; His
Father died around 1919; In 1928, 1935, & 1938, Percy James & Corinth Marie Louise Kingdon live in
Devonport Road, Tauranga & he is working as a Printer; In 1946 they have moved to #31, Eleventh Avenue,
Tauranga, where they remained in 1949, 1954, 1957; I believe that Percy James Kingdon died in 1962 Aged
86 & his wife went to live in New Lynn at #21, Heaphy Street, SW3, she is recorded as being Retired; I
understand that Corinth Marie Louise Kingdon Died in 1966; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Irwin
Wendon: Private, #48650, ‘A’ Company, Auckland Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force,
WW1): (He was the Brother of Archibald Henry Kingdon, 2nd Division New Zealand Reservist, WW1): (He
was the Brother of Dick Kingdon, 2nd Division New Zealand Reservist, WW1): This family could be
researched further;
Kingdon, Percy Walter Frank: Devonshire Regiment No: 30410 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11,
WW1;
Notes: This is Percy Walter Frank Kingdon Born 14.10.1893 in Exeter, son of Walter Frank Kingdon b.1860
Exeter & Emily Denham who Married in Exeter in 1888; Percy Kingdon lived with his parents in Exeter in
1901, his Father was a GWR Railway Engine Cleaner; I believe that Percy Walter Frank Kingdon enlisted on
31.11.1916 & Served in France; He was Commissioned on 27.08.1918 to 2 nd Lieutenant in the Devonshire
Regiment; His Medals were sent to #77, Hoopern, Exeter, Devon 1920/23? I believe that Percy W. F. Kingdon
Married Lavinia May Twitchin b.1899 from St Thomas, Exeter in 4th Q 1920 in Exeter; In 1976 they lived at
#6 Hanbury Court, Hanbury Road, Clifton, Bristol; Percy Walter Frank Kingdon Dies in 1978 in Bristol Aged
84; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Peter: Mariner, Pay Book #161, Royal Navy; ADM 48/50/157 & ADM 142/7; (1792- 1795 period);
Notes: The Registers of Seamen’s Wills has records for Peter Kingdon, Mariner, Pay Book #161, Serving
onboard ‘HMS Europa’, firstly at Plymouth Dock [Stoke Damerel] Devon in 1792 & secondly with a date of
14.11.1795; The Executor of ‘HMS Europa’ seamen’s wills was Richard Williams, Captain of Marines; I have
no other information; In addition, Services Reunited web site on the internet has a record for Peter Kingdon,
Mariner in 1795 having served in the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, Peter: Soldier under Sir John Acland in 1680 – File QS/128/114/4 Devon Records Office; (1680);
Notes: In the records for Silverton there is reference to a Soldier, Peter Kingdon, a Tailor & Soldier under Sir
John Acland being Maimed in 1680; I have no idea who this is?
Kingdon, Philip Henry: 226th Overseas Battalion, No: 100529 Rank: Private Canadian Over-Seas
Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This is Philip Henry Kingdon born 11.04.1892 in Newton Nottage, Glamorgan, Wales, a son of John
Kingdon, a Greengrocer, b.1862 in Newton Nottage, Glamorgan & Mary Wylde from Laleston, Glamorgan,
who married in 1888 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales; (Grandson of John Kingdon b.1830 North Molton,
Devon & Mary Rees from Newton, Glamorgan, Wales & Great Grandson of Philip Kingdon b.1801 North
Molton & Ann Smith b.1804 North Molton); In 1901 Philip Hy. Kingdon lived with his parents in Church
Street, Newton Nottage, Glamorgan; In 1911 Philip H. Kingdon is living with his parents at Chestnut Cottage,
Newton, Glamorgan, Wales, working as a Builder’s Labour with his Father; Philip Henry Kingdon then
shipped to Canada aged 21 to take up work as a Farm Labourer onboard the ‘SS Tunisian’ in 1913 with his
younger brother Albert John Kingdon; He registered for WW1 service on 02.02.1916 in Canada & was sent off
to War; He served overseas in France as L/Cpl P. Kingdon #1000529 of the 16th Battalion, Canadian OverSeas Expeditionary Force; I presume that he served in Europe as he was returned to Canada as a Convalescent
Case in 1919 with a Debility & Gun Shot Wounds to his thighs, onboard the vessel ‘SS Essequibo’ from
Liverpool, England to Portland, Maine, USA & subsequently to Winnipeg; There is no Medals Card; (He was
the Brother of Kingdon, Eustace W: Welsh Regiment No: 59624 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He
was the Brother of Kingdon, Albert John: 226th Overseas Battalion, No: 100873 Rank: Private Canadian
Over-Seas Expeditionary Force); (He was the brother of Kingdon, Arthur R, (Richard Arthur Kingdon):
Royal Welsh Fusiliers No: 75494 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, who Died in WW1 on 14.06.1918 in
Flanders); I have not followed up on any further research;
R
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, R: #94144, Royal Air Force in WW1;
Notes: The Muster Roll for the Royal Air Force in WW1 records a #94144 Kingdon R. who enlisted &
transferred from the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) on 01.07.1916; Insufficient information to enable
identification;
Kingdon, R. A: Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, WW1;
Notes: The London Gazette Supplement dated 16.10.1915 has reference to the Reverend R.A. Kingdon,
temporary chaplain to the Forces, 4th class, relinquishing his commission on 07.10.1915; I have no other
information on this Chaplain except that he was a member of the Catholic Movement & the Society of the
Holy Cross; (Amongst Members of the Society who engaged early in War Work were the Revds. R. A. Kingdon
and C. F. Kempson, who in November, 1914, were reported to be on Active Service with the troops and asking
for the prayers of the Society. At a later period seven Brethren were doing Chaplain's duty with the Forces,
and before the War closed many others were engaged in various duties, while in 1917 the Secretary (F. H.
Glaister) was designated by his bishop for War Work in France and the Assistant Secretary (L. T. S. Barrett)
was engaged in naval duties); Needs further research;
Kingdon, Ralph: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 124087 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Ralph John Kingdon born in 1886 in Cardiff; Ralph Kingdon was aged 30 when he was called
up in Swansea on 26.10.1916, deemed to have been enlisted 03.03.1916, & was a Warehouse Foreman living
at #36, Rosehill Terrace, Swansea, Wales; At enlistment he gave his next of Kin as Isaac Kingdon (b.1861
Garndiffaith, Monmouthshire & Sarah Davies from Blackwood, Monmouthshire, who married in Pontypridd
on 14.05.1883), living in Rosehill Terrace, Swansea; Ralph later married Evelyn Mary Saunders, b.05.12.1890
in Whitchurch, Herefordshire, in St Paul’s, Mill Hill, Middlesex on 24.02.1917; He served in France; He was
promoted to Lance Bombardier & then Bombardier at time of discharge on 31.01.1919; He left for France
from Southampton on 28th March 1917 and disembarked at Le Havre on 29th March 1917. He was in a field
hospital from 8th to 14th December 1918, listed as Sick. Having served in France he was discharged on 31 st
January 1919. He was awarded the British War and Victory medals; Prior to his Army service, in 1891 Ralph
John Kingdon lived with his parents at #26, Tenant Street, Canton, Cardiff; In 1901 Ralph lived with his
parents at #70, Stockland Street, St Mary Cardiff & he was an Apprentice Printer; In 1911 the family lives in
Swansea & Ralph is single, aged 24 & an Assistant in a Household Provisions Shop; Ralph Kingdon Died in
Swansea in 1959 Aged 72; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Thomas: Army Service Corps
No: M2/035242 Rank: WO Class 2 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served in WW1);
Kingdon, Ralph Henry: #772493 Private, 125th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: The 125th Battalion was a unit raised for service in WW1 & was based in Brantford, Ontario, Canada;
The unit began recruiting in 1915 throughout Brant County & sailed to England in August 1916; This unit was
absorbed into the 8th Reserve Battalion on 16.04.1918; This is Ralph Henry Kingdon born 02.04.1897 in
South Bend, Indiana, USA (some records have 02.04.1898); He is the son of Francis (Frank) Henry Kingdon,
an Engine Moulder, b.03.04.1871 in Syracuse, New York, USA & Elizabeth (Lizzie) Cleora Peffley, b.1873 in
Indiana, USA (her family line is American/Dutch), who were Married on 10.06.1896 in South Bend, Indiana,
USA; In the 1901 Census Ralph H Kingdon lived with his parents in Brantford, Brant South, Ontario, Canada
& they lived next door to his Grandparents also, (for my family research the Grandfather is probably John
Hamlin Kingdon born 1843 in South Molton, Devon, England who emigrated to the USA in 1865); At the age
of 18 years & 7 months Ralph Henry Kingdon Enlisted in Brantford on 27.12.1915 for service with the 125 th
Battalion, CEF; He gave his address as #90, Arthur Street, Brantford, Ontario, his occupation as a Clerk & his
Father as his NOK; Ralph Henry Kingdon appears to have lived in the USA from 1923 to 1935, he was
previously living in America from 1898 to 1904 according to the records; On 04.11.1924 Ralph Henry
Kingdon Married Emily Pearl Freunt, (b.1899 in Ontario), in Brantford, Brant South, Ontario, Canada & I
believe that they went to live in Detroit, Michigan soon afterwards; In 1930 Ralph Henry & Emily Kingdon
live in Detroit, he is a draughtsman for an electrical company & is recorded as a WW1 Veteran on the Census;
I believe that Ralph Henry Kingdon crossed the Canadian/USA border again on 18.10.1935 at the age of 37
years & 6 months to perhaps take up permanent residence in Pinehurst, Detroit, Michigan as an Engineer;
Kingdon, Raymond William: #255887, 2nd Lieutenant, Corps of Royal Engineers, WW2;
Notes: The London Gazette Supplement for 05.03.1943 has reference to Cadet Raymond William Kingdon to
be promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers on 20.12.1942, (page 1068), but I have no other
information; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, Reginald Charles: #M/18224, Cook’s Mate, Royal Navy; ADM 188/1054, WW1;
Notes: This Sailor’s Official Number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1915 & 31.12.1915; This is
Reginald Charles Kingdon, born 13.06.1896 in St German’s, Cornwall, according to the ADM records,
however, I have Reginald Kingdon birth registration 1st Q 1897 in St Germans; (There is a Reginald Charles M
Kingdon born in Kingsbridge, Devon in 3rd Q 1896); He was probably the son of Alfred Burlace Kingdon
(b.1853 Maker, Cornwall who died on 31.03.1937 in Cornwall) & Helena Augusta Cotton Cock from Gosport,
Portsmouth who married in East Stonehouse in 1876; In the1901 Census Reginald Kingdon, Aged 4, lived
with his parents in Millpool, Cawsand, Rame, Cornwall; In the 1911 Census Reginald Kingdon Aged 14 lived
with his parents at the same address in Cawsand; I understand that Reginald Charles Kingdon Married Rose
Lily Sarah Eldridge, (b.1893 in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight), in 1923 in St Germans, Cornwall; I believe that
Reginald C Kingdon Died Aged 31 in 1927 in St Germans, Cornwall; Awarded the Victory Medal & the
British War Medal; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Henry: Royal Navy, #M/7421, 2nd Class Shipwright;
ADM 188/1032; - Died in WW1);
Kingdon, Richard: Royal Field Artillery No: 2274 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Records have Richard Kingdom #2274 of the 5th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery but he signs
his papers both as Kingdon & as Kingdom; Also served as #950940 C Battery, 56 Brigade, Royal Field
Artillery; This is Richard Kingdon born 1898 in Peckham, London, the son of Richard George Kingdon
(some records have him as George Richard Kingdon), a Print Compositor, b.1861 in Holborn & Mary Annie
Stoneman from the Strand, London who married in Lambeth on 18.04.1881; The London School Records for
Cator Street School in Southwark have his birth date as 26.08.1898 & his Admission Date at the age of 3 years
as 26.08.1901, (they also have his correct address as #28, Cator Street, Camberwell but record his Father
incorrectly as Charles); Richard Kingdom stayed at this school until at least 1903; In 1901 Census Richard
lives with his parents in #28, Cator Street, Camberwell, London; In the 1911 Census Richard is aged 12 &
living with his Widowed Mother at #28, Cator Street, Camberwell, his Father had died in 1910 Aged 47;
Richard Kingdom enlisted in Kennington for 4 years service in the United Kingdom & was embodied &
posted to the 2/13th Battery, 5th London Brigade at Paddington Stables, on 08.02.1915; His address was given
as #2, Bagshot Street, Walworth London SE, he was aged 19 years & his trade was a Warehouseman; This
soldier then served until 02.02.1919, including time spent in France from 21.06.1916 until 05.01.1919, when
he was Disembodied on Demobilisation; Richard Kingdom had served with RFA Horses & as a Motor Driver;
Richard Kingdon gave his next of kin as his mother, Mrs. Annie Kingdom as we know from the 1911 Census
that his Father had died by the time he enlisted; Medals Card on file; (He was the Brother of Kingdom,
Robert G: Royal Field Artillery No: 208295 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11; Also recorded as:
Kingdom, George Robert WO 372/23 – but his MIC card has been officially altered to Kingdon);
Kingdon, Richard: Army Service Corps No: DM2/227991 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The prefix DM2 before the Regimental Number was for the Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport
Learners, this prefix was discontinued in November of 1916; Medals Card on file; Insufficient information;
Kingdon, Richard: Book 1670, Exeter, Devon Militia for 1803;
Notes: The Devon: Exeter Militia List for 1803 has reference to a Richard Kingdon, a Draper who was willing
to learn to use arms & may have served in the Militia; In 1803 Richard Kingdon was aged 31 (born ca.1772) &
single; Not identified further;
Kingdon, Richard: Mariners Will in 1692; PROB 11/408;
Notes: There are records of a Mariners Will for Richard Kingdon of Stepney Middlesex dated 17.03.1692,
although I believe that this was probably 1691; Richard Kingdon left all to his mother Alice Kingdon of
Stepney & granted admon to his widow, Alice of Stepney; I believe that this Mariner was probably from
Dartmouth originally although I failed to identify him; (Probably the Brother of another Mariner from 1682,
Robert Kingdon); Needs more research;
Kingdon, Richard: Private, Driver, #16357, Army Service Corps, Australian Imperial Force, WW1;
Notes: There are more records for this soldier in the Australian Military Files; This is Richard Vincent
Kingdon born in 1894 in Carlton, Victoria, Western Australia; He is the son of Richard Kingdon, an Iron
Moulder, & Agnes Clara Byrnes of Woodbridge Terrace, Midland Junction, Western Australia; Richard
Kingdon enlisted in Perth aged 23 years & 3 months, he was a Saddler by trade & attested for the Army on
26.10.1917; He had previously served with the Citizen Force, 88th Infantry in Australia; During his WW1
Service he served in France & Belgium from 15.09.1918 until 1920 when he was returned to Australia on
board the troopship ‘Bremen’; (In 1919 in Belgium he was charged for cantering a horse on a paved road, was
insolent to an NCO & was not wearing his ID Discs, all contrary to good order & military discipline); I believe
that Richard Vincent Kingdon Married Carrie Elizabeth Lord Salter, an English girl, on 31.10.1919 in Bath,
Somerset, England; Richard Kingdon returned to Australia on the ‘Bremen’ on 14.06.1920 & was discharged
from the Army on 14.08.1920; In 1925 Richard Vincent & Carrie Elizabeth Kingdon lived in Doyle Street,
Cottesloe Beach, North Fremantle, Western Australia & he was working as a Barman; In 1931 & 1937 this
family lived in #35, Johnson Street, Peppermint Grove, Claremont, Fremantle & he was a Fitter’s Assistant; In
1943 & 1949 this family lived at #23, Ord Street, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia & he was a Labourer; In
1954 & 1958 this family lived in North Lake Road, Melville, Fremantle & he was a Civil Servant; I understand
that this family may well have still been living in Fremantle as late as 1980? Awarded the 1914-15 Star, British
War Medal & the Victory Medal; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, William Matthew: #2939, Private,
Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force; who Died in WW1);
Kingdon, Richard: Private, 7th Hussars (Queen’s Own) – Died in the 1857-1858 Indian Mutiny;
Notes: This Soldier served in the Indian Mutiny in the Field at Oudh, East Indies from 04.02.1858 to
13.06.1858 including the Siege of Lucknow from 16th March 1858; He did not serve in the capture of Delhi &
did not serve in the Defence of Lucknow; Richard Kingdon Died on 13.06.1858 in India; Awarded the Indian
Mutiny Medal & the Lucknow Clasp, but these were returned due to his death; Insufficient information to
identify further;
Kingdon, Richard Clyde: #1517924, Gunner, 16th Battery, L.H.A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery; Died at
Dunkirk in WW2;
Notes: This is Richard Clyde Kingdon born in 1919 in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales; He was the son of Thomas
Henry Kingdon, a Butcher b.01.06.1878 in Neath, & Agnes Wyatt, b.06.09.1881 in Port Talbot, Wales who
Married in Bethany Chapel, Port Talbot, Glamorgan on 04.07.1904; Gunner Richard Clyde Kingdon Died
during WW2, between 31.05.1940 & 02.06.1940, Aged 21, at the Defence & Evacuation of British & Allied
Forces at Dunkirk in Europe & he is Remembered With Honour in the Dunkirk Memorial in France, Column
13; He is also remembered on the Pontardawe Roll of Honour in Glamorgan, Wales; At the time of his death,
his parents were living at Cilybebyll in Glamorgan, Wales; Awarded the 1939-45 Star & the 1939-45 War
Medal;
Kingdon, Richard Henry: Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force Enlistment in 1916, Canada, WW1;
Notes: I have no Regimental Number or Unit information for this soldier & subsequently no other records than
his Enlistment Form, which has a reference to #1027101; I believe that this is Richard Henry (Harry)
Kingdon born 10.11.1880 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; He was the son of George Samuel Kingdon, a
Cooper, b.16.12.1842 in Peterborough, Ontario & Sarah Elizabeth Rook b.26.07.1849 in Ontario, who Married
on 17.05.1870 in Newburgh, Ontario; (I believe that his Grandparents were William Kingdon, a Cooper,
b.1806 in Chawleigh, Devon, England (who emigrated pre 1838) & Theresa Thirza Corneil b.1816 in Ireland,
who emigrated to Canada in 1824/1825; I believe that they Married pre 1840 in Ontario); In 1881 Census
Richard H Kingdon is aged 5 months & lives with his parents in West Peterborough, Ontario; In 1891 Richard
Henry Kingdon aged 10 years lives with his parents in West Peterboro; In 1901 Census There is a Henry
Kingdom aged 21 who fits Richard Henry Kingdon’s profile lodging as a Barber in East Toronto, Ontario; On
15.06.1903 in Peterboro, Ontario Richard Henry Kingdon, a Barber, Marries Ethel Sarah, or Sarah Ethel,
Montgomery (she was born 04.02.1883 in Bridgenorth, Ontario); In 1911 Census Henry & Ethel Kingdon live
in Peterboro West, he is a Barber & they already have 3 of their 5 children living with them at that time; On
08.06.1916 at the age of 35 years Richard Henry Kingdon enlisted in the Canadian Army for WW1 but I have
no way of knowing if he served? He gave his wife’s name Ethel Sarah Kingdon as his NOK & his occupation
as a Barber; I believe that Richard Henry (Harry) Kingdon Died on 22.04.1955 in Peterborough, Ontario,
Canada;
Kingdon, Richard J: South Wales Borderers No: 2095 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: His Regimental number #2095 would indicate an enlistment date between 10.08.1914 & 02.10.1914;
Also served as #200523 with 1/1 South Wales Borderers (The Brecknockshire Battalion) & was promoted to
Sergeant; He served in the 6c Asiatic Theatre of War from 03.07.1915 which was probably the time the
Regiment was moving from Aden back to Bombay & where they stayed for the duration of the War; This
could be Richard James Kingdon born in 1894 in Swansea, the son of James Kingdon b.1861 in Swansea, a
House Painter, & Emma Isabella F. Allen from Leeds who married in Swansea in 1885; In 1901 Census
Richard J Kingdon aged 7 lives with his parents At #23, Wye View Terrace, Builth Road, Llanelwedd,
Radnorshire; In 1911 the family still lives in the same place & Richard James Kingdon is aged 17 & a Timber
Merchant’s Clerk; Medals Card on file; Insufficient records to enable further research of this soldier;
Kingdon, Richard John: 1st Battalion The Welsh Regiment No: #4480, Rank: Private, WW1;
Transferred from the Kingdom List; Kingdom, Richard J: Welsh Regiment No: 2096 Rank: Acting
Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Richard John Kingdon born in the 1st Q 1878 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, the eldest son of
Richard Kingdon b.1854 in Bratton Fleming, Devon & Mary Rees from Swansea who married in 1876;
(Richard John Kingdon is the Grandson of John Kingdon b.1817 Bratton Fleming & Grace Bale b.1815 in
Parracombe); In 1881 & 1891 Census Richard John Kingdon lives with his family in Swansea aged 3 & 13
respectively, his Father is a Police Constable; Richard John Kingdon originally enlisted in Cardiff on
16.11.1894 Aged 18 years and declaring himself as a Labourer. Throughout his service years this soldier was
regularly AWOL from 1894 to 1896 & punished accordingly; He was also an alcoholic & was reported for
violence a number of times; He served at Home from 1894 to 1896; In India from 09.10.1896 to 05.10.1906;
Served in South Africa from 06.10.1906 to 16.04.1909 then at home for 238 days before being posted to Egypt
for 4 years; In 1911 Census he is recorded as a Private Richard Kingdon Aged 33, Single Serving in Cairo,
Egypt with the 1st Battalion The Welch Regiment; In 1912 he suffered from severe Alcoholism & inflicted a
self wound; On 20.02.1914 in Gosport Private Richard John Kingdon requested a Discharge from the Army
after 18 years service. His character is recorded as being ‘Bad’ but he is also ‘honest & hardworking, any
manual labour suiting him’; He is aged 37 Years & 4 Months at this time & intended to live at Yostodwon
Villa, Llandybie, Caermarthen, Wales after his discharge on 07.03.1914; He had served for 19 years & 113
days; He was given a Chelsea Pensioner’s Number of #13652/D & an annual pension; On his Special Reserve,
Short Service, Attestation Papers issued on 07.09.1914, he is Aged 36 years & 9 months, issued #2096 for the
Welsh Regiment & he is posted to the Regiment & appointed Acting Corporal, but this does not last long; In
January of 1915 he absents himself without leave to avoid being sent on active service & is awarded 84 days
detention; He absents himself twice more in 1915, receiving punishments; In 1918 he is posted to the
Regimental Depot & appointed to Corporal again by 21.12.1918; He is transferred to the reserve on
16.03.1919, his address is given as #52, Church Street, Cwmgors, Glamorgan; He had served in England from
07.09.1914 to 18.01.1915; In France at the Front from 19.01.1915 to 14.03.1918, for 3 years & 65 days; He
was Gassed in the trenches on 11.03.1918; He then served back in England for a further 257 days, making a
total of an additional 4 years & 191 days to his previous service; He gave his Father’s address as Richard
Kingdon, Yostodwen Villas, Llandybie, Caermarthen; I believe that Richard John Kingdon dies in West
Glamorgan in 1950 Aged 72; Medals Card on file; (I believe that he was the Brother of Alfred James
Kingdon: Army Service Corps No: TS/742 Acting Farrier Sergeant, who served in the Regular Army also &
then enlisted again in WW1); (Another Brother – William Henry Kingdon b.1878 in Swansea served with a
Militia Unit at some time & may have been in receipt of a Chelsea Pension);
Kingdon, Richard T: Cheshire Regiment No: 53786 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as #23616; Transferred to No.2 Company Western Driver Training, Royal Army Service
Corps as #4T/53913, the T prefix indicating that he served with the Horse Transport section; This is Richard
Thomas (Tom) Kingdon born on 17.10.1899 in Cardiff on his Army Records & in Somerset on the 1911
Census, the son of Richard Kingdon, a Timber Haulier & Coal Labourer, b.1864 in Somerset & Sarah Down
from Canton, Glamorgan who married in Somerset in 1885; In 1901 Census Richard Thomas Kingdon lived
with his parents in Canton, Glamorgan; Richard Thomas Kingdon was aged 17 years & 281 days when he
Attested for Short Service in WW1 on 25.07.1917 in Cardiff, he gave his trade as a Warehouseman & his
address as #36, Andrews Road, Llandaff North, Cardiff, which is where this family lived in the 1911 Census;
Calling himself Thomas Kingdon he first joined for duty on 05.11.1917 in Cardiff as he had been kept on the
Reserve due to his age; He did serve in France in May 1918 & was posted to the Cheshire Regiment on
07.06.1918; In August 1919 he was transferred back to the RASC & finally demobilised on 16.09.1919;
Richard Thomas Kingdon Died in South Glamorgan in 1976 Aged 76; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother
of Kingdon, John: Machine Gun Corps No: 102248 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who may also be
recorded as: Kingdon, John: Welsh Regiment No: 26214 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Robert: Book 1670, 1 Exeter Regiment Volume, Devon Militia for 1803;
Notes: The Exeter Militia List for 1803 has reference to a Robert Kingdon, a Joiner who served in the Militia;
Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, Robert: Royal Army Service Corps No: R4/144435 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The prefix of R4 on his Regimental Number probably refers to his working with a Remounts Section in
the Army Service Corps; Private Robert Kingdon Enlisted with the Royal Army Service Corps on 04.11.1915
at the age of 41 years & 10 months, he gave his trade as Labourer & stated that he was married; He gave his
address as Puriton, Bridgewater, Somerset; His Medal Card indicates that he was probably discharged under
the Silver War Badge system; Further research confirms that he was Discharged on 29.01.1919 under King’s
Regulations Para 392 (xvi) due to Sickness in Woolwich; He is recorded as never having served overseas; This
is probably Robert William Kingdon born 1874/75 in Bedminster, Somerset, the son of Robert Kingdon
b.1850 in West Monkton, Nr. Taunton, Somerset & Mary Ann Edwards b.1850 from Wilton, Nr. Taunton who
married in 1870 in Taunton; In 1881 Census Robert Wm. Kingdon Aged 6 is living with his parents in
