Carleton Rode First World War Archive
We are very grateful to Phil Bowden, grandson of Walter Chapman, for driving across two counties on a wet autumn night to attend a talk we were giving on the Inspiring Souls project in the village hall. He brought along his mother’s album featuring photographs of her father, Walter, and his extended family, and which also included images of two more village men …
Charles Edward Smith was the third son of Jonah and Lucy Smith, born on the 18th November 1895 in Kentish Town, London. (An account of the family’s colourful history from Carleton Rode to London and back again can be read on his oldest brother’s page – Percy J R Smith.) After his mother died in the spring of 1899, the widowed Jonah and …
Hugh Ralph Cholmeley was the grandson of the Reverend John Cholmeley who was rector in the village until his death in 1895. Hugh was born on 24th April 1891 in Carleton Rode rectory to Robert Francis Cholmeley and Blanche Elizabeth Roberta Darling. He had one sibling, Dorothy Frances, born in 1889. The Cholmeleys were a well-respected and pre-eminent family from Lincolnshire. John was …
