Walter Stenhouse Kingsbury was the son of James Kingsbury.
He was a cotton warehouse boy [1901] / a weaver [1911] / a loom tackler for John Dawson & Sons at Albion Mill.
On 20th March 1915, he married Agnes Mary Sutcliffe in Todmorden.
The Todmorden & District News [26th March 1915] reported the wedding
Mr Walter Stenhouse Kingsbury of Woodbottom Terrace, Walsden, married Miss Agnes M. Sutcliffe, eldest daughter of Councillor James Henry Sutcliffe of Claremont Place, Todmorden, at Bridge Street United Methodist Church.The bride was a teacher at Lumbutts Council School and actively associated with Bridge Street United Methodist School, being a teacher and a superintendent of the primary department. Her sister, Miss Kate Sutcliffe, was her bridesmaid.
The best man was Mr Wilfred Kingsbury, brother of the bridegroom.
After the ceremony they set off for their honeymoon in Blackpool
Children:
The family lived at
During World War I, he served as a Stoker 2nd Class with the Royal Navy.
The Todmorden & District News [18th October 1918] published
Long extracts of a letter from Seaman Walter Kingsbury, formerly of Monas Terrace, Walsden, telling of his life in the Navy
The Todmorden & District News [29th November 1918] published
A long letter from Seaman Walter S. Kingsbury, formerly of 4 Monas Terrace, Walsden, from the light cruiser HMS Cassandra, tells of how his ship was one of the squadron that met the German ship Konigsberg which brought the German Admiral and peace delegates to agree the surrender of the German Navy
He was killed [5th December 1918] when HMS Cassandra struck a mine in the Baltic.
The Todmorden & District News [13th December 1918] reported
Seaman Walter Kingsbury, HMS Cassandra reported missing after his ship struck a mine in the Baltic just before midnight on the 4th of December and sank at 1:00 am on the 5th.He enlisted in July 1918 at Devonport. His first trip to sea was to take part in the surrender of the German Fleet.
Lived at Monas Terrace, Walsden.
He was 28 and married the daughter of Councillor J. H. Sutcliffe. They had two children, aged eight months and two years.
He was formerly a loom tackler for John Dawson & Sons, Albion Mill, but he was also interested in the air grate business commenced by his late father, Mr James Kingsbury, which he intended to develop when the war was over.
His mother, who lives at Woodbottom Terrace, has suffered a succession of bereavements in the last few years. She lost her husband, one son died from pneumonia, another son was killed in the war and now another son drowned at sea
He is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial [Grave Ref 28], and in the Todmorden Garden of Remembrance
This & associated entries use material contributed by Roger Beasley & Derrick Habergham
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