Taunton; His Father must have died pre 1891, probably in Wells, Somerset in late 1884 Aged 33, because his
Mother remarried to a Labourer Frederick Clark from Wedmore, Somerset in Taunton in 1885, & in the 1891
Census Robert Kingdon is a Labourer aged 16 & living in Church Street, Puriton, Somerset; In 1901 Census
Robert Kingdon now aged 26 is a Quarry Labourer living with his now Widowed Mother, Mary A Clark) in
Puriton, Somerset; At the time of enlistment in 1915 he gave his Next of Kin as his Daughter Kate Kingdon,
#4, Wembdon Road, Bridgewater at the time of his enlistment, which seems a little odd; The records indicate
that he was married to Flora Annie Chedzey/Chedzoy, (born on 18.12.1878 in Puriton), on 29.09.1902 in
Bridgewater, Somerset; I believe that his other daughters Flora Dorothy Sophia Kingdon was born on
18.04.1903 in Puriton & Lucy Alice Matilda Kingdon born 23.05.1906 in Puriton; In 1911 Census Robert &
Flora Kingdon live in Puriton, he is a Stone quarry Labourer; The census records that they have been married
for 8 years & have 3 children but 1 had died previously; In 1917 he was diagnosed with Corneal Opacities in
both eyes & required glasses; I understand that he was declared No longer physically fit for War Service on
29.01.1919 & was discharged under King’s Regulations Para 392 with a Chronic Rheumatism disability,
having served for 3 years and 87 days, all his military service was in Home stations; I understand that Robert
W Kingdon died in Bridgewater, Somerset in 1942 Aged 67; I believe that his wife died in Taunton in 1975
Aged 96; Awarded the Silver War Medal #511386; No medals but Medals Card on file; (I believe he was the
Son of Kingdom, Robert: Continuous Service #36669A, Royal Navy; ADM 139/767);
Kingdon, Robert: West Yorkshire Regiment No: 21345 Rank: Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in
WW1; Corporal Robert Kingdon #21345, 15th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
who died on 29 September 1918; Remembered with honour Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium;
Notes: This is Robert Kingdon born in Leeds who probably also enlisted in Leeds; There is a Robert Kingdon
born in Leeds in 1898 but I find it hard to believe that this is our man as he would have only been 20 years old
at the time of death & probably too young to have been a Corporal; Medals Card on file; This Soldier needs
more research as insufficient data to follow up accurately; Death was reported in the Craven Herald;
Kingdon, Robert: #31337, Royal Navy; ADM 139/314; (1860-1870 period);
Notes: The Royal Navy Register of Seamen has #31337, Robert Kingdon, born 20.03.1838 in Bristol, having
Volunteered for Service on 01.09.1856; I believe that this is probably Robert Kingdon b.1838 in Bristol,
however, the birth date shown in the Royal Navy files may very well be incorrect as there were no Robert
Kingdon births in Bristol area in 1837 or 1838 that match; He was the son of John Christopher Kingdon, a
Wood Engraver b.1812 in London, & Mary Ann ?? from Alliford, Somerset, who Married ca.1836; In the
1841 Census Robert Kingdon lived with his parents in Square Lane, Bristol St Pauls; In 1851 Census Robert
Kingdon is aged 14, an Errand Boy, living with his parents in Bristol, St Michaels; In 1861 Census Robert
Kingdon is aged 24 & is an Ordinary Seaman serving onboard the 90 Gun ship ‘HMS Caesar’ off Corfu in the
Mediterranean Sea; In 1871 Census Robert Kingdon is aged 35, still single, an Able Seaman serving onboard
‘HMS Danae’, stationed North America & the West Indies, positioned in Bermuda Dock at the time of Census;
I failed to find any definite naval records for this sailor after this period; Needs more research;
Kingdon, Robert: Mariners Will in 1682; PROB 11/408;
Notes: There are records of a Mariners Will for Robert Kingdon of Stepney Middlesex dated 1682; Richard
Kingdon left all to his mother Alice Kingdon of Stepney; I believe that this Mariner was probably from
Dartmouth in Devon originally, although I failed to identify him; In 1680 there was an interesting action in
which the name of Robert Kingdome is mentioned. Apparently this is believed to be the Robert Kingdon who
by his will proved 8 Sept 1682, left all to his mother Alice: “and for the confirmacon thereof doe at the
sealing hereof give as livery & seazon into the hands of her my said loving mother one English peece of Coyne
called by the name of sixpence.” A certain Gregory Sugar was Captain and part owner of the barque “Danby”
bound from the port of London to Tangier, thence to Calio & Venice. The crew included Robert Kingdome,
amongst others: Part of their pay was to be retained in the Captain’s hands until their return to London. They
took cargo & a troop of soldiers to Tangier, discharged there and made for Venice. At Leghorne the defendants
mutinied on the ground that the skipper was not paying their money, & they all deserted. Proceeding very
shorthanded, the ship was attacked by Algerian pirates & owing to the absence of defendants, Captain Sugar
could not defend his ship, so that it became a prize to the pirates & he barely escaped with his life. Returning
overland, the defendants sued the Captain in HM Court at Westminster & “threatened to prosecute him to his
utter ruine unlesse yr Orator will pay them such further wages and Sallarye as by mutuall contract &
agreement were reserved in yr Orator’s hands till ye safe returne of ye Shippe as aforesaid.” The court was
informed “Poor Captain Sugar is destitute, in consequence of the loss of his ship due to the mutiny & cannot
pay them & unless their Lordships intervene he looks like ending his days in the Fleet prison”. I understand
that the crew was eventually paid & that Captain Sugar went on to serve in the Royal Navy; (Probably the
Brother of another Mariner from 1692, Richard Kingdon); Needs more research;
Kingdom, Robert: Royal Navy & RNVR, Rank: Engineer Lieutenant Commander; ADM 196/132/50, ADM
337/122/21 & ADM 337/122/233, WW1;
Notes: I believe that this is Robert Kingdon born on 29.12.1884 in East Budleigh, Devon, birth registered in
1885 in Exeter St Thomas, Devon; If I am correct, then he is the son of Robert Frank Kingdon, a Clerk of
Works b.1852 in East Budleigh, Devon, & Ellen ?? who married in 1879; In the 1891 Census Robert Kingdon
lived with his parents in Lower Budleigh; In the 1901 Census Robert Kingdon was a Boarding Student at
Kings School, Ottery St Mary, Devon; He probably served in the Royal Navy from around 1910 through the
WW1 as an Engineering Lieutenant; I failed to find him in the 1911 Census? I failed to find a Marriage for
him but believe that he married a Mary ?? at some time? In 1916 I understand that Robert Kingdom was a
Temporary Engineering Sub Lieutenant with the Royal Naval Reserve serving on the Yacht “Valhalla”, his
seniority dates from 26.07.1916; On 05.02.1918 he was promoted to Engineering Lieutenant; Robert Kingdom
served on board the Yacht “Valhalla II” in 1917 & the “Wallflower” in 1919; I believe that he retird in 1920
but may have continued serving with the RNVR/RNR until late 1928; Robert Kingdom was living at #7,
Shooters Hill, London SE.18 in the 1940’s & Died in the Stone House Mental Hospital, in Cotton Lane,
Dartford, Kent on 05.02.1948 Aged 63; Probate at his death was given for his wife Mary Kingdom; Awarded
the Britsh & the Victory War Medals; Needs more research:
Kingdon, Robert Claude Hawker: Royal Field Artillery Rank: Second Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11 –
Died in WW1; Second Lieutenant Robert Claude Hawker Kingdon, 123rd Battery, Royal Field Artillery
who died age 27 on 19 April 1917; Son of Frank Hawker Kingdon and Jessie Kingdon, of Bridgerule
Vicarage, Holsworthy, Devon. Remembered with honour Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont -St. Eloi, France;
Notes: Records also state he had service with Royal Horse Artillery & the RFA; This is Robert Claude
Hawker Kingdon born 1890 in Bridgerule, son of Reverend Frank Hawker Kingdon b.1860 in Amersham,
Buckinghamshire & Jessie Freyberg from Belgravia, London who married in 1886 in Richmond, Surrey;
Robert C H Kingdon enlisted on 29.07.1916 I believe; His Will & Probate were administered in 1917 & he left
a sum of 886 pounds to his Father Frank Hawker Kingdon; In 1891 & 1901 Robert C H Kingdon lived with his
parents in the Vicarage in Bridgerule, Devon; In 1909 Robert Claude Hawker Kingdon was at Oxford
University (Hertford) studying Mathematics; In 1911 Robert C.H. Kingdon was a 20 year old Student living
with his Parents in the Vicarage in East Bridgerule, Holsworthy, Devon; Medals Card on file: (He was the
Brother of Kingdon, Frank Denys: Royal Field Artillery Rank: Second Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
(Brother of Bridget Mary Kingdon, Women’s Royal Air Force in 1918);
Kingdom, Robert G: Royal Field Artillery No: 208295 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Transferred from the Kingdom List: Kingdom, George Robert in his Records: Royal Field Artillery No:
208295 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/23, WW1 – Records also have him as Kingdon? Should be
Kingdon;
Notes: This is George Robert Kingdon born 17.01.1886 in Holborn, London, one of 9 children, the son of
Richard George Kingdon or George Richard Kingdon, a Printer, b.1861 in Holborn & Mary Ann Stoneman
from Covent Garden, Strand, London who married on 18.04.1881 in Lambeth; George Robert Kingdon was
Baptised in Holborn in the City of London on 21.02.1886; In 1891 Census George Kingdon lives with his
parents at #69 Mollinson Road, Battersea; On the 10.04.1893 George Robert Kingdom entered Cator Street
School in Southwark, he had previously attended school in Clapham; The family were living at #59, Cator
Street at that time; In 1901 Census George Robert Kingdon lives with his parents in Camberwell & is a Print
Machine Operator, (His Father Died in 1910 Aged 47); In 1911 Census George Kingdom aged 25 lives with
his Widowed Mother at #28, Cator Street, Camberwell, London, he is a Printer’s Assistant; I believe that he
was married on 17.09.1911 to Emily Boyes from Sussex in North Peckham, they had one daughter, Ethel
Agnes Kingdon born 17.05.1912 in Camberwell; Before the War he was a Machine Manager in London;
Gunner George Robert Kingdom #208295 served with the 22nd Reserve Battery Royal Field Artillery & first
joined for duty on 01.01.1916 in Camberwell & was Transferred to the Reserve on 25.02.1919; His Discharge
address was given as #5A, Well Street, Albany Road, Camberwell, London; He was awarded the Military
Medal according to his Pension Sheet in his records; He served in France from June 1917 until September
1918; He appears to have been Gassed in September 1918 in France, he also suffered from Rheumatism; He
was initially treated in the 1st Australian Hospital in Rouen & then transferred to England to the Dundee Royal
Infirmary; I believe that George Robert Kingdon Dies in London in 1948 Aged 63; Medals Card on file; (He is
the Brother of Kingdon, Richard: Royal Field Artillery No: 2274 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11 also
served WW1);
Kingdon, Robert L: Royal Field Artillery No: 1887 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served as a Territorial Soldier T/74311 & #950914 London Brigade & #958174?; This is Robert
Leonard Kingdon born 19.09.1898 in Lambeth, baptised 15.10.1898 in Lambeth St Mary Church, son of
George Kingdon, (a Painter & later a Greengrocer & Fruiterer) b.1872 in Lambeth & Mary Ann Long b.1872
from Lambeth who married in Lambeth on 15.11.1891; In 1901 Census the family lived in #77, Vauxhall
Street, Lambeth; The London School Records indicate Robert L Kingdon aged 3 years, attending Vauxhall
Street School from 25.08.1902 until 27.08.1906 when he went on to the Boys School; In 1911 Census this
family lives at #10, Dollar Street, Vauxhall, Kennington, Lambeth, London & Robert is a Schoolboy; Robert
Leonard Kingdon Enlisted on 02.01.1915 for a term of 4 years as #1887 in the 5th London Brigade, Royal Field
Artillery; His address was then #125, Vauxhall Street, Kennington; Robert Leonard Kingdon obviously served
overseas, was in France from 21.06.1916 until 14.11.1917 & may have been captured at some point; Driver
Robert Leonard Kingdon was eventually Discharged from a Prisoner of War Camp on 11.03.1919 under
King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) for Wounds he had received during his service, he is also on the Silver War
Badge List & his discharge address was #125, Vauxhall Street, Kennington, London; I believe that he was
awarded a pension having been wounded by gun shot on 05.11.1917 & also gas poisoned, captured &
discharged from a Prisoner of War Camp as Surplus to Military Requirements having suffered impairment
since joining the Service, (was this a German POW Camp or a UK POW Camp?); He had served a total of 4
years & 69 days; I believe that Robert Leonard Kingdon Marries Ruth Thring, (baptised 21.01.1903) from
Lambeth in 1926 in Wandsworth & that he Died in Busbridge, Surrey on 28.12.1969 Aged 71; Awarded Silver
War Badge #B330136; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Alfred John: Royal Field
Artillery No: 1788 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Roger: Mariner from Exeter, Will in 1704;
Notes: The Kingdon Family Book records the 1704 Death & Burial in Exeter of Roger Kingdon, a Mariner;
He has 2 Sisters Lany Cherity & Jane Collings & the Executors of his Will were Richard & Mary Kingdon,
however, this is one of the Devon “Lost Wills” & I understand that it was made in 1704 but this date is not
Probate; I have no other information;
Kingdon, Roger: Surgeon, Canadian Militia; (1840’s period);
Notes: There are Canadian Militia Records identifying a Roger Kingdon as the Surgeon serving with the 6th
Battalion, Peterborough Militia who was commissioned on 10.07.1847; I have no other information;
Kingdon, Roger: Royal Engineers Rank: Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Served in France from 20.04.1918; Applied for medals on 25.11.1923, addresses given as #3, The
Terrace, HM Dockyard, Devonport & Chesterfield House, Matlock, Derbyshire; This is Roger Kingdon born
on 03.08.1891 in Blackheath, the son of Zachary Harris Kingdon, a Civil Service Electrical Engineer, b.1856
in Exeter & Florence Kate Brindley from Sheffield, Yorkshire who married on 24.07.1890 in Greenwich,
Kent; In 1901 Roger Kingdon lived with his parents at #6, Belmont Hill in Lee, Lewisham, London; In the
1911 Census Roger Kingdon is aged 19, a Journalist Pupil at college & living with his parents at #5,
Grimstone Villas, Plymouth; Roger Kingdon went to the City of London School & was a Journalist & Foreign
Correspondent; I understand that he also served with the 28th County of London Battalion (Artist’s Rifles),
County of London Regiment (Territorial Force); His promotion from a Cadet with the Artists Rifles, Officer
Training Corps to a Probationary 2nd Lieutenant with the Devon Fortress Engineers, Royal Engineers was
Gazetted on 09.08.1916, but this was later substituted with the rank of Private Roger Kingdon in a later
London Gazette dated 09.11.1916; His promotion to Lieutenant is dated 10.02.1918; On 18.01.1922 the War
Office Gazetted his promotion to Captain, Territorial Forces, Devon (Fortress) Engineers, Corps of Royal
Engineers; I believe that he served with the Royal Engineers on the Western Front & in the Army of
Occupation; I believe that Roger Kingdon worked for the British Council in many places in the World,
including Cairo, Egypt, USA & Uruguay; Roger Kingdon may well have died on 21.05.1984 Aged 92 in
Plymouth; Medals Card on file;
Additional Information – This Officer’s Medals were on sale in 2012;
Notes: Roger Kingdon was born on 3rd August 1891 in Greenwich, and had been educated at the
distinguished City of London School, beginning his working career with the Western Morning News at
Plymouth in 1908. Kingdon enlisted into the 28th Battalion, London Regiment - The Artists Rifles with the
outbreak of the Great War and was latterly commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Royal Engineers seeing
active service in France from 20th April 1918 and suffering from the effects of gas. Relinquishing his
commission on the cessation of hostilities, Kingdon applied for the issue of his medals on 25th November
1923, at the time stating his address as H.M. Dockyard, Devonport, and also Chesterfield House, Matlock,
Derbyshire. Between the end of the Great War and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Kingdon went to
lived in Barcelona, and in the session of 1936-1937 he enrolled as a student at the University College London
Phonetics Department staying on for a further two years when appointed to its teaching staff. During the
Second World War he was posted to the British Council being sent first to Romania, from where he moved to
Cyprus and then to Asyet in Upper Egypt where most of his time between 1941 and 1945 was spent. One
outcome of this was an interesting specimen of Sa'idi Arabic, which he furnished with indications of
intonation. Kingdon's long series of publications on English language teaching and phonetics were to include
specimens of the Tabascan and Zapoteco languages of Mexico to which country he was also posted by the
British Council in 1945. The specimen of the latter language was, like the Egyptian one, accompanied by
intonations, making them probably unique among the International Phonetic Association specimens of nontoneme languages. Although making his home chiefly in Mexico City, Kingdon also spent spells of a year or
more at Montevideo in Uruguay, Bogota in Columbia, and in Santiago de Chile, before retiring to Mexico in
1951. He wrote many articles for the English Language Teaching Journal. From the mid 1960's to 1970's
Kingdon was involved in extensive lexicographical work, and attributed anonymously to the pronunciations of
all 24,000 entries to the 1965 edition of Michael West's International Readers Dictionary, and also worked on
the drafts for the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. In later life he worked was a tutor on the
University of London Summer Schools on English until the age of 78 when he finally retired due to heart
problems. Kingdon died from heart complications when aged 92 on the 21st May 1984. He had remained
remarkably active for one who had come out of the Great War with a pensionable lung condition. This
additional information presented with his Medal sales in 2012; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, John F:
Royal Army Medical Corps No: 434077 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He was also the Brother of
George Bodley Kingdon who served in the Royal Navy & the Royal Air Force from 1929 to 1940); (He was
also the Brother of Kingdon, William Stephen: Served in the Royal Air force in WW1, AIR 76/277); (This
family originates from the Thorverton, Devon line of Kingdons);
Kingdon, Roger Audley: #2698, Private, 28th Battalion, 6th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Force, WW1;
Notes: There are more records contained in the Australian Military Files; This is Roger Audley Kingdon born
1889 in Nelson, New Zealand, the son of Roger William Wellesley Kingdon, a Solicitor, & Annie Evelyn
Curtis, living in Fielding, Oroua, New Zealand; (His original family are from the Thorverton & Exeter, Devon,
Kingdon line); His Father Died Aged 42 in 1903; Roger Audley Kingdon left New Zealand for Australia at an
early age; This soldier enlisted & joined the Australian Army on 20.08.1915 at the age of 27 years, in
Blackboy Hill, Western Australia, his trade was a Miner; I believe that Roger Audley Kingdon served in
Australia & embarked on ‘HMAT Ulysses’ on 02.11.1915 from Freemantle with the 6th Reinforcements, 28th
Infantry Battalion, 7th Infantry Brigade, probably serving at Tel-el-Kebir in Egypt until being sent to France on
14.10.1916 where he became sick for 3 months or more from 16.02.1917; I believe that this soldier was
wounded in action on 04.10.1917 but was returned for duty 7 days later. (On the 27.01.1916 the newspaper
‘The Colonist’ had reported that his brother Sergeant Basil Kingdon had been visiting Nelson on final leave
before being shipped to France & that he was the last of the 3 Kingdon Brothers to go to the Front; Both of his
brothers were serving in Egypt in January 1916, one of which was Roger Audley Kingdon); It appears that he
then absented himself from 26.01.1918 whilst on leave in England & was given 28 days detention; He was
then Court Martialled in the Field in France & charged with Desertion, pleading Not Guilty on 24.06.1918 but
he was eventually found to be Guilty of the lesser charge of Absence Without Leave & was awarded 90 days
in jail for absenteeism whilst on leave in England; Roger Audley Kingdon was returned to Australia on the
Troopship ‘Anchises’ on 10.04.1919 & finally discharged from the Army on 03.06.1919; I believe that Roger
Audley Kingdon had Married Alice Maude Peffers in 1915 in Australia between his Military Enlistment & his
being shipped overseas; In 1925 this family were Farming in Australia; In 1931 Roger Audley Kingdon was
the Postmaster, living in Holyoake, Forrest, Western Australia; In 1949 he had Retired & was living in
Canning, Western Australia; I understand that Roger Audley Kingdon Died on 11.10.1957 in Mandurah,
Western Australia Aged 68; I should note here that one of his twin sons John Kingdon, born 1916, served in
WW2 & Died as a Japanese Prisoner of War & was probably buried in Changi Military Cemetery in
Singapore; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War & Victory Medals; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, John
Stewart: #23/473, Rifleman, ‘B’ Company, 1st New Zealand Rifle Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary
Force, WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, B: New Zealand Rifle Brigade No: 24/1915 Rank: Sergeant
1914-1920 WO 372/24); Could be researched further;
Kingdon, Ronald Noel: 12th Battalion, Royal fusiliers (City of London Regiment) No: 6462880 Rank: Fusilier
1939-1945 – Died in WW2; Fusilier Ronald Noel Kingdon died on 18th April 1944; Remembered with
Honour Sketty (Bethel) Welsh Congregational Chapelyard in Glamorganshire, Wales;
Notes: This is Ronald Noel Kingdon born in 1920 in Swansea, Wales, the son of Percival John Kingdon,
b.13.04.1897 in Swansea & Jeannie Elizabeth Irvine, who Married in Carlisle, England in 1919; Awarded the
1939-45 Star & the 1939-45 War Medals; (He was the son of Kingdom, Percival John: #Z/1801, Ordinary
Seaman, Able Seaman, Royal Naval Reserve, Wales Division, WW1; ADM 337/86 & ADM 339/1);
Kingdon, Roy Raynor: #10/1873, Wellington Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force; - Died in WW1;
Private Roy Raynor Kingdon, #10/1873, Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F. who died age 24 on 16 June 1915 in
Gallipoli; Son of John Holman Kingdon and Elizabeth Jane Kingdon, of Wellington, New Zealand;
Remembered with honour Shrapnel Valley Cemetery in Turkey;
Notes: The New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) was the title of the military forces sent from New
Zealand to fight for Britain during World War 1. Upon the outbreak of war, New Zealand immediately offered
to provide two brigades - one of infantry and one of mounted troops - a total of 8,500 men. This is Roy
Raynor Kingdon a New Zealand citizen, born in 1892, he is the son of John Holman Kingdon who was a
Lawyer & Secretary to the Treasury of the Seddon Government, & Elizabeth Jane Raynor; (Generally this
Kingdon Family emigrated to New Zealand from Holsworthy/Exeter in England around the 1850’s); Private
Roy Raynor Kingdon of the Wellington Infantry Battalion was in the 4th Body or Reinforcement Draft that
sailed from Wellington, New Zealand to Suez, Egypt on 17.04.1915; He was about 24 years of age and lived
for many years with his mother at Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand; For some three years he was
engaged in farming pursuits in Western Australia and returned to New Zealand about 1914; Roy Raynor
Kingdon’s Death, Killed in Action, was reported on 07.07.1915; A brother was serving with the Australian
force; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Henry Rodney Robert: #429, 10th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light
Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial & Expeditionary Force); I have no other records;
S
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, Samuel: Rating, Continuous Service #22684A, Royal Navy; ADM 139/627; (1860’s period);
Notes: There is also a record for this Naval Rating, Samuel Kingdon, born 19.04.1839 Plymouth, Application
to Whitehall on 17.01.1865, no age on entry 7 no dates served given – original page #268? ADM 139/627
records Samuel Kingdon, born 19.04.1839 in Plymouth, a date of volunteering of 26.07.1862 & an official
naval number of #22684A; This number indicates issue between 1859 & 1867 & the suffix ‘A’ would indicate
that he was probably serving prior to 1859; This is probably Samuel Samson Kingdon born 1839 in
Plymouth; He was the son of Richard Kingdon, a Sawyer b.1792 in Maker, Devon, & Dorothy (Dorothea)
Congdon(?) from Calstock, Cornwall who Married ca.1827, probably in Plymouth; In the 1841 Census Samuel
Kingdon lived with his parents in Catherine Street, Plymouth St. Andrew, Devon; In the 1851 Census Samuel
Kingdon was an 11 year old scholar at home with his parents at #24, Gasking Street, Plymouth Charles the
Martyr; I presume that Samuel Kingdon was serving in the Royal Navy in 1861 as I did not find him in that
Census? I believe that Samuel Kingdon Married Susanna (Grace) Gloyn, b.1839 in Stoke Damerel, in Stoke
Damerel in 1862; In the 1871 Census there is a Samuel & Susanna Kingdon, a Storekeeper, living at #13,
Jubilee Street, Charles, Plymouth, Devon; I believe that his wife Susanna Grace Kingdon Died in Plymouth in
1873 Aged 33; From this date I totally lost all members of this family including their daughter, Susanna
Amelia Kingdon b.1865 in Plymouth; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Edmund Joseph: Caulker, Royal
Navy, Continuous Service #7723B & #40313; ADM 139/878 & ADM 188/5); Needs further research;
Kingdon, Samuel: #3620 & #H/47718, Various Cavalry Regiments & Hussars of the Line; (Late 1890’s to
1911, Boer War & possibly WW1);
Notes: There are some uncertainties regarding his parents & grandparents, which needs more detailed research,
but for the purpose of this document I will record the following: This is probably Samuel George Kingdon b.
