T/Sgt Harvey Stephen Minto

 

1876 Jul 12. Born Islington. London

1881 census at 167 Highbury New Park, London

1891 census He is a lodger in Crief

1900 Jan 21 Enlists in Scotland for Imperial Yeomanry. He is a Medical Student. NOK is Mrs Minto in Crieff

1900 Mar 1 Posted to South Africa

1901 Nov 21. Posted back to UK

1901 Jan 24 Discharged at his own request

1901 census at Crieff Perthshire

Name Age
Stuart MacRand Brown 47
Annie M Brown 41
A Ina Milne 18
Christina Kennedy 24
Isabella Minto 58
Harvey Stephen Minto 24
Elice Mary Minto 23

1904 Nov 5 Leaves UK for New York

1909 Jun 19 Arrived in Australia from UK

He claimed to have been a Rubber Planter in Malaya from 1901 to 1914, but could not have been, certainly not for the entire period

1914 Sep 29 . Enlists in Canadian Artillery. He was a ship's steward

1915 Feb Lands in France

1915 Apr Wounded

1915 May 15 Wounded

1916 A number of treatments for STDs

He never fully recovered from his wounding and his service record shows that his nerves were shattered and he moved to clerical dutied

1918 Jul/Sep Married in Wigan, Lancs to Ada F East. They clearly separated as she remarries in Oct/Dec 1942 in London

1919 Aug 27 Demobbed

 

1920 Dec 10. Joined RIC no 76570 & ADRIC no 111. Rubber Planter & ex-Soldier

Posted to 4 Gds

 

1924 Jul 6 Renews his seaman's card and sails on Tuscania, arriving in New York

 

1930 on Electoral Roll in 9 Mornington Cres, St Pancras, London

1938 Oct/Dec married in St Pancras to Irene I Husband

 

1947 Died Barnett, Herts

 

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