Peter McLagan Crawford

British Vickers machine gun crew during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge, World War I, Ypres Salient, West Flanders, Belgium.
Credit: 

Imperial War Museums/Wikipedia Commons

Peter was born in 1885, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. His parents were Robert Crawford and Jessie McLagan. Peter joined the Q.O. Cameroon Highlanders at age 17 and died on the Isle of Wight 31 March 1965 at 80 years of age.

Military Service
Lt. (T./Capt.) Peter M. Crawford, R. Scots, and M.G.C. On 22nd June, 1919, at Fedotava, he was put in charge of all Russian machine guns previous to attack, and led them forward. He dealt successfully with an enemy counterattack, and continued to advance for three miles, capturing 24 prisoners -and one machine gun. His gallant leadership was of great service.

Military Cross	British War Medal	Victory Medal w/MID

Family Connection
Peter is double related, my 1st cousin three times removed and also a half 1st cousin twice removed. Both his parents were related to me but not each other.

Sir William Eric Kinloch Anderson KT, FRSE

Sir Eric Kinloch Anderson KT., FRSE  The son of William James Kinloch Anderson and Margaret Gouinlock Harper born in Edinburgh May 27 1936. Married to Lady Anne Elizabeth (Mason) Anderson or better known as Poppy the daughter of William Mattock Mason and Mary (Walls) Mason. They have two children both born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sir Eric was Master at Feltes College and named after the family hero, Eric Milroy, the Scotland Rugby captain who was killed during WWI on the Somme while serving in the Black Watch.

Sir Eric Anderson, Mentor and life long friend of Prince Charles retired (2009) from his role as Provost of Eton college. For 15 years he had previously held the position of headmaster. During his time at Eton Sir Eric was also headmaster to former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron.  Prince Andrew and William along with their father Prince Charles were all former students.

Sir Eric was also a long time friend to the Queen mother and had spent many hours visiting and recording talks with her at her home. Occasionally Princess Margaret would join them and listen to her stories.

For the Royal wedding of Prince William and Kathryn Sir Eric and Lady Anderson were invited to the Westminster Abbey service and the Queens Wedding breakfast by Prince William.

Medals and Awards

The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

Family Connection
Sir Eric Anderson is my 4th & 5th cousin once removed on the maternal side of the family.

Sadly Eric passed away on the 22nd of April 2020.  Eric and I had kept in touch via email and he was very helpful in providing family information and advice when writing our family history.

Rogers Family

A brick wall as it's called in genealogy has started to fall for the Rogers family!

A couple weeks ago I decided to search the familysearch.org website to see if there was anything new. There sure was, the had the images for two of Frank J Rogers my great grandfathers marriages and two images of my 2nd great grandparents marriage, Harry Lewis Rogers and Carrie Fisher. The later provided me with the names of my 3rd great grand parents, Joseph J. Rogers and Elizabeth Lewis. I was also able to locate the death certificate for Joseph J. Rogers who passed away in Hamilton, Ontario.

I decided to subscribe to a website called newspaperarchive.com and so far it has been well worth the money. I've located obituaries for various branches of the family including the Rogers family of Oil City, PA.

I have also been in touch with a new cousin related on the Lewis side of the family.

Ron

Turner Fransaer family makes contact

On Thursday of last week I received an email from a woman named Nicole in Belgium. She provided information in relation to the Corke, Fransaer families. My 3rd great grandmother, Philly Turner Field had a sister, Harriet Turner that married a James Corke. Today I received an email from a Mrs. Denise Fransaer Corke the wife of Charles Clarence Corke, my 3rd cousin 2 times removed.

Denise has been researching the Fransaer, Corke family for 30 years so hopefully we can fill in a lot of missing information.

John Banks, Canadian Campaign

John Banks the son of cabinet maker Thomas Banks and Jane Casdey was born in St Johns Parish, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England. His aunt Ann Banks Crawford was my 3rd great grandmother from the Gordon side of the family. John enlisted in Aldershot on 6th of September 1858. After 21 years and 15 days of service John had attained the rank of Sergeant.

Eight years and nine months of his service was spent in Canada, Quebec and Montreal. He was awarded the General Service Medal with two clasps, Fenian Raid 1866 and Fenian Raid 1870. More information to come as I decipher his records.