1875 in Swimbridge, the son of James Kingdon b.1838 Swimbridge & Sarah Louisa Sparks from Cornwall
who married in 1869 in Cornwall; In the 1881 Census Samuel Kingdon lives with his parents in Steeple close,
Swimbridge, his Father is a Railway Labourer; In 1891 Samuel Kingdon is aged 15 & is a Farm Servant at
Henscott Farmhouse in Swimbridge, near Barnstaple, Devon; Samuel Kingdon Aged 19 years & 9 months
Attested for a Short Service period with the Corps of Hussars of the Line on 16.10.1895 in Devonport; He
recorded that he had been an Apprentice Blacksmith in Lynton for 3 years, that he was still serving with the
Militia in the Devon Artillery & that he was born in Swimbridge, near Barnstaple, Devon; Other Army
Regimental Numbers that appear in his records are H/47718, obviously Hussars Regiment, & #6274; It appears
that he was sent to Aldershot with the 3rd King’s Own Hussars & served with them until extending his service
to 12 years with the colours on 23.01.1900 whilst in Lucknow; In 1901 he confirmed that his next of kin was
his Father James Kingdon living in Swimbridge; He was promoted to Shoeing Smith Corporal as his service
progressed until being transferred to the Reserve on 01,06.1903, 4 years before the end of his Army Service;
UK records have John Kingdom Married Jane Connal in Farnham in 1903 but Samuel’s Military records state
that Samuel Kingdon Married Jane Connal on 23.02.1903 in Holy Trinity Church, Aldershot; Son William
John Kingdon born 28.02.1904 in Aldershot & Son Frederick George Kingdon born 15.06.1905 Aldershot;
Samuel Kingdon was Discharged from the Army Reserve on 18.10.1908; His records then show that he Reengaged as a Corporal with the 8th Hussars on 12.10.1911; He was posted to the Northern Cavalry Depot on
05.11.1914, the 11th Reserve Regiment on 01.10.1915, the Reserve Cavalry Regiment on 27.05.1916 as an
Acting Sergeant & again extended his service from 02.11.1916, he was posted to the 5 th Reserve Cavalry
Regiment on 11.02.1917; His first 12 year Service Record says that he served at Home from 16.10.1895 to
13.11.1898; Served in India from 13.11.1898 to 22.12.1901; Served in South Africa from 23.12.1901 to
22.10.1902; Again served at Home from 24.10.1902 until 31.05.1903 & then he was on the Reserve from
01.06.1903 until 15.10.1907; It appears that he was finally Discharged in York on 21.01.1919 giving a
residence address in Aldershot, having served a total of 23 years & 81 days, 16 years of which counted
towards his pension, (Chelsea #8065/F); I believe that Samuel George Kingdon Died in 1945 in Aldershot
Aged 70; He earned the Queen’s South Africa Medal, The King’s South Africa Medal, the South Africa Medal
1899-1902 (02) with the Orange Free State Clasp & the Transvaal clasp; (I believe Samuel Kingdon’s Father
was #3727 James Kingdom/Kingdon (b.1838 Swimbridge) of the 11th Regiment of Infantry);
Kingdon, Samuel: Military Adventurer, Officer of the Devon Yeoman Cavalry & later Hussar Regiment of
Guards in the Prussian Army; (1820-1830’s period);
Notes: This is Samuel Kingdon born in 1809 in Thorverton, Devon, the second son of “Iron Sam” Samuel
Kingdon b.1779 Mayor of Exeter & Sarah Eyre; Young Samuel Kingdon led a somewhat roaming life, he was
an officer of the Yeomanry Cavalry who escorted Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) from Teignmouth to
Exeter before there were trains; Following this he later joined the Prussian Army & held a Commission in the
Hussar Regiment of the Guards, travelling with the King of Prussia when he visited England to attend the
baptism of the Prince of Wales in 1830 as a Sponsor; After time he grew tired of Military life & emigrated to
Victoria, Australia & acted as Sheriff & Gold Commissioner. He had previously trained as a Lawyer & in 1857
he settled at Nelson to practice law. He was a member of the Nelson Provincial Council & also held a
Captain’s commission in the New Zealand Militia. At some time he suffered an accident that crippled him &
forced him to withdraw from active life. In February 1850 Samuel Kingdon Married Julia Anna Budd from
Landkey, North Devon (the only daughter of the Deputy Lieutenant of Devon), and they started a family of 9
children, the 1st born in Paris & the 2nd born aboard ship ‘Diana’ off St. Pauls. 2 more daughters were born in
Victoria, Australia & all other children born in New Zealand; Samuel Kingdon Died in New Zealand aged 75
in 1885; (I believe that Samuel’s Father “Iron Sam” Kingdon was Captain of a Company of Artillery among
the Exeter volunteers in 1803 when Napoleon Bonaparte was threatening to invade England);
Kingdon, Samuel: Corporal, #1080, Army Service Corps – Land Transport Company – Crimean War 1854;
Notes: Samuel Kingdon served in the Crimean War in the Land Transport Company, but I have insufficient
information available to identify this soldier; He was awarded the Crimean 1854 – 1855 War Medal & was
entitle to receive a Clasp for having also served at Sebastopol, Camp before Sebastopol 17.10.1853; However,
there is a record which indicates that because of his Discharge the Medal was never effectively issued;
See also: Kingdom, Samuel: Private, #3494, 90th Regiment of Light Infantry, Crimean War; WO 100/32; Died at Sebastopol in the Crimea;
Notes: There are records from the Crimean War for the 90th Regiment of Light Infantry, (‘The Cameronians’
or The Scottish Rifles or The 90th Perthshire Light Infantry Regiment for this soldier Private Samuel
Kingdom, #3494 who Died on the 10.12.1854 probably during the during the Siege of Sebastopol either from
Enemy Fire or from Disease; His Crimean Medal & Clasps became ineffective due to his death; Insufficient
information to identify further;
Kingdon, Samuel: Book 1670, Exeter Militia 1803, Devon;
Notes: In 1803 there are records for the Devon Exeter Militia which indicate that a Samuel Kingdon, an
Ironmonger, aged 24 & single was ‘willing to serve as a volunteer’ in the Militia; I believe that this is Samuel
Kingdon (“Iron Sam”) who was eventually Captain of a Company of Artillery among the Exeter volunteers in
1803 when Bonaparte was threatening to invade England; This is Samuel Kingdon born on 28.04.1779 in
Exeter & baptised in the Bow/Mint/George’s Meeting House on 25.01.1807, the son of Samuel Kingdon &
Jane Kent; This is “Iron Sam” & full details of his life are recorded in the Kingdon Book – ‘A Second Look’
dated 1974 & subsequently do not need to be repeated here;
Kingdon, S C: Gunner, #821341 or #821401, Royal Field Artillery – 1933 to 1939 – WO 100/497;
Notes: This soldier served with the 81st Battery Royal Artillery, his original papers were No. NB/1666 dated
22.06.1937? (I have no further information available to identify this man);
Further Note: This may well be Stanley Charles Kingdom, born in Bideford, Devon in 1902, the Son of
Charley (Charles) Kingdom b.1875 (Witheridge) & Alice Ellen Baker, who married in 1895 in Bideford,
Devon; (The family lived in Bideford, Devon, Father was a Grocer’s Partner in 1901 & a Waggoner in 1911);
In the 1911 Census Stanley Charles Kingdon was aged 9 & lived with his parents at #18, Richmond Terrace,
Bideford, Devon; I believe that he was awarded the India Service Medal & the 1933 Clasp; (May well be the
Brother of Reginald Kingdom, #34089 Private, Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, & #39500 5th
Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who Died in WW1 in 1918 on the Somme; WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Samuel Henry: #1703, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force; - Died in WW1; CWGC
records, Private SAMUEL HENRY KINGDON #1703, 2nd Reservists, 25th Battalion, Australian Infantry,
Australian Imperial Force who died on 30th August 1915; Remembered with honour Chatby Memorial just
outside Alexandria, Egypt & in Al Iskandariyah Cemetery, Egypt;
Notes: There are more records for this soldier in the Australian Military Files; There is a Death Record in the
Queensland, Australia Death Index at #004795 on page 548 for Samuel Henry Drew, which I believe is the
same person; There are very many conflicting records for this soldier, both as Samuel Henry Drew, S. H.
Livingstone & Samuel Henry Kingdon, having served with the Australian Imperial Force in WW1 during 1914
& 1915;
Drew, Samuel Henry: #143, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Australian Army - Died in WW1 on 30.08.1915;
Notes: This soldier’s record is a rather convoluted story, which I have detailed briefly here; any serious
researcher of his family should investigate all WW1 Australian Records;
Summary: It appears that Samuel Henry Drew #143, enlisted on 21.08.1914 in the 2nd Light Horse Regiment
& was returned to Australia on 01.03.1915 & discharged for disciplinary reasons in Melbourne;
He then subsequently re-enlisted in Toowoomba, Queensland under the name of Samuel Henry Kingdon
#1703, on 03.08.1915 in the 25th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcements & died of illness on 30.08.1915 whilst troop
shipping from Australia to Egypt; The records indicate that he was admitted into Isolation hospital on board
the troopship ‘Shropshire’ suffering from gonorrhea & finally contracted double pneumonia from which he
died;
In the 1914 enlistment he gave his name as Samuel Henry Drew, aged 30 years & 6 months, born in
Plymouth, Devon, England & declared that he was a Labourer & that his next of kin was his Mother, Lucy
Janet Drew of #1, Amerley Road, South Brisbane;
In the 1915 re-enlistment he gave his name as Samuel Henry Kingdon, aged 36 years & 6 months, born in
Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England & declared that he was a Fireman, an ex Watchmaker’s apprentice in
Plymouth for 5 years, & that he had served previously in the 2nd Devonshire Regiment & the 3rd Australian
Contingent in the Boer War; he gave his Brother, Arthur James Kingdon of Annerley Road, East Tooroomba,
Queensland as his next of kin; He is recorded as having a bullet wound scar on his forehead & some shrapnel
scars on both shins at that time; The records indicate that this soldier embarked from Sydney on 20.08.1915 on
board the ‘HMAT Shropshire’ with the 2nd Reinforcements, 25th Infantry Battalion, 7th Infantry Brigade;
Numerous pension & gratuity claims from his Mother & from his Wife, Olive Amelia Drew (nee Daniels) are
recorded in his extensive file records as well as a National Newspaper Search article used to locate his family
& relatives in 1916;
I understand that Samuel Henry Drew was born in Oakhampton, Devon in 1879 & sailed to Australia with his
Father Henry Drew (b.1845) & his Mother Janet Drew (b.1846), on the ‘Duke of Buccleuch’ from Plymouth to
Townsville on 20.06.1884; Samuel Henry Drew Married Olive Daniels in Queensland on 19.12.1901 (Reg
#001895, page #7045), produced at least 4 children, but may very well have deserted her earlier & lived with a
woman called Minnie Livingstone in Coorparoo as man & wife & that there were also children of this union;
He may have been issued the South African War Ribbon; His War Medals appear to have been forfeited but
the Memorial Plaque was issued to his legal wife, Olive Drew (nee Daniels) & the Memorial Scroll to his de
facto wife, Minnie Drew (nee Livingstone) in 1922; More information on record;
Kingdon, Samuel Richard: Class ‘C’, 2nd Division Reservist, New Zealand, 1917, WW1;
Notes: I do not believe that this man actually served in WW1, but he is recorded as a Reservist with 2 Children
in the 1917 registration in Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand; At that time he was a Sanitary Inspector &
living at #215, Queen Street, Masterton; This is Samuel Richard Kingdon born in 1879 in New Zealand, he is
the son of Samuel Kingdon, a Plumber, & Elizabeth ?? who Married in ??; In 1905 & 1906 Samuel Richard
Kingdon is a Plumber living in Queen Street, Masterton; Samuel Richard Kingdon Married Ethel Armitage in
1908 in Masterton, Wellington & in 1911 they live in Beattie Street, Fielding, Oroua, Manawatu-Wanganui, he
is a Plumbing Inspector; In 1914 Samuel Richard & Ethel Kingdon live in Kimbolton Road, Fielding, Oroua,
Manawatu-Wanganui, & he is working as a Borough Inspector; Following his enlistment in the New Zealand
Army Reserve & in 1919 this family are living at #215, Queen Street, Masterton, he is a recorded as a Sanitary
Inspector; In 1928 they live in #97, Western Springs Road with is widowed Mother in Grey Lynn, Auckland;
In 1935 & 1938 Samuel Richard & Ethel Kingdon live at #297, Great North Road, W2, Grey Lynn, Auckland,
Samuel is now recorded as a plumber with his son; I believe that Ellen Kingdon Died in 1949 Aged 67 & that
Samuel Richard Kingdon died in 1951 Aged 71;
Kingdon, Sidney Walter: #8147, Manchester Regiment; Boer War & WW1;
Notes: This Regimental Number would indicate enlistment in the Regular Army Battalions of the Manchester
Regiment between 25.02.1902 & 22.01.1903; This is Sidney Walter Kingdon born 1884? in Roath, Cardiff in
his Army Records, but I believe that he may have lied about his age when he enlisted because I have him born
on 07.05.1887 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of William Kingdon, a Painter, b.14.06.1840 in Taunton & Mary Ann
Rose b.14.06.1854 from Bristol, Gloucestershire, who probably Married in 1870 in St Saviours, Southwark,
London I believe; I cannot locate a sailing or passenger record for his parents but they did emigrate to Canada
ca.1874; (His parents lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1881 as Sidney’s elder siblings were mostly born in
Canada); In 1891 Wales Census Sidney Kingdon aged 3 lives with his parents at #4, Crofts Street, Roath,
Cardiff, Wales, they are also at the same address in the 1901 Census where Sidney is aged 13 years; Sidney
Walter Kingdon Enlisted on 17.11.1902 in Aldershot, he was a Messenger by trade & aged 18 years & 6
months, which may not be true (see his birth date details above); I believe that he initially served with the 2nd
Battalion at Home from 17.11.1902 to 06.02.1903, he was then posted to the 3rd Battalion in South Africa on
06.02.1903 where he served until 09.10.1905; Whilst in South Africa he was in hospital for a month with
Scarletina; He was returned to home duty & Transferred to the Army Reserve on 16.11.1905 where he served
until being mobilised for WW1 Service (whilst living in Canada) from the Army Reserve on 30.09.1914 but
was discharged on the same date as being no longer physically fit for War Service under King’s Regulations,
Para 392 (xvi); For the records his service time was counted from his initial served time plus his Army Reserve
time & equalled a total of 11 years & 318 days; I understand that Sidney Walter Kingdon & his parents
emigrated back to Canada in December 1905 on board the ‘SS Virginian’; More research confirms that S W
Kingdon Aged 21 sailed from England to Quebec, bound for Peterborough, on board the ‘SS Tunisian’ in
November 1905; Further research indicates that Sidney Walter Kingdon sailed to the UK from Canada in July
1906 on board the ‘SS Tunisian’; His Father William Kingdon sailed to UK from Montreal on 27.08.1906 on
the ‘SS Dominion’; Then I found Sidney & his Father William travelled back to Saint John, New Brunswick
on the ‘SS Empress of Britain’ in December 1906, both painters & both marked as Returning Canadians; I
have no idea why Sidney Walter & his Father William Kingdon should both travel separately to England in
1906 & then return to Canada together in December but wonder if it was for work or perhaps a family
bereavement; In 1911 Sidney Kingdon lived with his parents back in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; Sidney
Walter Kingdon then Married Nellie Capewell, born ca.1889 in Staffordshire, England, in Peterborough,
Ontario, Canada on 03.07.1911, (I note that Sidney’s estimated birth year was 1885 on his marriage records &
that he is a painter too, like his Father); Nellie Capewell’s family emigrated to Canada in 1906; I believe that
Sidney Walter Kingdon died in Sutton West, Ontario, Canada on 21.06.1965 Aged 78; Further Notes: Some
people on Ancestry.com have Public Trees with this guy as Sidney J Kingdon, but this is not correct & they
have his whole family mixed up; (There is probably a Brother named Gordon William Kingdon, born in
1875 in Toronto, Canada & who seems to have served at some time in UK because there is a Chelsea
Pensioner of that name & with the correct birth place on records, who I am also following up); (He was the
Brother of Kingdon, Ernest: Royal Irish Fusiliers No: 13731 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (I also
now believe that his Father was probably Kingdon, William: Private, #3063, 2nd European Light Infantry,
East India Company Army); This Family needs a little more research although I am in touch with a
descendant since August 2012 & will request clearer details;
Kingdon, Sidney: Merchant Seaman during WW1; BT 351/1/177262;
Notes: This is probably Sidney Percival Kingdon born in 1899 in Clifton, Bristol, his Merchant Seaman’s
WW1 Medals Record have 1899; If I am correct then this Sidney Percival Kingdon is the son of David
Kingdon, a Slaughterman/Butcher b.1870 in Clifton, Bristol & Blanche Beavis from Bristol who Married in
1890 in Bristol & initially lived & worked as a Butcher in Elgin Street in Birkenhead, Cheshire; In the 1901
Census Sidney Kingdon is aged 2 years & living with his parents in Dowry Square, Bristol; In the 1911 Census
Sidney Kingdon is now aged 11 & living with his Parents at #6, Ambrose Road, Clifton, Bristol, his Father is a
Butcher; Sidney Kingdon may well have served for some years as a Merchant Seaman, probably as a Steward,
sailing between England & New York; On 26.04.1918 Sidney Kingdon sailed from Cardiff, Wales to New
York onboard the ‘Northumberland’; On 10.09.1921 & again on the 27.10.1921 Sidney (Sid) Kingdon
(Kingdom) sailed from London & Newcastle onboard the ‘SS Vellavia’; On 13.12.1926 Sidney Kingdon sailed
from Al Basrah, Iraq to New York on the ‘SS Glensloy’; Sidney P Kingdon Married Bessie Evelyn Tucker in
Bristol in 1934; I understand that Sidney Percival Kingdon died on 02.10.1953 in Bristol, Gloucestershire aged
54; I did not research further; Awarded the WW1 Mercantile Marine & the British War Medal; (Probably the
Brother of Merchant Seaman David Kingdon, WW1 BT 351/1/177261); Not researched further;
Kingdon, Sidney J: Royal Field Artillery No: 132909 Rank: Gunner 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The Regimental number #132909 would indicate joining No. 7 (Territorial force) Artillery Training
School in early March 1916; This Soldier also served with the Royal Garrison Artillery as #212685 which is
quite a late number for WW1; Medals Card on file;
Additional Notes: The Spring 1919 Absent Voters List for South Molton Division, Devon – Parish of George
Nympton, has a Reference #4868 to a Kingdon, Sidney who is absent from the village & serving as Gunner
#944554 with the 66 M.T. Company, Royal Field Artillery in 1919; Is this the same soldier? There are other
soldiers’ records with similar numbers who were renumbered with 944xxx before the end of 1916 & they all
appear to have joined 538th Howitzer Battery, which I assume was in the 283rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(4th London Brigade) & broken up in November 1916; Some of these men subsequently went to C/332, then
D/210; I also understand that 66 M.T. Coy, would also indicate Army Service Corps service at some point? (I
note that there is also a Kingdom, Sidney J: Royal Army Medical Corps No: 457514 Rank: Private 19141920 WO 372/11 but I have not linked the three); Insufficient information to identify accurately;
Further Notes: Following more research in South Molton in Devon I believe that we located Sidney John
Kingdon’s son & he confirms that his Father, Sydney (known as ‘Blind Sid’), served in France in WW1 in the
‘heavy artillery’ but only lost his sight after the war & not during WW1; Subsequently, I believe that this is
therefore Sydney John Kingdon, born 10.03.1896 & baptised on 05.04.1896 in George Nympton, Devon; He
was the son of Thomas Wotton Kingdon, an Agricultural Labourer, b.30.03.1856 in Kings Nympton, Devon &
Elizabeth Kingdon Setherton b.1855 in Romansleigh, who Married on 31.03.1880 in South Molton, Devon; In
the 1901 Census Sidney J Kingdon lived with his parents in the village of George Nympton; In 1911 Census
Sidney Kingdon was aged 15 & working as a Cow Boy on a farm in South Molton; Following his WW1
service, Sidney John Kingdon Married Catherine (Kate) Annie Andrews, b.1902 George Nympton, on
27.09.1922 in George Nympton, Devon; Sidney John Kingdon Died on 14.06.1977 & was buried in George
Nympton on 18.06.1977, Aged 81;
Kingdon, Stanley: Royal Engineers No: 122479 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – Died in WW1;
Sapper Stanley Kingdon #122479, Royal Engineers, Drowned at Sea on 26.05.1917; Notes: I believe that
Stanley Kingdon enlisted in Bournemouth (records say), lived in Cardiff & first served in France 25.11.1915;
Stanley Kingdon was born in 4th Q 1895 in Barnstaple, the son of Henry John Hutchings Kingdon, a French
Polisher, b.1864 in Barnstaple & Florence Copp from Barnstaple, who were Married in Barnstaple in 1885; In
1901 Stanley Kingdon lives with his parents in Barnstaple; His military record on Ancestry.com says that he
was living in Bournemouth when he enlisted? I needed to follow this one up?
Notes: A second look at Pension Records reveal – Stanley Kingdon, born in Barnstaple & Aged 20 enlisted
in Bournemouth on 13.02.1915, declared as working for the Post Office; Originally allotted #S/8241 in The
Black Watch; He then appears to have been Discharged under King’s Regulations Para 392 (??) on
09.03.1915? not being likely to become a proficient soldier, having served 25 days; His eyesight may have
been below standard?; However, there is some anomaly as another set of Records have #S/8241 Stanley
Kingdon serving with the Royal Highlanders? In this record his Father is Harry John Kingdon living at #4,
Hanover Road, Springbourne, Bournemouth; Is this the same Stanley Kingdon?
Notes: A third look at CWGC Records reveals – There is also another address reference on the CWGC
records - Son of Mr. H. I. and Mrs. F. Kingdon, of "Luzern", Surrey Rd., Branksome, Bournemouth; This also
states that Sapper Stanley Kingdon was aged 22 when he died & was serving with the Royal Engineers Inland
Water Transport Section; - Died in WW1; Sapper STANLEY KINGDON, #122479, Inland Water Transport,
Royal Engineers who died age 22 on 26 May 1917; Son of Mr. H. I. and Mrs. F. Kingdon, of "Luzern", Surrey
Rd., Branksome, Bournemouth. Remembered with honour at the BASRA MEMORIAL in Iraq, which has
Rolls of Honour held at the CWGC Commission’s Head Office commemorating by name all the
Commonwealth casualties who died in Iraq during the two World Wars; Medals Card on file; (There is a
Brother Leslie Kingdon who emigrated to Canada & served with a number of different Units as #260483);
Kingdon, Stanley Craig: #8/3828, Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, ‘D’ Company, 9th
Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This is probably Stanley Craig Kingdon b.1887 in New Zealand, the son of Josiah Stephens Kingdon,
b.1842 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England & Catherine Johnson who Married in 1868 in New Zealand; However,
the Military Records for this New Zealand WW1 Soldier actually records that his Mother was Mrs. F.M.
Kingdon of Yaldhurst, Christchurch; This has caused some confusion as I can find no birth records that
support this statement? The only F.M. Kingdon I can find is Frances Mary Kingdon, b.1876, daughter of
Josiah Stephens Kingdon & Catherine Johnson? She is the Spinster Sister of Stanley Craig Kingdon b.1887 &
his brothers? This could mean that there is either a mix up in the Military Records or that there is another
Stanley Craig Kingdon who is perhaps the illegitimate son of Frances Mary Kingdon but, again, I can find no
birth or other records? In 1911 Stanley Craig Kingdon lives at #526, South Road, Hornby, Riccarton,
Canterbury & is working as a Carter; In 1914 Stanley Craig Kingdon still lives in South Road, Riccarton, but
is also recorded as being a Prison Warder working at HM Prison in Invercargill, Southland, this prison was
only established in 1910 & operated as a borstal until 1981; On the 11.01.1915 S.C. Kingdon of Invercargill &
other recruits of the 8th (Southland) Regiment passed through Christchurch on their way to Trentham to fill
Southland’s quota to the 3rd Reinforcements for WW1 Service; The Military Records for Stanley Craig
Kingdon, Corporal, #8/3828, clearly indicates that he was a Labourer at enlistment & confirms his mother as
Mrs. F.M. Kingdon of Yaldhurst, Christchurch; These records also state that he Embarked on 08.01.1916 at
Wellington with the 9th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, ‘D’ Company, New Zealand Expeditionary
Force; He was on board the ‘HMNZT Maunganui’ which sailed from Wellington to the Suez in Egypt, S.C.
Kingdon was #21 on the Nominal Roll & recorded on Page #28 of the Roll; On the 16.08.1917 there is a
Wounded Report #648/10 for #8/3828 Private Kingdon S.C. of the 9th Reinforcements which was also reported
in the local press on 30.08.1917 stating that he was not reported as a severe case; In 1919 Stanley Craig
Kingdon is again recorded as a Prison Warder at Invercargill Prison; However, there is also a record for a
Stanley Craig Kingdon being a Carter & living at #526, South Road, Hornby? I understand that Stanley Craig
Kingdon Married Florence Ella Clements in 1919; There are also electoral registrations for Stanley Craig &
Florence Ella Kingdon, a Labourer, living at #53, Mortlake Street, Islington, Kaiapoi, Canterbury in 1928,
1935, 1946, & 1949; In 1954 & 1959 Stanley Craig lives at the same Mortlake Street address & is now retired;
I believe that they had no children; Florence Ella Kingdon died in 1951 Aged 64 & Stanley Craig Kingdon
died in 1965 Aged 78; (He was the Brother of Kingdon, George: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916
WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Albert John: New Zealand, 1st Division Reservist, 1916 WW1);
(He was the Brother of Kingdon, James Alexander: #41577, ‘F’ Company, Canterbury Infantry Regiment,
New Zealand Army, WW1); (He was the Brother of Kingdon, Charles Ford: New Zealand, 2nd Division
Reservist, 1917 WW1); Or was he in fact a Nephew of all of the Kingdon men mentioned here? This man
needs a lot more research;
Kingdon, Stanley Phillip #258749, Signalman, 45th Division Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, - Died in
WW2;
Notes: This is Stanley Phillip Kingdon born in 1922 in Exeter, Devon; He was the son of Sidney John
Kingdon, a Plumber & Gas Fitter, b.1875 in Exeter, Devon & Edith Maude Guscott, b.1884 Exeter, who
Married in Exeter in 1904 & lived at #10, Jubilee Street in St Leonard’s, Exeter in 1911; Stanley Phillip
Kingdon Died on 05.11.1940 at the age of 18 during WW2 & is Remembered with Honour in the Exeter
Higher Cemetery in Heavitree, Exeter in Devon; Awarded the 1939-45 Star & the 1939-45 War Medals;
Kingdon, Stanley William George: #M35851, Shipwright, Royal Navy; ADM 188/1089, WW1;
Notes: This is Stanley William George Kingdon born 31.03.1903 in St Germans, Cornwall; In the 1911
Census there is a Stanley W. Kingdon, a scholar aged 8, visiting with the Hoyle family living in Wilcove, Near
Torpoint, Cornwall, (I have yet to make a family link); When his WW1 medals were issued I believe that this
sailor was serving on “HMS Vivid”; This Sailor was a 2nd Class Shipwright who made a career out of the Navy
& was still serving on board ‘HMS Guardian’ on 30.06.1936; Stanley W.G. Kingdon Married Rosemary M.
Jenkin in St Germans, Cornwall in 1929; I believe that Stanley William G. Kingdon Died in 1987 in Exeter,
Devon Aged 83; Awarded the British War Medal only, serving on ‘HMS Vivid’ at the time; Issued with his
Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal on 30.06.1936; Insufficient information to identify
further, need more research;
Kingdon, Stuart: Army Ordnance Corps No: 034292 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: I believe that this is Stuart Kingdon born in 1887 in Bradninch, Tiverton, Devon, the son of George
Kingdon, a Railway Worker, b.1864 Stoke Cannon & Caroline Wood from Bradninch who married in 1884 in
Tiverton; (Stuart’s Mother died in 1900 Aged 37); In 1891 Census Stuart lived with his parents in Fore Street,
Bradninch & in 1901 Census with his widowed Father in Millway Road, Bradninch & was working as a Cutter
Boy in a Paper Mill; In 1911 Census Stuart Kingdon is aged 23 & is boarding at West End, Bradninch,
working as a Breaker Man in a Paper Making Factory; I believe that Stuart Kingdon Married Minnie Sarah
Sweet from Collumpton in Tiverton in 1911; I believe that Stuart Kingdon Died in Exeter in 1968 Aged 80;
Medals Card on file; (I did not research this Soldier further);
Kingdon, Sydney C: Devonshire Regiment No: 1420 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Enlistment dates for this number were between 29.07.1885 & 03.02.1886; Also served as #240218
Devonshire Regiment; Territorial Force, only issued with the Victory Medal & the Territorial Force Medal;
From his records it appears that he may have re-enlisted on 13.05.1912 & that he did serve overseas at some
point in his service; This is Sidney Clarence Kingdon born on 02.04.1895 in Tavistock, Devon, the son of
Edward Andrews Kingdon, an Iron Moulder, b.1867 in Tavistock & Elizabeth Jane Lucas b.1870 in St Ives,
Cornwall who married in 1889 in Tavistock; In 1901 Census Sydney lives with his parents at #5, Madge Hill,
Tavistock; In 1911 Census Sidney Kingdon is aged 16 & is a Golf Caddie living with his parents at #62, West
Bridge Cottages, Tavistock, Devon; Acting Lance Corporal Sydney Clarence Kingdon was Discharged in
Exeter on 03.03.1919 under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) due to wounds that he had received during his
service; Address given on his MIC card is #62, West Bridge Cottages, Tavistock, Devon; I understand that
Sydney Clarence Kingdon Married Winifred Emma Ada Vanstone, b.1896, from Sampford Spinney, Devon on
01.08.1921 in Tavistock; I believe that Sydney C Kingdon dies in Caerphilly, East Glamorgan, Wales in 1963
Aged 68; (His 1st wife may well have died in 1934 in Cardiff aged 37); Awarded the Silver War Badge
#B213635; Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, William: Devonshire Regiment No: 5215
Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Sydney Charles Kent: Royal Engineers No: 71616 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Also Recorded as: Kingdon, S C K: Indian Army Reserve of Officers Rank: Lieutenant 1914-1925 WO
372/27, WW1 period;
Notes: Served also with BH Cable Section, Royal Engineers & the Indian Army Reserve of Officers; On
15.10.1918 The King approved the admission of 2nd Lieutenant Sydney Charles Kent Kingdon into the Infantry
Division of the Indian Army Reserve of Officers; This Soldier served since 20.06.1916 with the Royal
Engineers; This officer served in India, Poona District & was placed on the Officers List on 14.10.1918 &
recommended for the Indian Defence Medal on 29.12.1919; S.C.K. Kingdon was promoted from 2nd
Lieutenant to Lieutenant with the Indian Army Reserve of Officers on 15.10.1919; Medals issued 12.09.1922,
address was Lambrook Farm, Taunton, Somerset; I believe that this is Sydney Charles Kent Kingdon born
02.05.1897 in Exeter, the son of Henry Kingdon, a House Painter b.1863 Exeter & Selina ?? b.1865 from
Topsham who Married in ?? ca.1888; In 1901 he lived with his parents in Exeter; & in 1911 Census the family
lived at #14, Jubilee Street, Exeter St Leonards; I believe that Sidney C K Kingdon Married Olive L Cowley
(b.1896) in Exeter in 1920 & that he resigned his commission on retirement but retained the rank of Lieutenant
on 01.05.1922; Sydney Charles K Kingdon Died in 1976 in Taunton Aged 79; Medals Card on file; (I have no
further information);
Kingdon, Sydney John: Merchant Seaman; BT/351/1/607 WW1;
Notes: There is a Medals Record Card for a Sidney John Kingdon shown in the WW1 Board of Trade
Merchant Seaman’s Medals; I believe that this is Sydney John Kingdon born 1882 in Barnstaple Devon; He
was the son of John E. Kingdon (b.1855), of Barnstaple, England, a Fisherman, Shipbuilder & Bargeman &
Elizabeth Limebeer from Barnstaple who married in ?? (she may have been previously married as there is a
stepdaughter in 1891 Census); (Many members of this family emigrated to Manitoba in Canada ca.1906); In
1891 Sydney J. Kingdon was aged 8, a scholar, but recorded as living as an In Patient in the North Devon
Infirmary in Barnstaple, Devon; There is no indication of his illness; In the 1901 Census Sydney Kingdon was
aged 19 & living with his parents in #10, Signal Terrace, Barnstaple, Devon, his Father is a Shipwright &
Bargeman, Sydney is a Bargeman working on his own account; In 1902 there are Ship’s Records for the
“Wheatear”, #48880 out of Poole in Dorset, which has reference to Sydney J. Kingdon (b.1881 Barnstaple)
being a member of the Crew of the ‘Wheatear’ having joined 05.01.1902 in Newport as an Able Seaman but
having left this ship on 15.02.1902 in Bristol; The record shows that his previous ship in 1901 was the
“Acacia” out of Barnstaple; I understand that Sydney John Kingdon moved to Swansea in Wales as he appears
to have Married a Mary Emily Sullivan, b.1889 Swansea, in Swansea in 1908; In the 1911 Census Sydney
John & Emily Kingdon live at #81, Colbourne Terrace, Swansea, Glamorgan, wales, he is a General Labourer;
I have no other records except that Sidney J Kingdon probably Died in 1947 in Wolverhampton at the age of
64; Further research required to find his WW1 Merchant Seaman Records; (He was the Brother of
Kingdon, John (Jack): Royal Field Artillery No: 49756 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/23); (He was
also the Brother of Kingdon, Bruce: #622376, Private, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment); who
died aged 27 on 25th October 1916 in the Area of the Somme); He was also the Brother of #174744 Sergeant
George Kingdon of the Royal Garrison Artillery);
T
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, T: #F12661 Royal Navy, Royal Naval Air Service: ADM 188/585, WW1;
Kingdon, T: #212661 Royal Air force Mustering, WW1:
Notes: Royal Navy records have a Thomas Kingdon, #F12661; Research indicates that the prefix ‘F’ indicates
service with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS); This record gives his date of birth as 21.03.1880 in Bristol;
I then researched further & found a T. Kingdon having served as #212661 in the Mustering of the Royal Air
Force list with an enlistment date of 01.03.1916, this numbering also indicates transfer or enlistment from the
RNAS; Subsequently I have assumed that this is the same person & a later set of records has him as Thos.
