Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society, Vol 3 # 2, Page 11
Harold Noad Haskell, OBE, born at Camberwell, London, on 14 April 1887, s/o Samuel and Sarah (Noad) Haskell married Minnie Maude Robinson of Constant and Newmarket Plantations, Barbados on 31 July 1918. He was educated at Christ's Hospital where he won a scholarship and was awarded Thompson's Gold Medal in Mathematics and the Tyson Gold Medal in mathematics and astronomy. At Oxford Merton College he was awarded 1st class Mathematical Moderations; 2nd Class Finals (mathematics) and 3rd Class Finals (physics). In early September 1910 he sailed for Barbados where he became Assistant Headmaster and later Headmaster of Harrison College 1910 to 1948, retiring in the latter year. He resided at Rydal, Pine Hill, St. Michael, Barbados, until his death on 18 Nov. 1955.
Harold and his wife had three children, daughter Mabel Marjorie, who still resides in Barbados, son Harold Robin whose death was reported in your newsletter in the last issue, and Revd. Stanley R. Haskell of Quebec, Canada.
UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1900-1928
Name: Cyril Francis Weller
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 7 Jun 1885
Birth Place: Reading, Berks
Service number: K41557
First Service Date:23 Feb 1917
First Ship Served On: Victory II
Last Service Date: 16 Aug
Last Ship Served On: Victory II
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 11, No. 3, September 2002The Haskell�s of Donhead St. Andrew
By Peter Haskell
ExcerptsEdward James, was born on 16 January 1887. As a fifteen-year-old boy, in October 1902, he joined the Merchant Navy. He sailed from Avonmouth aboard the S/S Melville bound for Montreal, Canada. Arrived 13 November, sailed again 22 November for Capetown.
On 28 December, Edward was taken sick. When the Melville arrived at Capetown, on 2 January 1903, the Port Medical Officer diagnosed typhoid fever in Edward and another crewman, both of whom were transferred to the New Somerset Hospital. Edward's condition worsened and he died on 7 January 1903, just nine days before his sixteenth birthday and so far from home and family.
The Haskell�s of Donhead St. Andrew
By Peter Haskell
ExcerptsSamuel Harold, born 9 January 1891. He became a carpenter and joiner and in September 1914 went to Etaples, France with a civilian crew to erect huts for the BEF base. On his return to England Samuel volunteered for the Army but was declared unfit. Subsequently, he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air service as an aircraft rigger, serving as a Flight Sergeant at the Seaplane Base in Malta. On discharge in 1919, Samuel returned to the building trade and in 1923 married Charlotte Jasmine Willis. They lived in Reading, Berkshire and had three children: twins Pamela and Shelia, who became nursing auxiliaries, and son Peter Philip, born on 21 December 1928.
After Army service Peter worked for a pharmaceutical company and is now retired and living in West Sussex. Samuel Harold returned to aircraft work in 1938 and died of pneumonia in July 1939, aged just fifty. Charlotte Jasmine died on 1 May 1970.
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UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1900-1928
Name: Samuel Harold Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 9 Jan 1889
Birth Place: Aldermaston Berks
Service number: F12208
First Service Date:22 Feb 1916
First Ship Served On: President II
Last Service Date:31 Mar 1918
Last Ship Served On: Pres II
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 11, No. 3, September 2002The Haskell�s of Donhead St. Andrew
By Peter Haskell
ExcerptsReginald, was born in June 1893, and the death of his brother George may account for the fact that his Aunt Jane raised Reginald. This was almost certainly his father's sister, Rebecca Jane (Haskell) Shiner. Reginald became a watchmaker and jeweler, and at the age of twenty-two, in 1915, joined the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Yeomanry. This unit converted to the Camel Corps and served in Egypt and Mesopotamia When this campaign came to an end, the unit was broken up and Corporal Reginald Haskell was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and served on the Western Front in France in 1918.
After the war Reginald returned to his trade and in 1921 married Ethel Ley at Maldon, Essex. The couple then moved to Barnsley, South Yorkshire, where their son, Henry George (Harry), was born on 14 July 1922. Sometime later they moved to Slough, Berkshire, where Reginald worked for Dysons, Jewelers of Windsor, Berkshire. One of his jobs was to wind and check all the clocks in Windsor Castle once a week. During the Second World War Reginald was an instrument inspector of Sperry Gyro Compasses for ships and aircraft After the war he and Ethel opened a jewelry shop in Polperro, Cornwall. They retired to High Wycombe in 1966, and Reginald died there in 1970 followed by Ethel in 1973.
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 11, No. 3, September 2002The Haskell�s of Donhead St. Andrew
By Peter Haskell
ExcerptsHugh Stanley, born in December 1895. He trained as a ladies and gentlemen's tailor and worked for Dawbarns of Kings Lynn, Norfolk. In June 1924 Hugh Stanley married Dorothy Scott, a publican's daughter from Wisbech, Cambridge. On the retirement of Dorothy's parents, Hugh and Dorothy took over the license of the Ferry House in Wisbech. Six years later, in March 1930, Dorothy was killed in a road accident. Three years later Hugh married Mable Saunders, and they continued to run the public house until retirement. Hugh Stanley died in 1972, aged seventy-seven.
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UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920
Name: Hugh Stanley Haskell
Military Year: 1914-1920
Rank: Gunner
Medal Awarded: British War Medal and Victory Medal
Regiment or Corps: Royal Artillery (Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery)
Regimental Number: 11544
Sub Unit:Royal Field Artillery
Previous Units: R.F.A. 11544 A/Bdr.
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British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
Name: Hugh Stanley Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1895
Birth Place: Aldermaston, Berks
Enlistment Age: 19
Document Year: 1914
Regimental Number: 11544
Regiment Name: Royal Artillery (Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery)
The Haskell�s of Donhead St. Andrew
By Peter Haskell
ExcerptsPhilip, was born in September 1899, three months before the death of his father. He began an apprenticeship as a watchmaker, but when war broke out in 1914, he was eager to join up. However, he had to wait until 1916, when at seventeen and with his mother's consent, he joined the Royal Flying Corps. Soon after training as a driver, Philip was in France, and with his large Leyland Lorry he visited most of the Royal Flying Corps aerodromes on the Western Front. He was demobilized in 1919 and returned to his trade, working for Winches Jewelers of Reading. In September 1932 he married Muriel Trowbridge, a milliner, also of Reading. Philip retired in 1964 and died on 5 December 1971. Muriel had died two years earlier.