General Service Medal w/ clasps

Charles Field, Egypt, Sudan Veteran

20th Hussars

Yesterday I discovered my first pre WWI Field family veteran. Charles Field born in 1857 in Marden, Kent the son of Joseph Field and Ann Love spent 18 years serving with the 20th Hussars. Two and a half of those years were spent in Egypt. I have obtained Charles service record and will be going through it to provide more details. Currently I know that he receive two good conduct badges, the Egypt Medal and the Khedive Bronze Star 1884-86.

I understand It's very difficult to locate family members in these records so I'm very pleased that I was able to find two individuals so far (Frederick Sherrod was the other).

UK Field family found

The Forge, Field home, Frant, Sussex 1910

After many years of searching a connection has been made to a branch of the family that has the Field surname. Well they actually found me! This family line is a direct Field line from the village of Frant, Sussex. William Field and Philly had a daughter Florence who married the son of Charles Field, John Field her first cousin. This means that the entire line of descendants of John and Florence are double related to my Field line.
Mike Field is married, has children and a brother. Previously the only male Fields left were the six in Canada, five more from the UK can now be added.
Mike and I are exchanging information and tracking down his aunts families in Wales and Australia.

Another Field line in Canada

The Forge, Field family home.  Frant, Sussex. C. 1910

Last night I was surprised to discover that another member of the Field family had immigrated to Canada. Arthur Edward Field and his wife Ann Chapman were married in Cranbrook, Kent in 1903. They then took a trip to the United States to visit some Chapman relatives in Sycamore, Illinois. I'm not sure how long there were there but their oldest son Arthur M. Field was born in the United States in 1905.

In 1907 Arthur Field arrived in Canada and apparently settled in Vancouver, Canada. They had four children that I know of, Arthur M., Stephen E., Alice D., and Frederick John. Arthur and his wife Ann both passed away in 1939, Arthur in March and Ann in November.

***I have not yet been able to trace any of the family after 1939.***

Update May 30th 2012: I have now been in touch with the family, a descendant of Frederick John Field. We will be updating our family tree.

My great grandfather Philip Percy Field and Arthur Edward Field were second cousins.

Crimean and Indian Mutiny War Veteran

I have located the first family member that I can confirm was in the Crimean War and also served during the Indian Mutiny. Frederick Benjamin Sherrod husband of Emily Anne Field was with Her Majesties 82nd foot regiment and was awarded the Crimea War medal 1854-55 with clasp, 'Sebastopol', Turkish and Indian Mutiny Medals. After the Crimea for 7 months he then served in India with the 82nd for 12 years and 5 months. I have obtained his service records and will update as I gather more information. Frederick served with the 82nd for more than 21 years and had obtained 4 good conduct badges.

Crimean Medal w/ clasp	Indian Mutiny Medal	Turkish War Medal (British)

Sir Ernest William Goodale

The son of William Thomas Goodale and Frances Mary Wheatley he was born on the 6th of Dec. 1896 in Mortlake, Surrey, England.  Ernest attended the University of London from 1913 to 1916. On the 3 of Sept. 1924 in Mottingham, Kent, England he married Gwendoline Branscombe Warner the daughter of Sir Frank Warner K.B.E. and Lady Kate Dennis. They had two children, Nigel Frank Goodale and Sylvia Francis Goodale. Sylvia married Sir Jean-Pierre Frank Eugene Warner Q.C. on the 2nd of Sept. 1950 at Lincoln's Inn, London, England. Sir Jean-Pierre was the first Advocate-General of the Court of Justice of the European Communities from the UK.

• Received knighthood 1 Jan 1952 at St. James Palace. 
• Received a piece of silver at Buckingham Palace in 1975 from Prince Philip to commemorate his service on the council. 

After Gwendoline passed away on 22 June 1972 Sir Ernest married Pamela June Bone on the 5th of April 1973. They had no children from this marriage.

Career
Sir Ernest was chairman of Warner and Sons from 1949 until 1971.

Military Service
2nd Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, serving in Mesopotamia and with Dunster force, 1916-1919.

Sir Ernest William Goodale is my 3rd cousin twice removed.