Kingdom, #F12661 Air Mechanic 1; This is Thomas Kingdon born 21.03.1880 in Bristol, the son of George
Kingdon, a Paper Hanger, b.1846 in Bristol & Elizabeth Ravenhill from Wilmington, Gloucester who Married
in 1866 in Bristol; In 1881 Census Thomas Kingdon lives with his parents at #1, Old Coach Yard, Bristol St
Paul; In 1891 Census Thomas Kingdon is a Scholar living with his Ravenhill family Grandparents in
Woolaston Grange, Woolaston, Gloucestershire; In 1901 Census Thomas Kingdon was aged 21 & is a Groom
boarding at #6, Montpellier Road/Passage, South Hamlet, Gloucester, Gloucestershire; Thomas Kingdon
Married Lucy Jane Noble from Berkeley, Gloucestershire in 1910 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire; In 1911
Census they live at #148, Finborough Road, West Brompton, London & Thomas is a Domestic Chauffeur; I
believe that Thomas Kingdon died in St Austel, Cornwall in 1980 Aged 100 years; ADM 171/107 records
award of the British War Medal to Thos. Kingdom #F.12661, Air Mechanic 1st Class;
Kingdon, T: #6913181, Corporal, 2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade (95th Rifles): WO 100/508; Palestine 1939;
Notes: The WO 100/508 Records have a Medals award for #6913181 Corporal T. Kingdon for service in
Palestine, under Army Orde #247 of 1939; This soldier served with the 2 nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (95th
Rifles) which served in Palestine from 19.04.1936 to 03.09.1939 to quell the Arab Revolt there; In November
1939 the 2nd Battalion was part of the 14th Infantry Brigade, 8th Infantry Division, stationed in Nablus,
Palestine; In 1940 it served with the 7th Motor Brigade in the North African Campaign in WW2; I have no
other information on this soldier; He was awarded the General Service Medal (1918 GSM) & the Palestine
Clasp; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, Thomas: Private, #15107, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division; ADM 159/156, WW1;
Notes: The ADM records have a Thomas Kingdon born on 08.03.1892, no birthplace, but I can find no
matching Kingdons born in 1892 who might fit this profile? The RMLI records have Thomas Kingdon
Enlisting in the Plymouth Division on 22.09.1910; At the time of the WW1 Medals issue ADM 171/169
records that he was serving with ‘HMS Resolution’; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War
Medals; Insufficient information to identify for certain;
Kingdon, Thomas: Army Service Corps No: M2/035242 Rank: WO Class 2 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Originally served with the 1st Mounted Division of the Army Service Corps (Territorial) on 24.09.1914
& joining on 16.12.1914 as #93 having signed on for 4 years service at the age of 24; This is Thomas
Kingdon born 21.01.1890 in Cardiff, the son of Isaac Kingdon b.1861 in Garndeffactk, Monmouthshire &
Sarah Davies from Blackwood, Monmouthshire who married on 14.05.1883 in Pontypridd; 1891 Thomas
Kingdon lived with his parents at #26, Tenant Street, Canton, Cardiff; In 1901 Census Thomas Kingdon lived
with his parents at #70, Stockland Street, St Mary’s Cardiff; In 1911 Census Thomas Kingdon was Aged 21 &
a Colliery Surface Labourer living with his parents in Rosehill Terrace, Swansea; Private Thomas Kingdon reenlisted into the Regular Army & was attested for Short Service for the Duration of the War on 20.02.1915 &
joined for service in Bury St Edmunds; Address given as #36, Rosehill Terrace, Swansea, he was aged 25
years & was a Chauffeur by trade; On 27.06.1915 Thomas Kingdon Married Annie (Nancy) Morgan, a
Widow, in Brunswick Wesleyan Chapel, Swansea & his wife lived at #50, Lycock Road, Skelty in Swansea,
(his Stepdaughter was Wenham Louisa Morgan born 21.03.1901 at East Battersea, his own child was born on
29.09.1915 I think)? I believe that he spent most of his service in UK until 19.06.1918, but he was sent to
France on 07.06.1916 & on 22.10.1916 was slightly injured in the shoulder whilst loading ammunition;
Eventually, serving with the 260th Company (MT) he was promoted to Company Sergeant Major at the age of
29 & on 23.02.1919 was serving in Baghdad since 29.08.1918 & prior to his return to UK & his Discharge on
12.08.1919; I believe that Thomas Kingdon Died in 1943 in Swansea; Medals Card on file (in the name of
Slanus Kingdon); (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Ralph: Royal Garrison Artillery No: 124087 Rank: Gunner
1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served in WW1);
Kingdon, Thomas: Lieutenant, The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, 25th Dragoons – Died in St Thomas,
near Madras, India on 25.04.1817 Aged 26 – but another record has his Death as 1827, which I believe to be
incorrect; This is probably Thomas Kingdon born 30.08.1790 & baptised in the Bow/Mint/George’s Meeting
House Chapel on 02.01.1791 in Exeter, the son of Samuel Kingdon & Jane Kent, who married on 17.10.1768
in Exeter St Petrock; On 26.09.1812 the War Office reported that Cornet Thomas Kingdon was promoted to
Lieutenant by purchase, via Lt. Campbell who had been promoted; This Officer was serving with the 25 th
Dragoon Guards & involved in the Anglo Indian conflicts at the time of his death;
Kingdon, Thomas: #1410 Troop Sergeant Major of the 9th Lancers; W097 Records; Sikh Wars & India 18501868 period;
Notes: Thomas Kingdon enlisted in the Army at the age of 18 years on 04.03.1844 in London, Middlesex; He
attested for the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers declaring that he was a Grocer by trade; This is Thomas Kingdon
born 1825 in Barnstaple, Devon, the son of William Kingdon b.1791 in Torrington & Mary Baker or Baron
from Barnstaple who married pre 1823; In 1841 he lived with his parents in Barnstaple & was a Grocer’s
Apprentice; In 1851 he was serving in the Army in the East Indies, probably Bengal, India; In 1861 it appears
that Troop Sergeant Major Thomas Kingdon was serving with the Divisional staff Barracks Chaplains
Department in South Camp Aldershot, his future 1st wife was a Nurse in Aldershot in 1861; Further research
now reveals that #1410 Private Thomas Kingdon was serving in India in the Sikh Wars & fought in the Sutlej
Campaign at the Battle for Sabraon on 10.02.1846; As a Sergeant, Thomas Kingdon fought in the Indian
Mutiny at the battles for Delhi, Relief of Lucknow & Lucknow in 1857-1858; Thomas Kingdon married Susan
Sharland (his 1st wife, 10 years his junior) in 1862 in Exeter but she will die on 25.10.1898 in Exeter; On
27.03.1868 Troop Sergeant Major Thomas Kingdon requested a free discharge after having served 14 years &
6 months in Bengal, East Indies & 24 years in the Army, this was awarded with a pension; He received good
Conduct Badges, Long Service Medal, Punjab Medal with Clasp for Chillianwallah & the Indian Mutiny
Medal and Clasps for Delhi, the Defence of Lucknow & the Relief of Lucknow; Some of his Army time was
spent with the North Devon Yeomanry; He was discharged finally on 14.04.1868; Upon discharge he gave his
expected trade as Grocer & intended to live at #49, High Street, Barnstaple Devon; In 1871 Census Thomas is
a Sergeant Chelsea Pensioner living in Barnstaple with his wife Susan; In1881 & 1891 Censuses Thomas &
Susan Kingdon live in Well Street, Great Torrington, Devon, he is a Pensioner; At the age of 74 he is living in
Northgate Cottage, Barnstaple with his 2nd wife, Elizabeth ?? Aged 50 from Ilfracombe; His widow Elizabeth
lived at #117 Boutport Street, Barnstaple in the 1911 Census; Thomas Kingdon died in 1911 at the age of 85 in
Barnstaple; Awarded the Sutlej Medal for Sabraon in the 1st Sikh War in India; Awarded the Indian Mutiny
Medal with Clasps for Delhi, Relief of Lucknow & Lucknow;
Kingdon, Thomas: No Specific Details; (WW1 Absent voters List);
Notes: In the Spring 1919 Absent Voters List for Devon, South Molton District, Parish of Bishops Nympton
there is reference #214 for Kingdon Thomas – East Port Cottage, Wellington GWR Station, Somerset? This is
a little confusing but I believe that this may well be Thomas Kingdon born 1891 in Bishops Nympton; If I am
correct then he is the son of William Kingdon, a Farm Labourer, b.1863 Bishops Nympton & Charlotte Tucker
Loosemore from Mariansleigh who Married in 1882 in Barton Regis; In 1891 Census Thomas would be aged 3
months & lived with his parents in Bishops Nympton at Stone Lake; In 1901 Census the family are living at
Higher Fyldon in North Molton, Devon; I have not researched further at this time? There are no military
records on file? (He may be the Brother of Kingdon, James: Royal Engineers No: 105699 Rank: Sapper
1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Thomas: No Specific Details; (1841 Census records);
Notes: In the 1841 Census Records for the Finchley Road East Barracks in Marylebone, London there is a
record for Thos Kingdon Aged 25 (b.1816), not born in Middlesex County, who is serving as a Soldier; There
is no mention of any Regiment in these records; I did not identify this man further;
Kingdon, Thomas: Private, #2267/S, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Portsmouth Division; ADM 159/207,
WW1;
Notes: The ADM/159 records have this soldier as Thomas Kingdom, all other records for Thomas Kingdon
born 25.12.1892, no birthplace, Enlisting in the RMLI, Portsmouth Division for ‘Short Service’ on 19.01.1916;
This Royal Marine Private was Demobilised on 24.02.1919; I can find no matching Thomas Kingdon or
Kingdom birth that would fit this profile? Awarded the Victory & British war Medals; Needs more research;
Kingdon, Thomas: Rifle Brigade No: S1075 Rank: Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11, (1891 service, Boer War
to WW1 period);
Notes: The prefix S/ on his Regimental Number denotes WW1 Service; Also served previously as #9082 Rifle
Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own): This is Thomas Henry Kingdon born in Bristol St Pauls in 1868, the son of
William Kingdon b.1840 in Bristol St James, a Shipwright & Elizabeth Morgan(?) from Newport in
Monmouth who may have married in Bristol in 1858?; In 1871 Thomas Henry Kingdon lived with his parents
in Horfield, Gloucestershire; In 1881 Census Thomas Henry Kingdon is a 13 year old Scholar living with his
parents in Clifton, Bristol; I cannot find him in the 1891 Census & I believe that he was already in the Army
then; It would appear from his records that his very first Army Service Engagement expired on 01.11.1899 &
that he was transferred to the 1st Class Army Reserve on 13.02.1900; Thomas Henry Kingdon Married Blanche
Mary Vear in Bristol on 11.04.1898, she was born in Bedminster in 1878; Their children were Nellie May
Kingdon born 09.10.1898 in Clifton, Bristol; Thomas Charles Henry Kingdon born 25.06.1900 in Clifton,
(who I believe emigrates to Ontario & is recorded in Canada as a Defaulter, having never registered there for
WW1 Military Service, he was apprehended on 31.07.1918; He states he was born in Cardiff, Wales on
25.06.1900, is a Farmer & his next of kin is Miss Nellie Kingdon of #36, Ambre Vale, East Clifton, Bristol,
England; He then is put into the Canadian Army, 2nd Depot Battalion EOR as #3327602); & another son
William Ernest Kingdon born 20.05.1903 in Bristol who I believe serves in the Royal Navy; In 1901 Blanche
Kingdon & daughter Nellie & son Thomas live in Ambrose Road, Clifton, Bristol; Thomas Henry then served
as #9082 in the Rifle Brigade from 16.02.1900 to 05.06.1900 at the Rifle Brigade Depot in Gosport, England;
Served in South Africa from 06.06.1900 to 09.08.1902 & had been promoted to Sergeant in 1901 until he was
‘Tried for drunkenness whilst on Active Service’ & reduced back to the rank of Corporal; He served back in
England from 10.08.1902 until 15.02.1904; A total of 4 years & was Discharged & Transferred to the Special
Reserve on 15.02.1904 upon the termination of his engagement; On his re-enlistment papers he states that he
isn’t married (widower is crossed out, so perhaps his wife had died?) when he re-enlists at the age of 40, (in
Cardiff), coming from the Reserve on 05.09.1914 to serve in WW1; He joined in Winchester, going to France
on 22.07.1915; He gives his next of kin as David Kingdon, #45, Ambre vale East, Clifton, Bristol, his younger
brother; These re-enlistment records also state that he had previously served for 14 years with the Rifle
Brigade; Between 1914 & 1916 he was promoted to Corporal & was finally discharged from the Army on
18.10.1916 as being physically unfit & suffering from old age, Rheumatism & an enlarged heart; He was given
the Chelsea Pensioner #75737E; There is a record in his file which is dated 14.03.1917 which may have been
another medical board regarding his pension, but his address is given as #75, Glovers Road, Small Heath,
Birmingham? However, further research indicates that he Died of Heart Failure after discharge on 14.03.1917
in Birmingham Aged 48; Awarded the Silver War Badge #34181; WW1 Medals Card on file; This career
Soldier also received Medals for the South Africa Campaign 1900 – 1901 & South Africa Medals Clasps for
Cape Colony & Transvaal; (Father of Kingdon, Thomas Charles: Canadian Expeditionary Force No:
#3327602, Rank: Private); Father of William Ernest Kingdon, #SS10518 Royal Navy);
Kingdon, Thomas Baron Baker: #113097, Royal Navy; ADM 188/141; (1880’s)
Notes: This is Thomas Baron Baker Kingdon born 22.09.1864 in Plymouth, Devon (registration records
have 4th Q 1865 Plymouth), the son of James William Kingdon b.1827 in Barnstaple & Elizabeth Ann Prout
b.1832 in Modbury who married in 1862 in Plymouth, Devon; (I believe that his Father, James William
Kingdon was serving as a Sergeant in the Royal Marines at that time, who was later discharged in Plymouth
ca.1870 & afterwards lived in Barnstaple; Another clue is that Thomas Baron Baker Kingdon’s Paternal
Grandparents were William James Kingdon & Mary Baron Baker who married in 1822 in Barnstaple); In 1871
Census Thomas Kingdon is aged 5 & living with his parents in the ‘Salutation’ Public House in Castle Street,
Barnstaple, Devon, his Father was the Innkeeper; Thomas Baron Baker Kingdon’s Official Naval Number
would indicate enlistment; between 01.01,1880 & 31.12.1880; In 1881 Thomas B. B. Kingdom is a 2 nd Class
Boy serving in the Royal Navy aboard the Training Ship ‘HMS Impregnable’ stationed in Hamoaze,
Devonport; After this I lost this person? (I believe that he is the son of Sergeant James William Kingdon,
Royal Marines, who was serving in Plymouth in 1861 & probably discharged in 1870); Needs more research;
Kingdon, Thomas Charles: 2nd Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force
No: #3327602, Rank: Private, WW1;
Notes: This is Thomas Charles Henry Kingdon born 25.06.1900 in Clifton, Bristol, England, the son of
Thomas Henry Kingdon, a British Soldier, b.1868 in Bristol & Blanche Mary Vear from Bedminster,
Gloucestershire, who married in Bristol on 11.04.1898; His Father served in the South African Boer War & in
WW1 & was a bit of a drunkard who was discharged from the British Army as unfit in 1916 & died of heart
failure in 1917; His sister was Nellie May Kingdon born 09.10.1898 in Clifton, Bristol; His brother was
William Ernest Kingdon born 20.05.1903 in Bristol; Thomas Charles Henry Kingdon probably was forcibly
emigrated to Ontario in January of 1913 as a “Home Child” aboard the ‘SS Hesperian’; His Father had
obviously abandoned his family, but where was his Mother? Did his mother die or abandon her children? I
checked the 1911 UK Census & found a female Kingdon lodging at #37, Ambre Vale East in Clifton; In early
1918 Thomas Kingdon was apprehended in Ottawa, Ontario as a Non-Registered Military Service Defaulter;
On 01.03.1918 he is examined & states that he was born in Cardiff, Wales on 25.06.1900, is a Farmer & that
his next of kin is Miss Nellie Kingdon of #36, Ambre Vale, East Clifton, Bristol, England; (Did he lie about
his origins? As his Father passed away in 1917 I suspect that he believed that he was born in Cardiff); On
05.07.1918 he is recruited into the Canadian Army, 2nd Depot Battalion, E.O.R. as #3327602 & sent overseas
to England & then France; On 30.05.1919 Private Thomas Charles Kingdon returns to Canada onboard the
‘RMS Empress of Russia’, arriving in Vancouver, presumably for discharge; On 30.12.1924 in Ottawa,
Thomas Charles Henry Kingdon Married Helen Margaret Morrison, born 22.06.1902 in Wyman, Quebec;
Thomas states his residence as Detroit on his marriage registration dated 30.12.1924; Thomas continues to
state that his Father was from Cardiff & that he was born in Cardiff, Wales; The family must have returned to
Detroit after the marriage, as we find them living in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930 US census where Thomas is
employed as an electrician in an auto plant. (They have 5 children; John Thomas Kingdon born in 1929 in
Michigan, USA; Richard C Kingdon born 03.12.1932 in Shawville, Quebec; Blanche Ann Kingdon born in
1936; David Herbert Kingdon born in 1939; & Robert Hayes Kingdon born in 1940); Strangely, Thomas
Charles Kingdon attempts to re-enter the USA at the Rochester border crossing on 05.12.1945 to join the US
Army? He is aged 45 & declared his correct birth date of 25.06.1900 but this time in Bristol, England; He
gives his last Canada address as Shawville & his wife’s name as Helen Kingdon; He confirmed that he had
previously lived in Detroit from May 1921 to 1930; (On the border card there is reference to January 1911 ‘SS
Hesperian’ which may be when he first emigrated to Canada, but I now believe that this should read 1913?
Thomas Charles Kingdon was referred to the B.S.I. for further investigation, but failed to appear – the border
immigration noted that “This man has an Honorable Release from the Canadian Air Force (Medical Category
APBP) 21.11.1945; He has a wife & 5 children in Canada. He is referred to B.S.I. at Niagara Falls NY L.P.C.
