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Army Ordnance Corps, Australia, Burleigh Road, Edward Lymn, Ernest Lymn, Frank Lymn, Park Street South, Penn Road Wesleyan Chapel, Penn Street, Royal Field Artillery, Trinity Wesleyan Chapel
The names Edward, Frank and Gordon Lymn are included as local men who served on the war memorial of Penn Road Wesleyan Chapel. These were the sons of Charles and Ann Lymn. The family were living at 4 Penn Street, Wolverhampton, in 1901, and the children of Charles and Ann were listed as John, Charles, Annie W., Beatrice, Joseph, Pheobe E., George, Frank, Edward, Gertrude C. and Ernest Gordon. They were at 158 Park Street South in 1911.
Frank was born in Wolverhampton in 1891, and was a cooper by 1911. He married Beatrice M. Perry in Wolverhampton on 25 April 1914 at the Trinity Wesleyan Chapel. He enlisted as a Driver in the Royal Field Artillery (service number 91254) in September 1914. He was transferred to the Army Ordnance Corps in November 1915 and promoted to Sergeant. He survived the war and was demobilised in 1919. By this date his address was given as 133 Burleigh Road, Wolverhampton. He and his wife had three children – Frank G. (1915), Joan (1918) and Hazel M. (1920).
Edward was born in Wolverhampton on 7 July 1894. He was a clerk for a stationers in 1911. I have not been able to confirm details of his military service but he, too, survived the war. He married Florence Quinsey in 1918, and they had four children – John A. (1920), Dennis E. (1922), Betty R. (1924) and Clement R. (1931). He died in 1976.
Ernest Gordon was born in Wolverhampton on 28 February 1898. Again, I have not been able to confirm details of his military service, but he survived the war. In 1923, he emigrated to Australia, and he served with the Australian Military Forces during the Second World War.
Henry was born in Manchester in about 1873. In 1899, he married Emma Jones in Wolverhampton, and by 1901 they were living at 103 Wolverhampton Street, Bilston (although the 1901 census says he was born in Codsall). The couple were at the same address in 1911, and in both censuses the household consisted of Henry, his wife, and a number of boarders. Henry’s trade was listed as a locomotive engine driver in 1901, and a miner and coal dealer in 1911.
Charles was born in Worcester in 1898, the son of George and Alice Emmeline Eglington. On 22 June 1898, he was baptised at St Mary Magdalene Church in Worcester. By 1901, the family were living at 9 Sweetman Street, Wolverhampton, along with Charles’s baby sister Hilda May. They had moved to Noel House, 16 St Judes Road, Wolverhampton, by 1911, and Charles had gained a brother, Cecil Jack. Charles was taught at Tiffins School, Kingston-on-Thames, and later was a pupil at the Higher Grade School in Wolverhampton. He later worked for Sunbeam Motor Car Company.
Wolverhampton's War 