because he has no visa, he has no money & says that he would look for a job if rejected by the US Army”;
After this date I have not followed him any further; I believe that Thomas Charles Henry Kingdon Died on
28.03.1974 in Montreal Aged 73; (His Father was Kingdon, Thomas Henry: Rifle Brigade No: S1075 Rank:
Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served as #9082 in the Rifle Brigade); (He is the Brother of
William Ernest Kingdon, #SS10518 Royal Navy);
Kingdon, Thomas James: #7919A, 2nd Class Boy, Royal Navy; ADM 188/1; (1860’s period);
Notes: There is a Royal Navy record for #7919A Thos. Jas. Kingdon, serving as a Boy 2 nd Class on the shore
based ‘HMS Fisguard’, having signed up for 10 years service on 08.04.1862 in the ADM 188 records, which
indicates enlistment between 01.01.1853 & 31.12.1874, however the prefix ‘A’ would indicate enlistment after
1859 & before 1867; There is very little other information but I believe that ‘HMS Fisguard’ was a Training
Ship in Woolwich Harbour around this time; I can find no Thomas James Kingdon births that would fit this
profile; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, Thomas Medland: #29419, ‘E’ Company, 1st Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 12th
Reinforcements, WW1;
Notes: This is Thomas Medland Kingdon born 1859 in New Zealand, the son of Paul Kingdon, a Lawyer
b.21.08.1824 in Devon of the Kingdon/Thorverton line, & Rachel Ellen Parker who married in 1857 in
Islington, England & soon after moved to Wellington, New Zealand; In 1890 Thomas Medland Kingdon was
recorded as a Settler living in Karori, Wellington; Thomas Medland Kingdon Married Emma Eleanor
Reimenschnieder in New Zealand ca.1894, (she was the daughter of a German Missionary who had been in
New Zealand since 1843); In 1896 Thomas Medland & Emma Eleanor Kingdon are recorded as a Settler, in
Mangaone, Pahiatua; In 1900, 1905 & 1906, they are in Mangaone, Pahiatua, Manawatu-Wuanganui; In the
1911 & 1914 Electoral Rolls they are Farming in Levin, Otaki, Wellington; Thomas Medland Kingdon was
recruited for WW1 Service on 21.06.1916 with #3 Group, Paeroa, at the Auckland City Recruiting Station, he
was a Farmer & records that his wife’s address was c/o Mrs. J.R. Oakley of Gisborne; He embarked from
Wellington in New Zealand for Plymouth in England on board the ‘HMNZT Tofua’ on 11.10.1916; He served
with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in Europe & returned home in October 1918; In 1919 Thomas Medland
Kingdon is recorded at the Grosvenor Hotel in Fielding, Oroua as a Sheep Farmer; In 1928 & 1935 he is a
Farmer in Hobsonville, Auckland; Thomas Medland Kingdon died on 01.08.1935 Aged 76, his UK Probate &
Will were not processed until 1947 by the New Zealand High Commission; (He was the Father of Paul Kent
Kingdon & this family are well documented in the Kingdon Book ‘A Second Look’ dated 1974); (He is the
brother of Guy Havelock Kingdon, New Zealand Army Reservist, WW1); (He was the Father of #13556
Sapper Paul Kent Kingdon, New Zealand Field Engineers);
Kingdon, Thomas Sidney: Private, #174320, 86th Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary
Force, WW1;
Notes: There is some confusion with this record, as there appear to be two Enlistments/Attestations for the
same person? There is a Thomas Sidney Kingdon, born 13.09.1878 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, living at
#202 Jamison, East Hamilton, Ontario, a Married Fitter who had served previously with the A.S.C. for 3
months, who Attested for WW1 service on 23.08.1915 in Hamilton, Ontario; He gave his wife’s details as
Helena B. Kingdon & was aged 36 years & 3 months at the time; The second record is for a Thomas Sydney
Kingdom (but he signs as Kingdon), born 13.11.1879 in Barnstaple, Devon, England, living at #17, West
Avenue, North Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, a Married Chauffeur who had served for 6 months previously with
A.M.S, who Attested for WW1 Service on 11.02.1915 in Toronto; He gave his wife’s details as Helena
Beatrice Kingdom & was also aged 36 years & 3 months at the time? I believe that these records are for the
same person as there are too many exactly similar details; It is possible that he enlisted in two different places
in 1915 as he was perhaps tired of waiting to be called up from the February attempt or because he had
changed addresses? I would suggest that this is Thomas Sidney Kingdon born 13.09.1878 in Barnstaple,
Devon (there are no records for any matching Kingdon in November 1879 as noted on the 2 nd attestation
papers); He is the son of George Kingdon a Ship’s Carpenter, b.1833 in Barnstaple & Matilda Loosemore
b.1834 Barnstaple who Married in 1855 in Barnstaple; In1881 Census Tomas Kingdon is aged 2 years & lives
with his parents in Lemons Houses in Pilton, Barnstaple; In 1891 Thomas Sidney Kingdon is aged 13 years &
is with his married sister Edith Matilda Gould & her husband as boarders in Swansea, Wales; I believe that
Thomas Sidney Kingdon Marries Helena Beatrice Trezise (a widow or a divorcee with children), nee Phillips
b.1868 Bristol, in Barnstaple in 1899; The Kingdon family then emigrate to Canada on separate vessels in
1910 – Thomas on the ‘SS Tunisia’ 15.05.1910 & Helen Beatrice & their 2 children on the ‘SS Laurentic’; In
the 1911 Canada Census, Thomas Sidney & Helena Kingdon live in Hamilton, Ontario; I understand that
Private #174320 Thomas Kingdon sailed from Liverpool, England on the Canadian forces 5 th Sailing of 1918
for Medically Unfit Soldiers, returning to Canada for Discharge; Thomas Sidney Kingdon died in Hamilton,
Ontario on 11.12.1925 of Septic Pneumonia; This Soldier needs more research;
Kingdon, Thomas Wesley; #53209 Private, ‘D’ Company, Otago Infantry Regiment, New Zealand
Expeditionary Force, WW1;
Notes: This is Thomas Wesley Kingdon born 30.07.1896 in Gore, Southland, commonly known as Wes
Kingdon; He was the son of Arthur Henry Kingdon, a Farmer b.1863 & Elizabeth Falconer, who Married in
1894; Prior to WW1 Service Thomas Wesley lived with his parents in Gore & was involved in Farming; This
soldier enlisted in in the Otago Infantry in 1917 & embarked for Devonport in England from Wellington, New
Zealand on 12.06.1917 on board the ‘HMNZT 87 Tahiti’, with the 1st Draft of the 27th Reinforcements, New
Zealand Expeditionary Force; He served in France where he was wounded on 09.10.1918 & subsequently
invalided back to England for treatment; He remained in an English Hospital until being transferred back to
New Zealand with #231 Draft onboard the Hospital Ship ‘Maheno’ in 1919, arriving home on 20.04.1919; He
then began his recovery at the local hospital in Gore, Southlands before returning to Farming; From then until
1938 he was recorded as being a Farmer in Gore, Mataura before marrying a Mary Simpson ?? in ??; In1946 &
1949 they were still Farming in Gore but residing at #3, Howard Street; In 1957, 1963 & 1969 they were still
at the same address but Thomas Wesley Kingdon was a Storeman; By the year 1972 & 1978 he had Retired
but they continued to live at #3, Howard Street, Gore, Wallace, Southlands; In 1981 Thomas Wesley & Mary
Simpson Kingdon lived at #30, Main Street, Gore; I did not research further;
Kingdon, Tom; #3259 Royal Marine Artillery, Short Service, (#RMA/3259/S); ADM 159/101; (Late WW1
period);
Notes: In the Spring 1919 Absent Voters List for Devon, South Molton District, Parish of Morchard Bishop
there is reference #5558 to a Kingdon, Tom – Rudge Rewe (No service details given); Following research this
is obviously Tom Kingdon born 1st Q 1899 Crediton 5b.364 (Morchard Bishop); He was the son of Charles
Kingdon, a Farmer b.1864 Colebrooke, Devon & Alice Sarah Fish, from Brompton Ralph in Somerset, who
married in 1891 in Islington, London; In the 1901 & the 1911 Censuses he lived with his Parents at Rudge
Rewe Farm, Morchard Bishop, Devon; Tom Kingdon enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery, Short Service, on
14.06.1918; Tom Kingdon Married Dorothy Annie Ellicott, b.1890 St Mary Church, Devon, in Crediton in
1925, Children Marjorie Ethel b.1926 Morchard Bishop & John Sylvanus b.1927 Morchard Bishop; After
emigrating to Canada on the ‘SS Aurania’ on 26.05.1928, Tom Kingdon lives at #368, Edmonton Street,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; (Tom’s Wife Dorothy Annie Kingdon & Children, as immigrants, plus Tom’s
Mother, Alice Sarah Kingdon now a Widow, travel to Canada on the ‘SS Aurania’ on the 18.05.1929,); (This
man is part of the Coldridge Kingdon family line, see the Kingdon Book 1932); I can find no Medals card for
this man & presume that he joined the War very late on & did not serve overseas, however later research of
ADM 171/169 indicates award of the British War Medal; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Charles S (Charles
Sylvanus Kingdon): Royal Garrison Artillery No: 65306 Rank: Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, Tom: Royal Defence Corps No: 7970 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1; Also attested in
1882 as: Kingdon Tom: Royal Marines; ADM 157/658/974;
Notes: This is Tom Kingdon born 1863 Dulverton, son of Jacob Kingdon b.1836 Kings Brompton & Maria
Quick from Dulverton; In 1871 & 1881 Tom Kingdon lived with his parents in Dulverton, Somerset; The
ADM 157 Records indicate that this Tom Kingdom, born 1863 in Somerset, was Attested in 1882 for Service
with the Royal Marines at the age of 19; He was also Discharged in 1883 as paid 10 Pounds; Tom Kingdon
Married Louisa Gardener from Corsham, Wiltshire on 28.06.1888 in Chippenham, Wiltshire; In 1891 they
lived in Ystradyfodwg, Glamorgan, Wales next door to widowed Grandfather Jacob Kingdon; In 1901 they
lived back in Dulverton, Somerset, Tom was a Mason’s Labourer in the Summer & a Tree Feller in the Winter;
In the 1911 Census Tom & Louisa Kingdon live in Mill Green, Dulverton, Tom is a Mason working for a
Builder; Tom Kingdon enlisted in the Royal Defence Corps on 01.02.1915 aged 30 Years & was discharged on
19.09.1918; He also joined as #20664 in the Somerset Light Infantry at the time of Enlistment; Having
suffered a Rupture/Hernia in service as a Storeman at Tidworth, he was issued a truss & allotted to Tree
Felling Duties after his injury. In total he served for 3 Years & 231 Days; He was awarded a Pension/Gratuity
for his injury; Private Tom Kingdon was Discharged on 19.09.1918 under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi)
for Sickness at the age of 55 years & it is recorded that he never served overseas; Awarded the Silver War
Badge #B12952; Medals Card on file; (He was the Father of, Luther John Kingdon Private #25466 Wiltshire
Regiment & #M/410958 RASC who also served in WW1);
V
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, Victor P: Royal Army Medical Corps No: 114598 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Victor Percy Kingdon born 24.05.1900 in Huntsham, Devon & baptised there on 01.07.1900,
the son of John Kingdon, a Domestic Gardener b.1870 Bishops Nympton & Mary Anna Didham, b.1862
Colyton, Devon, who married in Somerset in 1892; (BDM records has Victor Percy Kingdom); In 1901 Victor
Percy Kingdon lived with his parents in Rectory Lodge, Huntsham, Devon, his Father is a Gardener; In the
1911 Census Victor Percy is aged 10 & lived with his parents at Gadbridge, Thurlbeere, Taunton, Somerset,
his Father is a Farm Labourer; There is no indication of when Victor Percy Kingdon enlisted in the Army for
WW1 Service; Victor Percy Kingdon Married Hilda Littlejohns in Taunton in 1926, (probably b.07.12.1901 in
Taunton, Somerset); I believe that Victor Percy Kingdon Died in May 1985 in Yeovil, Somerset Aged 85;
Medals Card on file; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Alfred John Walter: Leicestershire Regiment No:
235220 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11who also served in WW1);
Further Information: There are further records for a Victor Percy Kingdon which do not logically link with
this person, however, I have recorded them here as they may be relevant; I also researched every birth record
for a 5 year period in Devon looking for any other Victor Percy Kingdon or Kingdom, but to no avail: Could
this RAMC Soldier also have served with the RN Reserve? It seems strange to me also that Victor Percy &
Hilda Kingdon did not have any children until 1935 despite having been married in 1926? Was he serving
away with the Merchant Navy?
Kingdon, Victor Percy: Merchant Seaman, Navy, #DA20499; BT 377/7/68220, WW1;
Notes: Birth given as 01.01.1900 Near Bampton in Devon; Service (??) Date range 01.01.1908 – 31.12.1955;
Kingdon, Victor Percy: Merchant Seaman, Navy, #SBD634; BT 377/7/100793, WW1;
Notes: No other information but a Date range of 01.01.1908 – 31.12.1955;
Kingdon, Victor Percy: Royal Naval Reserve, Deck Boy, #634/SBD, WW1;
Notes: No other information; ADM 171/122 records the issue of WW1 Medals, Victory & British War
Medals;
No resolution found;
Kingdon, Victor W: Gloucestershire Regiment No: 4352 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: #4352 Gloucester Regiment denotes enlistment between 24.01.1894 & 13.08.1895; This Soldier also
served as an Air Mechanic, Class III Rigger with #103 Squadron Royal Air force HQ, Ground Staff in France
in 1918; Further research revealed that he was #405280 Kingdon V. W. who enlisted in the Muster of the
Royal Air force on Transfer from the Army on 01.06.1915 as his Royal Air Force number block suggests;
Following on, I now believe that this is actually William Victor Kingdon born 1894 in Barton Regis,
Gloucestershire as we can find no records for a Victor W Kingdon other than his Military one. I understand
that he was generally known as Victor Kingdon; He was the son of William J. Kingdon, a Cabinet Maker
b.1871 in St James, Bristol & Louisa Nicholson from Bedminster who Married in 1892 in Barton Regis,
Gloucestershire; In 1901 William (B) Kingdon aged 7 lived with his parents in #17, Unity Street, Bristol & at
the same address in the 1911 Census where William is now a 17 year old Cabinet Maker (Furniture) just like
his Father; William Victor Kingdon died in 1926 in Bristol Aged 32; Medals Card on file for the British War
& Victory Medals; I did not research any further;
W
KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, W: #3158, Private, 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, Boer War;
Notes: The 1st Battalion South Staffords served in South Africa from 1900 & were mostly involved in minor
skirmishes with the Boers, returning to England in 1904; There are Medal Rolls for Private W. Kingdon for
service in South Africa in the Boer War; One is dated 30.06.1903 & the other dated 14.09.1903 in Harrismith
O.R.C; Medals awarded were: King’s South Africa; Queen’s South Africa; Clasps South Africa 1901 & 1902;
Clasps Transvaal; Insufficient information to identify this soldier;
Kingdom, W: Royal Marines Bn. RN Div., Marine Light Infantry, #PO/1887(S), Rank: Private; - Died of
Sickness in WW1; Private W Kingdom, PO/1887(S), Royal Marines Battalion Royal Naval Division, Royal
Marine Light Infantry who died age 22 on 18th September 1918; Son of Eva and Cornelius Hocker
(Stepfather), Native of Liskeard, Cornwall; Remembered with honour Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le
Treport in France; Transferred from the Kingdom List;
Notes: This soldier appears to have died from illness and not from enemy action, this cemetery was also used
for soldiers who died at one of the nearby General Hospitals in Le Treport; His Ancestry WW1 Death record
says that he died from disease and that his grave is unknown or not recorded, his Mother is recorded as Eva
Hocker, #2, Pound Street, Liskeard, Cornwall; Another Record states that he died of Dysentery in the 16 th
General Hospital in Le Treport, death was due to privation & exposure while on active service! (This record
also has this information: 2nd RM Bn. Draft for BEF 19/5/17, Invalided to UK (undated, sick); 2nd RM Bn.
Draft for BEF 3/4/18-18/9/18 DD.; And the following: Notes: CWGC = W. Kingdom, RM Bn.; ADM/159 =
William John Yendell Kingdon; Papers misfiled in back of ADM/157/2734 (W-Y 1918), signature reads
"Kingdon"; GRO & ADM/242 = William J.Y. Kingdon, 2nd RM Bn.; Mother, Eva Hocker, 2 Pound St.,
Liskeard, Cornwall);
This is actually William John Yendall Kingdon born in Launceston, Cornwall on 15.11.1896; He is the son
of Thomas Kingdon, a Blacksmith born 1867 in Polbathick, Cornwall, & Eva Jane Carne, b.05.10.1867 in
Doddycross, Menheniot, Cornwall, who Married in Liskeard, Cornwall on 24.12.1889; In the 1901 Willie
Kingdon lives with his Mother Eva J. Kingdon in Menheniot in Cornwall in 1901 Census; (I am assuming that
his Father was away from home)? In the 1911 Census William Kingdon is aged 14 & living with his Mother
Eva Kingdon in Higher Lux Street, Liskeard, Cornwall, & working as a Bakehouse Boy in a Bakery; (I am
assuming that his Father was away from home)? (William Kingdon’s Father must have died or abandoned the
family, post 1911 & pre 1917, as his Mother remarried in 1917 in Liskeard, Cornwall to Cornelius Hocker, a
widower & granite polisher, & lived in Cornwall, I understand that she died on 15.02.1931 in Cornwall); A
further search of Royal Marine Records confirms that this should be William John Yendell Kingdon, #1887
who enlisted in the Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth division – Short Service, on 12th February 1917;
This record gives his Birth Date as 22nd August 1896 – ADM 159/206 reference; I originally found no Medals
Card on record but having searched further, ADM 171/169 records that he was awarded the Victory & British
war Medals; (William John Yendall Kingdon’s elder brother Claude Carne Kingdon served in WW1 also, as
#178198 in the Machine Gun Corps);
Kingdon, W A: Soldiers Christian Association 1914-1920 WO 372/23; WW1 period;
Notes: This is the Military Auxiliary of the YMCA; This is Winifred Adams Kingdon whose name appears
on the Absent Voters List for #21, Yew Tree Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire for 1918 & again
in 1919; Her credentials are indicated as A.I.B.D. which probably stands for Australian Infantry Base Depot
which was situated in Rouelles, near Le Havre, France; She is recorded as being an absent voter with a
Elizabeth Frances Kingdon of the same address; Winifred Adams Kingdon obviously came from a wealthy
family as in the 1911 Census she is aged 36 & living with her Widowed Mother & 3 other spinster sisters, all
on ‘Private Means’, at The Croft, St Annes Road, Eastbourne, Sussex; (This family originates from the Cory
Kingdon, Holsworthy, Devon line); Winifred Adams Kingdon was born in Spondon, Derbyshire in 1874, she
is the daughter of Godfrey Kingdon, a Clergyman b.1838 in Poughill, Cornwall & Frances Adams, b.1833 in
Nottingham, 1863 in Radford, Nottinghamshire; In the 1881 Census Winifred A Kingdon is aged 6 & lives
with her parents, who were absent on the census date, at the St Mary’s Church Vicarage, Spondon, Derbyshire;
In the 1891 Census her Father was the Vicar of Taunton St James in Somerset & Winifred A Kingdon lived
with her parents at Salisbury House, Taunton St Mary Magdalene Within, Somerset; In the 1901 Census she is
living with her parents at Witherley Rectory in Leicestershire; In 1935 & in 1939 Winifred Adams Kingdon
lived with her spinster sisters at #13, Yew Tree Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire; Winifred
Adams Kingdon Died a Spinster Aged 75 on 01.03.1950 at Penlee, Landscore Road, Teignmouth, Devon;
There is no MIC Card but this name appears in the UK Medals & Awards Archives for WW1; (She was the
Sister of Kingdon, Elizabeth Frances: Soldiers Christian Association 1914 -1920, WO 372/23);
Kingdon, W. J.: #4420, Private, 1st Battalion Prince Albert’s Somerset Light Infantry, India 1890’s; WO
100/86;
Notes: I have a Medals roll record for the issue of the 1895 India Medal & Clasps dated 16.09.1898 in
Kuldanna for the 1st Battalion, The Prince Albert’s Somerset Light Infantry, for a Private W. J. Kingdon
#4420, however, the W has been crossed out but unfortunately the replacement letter is not clear? This Soldier
probably enlisted between 18.03.1895 & 09.06.1896 according to his Regimental number of #4420; Prince
Albert’s Somerset Light Infantry served in India from 1893 to 1908 & then in England from 1908 to 1914;
Awarded the 1885 India Medal & the 1897-1898 Punjab Clasp for service with the Punjab Command;
Insufficient information to identify further;
Further Notes: It is possible that this Soldier may very well be John Kingdon, a Private in the 1st Battalion,
Prince Albert’s Somerset Light Infantry, who at the age of 24, (born 1776), Died & was Buried in Murree
Gullies on 28.05.1900 in Bengal, (see British Library India Office Ref. N/1/283 f.129);
Kingdon, W L: Army Service Corps No: MS/4249 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Transferred to Kingdom List: Kingdom, William L: Army Service Corps No: MS/4249 Rank: Private 19141920 WO372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is William Llewellyn Kingdom born 4th Q 1892 Oakford/Tiverton; Medals Cards on file;
(Brother of Percy Arthur Kingdom b.1899 Tiverton who served in WW1 & Horace Donald Kingdom
b.1896 Stoodleigh who Served in WW1 & Died in France on 06.05.1917; All 3 Brothers are recorded &
remembered on the Bampton Memorial Roll in Devon);
Kingdon, W. M: #2939, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force; - Died in WW1 on 26.09.1917
CWGC records - Private W M Kingdon #2939, 51st Battalion, 7th Reinforcement, Australian Infantry,
Australian Imperial Force who died on 26th September 1917; Remembered with honour Oostaverne Wood
Cemetery in Belgium;
Notes: There are more records for this soldier in the Australian Military Files; This is #2939 Private William
Matthew Kingdom who was the subject of the Australian Red Cross Society Wounded & Missing Enquiry
Bureau for the 1914-18 War; There are numerous enquiry correspondences which would indicate that ‘Billy’
Kingdon was wounded in the leg at Polygon Wood in September 1917 & whilst being carried on a stretcher
from the front line was killed by a shell & that he was buried where he fell between Polygon Wood &
Zonnebeke;
Detailed Military Records have this man as William Matthew Kingdom born 1896 in Carlton, Victoria,
Australia; This soldier enlisted on 13.06.1916, aged 21 years & 2 months & joined for duty on 11.07.1916 in
Perth, Australia; He gave his next of kin as his Father, Richard Kingdon & Agnes Clara Byrnes of Woodbridge
Terrace, Midland Junction, Western Australia, stating that he had served earlier with the Citizen Force, 88th
Infantry Unit at home in Perth as #2087 & that his occupation was a Packer; The unit he was assigned to
embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on board HMAT A8 ‘Argylshire’ on 09.11.1916, arriving in
Devonport, Plymouth, England on 10.01.1917, with the 7th Reinforcements, 51st Infantry Battalion; William
Matthew Kingdom then proceeded to France from Folkestone on 10.04.1917, he was taken on unit strength on
01.05.1917 & was Killed in Action on 26.09.1917; This soldier’s family were awarded a pension of 40
Australian Shillings per fortnight as compensation for the loss of their son; William Matthew Kingdon’s body
was exhumed from his battle burial location in 1928 & interred in Oosttaverne Wood Military Cemetery in
Belgium; Medals awarded, 1914-15 Star, British War & Victory Medals sent to his Father in 1922; (He was
the Brother of Richard Vincent Kingdon, #16357, Australian Army Service Corps);
Kingdon, Wallace David: Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve & Sea Cadet Corps; (1960’s);
Notes: The Royal Naval Reserve Lists have reference to Wallace David Kingdon as a Temporary Sub
Lieutenant & later a Lieutenant, for Duty with the (SCC) Sea Cadet Corps in 1961, 1962, 1968 & 1970; His
Lieutenant seniority is dated from 16.02.1963; There are no other naval records; This is Wallace David
Kingdon who was born in Lewisham in 1924, however, he may well have been the illegitmiate son of a girl
called Nanktelow, this name is shown in the records, plus there is the same 1924 birth reference in Lewisham
for a Wallace David Nanktelow also; Wallace David Kingdon Married Florence Amy Smith in 1946 in
Lewisham; They lived at #66, Geraint Road, Lewisham in 1946; They lived at #8, Scarlet Road, Lewisham in
1952 & they lived at #94, Capstone Road, Lewisham in 1963; I did not research further;
Kingdon, Walter: Sergeant, Royal Horse Artillery, India; (1880-1890’s period);
Notes: This is Walter Kingdon born in 1852 in West Monkton, Somerset, he is the son of John Kingdon
b.1827, a Railway Labourer, in North Petherton, Somerset & Sarah Rice? from Cheriton Fitzpaine who
married in 1850 in Taunton; In 1861 Walter Kingdon is aged 9 years & lives with his parents at Heathfield
Leach Cottages in West Monkton; I seem to have lost this man until I discovered a Marriage record for Bengal,
India in 1881; Subsequently, it would appear that Walter Kingdon joined the Royal Horse Artillery pre 1881 &
was posted to India; Walter Kingdon Married Sarah A. Gardiner from Canterbury, Kent in 1881 in Bengal,
India, volume 175, folio 138 in the Bengal Marriage Index; His wife may well have been a Widow as her name
is recorded as Bull nee Gardiner in the records; Further research of WO 69/72/215 supports this marriage data
with a record indicating Walter Kingdon of ‘C’ Brigade, Royal horse Artillery, Married Sarah Ann Bull on
16.02.1881 at Peshawar, Archdeaconry of Lahore, India; In 1891 Census this family were living in the District
Grand Depot Barracks in Woolwich Arsenal; This soldier probably had a Chelsea Pension awarded before he
died; I believe that Walter Kingdon Died in Lambeth in 1896 Aged 44; His widow then lived in #23, Tenison
Street, Lambeth as a Charwoman in 1901 Census; In 1911 She lived with 2 of her sons & a daughter at #27,
New Street, Kennington, London & was a Cleaner at the House of Commons (the records indicate that she had
had 8 children but only 3 of them were still living at that time although this may well not be totally correct
because I believe that she had another son Walter George Kingdon born 1890 in Woolwich who was serving in
the Army since 1907); (Sergeant Walter Kingdon was the Father of Kingdon, Walter G: Royal Field
Artillery No: 47379 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11 See also Kingdom, W G: Royal Field Artillery
No: 47379 Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (Also the Father of #464504 Private Harry Kingdon, ‘C’
Company, Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force, #439435a & 439435b);
Kingdon, Walter: Somerset Light Infantry No: 11358 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Prince Albert’s Somerset Light Infantry since 1912; Walter Kingdon also served with the
Labour Corps as #246703; Served in France from 02.05.1915; Transferred to Class Z Reserve on 27.03.1919;
Medals Card on file; (Insufficient information to identify properly);
Kingdon, Walter F: London Regiment No: 555062 Rank: Rifleman 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: I would suggest that this is very likely Walter Harold Kingdon born 29.12.1897 in Forest Hill,
Lewisham, London; I believe that the 16th Battalion was generally made up of Lewisham men & there does not
appear to be any other suitable Kingdon or Kingdom candidate born in that period with the name Walter F
Kingdon? He was the son of George Kingdon, a Butcher b.1861 Silverton & Emily Harriett Norris from Forest
Hill, London, who married on 14.06.1886 in Silverton, Devon; In the 1901 Census Harold Walter Kingdon
lives with his parents at #25, Dalmain Road, Lewisham, London, he is aged 3; In the 1911 Census Walter
Kingdon is aged 13 & is a Schoolboy, living with his parents at #40, Dalmain Road in Lewisham; The Medals
MIC Records card has Walter F. Kingdon serving with the 16th (County of London) Battalion, The London
Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), his number denotes that he enlisted between 04.12.1916 &
01.01.1917; This was a Territorial Force; Further research records that he Enlisted on 07.06.1916 & served
overseas at some point in his service, therefore his Regimental Number would have been issued when
renumbering occurred in 1917, but I have no idea whether he served with the 1/16 th or the 2/16th? The 1/16th
Battalion served in the Somme in 1916, in Arras in 1917 & again in the Somme in 1918; The 2/16 th Battalion
served in Ireland & Salonika in 1916 & then in Egypt from July 1917; This unit left Egypt for France in June
1918; I believe that Rifleman Walter F Kingdon probably served with the 1/16 th Battalion; There is also the
issue of a Silver War Badge 3476969 being issued for this soldier, indicated that he was Discharged on
22.04.1919 under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi) for Sickness at the age of 20; I believe that Walter Harold
Kingdon Married Edith Maud Batchelor, (b.20.09.1899 Greenwich) on 19.04.1924 in St Pauls, Greenwich,
Kent; I understand that Walter Harold Kingdon died in Bath in Somerset in 1986 Aged 88; Awarded the Silver
War Badge #476969; No Medals issued but Card on file; May be the Brother of Kingdon, Frederick George:
- Died in WW1- #22491, 16th Waikato Coy. 1st Battalion, Auckland Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary
Force; Needs more research to be certain of identity;
Kingdon, Walter G: Royal Field Artillery No: 47379 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Transferred from the Kingdom List: Kingdom, W G: Royal Field Artillery No: 47379 Rank: Driver 19141920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This is Walter George Kingdon born in 4th Q 1890 in Woolwich, Greater London, Kent, son of Walter
Kingdon b.1852 in West Monkton, Somerset & Sarah A. Gardiner from Canterbury, Kent; They Married in
1881 in Bengal, India, volume 175 folio 138 – she must have been a Widow because her name is recorded as
Bull nee Gardiner in the Bengal Marriage Index; In his records he gives his next of kin as his Widowed Mother
Sarah Kingdon #23, Tennison Street, Lambeth, Brothers Francis Henry & John Albert Kingdon, who he lived
with in 1901 Census; His Father was Sergeant Walter Kingdon of the Royal Horse Artillery serving at the
District Grand Depot Barracks in Woolwich Arsenal in 1891 with his family also, including Walter George
Kingdon aged 6 months; A recently provided London Schools Record reveals that Walter Kingdon was born
on 18.09.1890 & attended St John & All Saints School in Lambeth on 07.01.1895 aged 4 years; His address is
recorded as #23, Tennison Street, Lambeth; Walter Kingdon left this school on 20.12.1897 when he was
transferred to the Boys School; His Father died in 1896 in Lambeth; (His Mother & Brother John Albert were
Cleaners in the House of Commons in 1911 Census); Driver W.G. Kingdom, served with 29th Brigade Royal
Field Artillery, probably enlisted for WW1 on 23.08.1914; Sergeant Walter G Kingdon, served with the
Royal Field Artillery; there are two Medals Card Records on file;
Service Records & Pension Records for Walter George Kingdon – had already been serving with 7th
Battalion Rifle Brigade Militia at time of enlistment, he was 18 years old and a Porter by trade; He enlisted
into the Army on 04.07.1907 in London, he is recorded as having a number of tattoos; He contracted
Gonorrhea in 1910 & spent 89 days in hospital; His first transfer to the Reserve was from 181st Battery Royal
Field Artillery on the expiration of his period of Army Service on 03.07.1913 having served for 6 years; His
conduct was very good & he was accustomed to the care of horses; He is noted as having been a Carter
previously; He gave his intended address as #27, New Street, Kennington, London; In one record sheet there is
reference to a W.G. Kingdon #45379 & not #47379? At some stage he suffered from Trench Nephritis on his
face & loins in 1915 & spent 81 days in hospital in Bagthorpe, Nottingham; I believe that he re-signed between
12.09.1913 & 03.07.1914 for further Reserve/War service; He was promoted to Sergeant in 1917; He appears
to have been demobilised on 24.02.1919 having served a total of 11 Years & 235 Days; I believe that Walter
George Kingdon died in Elham, Kent in 1936 Aged 45; (His Father served with the Royal Horse Artillery in
the 1890’s, Sergeant Walter Kingdon b.1852 in West Monkton, Somerset); (Also the Brother of #464504
Private Harry Kingdon, ‘C’ Company, Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force, #439435a & 439435b);
Kingdon, Walter Henry: #K22413, Stoker 1st Class, Royal Navy; ADM 188/911, WW1 to 1936 Service;
Notes: Royal Navy Records have Walter Henry Kingdon, #K22413, born 25.01.1896 in Bexley Heath, Kent,
serving in WW1; At the end of the War he was probably serving on ‘HMS Gibraltar’ which was a Destroyer
Depot Ship at that time I believe; This is probably Walter Henry Kingdon, who was actually born on
25.01.1899 in Bexley Heath, the son of Benjamin George Kingdon, a Laundry Owner b.1857 in West
Monkton, Taunton, Somerset (died in 1901), & Elizabeth Turner from Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, who
Married in late 1884 in Taunton, Somerset; In 1901 Census Walter H Kingdon lives with his parents in Lion
Road, Bexley Heath, Kent; In 1911 Census Walter Henry Kingdon Aged 12 living with his Widowed Mother
Elizabeth Kingdon, a Laundress, in #61, Lion Road, Bexley Heath, Kent; This Sailor’s official number would
indicate enlistment between 01.01.1914 & 31.12.1914 & the prefix ‘K’ would confirm that he was a Stoker; I
believe that Walter H Kingdon Married Ether Ivy Bowers (b.11.12.1904) in Yeovil, Somerset in 1924; This
Stoker made a career out of the Royal Navy & was still serving on board the Submarine Depot Ship ‘HMS
Titania’ in the 1930’s & was issued with his Long Service Medal at Pembroke in April 1936; I understand that
Walter Henry Kingdon may have died in Yeovil, Somerset in 1958 Aged 59; Awarded the 1914-15 Star,
Victory Medal & British War Medal; ADM records indicate that he received his Royal Navy Long Service &
Good Conduct Medal in 1936; (He is probably the Brother of Kingdom, F: Royal Horse Artillery No: 54710
Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11 – see also Kingdon, Frederick G T: Royal Horse Artillery No: 54710
Rank: Driver 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He is probably also the Brother of Ernest John Kingdon #220465
Royal Navy); I did not research any further;
Kingdon, Wilfred: Royal Army Medical Corps Rank: Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Wilfred Kingdon, M.B. was promoted to the rank of temporary Lieutenant on 01.05.1917 with the
Army Medical Services; This Officer served in France from 15.04.1918; Promoted to Captain; Medals applied
for on 27.01.1922 & sent out on 16.02.1922 to addresses (Crossed out - #48, Penywern Road, Earls Court,
London SW5) & c/o Holt Residence, #3, Whitehall Place, London SW1; This could be Wilfred Robert
Kingdon born in 1872 in Colyton, Devon, the son of Frederick William Washington Kingdon, a Gentleman &
Paper Maker b.1834 in Colyton & Amelia Ann Maunder from Exeter who Married in 1858 in Exeter; In 1881
Census Wilfred Rob Kingdon lived with his parents in London road, Colyton, Devon, & in 1891 Census at
Wescotts, South Square, Colyton when Wilfred is 19 years old & a Student of Medicine; Wilfred Robert
Kingdon earned his M.B. at Edinburgh on 28.05.1895 & his Bac. Surg. In 1897 at University of Durham; I
believe that Wilfred Robert Kingdon, now a Bachelor of Medicine, Married Florence Elizabeth Matilda
Meadows from Hammersmith on 12.08.1899 in St Gabriel’s Church, Willesden, Middlesex; In 1901 Wilfred R
& Florence E Kingdon were Boarders at #14, Maitland Street Villas in Kentish Town, St Pancras, London,
Wilfred was a Physician; I understand from the Divorce proceedings that Wilfred Robert Kingdon violently
assaulted his new wife as early as April 1900, threatening to murder her & assaulting her further through 1902
& up until 1904 when he abandoned her; A Divorce Petition was filed 18.07.1905, Divorce Hearing for
Wilfred Robert Kingdon’s alleged Adultery & Cruelty was 08.09.1905, Decree Nisi was 19.12.1905 & the
Final Decree was issued on 09.07.1906; His ex wife then filed for Maintenance in 1906 but there were no
children; In 1911 Census there is a Doctor Wilfred Kingdon living with his Cook at #160, Goldhawk Road,
Hammersmith, London but the record says that he is unmarried, I take this to indicate that he was Divorced?
The London Gazette Supplement dated 04.01.1921 has Temporary Captain Wilfred Kingdon, M.B. of the
Royal Army Medical Corps, Army Medical Services, relinquishing his Commission on 08.12.1920 but
retaining the rank of Captain; I understand that Wilfred Kingdon Married Elsie Boucher Elgar in 1925 in
Kensington; She was born 02.01.1883 in Lambeth & baptised in Stockwell Green on 26.01.1883; In 1938
Captain Wilfred Kingdon lives at #22, Trebovir Road, London SW5; Wilfred Kingdon appears to have Died
on 24.03.1942 in Berkshire at the age of 68, he was living at Wayside, Mossy Vale, Maidenhead, Berkshire at
that time; His wife, Elsie Boucher Kingdon Died on 16.06.1962 at the Homeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond
Street, Holborn, London, she was living at #71, Warwick Road, Kensington, London at the time & Aged 81;
Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, Wilfred G: Machine Gun Corps No: 117646 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: I believe that this is Wilfred George Kingdon born in 1890 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of
George Henry Kingdon, a French Polisher, b.1867 in Cardiff & Sarah Ann Connett from Cardiff who married
in Cardiff in late 1889; In the 1891 Census Wilfred G Kingdon lives with his parents at #44, Treharris Street,
Roath in Cardiff; In 1901 Wilfred G Kingdon lives with his parents in $52, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff; In
1911 Wilfred George Kingdon is aged 20 & is an Upholsterer for a Furniture Dealer, living with his parents at
#52, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff, his Father is still a French Polisher working for a Pianoforte Dealer; I
understand that this family had a lifelong connection with the Roath Road Church; I think that Wilfred George
Kingdon Married Elsie Elizabeth A Sendell, b.16.03.1892 Bridgewater, Somerset, in 1913 in Cardiff; I believe
that Wilfred George Kingdon Died in Cardiff in 1967 Aged 76, his wife died in Cardiff Aged 88 in 1980;
Medals Card on file; (I believe that he was probably the Brother of Sgt. “Archie” Archibald Kingdon of the
Electric Light Company, 2/4th Devonshire, Royal Engineers);
Kingdon, William: No Military Records found but recorded in the Chelsea Pensioner lists;
Notes: The Chelsea Pensioners List has reference to a William Kingdon born 1873 in Wolverhampton,
Staffordshire, however, the only male Kingdon born in that period in Wolverhampton is William Kingdon
born in 1st Q 1871, but he may well have been named William Alexander Kingdon; This is the son of George
Kingdon, a Japanner b.1846 in Norfolk, & Emily Brant from Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, who Married in
1870 in Wolverhampton; In the 1871 Census William is aged 1 month & living with his parents in Alma
Street, Wolverhampton; In 1881 Census William Kingdom aged 10 is boarding with a William & Eliza Howell
(a Japanner by trade) at #6, Shepherd Street, Wolverhampton; In the 1891 Census William Kingdon is a
Groom, working in Wolverhampton; I believe that William Alexander Kingdon Married Frances Maud
Wilkinson, b.1879, in Wolverhampton in 1899; In the 1901 Census I failed to find William Kingdon but his
wife, Frances (Fanny), was visiting with her remarried Mother (Mary Wooley) in Wright Street,
Wolverhampton; In the 1911 Census I found William & Frances Kingdon, now working as a Carter for a
Railway Company & living at #31, Albion Street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire; I understand that William A.
Kingdon died in Wolverhampton in 1926 Aged 52;
Kingdon, William: Corporal #127185, 302nd Company, Labour Corps, (WW1 Home);
Notes: This Soldier also served with the Royal West Surreys #G/19190 & the Depot Company Royal Fusiliers
#G/53428; The G/ prefix indicates a WW1 General Service Enlistment & was also found on various Home
Counties’ Regiments’ Service Battalions in WW1; His records indicate that he Enlisted on 10.12.1915 in
Walthamstow, London & was placed on the Reserve; He was medically examined at Stratford on 31.05.1916
at the age of 36 years & is an Insurance Clerk living at #6, ?? Park Road, Walthamstow; This is William
Kingdon born 1880 in St Luke’s Parish, Islington in London, the son of William Kingdon b.1836 in North
Molton & Eliza ?? from Hoxton, London who married in ?? in ??; In 1901 Census William Kingdon is aged
21, a Clerk & is living with his parents in Islington; William Kingdon’s records show that on 11.12.1917, after
2 years & 2 days service, he was considered No Longer Physically Fit for War Service & that he was
Discharged under King’s Regulations Para 392 (xvi); I believe that this was due to his having Defective Vision
as he was in Edmonton Hospital in October 1917 & I also believe that he may well have been given a pension;
His records give his next of kin as Alice Kingdon (Wife) living at #6, ?? Park Road, Walthamstow; Further
research indicates that William Kingdon Married Alice Maud Kimpton, from Cawsand, Devon/Cornwall,
daughter of a Police Constable, in St Mark’s Church, Islington on 18.06.1902; In 1911 Census William &
Alice Kingdon & their family, plus his Widowed Mother Eliza Kingdon all live at #27, Cottenham Road,
Walthamstow (Note: Both filled out Census Records for the same address); William & Alice Kingdon have 4
daughters by 1913 – Alice b.18.11.1903 Islington, Ivy b.11.02.1906, Maud b.06.11.1910 & Violet
b.11.01.1913; There is no Medals card on file as he served in England only; Needs more research for
William pre 1901;
Kingdon, William: Militia Service; (Early 1905);
Notes: The Militia Service Records for 1806 to 1905 has a William Kingdon born in 1889 in Plymouth on the
list; I believe that this is probably William James R. Kingdom, born in 1888 in Plymouth, the son of William
Henry Kingdom, a Licensed Boat Proprietor b.1863 Plymouth, & Alice Mary A. Gazzard b.1866 in Plymouth
who Married in 1888 in Plymouth; In 1891 & 1901 Census William J. R. Kingdom lived with his parents at
#11, Hoe Gate Road, St Andrews, Plymouth, Devon; In the 1911 Census William Kingdom was Aged 23 &
living with his parents at #22, Pier Street, Plymouth & was recorded as being a Yachtsman; William J.R.
Kingdom Married Beatrice M. Facey in 1916 in Plymouth; (Son of Kingdon, William: #2204, Private, Royal
Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division; ADM 159/64); (Brother of Kingdom, Wilfrid Harold; #M25257,
Royal Navy, Shipwright Class 2; ADM 188/1068); (Brother of Albert Edward Victor Kingdom, #22079DA,
Royal Navy Reserve); This family may need further investigation & research;
Kingdon, William: Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Serving in 1871;
Notes: This is William Kingdon born ca.1836 in Barnstaple, Devon, according to the 1871 Census but this
could just be a reference to the area in which he was born as Barnstaple was the local registration centre; The
1871 Census for Royal Navy Vessels, has records for ‘HMS Cadmus’, at sea with a Private William Kingdon,
serving in the RMLI onboard; William Kingdon is recorded as being Married & Aged 35 years, there is no
other information; Insufficient information to enable proper identification;
Follow Up Notes: There is a Marriage Record in The Asplin Military History Resources taken from the
Plymouth Division Royal Marine Marriage Register (ADM 184/52) which records a Marriage for Private
William Kingdon of the 75th Company to a Charlotte Chubb on the 22.12.1867; The only record I can find that
matches this data is a Marriage for William Kingdon & Charlotte Chubb in 4 th Q 1867 Stoke Damerel 5b.639;
It is possible that Charlotte Kingdon (nee Chubb) was born in 1841 in Plympton St Mary, Devon but there is
no way of knowing for sure; I failed to find any other information to support this theory?
Further Research:
The ADM 157/240/293 Folios 293-301 has reference to a William Kingdom, born in Devon, having been
Attested for service in the Royal Marines at Plymouth in 1860 at the age of 24 (born 1836); This record also
indicates that this Marine was discharged in 1874 as an Invalid; Despite this new information I still failed to
locate this person in any other census than 1871; I would suggest that this William Kingdon/Kingdom is the
same Royal Marine?
Kingdon, William: #8420, 1st Battery, 6th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, WW1;
Notes: There are more records for this soldier in the Australian Military files; This is William Kingdon born
on 20.11.1893 in Naracoorte, South Australia, the son of Thomas Augustus Kingdon & Jane (Jennie) Fowler
of Port Lincoln, South Australia; William Kingdon enlisted on 01.10.1915 in Adelaide at the age of 22 years,
he was a Fireman by trade; he embarked from Australia on 22.11.1915 onboard the ‘HMAT Persic’ from
Melbourne, as a Driver with the 18th Battery, 6th Field Artillery Brigade; He served in the Middle East in Telel-Kebir in 1916, Transferred to 21st Battery in Ismalia on 09.03.1916 & Embarked for France on 17.03.1916;
On 27.01.1917 he was transferred to France & Wounded in Action with a shrapnel wound to the neck & a
wound to his foot on 05.10.1917; He was again Wounded in Action by a Gun Shot Wound, again in his foot on
22.07.1918, remained at duty but did spend some time in hospital in Ypres; William Kingdon was Returned to
Australia on 27.04.1919 & Discharged on 01.08.1919; I believe that William Kingdon Married Olga Barry in
Port Lincoln on 03.09.1921; Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War Medal & The Victory Medal; Could be
researched further;
Kingdon, William: Private, #3063, 2nd European Light Infantry, East India Company Army; (1859-1863
period);
Notes: There are Bombay Soldiers Records on file from 1858-1860 which refer to #3063 Private William
Kingdon serving with the 2nd Battalion of the European Light Infantry in the East India Company’s Army in
Bombay; Records indicate that he entered the service in 1859, was a Painter by trade from Taunton in
Somerset & enlisted in Cardiff; He was attested on 26.07.1859 & enlisted for a 10 year term; He arrived in
Bombay on board the ship “Speedy” on 19.08.1859; I believe that William Kingdon was invalided &
embarked for England on 26.01.1863; File references are L/MIL/12/115; Unfortunately I have failed to
identify this soldier any further?
Further Notes: Following contact in August 2012 with a possible descendant of this family, I would now
suggest that this is William Kingdon, a Painter, born in Taunton, Somerset, England on 14.06.1840, (records
at St Mary’s Church); I was given a copy of his Birth Certificate which confirms this information; He was born
at an address in Taunton High Street & was the son of Richard Kingdon, b.1811, a Carver & Gilder & Maria
Fry from Somerset, b.1816, who Married pre 1833 in Somerset; (Research would indicate that William’s
Father Richard Kingdon probably died in Lambeth, Surrey around 1865 & that his mother Maria remarried to a
Richard Gowen, a 51 year old Widowed Bricklayer in 1867 in Battersea; Please refer to the information above
for the period 1840 to 1863; We have now located records for this William Kingdon in the 1841 Census living
with his parents in Mary Street, St Mary Magdalene Parish, Taunton Hundred, Somerset; Unfortunately we
have not yet found this family in the 1851 Census records; However, in the 1861 Census William’s Parents
were living at #3, Bulls Head Court, Newington, Lambeth, Surrey, (William had already enlisted in 1859); I
believe that William Kingdon Married Mary Ann Rose, who was probably b.14.06.1854 in Bristol,
Gloucestershire, on 06.10.1870 in St Saviours, Southwark, London, England; I failed to locate this family in
1871 Censuses; In 1881 Census William & Mary Ann Kingdon lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada’ I could not
find the Passenger List details for either a ca.1874 trip to Canada, or a ca.1881/2 return to UK trip, but they
certainly resided in Canada between 1876 & 1881 as they have children born in Ontario; They also have a son
born in Battersea, London in 1882; The remainder of their children were born in Cardiff, Wales; In 1891
Census William & Mary Ann Kingdon had returned to UK & were living at #4, Crofts Street, Roath, Cardiff,
Wales, & they were also at this same address in the 1901 Census; I understand that William Kingdon then took
his whole family back to Canada in December 1905 on board the ‘SS Virginian’, some of his children
following later in 1906 & some remaining in Wales & England; William Kingdon then sailed back to England
alone from Montreal on 27.08.1906 on the ‘SS Dominion’; Then I found William Kingdon traveling back to
Saint John, New Brunswick on the ‘SS Empress of Britain’ in December 1906 with his son Sidney Walter
Kingdon, both were working as painters & both marked as Returning Canadians; I have no idea why Sidney
Walter & his Father William Kingdon should both travel separately to England in 1906 & then return to
Canada together in December but wonder if it was for work or perhaps a family bereavement; In 1911 Canada
Census William & Mary Ann Kingdon live in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; I understand that William
Kingdon Died on 11.08.1934 & is buried in Prospect Cemetery, his wife Mary Ann Kingdon (nee Rose) Died
21.12.1927 & is also buried in Prospect Cemetery; (He was the Father of Kingdon, Sidney Walter: #8147,
Manchester Regiment); (He was the Father of Kingdon, Ernest: Royal Irish Fusiliers No: 13731 Rank:
Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (He was also the Father of Gordon William Kingdon, born in 1875 in
Toronto, Canada & who seems to have served at some time in UK because there is a Chelsea Pensioner of that
name & with the correct birth place on records, who I am also following up); This Family may still need a
little more research although a descendant contact has been very helpful in updating this record;
Kingdon (or Kingdom), William: Chelsea Pensioner, (No other details); (1841-1851 period);
Notes: In 1841 Census there are records for a William Kingdon aged 64 (born 1777), an Army Pensioner, &
wife Catherine ?? aged 55 (born 1786 in Ireland), alongwith a daughter Margaret Kingdon aged 22 (born 1819
in Middlesex), living at Woods Building Gardens in St Luke’s, Chelsea, South District; I have since found a
Death record for a Catherine Kingdon in Chelsea in 1851 & have assumed this is the wife of William Kingdon;
In the 1851 Census for the Woods Building in St Jude, Chelsea, there is a record for a William Kingdom aged
79 (born 1772 in Devonshire) as a Chelsea Pensioner; In my Chelsea Pensioner’s List of records there are 3
possible William Kingdom soldiers from Devon who could be the same person; I found no other records;
Kingdon, William: Royal West Kent Regiment No: TF/241338 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Regimental number prefix TF/ denotes Territorial Force; Private William Kingdon’s name appears on
the Roll for soldiers who served with the Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); Medals Card on file;
(Insufficient information to identify any further);
Kingdon, William: Royal Navy, Master At Arms, #200821; ADM 188/348/321; (Pre war & WW1 service
period);
Notes: The ADM 188 records have reference to William Kingdon, born 27.10.1881 in Eastbourne, Sussex,
serving as #200821; This official Royal Navy number would indicate enlistment in 1898 as a Seaman; This is
William Kingdon born in 1881 in Eastbourne, Sussex, the son of William Hamlin Kingdon, a Carpenter
b.1850 in South Molton, Devon & Emily Elizabeth Mears from Shinfield, Berkshire, who Married in 1876 in
Strand, London; His Father died in mid 1881 & in the 1891 Census William Kingdon was aged 9 & lived with
his widowed Mother, she was a Laundress, at #437 Sea Side Road, Eastbourne, Sussex; I failed to locate
William Kingdon in the 1901 Census but believe that he was already serving in the Royal Navy; In 1905 in
Portsmouth William Kingdon married an Irish girl from Cork, named Winifred Doris Constance Middleton,
probably born in 1884; The ADM 171/62 record has #200821 Ships Carpenter, W. Kingdon serving in the
Persian Gulf between 1909 & 1914 on board ‘HMS Odin’; In the 1911 Census William Kingdon is a Ships
Corporal serving at ‘Fort Blockhouse’ in Alverstoke, Hampshire, & is recorded as being Married; (This is the
same station that Alfred Moule Martin was serving at in 1911); In the 1911 Census Winifred Kingdon & 3
children are recorded incorrectly as ‘Ringdon’, living at #48, Fifth Street, Buckland, Portsmouth; (2 children
were born 1906 & 1908 in Selsey bill, Sussex & a third b.1911 in Portsmouth, Hampshire; Selsey bill is a
headland on the Sussex/Hampshire border, 2 kids were registered in Westhampnett, Sussex which covered
that area);
I believe that William Kingdon & Winifred Doris C Middleton were either separated or divorced between
1911 & 1914; William Kingdon was serving onboard ‘HMS Glory in 30.11.1915 as his Persian Gulf Medal
clasp was forwarded to him there;
Winifred Doris C Middleton then appears to have run off to Australia & married a Royal Navy Boatswain,
Alfred Moule Martin in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia in 1914; This British Sailor, previously
served in the London Depot from 01.06.1913 until 26.06.1913 & was on loan to the Australian Navy for
WW1, serving with them in Sydney from 27.06.1913 until 29.08.1917, before returning to England to serve
out of the London Depot; Alfred Moule Martin was born in 1884 in Southwark, London & lived with his
parents in Camberwell in 1891 Census; In the 1901 Census Alfred Moule Martin was a 17 year old 1 st Class
Boy serving on board the shore based Gunnery Ship ‘HMS Cambridge’ in Devonport; In 1911 Alfred Martin
is serving at ‘HMS Excellent’ Gunnery School on Whale Island, Portsmouth as a Seaman, Petty Officer & is
recorded as being Single; (This is the same station that William Kingdon was serving at in 1911); However, I
can find no records for Winifred Doris Constance Kingdon travelling or sailing to Australia, but I have found a
returning English passenger on board the ‘SS Berrima’ sailing from Australia to England for Mrs. Winifred
Martin Aged 31 (b.1889?) & a 2 year old daughter Stella Margaret Martin in February 1920, which may be
her; I believe that Alfred M Martin Died in Devon in 1943 Aged 59, & that Winifred D C Martin Died in Kent
in 1963 Aged 82; Alfred Moule Martin was awarded the WW1 Star, Victory & British War Medals & also
paid a Bonus for having served in WW1 with Australian Forces;
I believe that William Kingdon lived at #80, Broadway, Sandown in the Isle of Wight & Married his 2nd Wife,
Ethel Kate Gilchrist in 1925 on the Isle of Wight, she was b.1896 in Newport, Isle of Wight; William Kingdon
Died on 18.09.1939 at the County Mental Hospital, Whitecroft, Newcroft on the Isle of Wight Aged 58; His
wife Ethel Kate Kingdon Died aged 62 in Sandown, IOW in 1959; William Kingdon was awarded the WW1
Star, Victory & British War Medals; He was also awarded the Naval General Service Medal & Persian Gulf
clasp for service 1909-1914;
Kingdon, William: Book 1670, Exeter, Devon Militia for 1803;
Notes: The Devon: Exeter Militia List for 1803 has reference to a William Kingdon, Surgeon, who served
earlier in the Militia but in 1803 was ‘Deleted – Discharged’; No other information;
Kingdon, William: Book 1670, Exeter, Devon Militia for 1803;
Notes: The Devon: Exeter Militia List for 1803 has reference to a William Kingdon, Ironmonger, who served
in the Militia; The record indicates that he was aged 21 years & was s single man, ‘ Willing to Serve as a
Volunteer’; This would appear to be William Kingdon born 25.03.1782 & baptised on 02.04.1782 in
Bow/Mint/George’s Meeting House, the son of “Iron Sam’ Kingdon & Jane Kent; (The Kingdon Book ‘A
Second Look’ published in 1974 has detailed reference to this family);
Kingdon, William: Royal Navy, Warrant Officer, Carpenter, #411 & #415; ADM 196/29 & ADM 196/75;
(1823-1854 period);
Notes: There are numerous records for this Sailor, which indicate that he held the rank of Carpenter & was
aged 21 years old when he first entered the Service. William Kingdon served from 24.05.1823 to 31.12.1854;
His date of birth is not shown in the records but the ADM 196/75 listing has his rank as Carpenter, Serving
from 25.11.1840 & ADM 196/29 records his rank as Carpenter 1st Class serving since 01.01.1855; There is a
Medal roll for the 1834 -1853 South Africa Medal which records Carpenter William Kingdon serving on HMS
Castor during the Kaffir Wars, probably in Simons Bay during 1850 to 1853; This is probably William
Kingdon born in 1802 or 1803 in Stoke Damerel, the son of Peter Kingdon, b.1765 in St Neot, Cornwall &
Mary Williams from Stoke Damerel, who Married in 1791; William Kingdon Married Elizabeth Pengelley
b.1809 in Devonport, in Stoke Damerel on 02.06.1830; I find William Kingdon in the 1841 Census with his
wife & family, serving with the Royal Navy at that time & living in Temple Street, Portsea Town, Portsmouth,
Hampshire; In the 1851 Census William is recorded as being a Warrant Officer at Sea (serving on HMS
Castor) & his wife & family live at #12, Ross Street, Stoke Damerel; In 1861 Census William & his wife &
family live at #4 Market Street in Stoke Damerel, William is still a Carpenter in the Royal Navy; In 1871
William Kingdon is aged 67 & a Pensioned Warrant Officer Royal Navy, living in Herbert Place, Stoke
Damerel; In 1881 William & Elizabeth Kingdon live at #18, Ross Street, Stoke Damerel; William Kingdon
dies in Stoke Damerel in 1888 Aged 84 & his Wife Elizabeth the following year in 1889 at the age of 80;
Awarded the South Africa Medal for 1850 -1853;
Further Notes: Having continued with my Kingdon & Kingdom families’ military service researches I have
concluded that the following record also refers to this same Royal Navy Sailor; (This Naval Carpenter may
have been awarded a Superannuated Carpenter’s Pension of 25 pounds per year on 28.12.1884);
Kingdom, William: Royal Navy, Carpenter’s Crew, 1793-1840;
Notes: I originally had very little information on this Royal Navy man but he was serving onboard ‘HMS Asia’
at the Battle of Navarino in the Ionian Sea on 20.10.1827, as a Carpenter’s Crew; Unfortunately there was no
other information against his name? I now believe that this is William Kingdon b.1802/03 in Stoke Damerel,
Devon, who served as Warrant Officer, Carpenter, #411 & #415 Royal Navy; I understand that he also served
as ships #3 Carpenter Crew with ‘HMS Monarch’ in the Baltic & that his medals were issued to him via ‘HMS
Royal William’ on 18.03.1857; He was awarded the Naval General Service Medal for service on HMS Asia,
Navarino U/1257; Awarded the Baltic Medal; (He was the Father of Kingdon, Edwin Peter Pengelley: Royal
Navy Volunteer #27890A & Royal Navy #63488; & Grandfather of Kingdom, Albert Edwin: Royal Garrison
Artillery No: 213501 Rank: Gunner who served in WW1 in the Army);
Kingden, William: Mariner, Royal Navy; 1790 era;
Notes: This could be a William Kingdon also? This Mariner was born in 1772 or thereabouts & was serving
on ‘HMS Perseverance’ in 1793; There is a Bishop of Winchester’s Marriage Licence record for William
Kingden, aged 21 & Sarah Fry of Alverstoke, Hampshire, also aged 21, being married at Portsea on
02.07.1793 in Hampshire; I can find no other records;
Kingdon, William: Private, Royal Marine; (1891 Census records);
Notes: There is an 1891 Census Record for the Royal Marines Barracks, East Stonehouse, Devon, which has
William Kingdon, born 1864 in Exeter, serving asa Private soldier in the Royal Marines; Despite in depth
searches, I have failed to identify this man; Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, William: Private, Royal Marine, 15th Company, Royal Marine Brigade; 1850 to 1880 in China;
Notes: The ADM 171/30 Records have a Medal Clasp issue for the Capture of Canton in 1857 in the First
Chinese Opium War for Private Wm. Kingdon of the 15th Company, Royal Marine Brigade; There is no other
information other than a note that his medals were delivered to him in China in 1883, (probably in Hong Kong)
where he was possibly still serving as a Marine? Awarded the China War Medal & Canton Clasp; Insufficient
information to identify;
Kingdon, William: #2204, Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division; ADM 159/64; (1880’s
period);
Notes: This is probably William Kingdom born in 1861 in Plymouth, the son of William Henry Kingdom, a
Master Boatman & Boat Proprietor, b.1827 in Plymouth, & Emma Menhinnich from Cornwall who Married in
1853 in Plymouth; (There is however, some discrepancies in my records for this man – he may have been born
as William Henry Kingdom or William John Kingdom; The Royal Marine Records have his date of birth as
09.09.1861 but there are no Kingdom or Kingdon children born in the Plymouth area during that period?
However, I have concluded that this is probably the correct person as follows; In 1871 Census William
Kingdon is Aged 10 years & lives with his parents at #8, Hoe Gate Place, Plymouth St Andrews; In the 1881
Census William Kingdon is aged 19 & lives with his parents still at the same address in Plymouth, he is a
Waterman like his Father, (his Father’s wife in this census is recorded as Charlotte A Kingdon from Falmouth
in Cornwall & his parents ages do not compute with earlier records? Further research indicates that his Mother
Emma Kingdom died in 1876 aged 50 & that his Father William Henry Kingdom Married again in 1878 in
Stoke Damerel, Devon, to a Charlotte Ann Doney, however, her maiden name was Charlotte Ann White & she
had been previously Married to Thomas Doney, a Warder in Plymouth Charles & I believe that he had died in
1875 in Plymouth too); According to the Royal Marine records, William Kingdon Enlisted in the Plymouth
Division of the RMLI on 09.08.1881; William Henry Kingdom Married Alice Mary Ann Gazzard, b.1866
Plymouth, in Plymouth in 1888 & in the 1891 Census they lived at #11, Hoe Gate Place in Plymouth; William
Henry Kingdom is now a licensed boat owner; In 1901 William & Alice Kingdom still live at #11, Hoe Gate
Place, Plymouth; In 1911 William & Alice Kingdom live at #22, Pier street, Plymouth; (He was the Father of
Kingdom, Wilfrid Harold; #M25257, Royal Navy, Shipwright Class 2; ADM 188/1068); (Father of Albert
Edward Victor Kingdom, #22079DA, Royal Navy Reserve); (His other son William James R. Kingdom
probably served with the Militia in Plymouth); This family may need further investigation & research;
Kingdon, William: Wiltshire Regiment No: 203121 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Initially enlisted as #4655 Devonshire Regiment; Also served as #662682 in the Labour Corps &
#203059 4th Reserve Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, & 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment & #136461 RAMC;
This is William ‘Willie’ Kingdon born & baptised South Molton 05.03.1881, the son of Thomas Kingdon
b.1847 South Molton & Anne Heriford from Meshaw who Married on 29.04.1873 in South Molton; In the
1881 Census William Kingdon is aged 1 month & living with his parents at #89, East street, South Molton,
Devon; Willie Kingdon continued to live in East Street, South Molton at #82 with his parents in 1891 & 1901;
Willie was a Coach Builder & Journeyman Wheelwright; He married Emily Adelaide Thorne on 22.12.1902 in
South Molton & lived at #22, North Street, South Molton in 1911 Census; William Kingdon enlisted on a
Short Service basis for the duration of the War on 09.12.1915 aged 35 years & 9 months but may not have
been called up until 15.06.1916 as he was placed on the Army Reserve list before being posted to the
Devonshire Regiment; He served at Home from 15.06.1916 until 25.06.1917 & was then sent to France until
11.10.1917, transferred to the 4th Reserve Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment & then posted to the 2nd Battalion,
Wiltshire Regiment, serving with them in France before returning home on 18.12.1917; He also appears to
have been attested with them as #203059; He suffered with some mild disability, (general weakness & weight
loss) as he was hospitalised from 12.10.1917 to 07.12.1917 & was eventually transferred to the RAMC on
08.02.1918 but there is some confusion with his military & pension records here? He was transferred to the
Labour Corps on 09.10.1918 with the 448th Agricultural Company; He is recorded on the 1919 Absent Voters
List for South Molton at reference 4666 but there are no service details given; I believe that he was
demobilised on 19.04.1919; Willie Kingdon Died 08.01.1964 in South Molton; Medals Card on file; (He is the
Brother of Kingdon, Fred: Devonshire Regiment No: 23938 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kingdon, William: Private, #9532 West Riding Regiment; (1908-1909);
Notes: This is William Kingdon born 1888 in Enfield, London, Middlesex, the son of Alfred Kingdon b.?? in
?? & ?? from ?? who Married in ?? in ??; William Kingdon (Kingdom) was aged 19 years & 8 months when he
first Attested for the 3rd West Riding Regiment Special Reserve in Bradford on 19.09.1908 for 6 years service,
he was recorded as #9206; He served with the Special Reserve for a total of 93 days until 20.12.1908; William
Kingdon then Enlisted in the Regular Army for a Short Service career, 7 years with the Colours & 5 years
Reserve, with the West Riding Regiment/Corps on 20th December 1908 in Halifax; He was aged 19 years & 11
months old, a Groom by trade, having worked for a Horse Trader in Leeds for 3 years, & declared that he was
already serving in the Reserve in 3rd Battalion, West Riding Regiment; His next of kin was his Father Alfred
Kingdon of #3, Warwick Place, Leeds, Yorkshire & his brother, Ernest Kingdon who was serving on HMS
Victory’ at the time; In January 1909, whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, he went Absent in Tidworth & was
placed in detention prior to his District Court Martial on 21.01.1909; He was sent to detention for 14 days on
27.01.1909 & returned to duty on 10.02.1909, however he had tried to cut his throat on 02.02.1909 whilst in
detention; By the 1st of April 1909 he was found to be medically unfit for further service due to ‘Delusional
Insanity’ & subsequently Discharged after only a further 102 days service; At discharge he gave an address in
St Albans, Middlesex but this is unreadable on his file; I believe that he tried to cut his throat on 02.02.1909
although the wound was rather superficial & that a Court of Inquiry was held on 25.02.1909 at Victoria
Barracks, Portsmouth; (He was the Brother of Ernest Kingdon who served on ‘HMS Victory’ in 1908/09?);
For some reason I cannot locate any of this man’s family? Needs more research?
Kingdon, William: Devonshire Regiment No: 5215 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11,WW1;
Notes: Enlistment dates for a soldier with this regimental number #5215 were between 05.01.1896 &
04.01.1899; Also served as #268191 with the Devonshire Regiment; Territorial Force Medal 1421 was issued,
indicating service with the territorial force prior to 30.09.1914 & to have served in an operational theatre
outside of UK between 05.08.1914 & 11.11.1918; Medals Card on file; (Insufficient information to identify
further); Further research of Colonel Flick’s Diary for the 6th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment reveals
records for Private W. Kingdom #268191, serving with ‘A’ Company;
Further research of the Absent Voters List for 1919 reveals that this is probably William D. Kingdon, a
Private with the 1st/6th Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment who were serving in Mesopotamia & did not
return home until August 1919; The address given in 1919 was #62, Westbridge Cottages, Tavistock, Devon,
which has helped identify him; William Daniel K. Kingdon born in 1893 in Tavistock, Devon, the son of
Edward Andrews Kingdon, an Iron Moulder, b.1867 in Tavistock & Elizabeth Jane Lucas b.1870 in St Ives,
Cornwall who married in 1889 in Tavistock; In 1901 Census William is aged 8 & lives with his parents at #5,
Madge Hill, Tavistock; In 1911 Census William Kingdon is aged 18 & is a Domestic Gardener living with his
parents at #62, West Bridge Cottages, Tavistock, Devon; I believe that William D Kingdon Married Henrietta
Woolway in Tavistock in 1921; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Sydney C: Devonshire Regiment No: 1420
Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11); I did not research further;
Kingdon, William Charles: Merchant Shipping & Mercantile Medals for WW1; BT 351/1/77264;
Notes: This is recorded as William Charles Kingdon born in 1894 in Cardiff, Glamorgan Wales; I have failed
to find any other records other than his birth in 1894 in Cardiff? Insufficient information to identify;
Kingdon, William E: Royal Engineers Regiment No: T1005 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Transferred from Kingdom List: Kingdom, W E: Royal Engineers No: 514302 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920
WO 372/24, WW1;
Notes: The number prefix T/ denotes Territorial Force; This man also served as #514302 with 616th Company
(Electric Light Company), Devon Fortress, in Gibraltar; This is William Edgar Kingdon born on 13.02.1893
in Devonport, the son of Joseph John/William Kingdon, an ex Royal Navy Able Seaman & later a Government
Labourer in Devonport, b.1858 Devonport & Elizabeth Jane Bickford from Millbrook, Cornwall who married
in 1883 in Stoke Damerel, (however there was initially some confusion here as marriage records have Joseph
John & not Joseph William or Joseph John/William Kingdon?); In the 1901 Census William Kingdon is aged 8
& living with his parents at #48, Duke Street, Devonport; In the 1911 Census William Kingdon is aged 18,
working as an Apprentice Blacksmith & still living with his parents at #48, Duke Street, Devonport; William
Edgar Kingdon enlisted in Plymouth Aged 17 years & 10 months on 21.12.1910 & was subsequently assigned
to the Devon (Fortress) Royal Engineers Territorial Force (No’s 1, 2 # Works Companies, No’s 4 & 5 Electric
Light Companies), for 4 years; On 04.07.1911 in Plymouth Sapper W E Kingdon, #1005 agreed to join the
Special Service Section of the Territorial Force for Service in the South Western Coast Defences; On
09.09.1915 he was serving in Gibraltar where the records indicate that Sapper W Kingdon #1005 re-engaged
for the period of the 1st World War & was paid his Bounty under Army Order 209 on 30.10.1916; He had
previously served in Plymouth from 04.08.1914 until 09.04.1915 & then served the rest of his Army time in
Gibraltar; William Edgar Kingdon was promoted to Lance Corporal in November 1916 with 1/4th Company;
William Kingdon suffered from Cow Pox (Vaccinia) in Gibraltar in April 1918; On 29.11.1918 in Gibraltar he
Reverted to the Rank of Sapper at his own request; On 07.01.1919 in Gibraltar, Sapper William Kingdon was
medically examined for Discharge & found to be A1 fit & returned to the UK on 21.02.1919; I believe that
William Edgar Kingdon Married Lilian Johnson in Plymouth in early 1920; On 29.05.1920 William Edgar
Kingdon & his wife Lilian sailed from Southampton on the ‘SS Scandinavian’ to Quebec, Canada at the age of
27 (he was a Fitter Engineer) to seek work & settle down in Canada & having decided to emigrate to Chatham,
Ontario, Canada after demobilisation; His elder Brother Frederick Joseph J. Kingdon already lived in Ontario
at #230, Nelson Street, having emigrated from UK in 1905; In 1922 William Kingdon was living at #188,
Forest Street, Chatham, Ontario, Canada; I believe that William Edgar & wife Lilian Kingdon, now a
Merchant, returned to Plymouth, England on 14.01.1931 on board the ‘SS Ausonia’ & that William Edgar
Kingdon eventually died in 1975 in Liskeard, Cornwall Aged 82; He received the Territorial Force War Medal
on 16.10.1922 for service with the Devon Fortress Regiment; WW1 Medals Card on file; (He was the son of
#81288, Able Seaman, Joseph John Kingdon, Royal Navy); (He was the Grandson of Kingdon, George
Frederick: Royal Naval Dockyard Stoker, Paddle Tugs in Devonport); (He was the Nephew of Kingdon,
John: #82600, Stoker, Royal Navy; ADM 188/76/189);
Kingdon, William Edward: Royal Army Medical Corps Rank: Captain 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Served in France from 09.02.1917; Medals issued 09.02.1923, address was “Floriston” Bridge Road,
Torquay, Devon; William Edward Kingdon was educated at Trent College and University College Hospital,
qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1913 and graduating in 1915; His name also appears on the WW1
Roll for University of London; After graduating in 1915 he took up a House Appointment at Sheffield & then
served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WW1; William Edward Kingdon MB was promoted to
Lieutenant on 05.05.1915 with the North Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance of the Army Medical
Services; This officer was again promoted to Captain on the 15.11.1915 with the same unit of the Royal Army
Medical Corps; Throughout his life he was a careful Doctor, Clinician & Surgeon in UK & also whilst
working in Jerusalem & Egypt on medical mission works; This is William Edward Kingdon born on
27.01.1888 in Sheffield, the son of William Edward Kingdon, a Tobacconist, b.1861 in Worcester & Annie
Lock from West Buckland in Devon, who married in Barnstaple in 1st Q 1886, later of Bemerton, Buxton,
Derby; In 1891 Census William E Kingdon lived with his parents at #187 Granville Road, Sheffield Park,
Sheffield, Yorkshire; The family lived in Sheffield in 1901 Census at #81, Fitzwalter Road, but William
Kingdon aged 13 was a Pupil at Trent College, Long Eaton, Derbyshire alongwith another of his brothers
(John Kingdon); In 1911 Census William Edward Kingdon is aged 23, an inmate medical student at the
University College Hospital, Gower Street, St Pancras, London WC; William E Kingdon Married Anne
Purdon in Erpingham, Norfolk in 1916; Captain W.E. Kingdon MB, of the RAMC, resigned his commission
on 08.04.1921 but retained the rank of Captain; William Edward Kingdon Died on 06.02.1977 in Norfolk
Aged 89, his wife having died in 1963; Medals Card on file; (Brother of Captain Arthur Francis Kingdon,
6th Bn., York and Lancaster Regiment, who died on 09 October 1917 on the Somme); (Brother of Kingdon,
George Herbert: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, Captain 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served
in WW1);
Kingdon, William Ernest: #SS10518, Short Service, Royal Navy; ADM 188/1104/515; Late WW1 to pre
WW2;
Notes: This Sailor’s official naval number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1918 & 31.12.1918, the
prefix ‘SS’ indicates a Short service enlistment of 5 to 7 years; The ADM gives his birth date as 20.05.1903 in
Bristol, Gloucestershire; This is William Ernest Kingdon born 20.05.1903 in Clifton, Bristol, England, the
son of Thomas Henry Kingdon, a British Soldier, b.1868 in Bristol & Blanche Mary Vear from Bedminster,
Gloucestershire, who married in Bristol on 11.04.1898; His Father served in the South African Boer War & in
WW1 & was a bit of a drunkard who was discharged from the British Army as unfit in 1916 & died of heart
failure in 1917; ; His sister was Nellie May Kingdon born 09.10.1898 in Clifton, Bristol; His Brother was
Thomas Charles Henry Kingdon born 25.06.1900 in Clifton, Bristol, who was probably forcibly emigrated to
Ontario in January of 1913 as a “Home Child” aboard the ‘SS Hesperian’; His Father had obviously
abandoned his family, but where was his Mother? Did his mother die or abandon her children? I checked the
1911 UK Census & found a female Kingdon lodging at #37, Ambre Vale East in Clifton, Bristol, which could
be her; In the 1911 Census there is a record for a William Kingdom, aged 7 (b.1904 Bristol) as a School boy
under a Foster Mother at a Bristol Board of Guardians, Poor Law Service School & Children’s Home at #6,
Beechwood Bank, Charlton road, Fishponds, Bristol, Gloucestershire; The ADM 171/160 & ADM 171/162
records indicate that William Ernest Kingdon served for a much longer period than the initial short service
enlistment with the Royal Navy & I believe that he served in the Devonport Division & claimed his Long
Service Medal on 10.07.1942 under his Official Naval Number of #20735; He was issued the Royal Fleet
Reserve Long Service & Good Conduct Medal; (His Father was Kingdon, Thomas Henry: Rifle Brigade No:
S1075 Rank: Corporal 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who also served as #9082 in the Rifle Brigade); (He is the
Brother of Kingdon, Thomas Charles: 2nd Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, Canadian
Expeditionary Force No: #3327602, Rank: Private); I did not research further;
Kingdon, William Every: #M23060, Royal Navy; ADM 188/1064, WW1;;
Notes: This Sailor’s Official Naval Number would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1916 & 31.12.1916 &
the ‘M’ prefix would suggest that he was an Artificer or an Artisan; In the ADM records this is William Every
Kingdon born 23.12.1901 in Mile End, London (registered 1902 in Mile End Old Town); I failed to find him
in the 1911 Census; (I do have a possible death for a William E. Kingdon Aged 21 in Portsmouth, Hampshire
in 1923, but this needs further research); Insufficient information to initially identify;
Follow up Notes: I now believe that William Every Kingdon is probably related to, (likely a Grandson of),
George Pengelley Kingdon, a Tailor born in Stoke Damerel, Devon in 1842, who Married Ellen Every from
Hastings, Sussex in 1864 & lived in East Stonehouse in 1871 & then in Portsea, Landport, Hampshire in 1881
& 1891 until his death in 1895 at the age of 53; This still needs further investigation?
Kingdon, William Fletcher: New Zealand, 2nd Division Reservist, 1917, WW1;
Notes: I do not believe that this man actually served in WW1, but he is recorded as a Reservist in the 2nd
Division Roll in 1917 & is designated as Class D, a Reservist who has 3 children; His address is given as a
Farmer in Gore, Southland, New Zealand; This is William Fletcher Kingdon born in Kirwee, Selwyn,
Canterbury, New Zealand in 1871, the son of Nehemiah Stephens Kingdon & Mary Grose Webber who
Married in Bodmin, Cornwall in 1862 & who sailed from London, England on 30.09.1865 to New Zealand
arriving in Lyttelton on 01.01.1866 on board the ‘Mermaid’; In 1896 William Fletcher Kingdon is recorded as
a Farm Assistant in Gore, Mataura, Southland; I believe that William Fletcher Kingdon Married Jean
McKenzie in 1896; From 1900 to 1919 William Fletcher & Jane Kingdon are recorded in Gore, he is a Farm
Assistant; His wife Jean Kingdon was not recorded after the 1919 Electoral Roll for Gore yet I cannot find any
death records for her? In 1928 only William Fletcher Kingdon is registered in the electoral lists, he is a Farmer
in Gore; In 1935 & 1938 he is recorded as a Farmer in Waimumu, Mataura, & in 1946 a Farmer in Mandeville,
Wallace, Southland; From 1949, 1954 & 1957 William Fletcher Kingdon is recorded as being Retired, living
in Mandeville, Wallace; William Fletcher Kingdon Died in 1958 Aged 87; (See his family ancestry in the
‘Kingdon Book – A Second Look’, published in 1974); (He was the Brother of John Wesley Kingdon, 1st
Division, Reservist, New Zealand, 1916, WW1);
Kingdon, William G H: Royal Engineers No: 107851 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Medals Card on file; Insufficient information to identify correctly;
Kingdon, William George: Royal Flying Corps No: 66431 Rank: Air Mechanic 3rd Cl. 1914-20 WO372/11,
WW1;
Notes: I have a William George Kingdon on a list of Royal Air Force Officers showing a date of 06.01.1899
(which is probably his birth date?) in the UK files AIR 76/277/107; The MIC card for this man shows that he
was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant & also served with The Royal Sussex Regiment as #66431; On 23.03.1918
Temporary 2nd Lieutenant W.G. Kingdon (Royal Air Force) was noted to be a temporary 2nd Lieutenant with
the Royal Sussex Regiment; The London Gazette Supplement dated 18.10.1920 has an entry for temporary 2 nd
Lieutenant W.G. Kingdon of the Royal Sussex Regiment, relinquishing his commission on completion of
service, 26.01.1919 but retains the rank of 2nd Lieutenant; Medals applied for on 07.04.1923 & issued on
21.04.1923 to address, #1, Crown Street, Harrow, Middlesex; This is William George Kingdon born
06.01.1899 in Harrow, Middlesex, baptised on 19.02.1899 in Greenhill Parish, the son of Frank Kingdon, a
Butcher b.1873 in Silverton, Devon & Ellen Stock from Farnham, Surrey, who Married in 1898 in Farnham; In
1901 Census William George Kingdon lives with his parents in Harrow on the Hill; In the 1911 Census this
family are incorrectly recorded as Kingston & not Kingdon, William George Kingdon is aged 12 & living with
his parents at #29, west Street, Harrow, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex; I believe that he was still single in
1928 & living with his parents in Crown Street, Harrow, Middlesex; Records indicate that William George
Kingdon Died on 01.09.1970 in St Albans Aged 71; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, William George: Petty Officer 1st Class, #155575, Royal Navy; ADM 188/226; (1890 to WW1);
Notes: This is William George Kingdon born 1874 in Portsea, Portsmouth, the son of James George
Kingdon, a Royal Navy Seaman, b.1837 in Portsmouth & his 1st Wife Elizabeth Elms b.1852 from Portsmouth
who married in 1868 in Portsmouth; I believe that his Mother Died in 1875 in Portsea Aged 39 & his Father
Married Elizabeth Male, b.1852 Portsmouth, in Portsea in 1877; In 1881 Census William Kingdon lives with
his parents at Eagle Cottage, Cottage Lane, in Portsea, Hampshire; This Petty Officer’s Official Naval number
would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1890 & 31.12.1890; In 1891 Willm. G. Kingdon is a Royal Navy
Crew member aged 17 on board the Boy’s Training Ship ‘HMS St Vincent’ in Portsmouth Harbour; In 1901
Census William Geo. Kingdom is a Petty Officer 1st Class serving on board the Battleship ‘HMS Ramillies’
stationed in Valetta Grand Harbour, Malta; In 1905 William George Kingdon Married Jane Moul,
b.28.11.1885 (registered 1st Q 1886) in Portsmouth, in Portsmouth; William Kingdon was eventually promoted
to Chief Petty Officer, & in the 1911 Census was still serving in the Royal Navy & he living with his wife &
young family at #9, Wimpole Street, Landport, Portsmouth; Naval & Marine Personnel Medal records for 2nd
Commissions, indicate also that Petty Officer W.G. Kingdon #155575 served onboard ‘HMS Philomel’ in
Somaliland between 1908 & 1910; In 1912 I believe that he was serving on ‘HMS Sentinel’ in Portsmouth; I
understand that William G. Kingdon may have died in Surrey in 1963 Aged 89; I believe that he had brothers
all serving in the Royal Navy, James John, Harry & Edward Arthur Kingdon & another brother serving in the
Army, Charles Walter Kingdon, all born in Portsea; Medals Record Roll on File; Awarded the Africa General
Service Medal also; (He is the Brother of James John Kingdon, a Coast Guard Petty Officer #PO/128972
who Died in WW1 aboard ‘HMS India’ on 08.08.1915 off Norway); (He was also the Brother of Kingdon,
Edward Arthur: #220316 Leading Seaman, Royal Navy who served in WW1); (He was also the Brother of
Kingdon, Charles Walter: Royal Field Artillery No: 47983 Rank: Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11, who
served in the Royal Navy as a boy & then in the Army in WW1); (He is also the Brother of Kingdon, Harry:
#208949 Leading Seaman, Royal Navy); (He was the Son of #40040 James George Kingdon, Royal Navy);
Kingdon, William H: Hampshire Regiment No: 28802 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Medals Card on file; (Insufficient information to identify accurately);
Kingdon, William H: Army Service Corps No: SS/6080 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: The prefix SS/ in the Regimental number denotes Supply Special (Butcher, Baker, Clerk, etc.); Also
served with the Royal Engineers as #WR/267615 (prefix denotes Waterways & Railways) & again recorded
with the Royal Engineers as #250381; Served in France from 10.01.1915; Medals Card on file; (Insufficient
information to identify accurately);
Kingdon, William H: Devonshire Regiment No: 2705 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Enlistment dates for this 2705 regimental number were between 02.01.1889 & 11.06.1890; Also served
as #266045 with the Devonshire Regiment; Also awarded the Territorial Force War Medal; Colonel Flick’s 6th
Battalion the Devonshire Regiment records has Private W. H Kingdon, #266045 serving with ‘C’ Company,
posted to Salonika on 09.12.1918; Medals Card on file; (Insufficient information to identify accurately);
Further Notes: [The Spring 1919 Absent Voters List for South Molton, Devon Division, Parish of Queens
Nympton has reference to a George Kingdon of Cheyney, (No service details given)? I now know that they
were Brothers]; This is William Henry Kingdon born in 1888 (there is some queries on this date) in George
Nympton, Devon; He was the son of William Kingdon, an Agricultural Labourer, b.30.03.1863 in Kings
Nympton & Elizabeth Jane Webber from Chulmleigh who Married in 1884 in South Molton, Devon; In 1901
Census William H Kingdon lives with his parents in George Nympton Village; In 1901 Census is a Cattle Boy
aged 14 on the Sampson Farm in Kings Nympton, his parents live in the farm cottage; In 1911 William Henry
Kingdon lives with his parents at Cheyney Cottage in Queens Nympton, he is a 23 year old Farm Labourer;
William Henry Kingdon volunteered for overseas service on 14.09.1914 aged 26 at a Pay rate of sixpence a
day & sixpence Family allowance; He was recorded as a Farmer; At that time he was single & living in
Queens Nympton, he gave his date of birth as 22.01.1886? He appears to have been taken on Devonshire
Regimental strength on 14.09.1916; He served with ‘C’ Company of 1st / 6th Battalion Devonshires, recorded
on the rolls, from 01.05.1917; He served in India as his records have him embarking on leave on 30.04.1918 &
disembarking on 25.07.1918; He was Drafted to Salonika at some point & finally struck off strength on
09.12.1918; William Henry Kingdon Married Mary Jane Bosson from North Molton, Devon in 1920; I believe
that William Henry Kingdon Died aged 73 years on 24.12.1960, & his wife died 14.05.1966 aged 76; (He is
the Brother of Kingdon, George: Devonshire Regiment No: 1424 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 - Also
Recorded as: Kingdon, G: Devonshire Regiment No: 265174 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/24);
Kingdon, William H D: Royal Engineers No: 278909 Rank: Sapper 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Medals Card on file; (Insufficient information to identify accurately);
Kingdon, William Henry: #5495, #50818, #T/54683, #185478, 6th Sherwood Foresters, Durham Light
Infantry & Labour Corps, WW1;
Notes: This is William Henry Kingdon born 15.12.1880 in Brixton, Lambeth, Surrey, the Son of John
Kingdon, a Carpenter b.1851 in South Molton & his 1st wife Elizabeth Piller from Drewsteignton, Devon; In
1891 Census William Kingdon lives with his parents at #123 Mayall Road, Lambeth, his Father is a Carpenter;
In 1901 Census William Henry Kingdon is now 20 years old & also a Carpenter, living with his Father & Step
Mother, (Mary Cecilia Coomber from Hastings, who married his Father in 1894 in Lambeth), in Mayall Road,
Lambeth; In 1911 Census William Henry Kingdon is aged 30 & a Carpenter living with his Father & Step
Mother at #72 Mayall Road, Herne Hill; This Soldier’s Army Records have many references to numerous units
he was posted to throughout his service; William Henry Kingdon was aged 36 years & 7 Months when he
enlisted on 03.07.1916 in Camberwell for service as #5498 &/or #54683 In the Reserve Unit 6 th Sherwood
Foresters Territorial Battalion of the Nottingham & Derbyshire Regiment, he was single & living with his
Father in Herne Hill; I believe that he was transferred from the Reserves on 23.11.1916; (His Step Mother died
19.08.1918, aged 49, whilst living in Rattray Road, Lambeth where it appears William Henry Kingdon
continued to live after his discharge from the Army); William Henry also served as #185478 with the 356 th
(HS) Works Company of the Labour Corps in 1917; He also served as #6253 with the 37th Works Company,
Durham Light Infantry; Obviously his Carpenter & Joiner skills kept him on the move throughout his service; I
believe that he was discharged on 03.02.1919; There is no Medals card on file; (He is the Brother of Abraham
John Kingdon also enlisted in the Royal Marines, Kingdon, Abraham John: Register Number: #11852;
Division: Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division); (Brother of Kingdon, George Charles:
Register Number: #11322; Division: Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division); I have not
researched any further information;
Kingdon, William Henry: #922649 Sapper, 200th Battalion, Canadian Engineers Regimental Battalion,
WW1;
Notes: There are enlistment papers for William Henry Kingdon in Camp Hughes, Manitoba, Canada dated
08.07.1916; I believe that this is William Henry (Harry) Kingdon born 05.07.1898 in Minnedosa, Manitoba,
Canada, the son of Henry (Harry) John Kingdon, a Shoemaker, b.01.04.1867 in Wales who emigrated to
Canada in 1888 & Minnie ?? b. 02.09.1868 in England who emigrated to Canada in 1890, who were probably
Married in Canada in ca.1891/92? In the 1901 Census William Henry Kingdon is recorded as Henry Kingdon
aged 2 & living with his parents in Minnedosa, Manitoba; In the 1906 Census William Kingdom is aged 7 &
living with his parents in Marquette, Manitoba; At the age of 11 years William Kingdon is living with his
parents in Minnedosa; In 1916 Census William Kingdon is recorded as being aged 18, with no occupation,
living with his parents in Russell, Manitoba; William Henry Kingdon was aged 18 years when he enlisted in
Camp Hughes on 08.07.1916; He was drafted into the 200th Battalion, Canadian Engineers Regiment, Overseas
Expeditionary Force; He gave his birth date as 05.07.1898 in Minnedosa & his Father Harry Kingdon as his
NOK living in Clanwilliam, Manitoba; He also gave his own address & occupation as a Butcher living in
Russell, Manitoba; There are records for #922649, Sapper W.H. Kingdon returning to Canada on the ‘SS
Olympic’ in late 1919 for transfer to the Canadian Engineer Railway Battalion (CERB) which gives his
residence address as Clanwilliam & his Mother as his NOK; (Researchers should note & read up on the
problems returning Canadian Soldiers faced when trying to find work in Manitoba & the resulting riots); (He is
the Brother of #3345970 Private Ernest Arthur Kingdon who served with the Canadian Army in WW1); (He
is also the Brother of Albert Kingdon who served with the Canadian Forces); (He is also the Brother of
Alfred Henry Kingdon who served with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in WW1); I did not
research further;
Kingdon, William Henry: Service with the Militia at some point in time, between ca.1890 & 1915;
Notes: There is a Militia Service Record List for 1806-1915, which includes a William Henry Kingdon born
1878 in Swansea, Glamorganshire; This is probably William Henry Kingdon b.1879 in Swansea,
Glamorganshire, Wales, the son of Richard Kingdon b.1854 in Bratton Fleming, Devon & Mary Rees from
Swansea who married in 1876 in Swansea, Wales; (William Henry Kingdon is the Grandson of John Kingdon
b.1817 Bratton Fleming & Grace Bale b.1815 in Parracombe); In 1881 Census Wm. Henry Kingdon is aged 1
year & living with his parents at #8, Park Terrace, Swansea, his Father is a Police Constable; In 1891 Census
William Henry Kingdon lives with his family in St Thomas, Swansea, his Father is a Police Constable; In 1901
Census I did not find this William Henry Kingdon; In the 1911 Census, William H. Kingdon is aged 31, still
Single & living with his Retired ex Police Sergeant Pensioners parents in Ystodwen Villas, Llandebie,
Carmarthenshire, South Wales, he is a Prudential Assurance Agent; He may well have been in receipt of a
Chelsea Pension as a William Kingdon b.1878 in Swansea is listed there; (His Father’s Death Probate in 1926
indicates that William Henry Kingdon was working as a Colliery Store Clerk); (He is the Brother of Kingdon,
Alfred James: Army Service Corps No: TS/742 Acting Farrier Sergeant 1914-1920 WO 372/11); (I believe
that he was also the Brother of #4480 Richard John Kingdon who served 18 years with the 1st Battalion, the
Welsh Regiment & re-enlisted in 1914 for WW1);
Kingdon, William J: #4023001, Private, Canadian Expeditionary Force: Canada Records 439451a, WW1;
Notes: There records for a William J Kingdon Called up under the Canadian Military Service Act of 1917 in
Ottawa, Ontario on 28.11.1917, category B2, Temporary in #3 Signal training Depot, & signed by the Officer
Commanding 1st Depot Battalion, E.O. Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force; There are no other WW1
Military Records for this soldier that I can find; I believe that this is William James Kingdon, UK Birth
Record 1st Q 1894 St George, Hanover Square, London; The enlistment record has William J. Kingdon Aged
22 years & 10 months, Born 09.12.1893 in Pimlico, London England; His address is recorded as living at
#214, Main St, Ottawa, East Ontario, his trade is noted as a Fireman, & his Nok given as his Mother, Elizabeth
Kingdon, address unknown; He Lived at #214, Main St, Ottawa, East Ontario & had previously served in the
Active Militia but had been discharged a/c Medically Unfit; Further research reveals that in the 1901 UK
Census, Wm Jas Kingdon born 1897/8 Pimlico is a Visitor with a Clayton Family, William & Sarah &
Daughter May, a Bricklayer from Welshpool, Montgomeryshire; William James Kingdon aged 7 at that time
may have been an orphan or a foster child or Nurse Child? This family live at #1, Myrtle Road, Walthamstow,
Essex; In previous census records they also have Nurse Children living with them. I also found the following
immigration record for a passenger sailing from Liverpool UK to Halifax, Nova Scotia on ‘SS Mongolian’ on
25.03.1911 – arriving Halifax 08.04.1911 – William Kingdon Aged 17, has no trade but intends to Farm in
Ontario; In the 1911 Canadian Census there is a W. James Kingdon born December 1893 in England, working
as a Domestic in Osgoode, Russell, Ontario; I did not research any further;
Kingdon, William J: Army Service Corps No: M2/019498 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Prefix M2/ on his Regimental number denotes that he was an Electrician; Served in France from
28.11.1914 with the Royal Army Service Corps; This Soldier was on the Class Z Reserve after the War but no
dates are given on his MIC card; Medals Card on file; (Insufficient information to identify accurately);
Kingdon, William John: #K4383, Royal Navy; ADM 188/875, (1909 to WW1 service);
Notes: This is William John Kingdon born 13.11.1890 in Farnborough, Hampshire; He was the son of
William Kingdon, a Gardener b.1862 in Wibley, Surrey, & Lucy Wattridge from Southampton who Married in
1890 in Farnham, Hampshire; In 1891 William Jno Kingdon lived with his parents at Bifrons Lodge,
Sycamore Road, Farnborough; In 1901 William John Kingdon lived with his parents at #22, Richmond Place,
Alverstoke, Hampshire, his Father was a Market Gardener at that time; William John Kingdon joined the
Royal Navy between 01.01.1909 & 31.12.1909 as his official navy number would indicate & was serving as a
Stoker, #K4383, on board ‘HMS Jupiter’ (Gunnery Training Battleship) at Weymouth Bay, Portland, Dorset in
1911; According to the Royal Navy’s WW1 Records Stoker Petty Officer W. J. Kingdon served in the Great
War; On the ADM 171/107 Medal Roll he was serving on ‘HMS King George V’ at the end of WW1; there is
a UK incoming passenger record for Naval Ratings ex Malta arriving on board the vessel Moreton Bay, at
Southampton on 13.12.1930, Chief Stoker William J Kingdon of the Royal Naval Barracks in Portsmouth is on
this list Aged 40; Subsequently I would assume that William John Kingdon served for many years with the
Royal Navy, probably more than 20 years; His Long Service Medal was issued on 24.10.1924 & sent to him
on the Aircraft Carrier ‘HMS Hermes’; I believe that William John Kingdon died in Surrey in 1977 Aged 86;
Awarded the 1914-15 Star, The British War Medal & the Victory Medal; Also awarded the Royal Navy Long
Service & Good Conduct Medal; I did not research further;
Kingdon, William John: #183694, Seaman, Royal Navy; ADM 188/308/94, (1895 period);
Notes: The ADM records have this Sailor born 09.10.1878 in Antony, Cornwall; His Official Navy Number
#183694 would indicate enlistment between 01.01.1895 & 31.12.1895 & that he was a Seaman; Unfortunately
there are no other records; I believe that this is William John Kingdon b.1878 in Wilcove, Antony, Cornwall,
& that he was the son of John Joseph Kingdon, a Royal Navy Stoker, b.23.09.1853 in New Passage, Stoke
Damerel, Devon & Ann Maria Deacon, b.1852 in Wilcove, Antony, Cornwall, & who Married in 1877 in
Cornwall; In the 1881 Census William Kingdon is Aged 2 & living with his Mother & her parents at #9,
Wilcove, Antony in Cornwall, she is recorded as being a Stoker’s Wife, & I believe that young William’s
Father was serving onboard ‘HMS Iron Duke’ in Hong Kong; In the 1891 Census William J Kingdon lives
with his parents at #13, Morice Street, Stoke Damerel, Devonport, his Father is a Royal Navy Pensioner;
William John Kingdon’s Father Died on 04.10.1891 in Stoke Damerel Aged 38; I understand from the records
that William John Kingdon enlisted into the Royal Navy in 1895; I failed to find him in the 1901 Census
Records & have presumed that he was probably serving in the Royal Navy at that time; Towards the end of
1901, William John Kingdon Married Louisa Clara Hoyle, (b.1881 Wilcove, Cornwall), in Devonport, Devon;
Their children, of which there are 2, were born in Wilcove, Cornwall so I assume that they returned there from
Devon between late 1901 & early 1903? In the 1911 Census William & Louisa Kingdon are living in Wilcove,
Antony, Cornwall with William’s Widower Grandfather William Deacon & his Widowed Mother Maria
Kingdon, William is a Farm Labourer; (Noted that their eldest child Stanley William G Kingdon (b.31.03.1903
Wilcove) is visiting with a Hoyle family Uncle in Torpoint, Cornwall, & is recorded as an 8 year old Scholar);
(He is the Son of Kingdon, John: #82600, Stoker, Royal Navy; ADM 188/76/189); I researched no further;
Kingdon, William John: #K48002, Stoker 2nd Class, Royal Navy; ADM 188/963/2, WW1;
Notes: This Sailor’s Official Royal Navy number would indicate that he enlisted between 01.01.1917 &
31.12.1917 & the prefix ‘K’, that he was a Stoker; The ADM Records have his date of birth as 25.07.1899 in
Plympton, Devon, so I believe that this is William John Kingdon born in Hemerdon, near Plympton St Mary,
Devon in 1899; He was the son of John James Kingdon, a Clay Worker, b.1870 in Shaugh Prior, Devon, &
Alice Louisa Bawden, b.1875 in Cornwood, Devon, who Married in 1898 in Plympton St Mary, Devon; In the
1901 Census William J Kingdon lives with his parents at Hanger Farm, Plympton St Mary; In the 1911 Census
William Kingdon is aged 11 & living with his parents in Hemerdon, Near Plympton, Devon; I believe that he
joined the Royal Navy during WW1 in 1917; I understand that he probably served for some time as he did not
Marry Emma Eveline Kelley, b.1901 Cornwood, Plympton, Devon, until 1934 in Plympton; I don’t believe
that they had any children? I understand that his wife Emma E Kingdon died in the Plymouth area in 1958
Aged 57; William John Kingdon may have remarried in 1961 in Plympton but this is not confirmed; He did
however, live until his death in 1990 in the Portsmouth area Aged 90; Awarded the British War & the Victory
Medals for his WW1 Service;
Kingdon, William L: Honourable Artillery Company No: 6825 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This Regimental Number indicates enlistment between 05.01.1916 & 17.02.1916; This is William
Loosemore Kingdon b.08.02.1892 Bishops Nympton, son of Bank Manager William Sottridge Kingdon,
b.05.05.1860 in South Molton, Devon & Emily Jane Willcocks Loosemore, from Charles in Devon, who
Married on 21.03.1891 in Bishops Nympton, Devon; William L Kingdon lived with parents above the National
Provincial Bank in Hartlepool in 1901 & in Norton Lodge, Norton, Stockton on Tees in the 1911 Census;
William L Kingdon enlisted on 8th December 1915 Aged 23 years & 6 months, he was a Bank Clerk; Served in
England until going to France on 18.11.1916; Was a Lance Sergeant earlier on in the War & then Gazetted for
Commission to 2nd Lieutenant on 03.02.1919 to Special Reserve Officers. He was discharged in 1919; The
London Gazette Supplement dated 27.07.1921 records that 2nd Lieutenant W.L. Kingdon of the Honourable
Artillery Company Resigned his Commission on 28.07.1921 but retained his rank; In 1927 he is living at #74,
Johnson Road, Balsall Heath, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, Warwickshire; William Loosemore Kingdon Married
Florence Mary Peppin from Dover in 1930 in Bootle; William Loosemore Kingdon died in Tavistock in 1986
Aged 94; Medals Card on file; (He was the elder Brother of Kingdon, John Sottridge: WW2 Home Guard
Service, 1940 to 1945);
Kingdon, William Napier: Commander, Royal Navy; ADM 196/145 & ADM 196/55, (1905 to WW1 &
WW2 period);
Notes: This is William Napier Kingdon born 17.09.1892 in Dorchester, Dorset, the son of Herbert Napier
Kingdon, a Schoolmaster, b.1850 Bridgerule, Devon & Janet Isabel Bannatyne from Scotland who married on
01.01.1891 in Dorchester; In 1901 Census this family lived at The Briary, Canterbury Road, Garlinge, Kent,
where William’s Father ran a small boarding school for boys; I believe that he joined the Royal Navy on
15.09.1905; Midshipman William Napier Kingdon Passed Out from his Naval training on 15.05.1910; In 1911
Census Midshipman William N. Kingdon is Aged 18 & serving onboard ‘HMS Lord Nelson’ positioned at sea
at that time; In August 1912 he is a Midshipman serving onboard ‘HMS Achilles’; By October 1912 he is an
Acting Sub Lieutenant & promoted to Sub Lieutenant on 30.09.1913; Between April - November 1914 he is
serving on ‘HMS Roxburgh’; In April 1915 he is Sub Lieutenant onboard the Torpedo Gunboat ‘HMS Leda’;
He was promoted to Lieutenant on 15.07.1915; From October 1916 to August 1917, Lieutenant W.N. Kingdon
served onboard the Battleship ‘HMS Temeraire’; In January 1919 he is ‘Lieutenant in Command’ of ‘HMS
Holderness’; In July 1920 he is serving onboard ‘HMS Tring’, (Tender to ‘HMS Harebell); From October
1921 to January 1923 Lieutenant William N. Kingdon is serving onboard the Sloop, ‘HMS Crocus’; I believe
that William N. Kingdon Married Lillie Gwen Fletcher in 1923 in Elham, Kent; I understand that he was
promoted to Lieutenant Commander & served onboard the Minesweeper ‘HMS Sherborne’ between 1924 &
1926; In July 1927 Lieutenant Commander W.N. Kingdon was serving in the 5th Cruiser Squadron in China on
‘HMS Despatch’; In February 1929 he was in Command of the Minesweeper ‘HMS Tiverton’; From July 1931
to January 1933, Lieutenant Commander W.N. Kingdon was serving onboard the Turret Drill Ship, ‘HMS
Terror, Monitor’, (also the Tender to ‘HMS Excellent’), in Plymouth; In October 1935 he was serving with
the Reserve Fleet in Portsmouth onboard ‘HMS Coventry’; I understand that he was promoted to Commander
in 1936 & then William Napier Kingdon Retired from the Royal Navy on 14.09.1936; At some stage he was
permanently resident in Hong Kong & employed as Officer Instructor, probably from before 06.01.1938; From
January 1938 to August 1939 he maintained this post with the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer force
headquartered on ‘HMS Cornflower’; He returned to the UK on 26.12.1939 on the ‘SS Aeneas’, traveling 1st
Class, & was recorded as a 47 year old Naval Officer, giving his UK address as “Alstree” Halberton, Tiverton,
Devon; During WW2 I understand that he continued to serve in the RNVR in ‘HMS Lucifer’ with the Hong
Kong Division, & also in 1945 he was still a Retired Commander in the Miscellaneous Services Section of
‘HMS Drake’ serving with the Commander in Chief, Plymouth; William Napier Kingdon Died in 1979 in
Tavistock, Devon Aged 87; Awarded the 1914-15 Star, Victory & British War Medals; (He is the Brother of
Kingdon, Herbert Theodore: East Lancashire Regiment Rank: Captain 1914-1920 WO 372/11, also recorded
as: Kingdon, H T: East Lancashire Regiment Rank: Temporary Captain WO 372/24); (Brother of John
Bannatyne Kingdon, Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy); (Brother of Kingdon, Janet L (Female):
Voluntary Aid Detachment 1914-1920 WO 372/23);
Kingdon, William Samuel Goodwin: 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment No: 22887 Rank: Private 1914-1920
WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: Also served with the Leicestershire Regiment & promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 30.10.1917; Served in
France from 01.06.1916; Medals applied for on 23.11.1921 & sent out on 28.12.1921, Address: #4, Clinton
Street, Beeston, Notts; This is William Samuel Goodwin Kingdon born 4th Q 1894 in Shardlow, Derbyshire,
son of Alfred William Kingdon, a Railway Station Master, b.1869 in Simonsbath, Exmoor & Selina Goodwin
from Little Eaton, Derbyshire who married in 1894 in Shardlow; In 1901 this family lived in the Station
House, Great Glenn, Leicestershire; (William’s Mother died in Market Harborough in 1906 & his Father
remarried to Jemima (Minnie) Watkins, b.1882 in Augh, Pembrokeshire, in 1906); In 1911 Census & in 1914
Army records, William’s Father was Station Master at Kibworth; After discharge from the Army following
WW1, William S G Kingdon Married Nancy Stroud (b.1898 in Basford, interesting fact that her Father was a
General Dealer (Shop) & 3 of her siblings were born in Moscow, Russia), in 1927 in Basford,
Nottinghamshire; William S. G. Kingdon died in 1942 in Basford, Nottinghamshire Aged 47, his Wife Nancy
died in 1968 Aged 69 in Nottingham; Medals Card on file;
Kingdon, William Stephen: Served in the Royal Air Force in WW1, AIR 76/277;
Notes: This is William Stephen Kingdon born 15.02.1900 in Blackheath, Lewisham, the son of Zachary
Harris Kingdon, a Civil Service Electrical Engineer b.1857 in Exeter & Florence Kate Brindley from Sheffield,
Yorkshire who married on 24.07.1890 in Greenwich; In 1901 William S Kingdon lived with his parents at #6,
Belmont Hill in Lee, Lewisham, London; In the 1911 Census William Stephen Kingdon is aged 11, still at
school & living with his parents at #5, Grimstone Villas, Plymouth; I believe that William Stephen Kingdon
Married Winifred Mary Bealey in 1925 in Exeter; William Stephen Kingdon had also become an Engineer by
the time of his Father’s death in 1935 in Exeter; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, John Francis: Royal Army
Medical Corps No: 434077 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who served in WW1); (He is also the
Brother of Kingdon, Roger: Royal Engineers Rank: Lieutenant 1914-1920 WO 372/11 who served in WW1);
(He is also the Brother of George Bodley Kingdon who served in the Royal Navy & the Royal Air Force from
1929 to 1940); (This family originates from the Thorverton Branch of Kingdons);
Kingdon, William T: Essex Regiment No: 253060 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11, WW1;
Notes: This soldier’s Essex Regiment number of #253060 could well indicate service with the 5 th (Territorial
Force) Battalion, The Essex Regiment, when the Territorial Force was re-numbered in 1917 (eg. #251905
originally joined on 21.09.1916)? William T Kingdon also served with the Hertfordshire Regiment, part of
the Bedfordshire Regiment, with the number #269426, all units formed by this regiment were of the Territorial
Force & this number was allocated to the 1st Battalion The Hertfordshire Regiment in the 1917 Territorial
Force re-numbering system; This soldier also served with the Royal Engineers as #359251 & the Waterways &
Railways Section of the Royal Engineers as #WR/284592; After some further research has revealed his WW1
Short Service Records under the wrong name (King), I therefore now believe that this is William Thomas
Kingdon, born 1878 in Stratton, Cornwall; He was the son of Thomas Kingdon, a Miner & a Police Constable
& later an Insurance Agent who was baptised in Linkinhorne, Cornwall on 15.03.1845, & his 2 nd wife , (1st
wife died 1874), Eliza Hicks b.1850 in Linkinhorne who Married in Linkinhorne, Cornwall on 30.12.1875, he
was recorded as a Policeman; In the 1881 Census William T Kingdon is living with his parents in North Hill,
Cornwall, his father is recorded as an Insurance Agent; In the 1891 Census Wm. T. Kingdon lives with his
parents in Barn Street Liskeard, Cornwall, his Father is a Storekeeper; In the 1901 Census William T Kingdon
is a Storeman & living with his parents in Pond Bridge Hill, Liskeard, his Father is a Coal Storekeeper;
William Thomas Kingdon Married Lily May Stanton, born in 1875 in St Cleer, Cornwall, in Liskeard on
04.11.1907; William Thos Kingdon enlisted from the Army Reserve for WW1 Short Service on 22.09.1916, he
was living at #24, Trevena, Liskard at the time & was a Store Keeper; I understand that he was originally
attested on 11.12.1915 & sent to the Army Reserve on 12.12.1915; He appears to have been mobilised on
22.09.1916 & served with the Hertfordshire Regiment, the Essex Regiment, the Royal Engineers Foreway
Company & the Royal Engineers Waterways & Railways until being discharged to the Reserve on the
15.02.1919; I believe that he did serve in France at some time; Medals Card on file for the Victory & British
War Medals; I researched no further;
Kingdon, William Thomas; Lance Corporal #3785, Devonshire Regiment; (Early 1900’s Period);
Notes: According to a Kingdon family bible this is William Thomas Kingdon born 22.04.1880 in Twitchen,
Devon, the son of Thomas Kingdon b.1853 Bishops Nympton, Devon & Elizabeth Baker from Twitchen who
Married on 11.06.1878 in Bishops Nympton; In 1881 William Thomas lives with his parents in Twitchen,
Devon; In 1891 Census he lives with his parents at Kingscombe Cottage, West Anstey, Devon; I have not
found him in the 1901 Census so assume that he was serving with the Devonshire Regiment? The Family Bible
has William Thomas Kingdon serving as #3785 with the 9th Service Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment; He
has recorded that he was at Bulford Camp, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire with 378, 9 th Devon Regiment in 1901;
However, I find this difficult to understand as the 9th Battalion Devonshires were not formed until 15.09.1914?
His regimental number & unit were therefore probably Territorial Force? On the last page of his Bible he has
recorded that he was a Lance Corporal serving in Jersey in the Channel Islands; William Thomas Kingdon
Married Bessie Gibbs from Halberton in Meshaw in 1906; In 1911 Census William Thomas Kingdon is a
Horseman on a Farm in Witheridge, Devon, living at Bradford Moor Cottages; I believe that William Thomas
Kingdon Died on 13.02.1962 in Exminster Hospital Aged 81; There is no Medals card for this soldier so I
presume that he did not serve in WW1; (He is the Brother of Kingdon, Arthur: Dorsetshire Regiment No:
14190 Rank: Private 1914-1920 WO 372/11);
Kyngdon, William Frederick Robert: Lt Colonel, Commanding Officer, ‘D’ Company, Tank Corps, WW1;
Notes: This is William Frederick Robert Kyngdon born in 1881 in St Leonards, New South Wales,
Australia, the son of Frederick Henry Kyngdon b.1852 Exeter & his 1st wife Amy J. Berry, who Married in
1879 in New South Wales, Australia; In 1911 Census he was Boarding as a young Lieutenant in the Royal
Garrison Artillery at #93, Jermyn Street, St James Square, London; William F. R. Kyngdon was a long time
serving Commanding officer of ’D’ Battalion, The Tank Corps during WW1 but he had also served as a 27
year old Lieutenant attached to the Gold Coast Regiment & a Major with the Royal Garrison Artillery; He first
served in France on 21.08.1914; William Frederick Robert Kyngdon Married Gertrude Wemyss Anderson in
1928 in Dorking, Surrey; William Frederick Robert Kyngdon died on 26.10.1961 in Pitlochry, Perthshire,
Scotland; Medals Card on File; I believe that he was also awarded the DSO; (He was a Grandson of Surgeon
Dr. Boughton Kyngdon of Bodmin, Cornwall); Needs in depth further research;
Further Notes: Whilst researching other names I matched these 2 records, which I now believe to be the same
person;
Kingdon, W F R: Lieutenant British Army; (1901 to 1912 period);
Notes: The UK Passenger Arrivals Records indicate a Lieutenant W F R Kingdon arriving in Liverpool on
23.07.1902 on board the ‘SS Karnia’ sailing from Sierra Leone; I also found a Lieutenant W F R Kingdon
sailing from England to Sierra Leone 25.06.1906, on board the ‘Accra’ alongwith 58 Other Ranks, but some of
this information has been crossed out? The same pattern is recorded on a Lieutenant W F R Kyngdon sailing
from London to Sierra Leone on 07.08.1907 on board the ‘SS Falaba’; There is however, another ship’s
passenger record for a Lieutenant W F R Kingdon sailing onboard the ‘Elmina’ from Liverpool to Sierra
Leone on 14.08.1912; I understand that William Frederick Robert Kyngdon Married Gertrude Anderson; I
cannot locate this soldier in any other records except that he may well be the same Lieutenant Colonel W F R
Kingdon who was the ‘D’ Battalion commander of the Tank Regiment in 1917 in WW1? Family Line is the
Holsworthy Kingdon Branch – New Zealand & Australia, see ‘Kingdon Book - A second Look 1974’ who
adopted the surname Kyngdon spelling ca.1851 upon arrival in New Zealand; Needs in depth further
research;
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KINGDON – CAMPAIGN MEDALS & MILITARY SERVICE
Kingdon, Zachary: Book 1670, Exeter, Devon Militia for 1803;
Notes: The Devon: Exeter Militia List for 1803 has reference to a Zachary Kingdon, Lacemaker who served in
the Militia; This is probably Zachariah Kingdon who Died in 1829, Exeter St David, his Probate identifies
him as a ‘late lace & fringe maker’;
Kingdon, Zealey William: #14659, Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Chatham Division; ADM 159/60,
WW1;
Notes: This is Zealey William Kingdon born 27.01.1887 in Shoreditch, Baptised on 02.03.1887 in Hoxton, St
John the Baptist, Hackney; He is the son of James Kingdon, a Tailor b.1846 in North Molton, Devon & Sophia
Lightfoot from Peckham who Married in Clerkenwell on 15.10.1876; In the 1891 Census Zealey Kingdon is
living with his parents at #38, Bevenden Street, Shoreditch & he is also still there in 1901 but working as an
Errand Boy in the Port; Zealey William Kingdon enlisted in the Royal Marines on 14.06.1904 at the age of 17,
later serving in WW1; This Soldier’s WW1 Medals were forwarded to him whilst serving on ‘HMS Ajax’; He
was Discharged to a Pension; In 1922 & 1933 Zealey William Kingdon is recorded on the Electoral Rolls for
Hoxton with his Mother Sophia, Brother George & sister Sarah Ann at #38, Bevenden Street in Hoxton; In
1939 Zealey William Kingdon is recorded as living in #76, Aske House, Shoreditch with his Brother George
Howardson James Kingdon & Sister Sarah Ann Kingdon; In 1957 Zealey William Kingdon lives at #48, Aske
House, Academy Buildings in Ashford Street, with his Brother George & his sister Sarah, none of them seem
to have married; I believe that Zealey William Kingdon Died in Shoreditch in 1957 Aged 70; Awarded 191415 Star, Victory & British War Medals; ADM 171/147 records the issue of his Royal Navy Long Service &
Good Conduct Medal on 14.02.1936 & ADM 171/160 records issue of the Royal fleet Reserve Long Service
Medal on 03.02.1936; (Brother of Kingdon, George: London Regiment No: 800308 Rank: Private 1914-1920
WO 372/11);
Notes: The foregoing information has been collected from records that are freely available on the Internet but
the author does not guarantee that the expansion & identification of these records is accurate, but suggests
that it should be used as a tool for further more detailed research of individual cases; It is intended as an
additional aid tool, helping ancestry researchers to identify individuals named Kingdon or Kingdom who are
recorded as having served in the Military Forces at any time or period in history;
Peter Holden, roeschlinp@gmail.com