JACK CASWELL
Jack is remembered on the war memorial at the Town Hall, Ipswich.
Born: 30th May 1915, at Broomhill, Wombwell, South Yorkshire.
Baptised on the 2nd July 1915, at All Saints Church, Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire – family home at Broomhill, Wombwell.
Died: 26th February 1941; age 25; died during the Blitz. The dead body was found on the 27th February at the Isolation Hospital, Roman Road, East Ham. Much of the hospital was destroyed during the Blitz.
Jack was billeted at the hospital.
Residence: 67, Rosehill Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: School Master for the Ipswich Corporation.
Rank: Corporal; Service Number: 13047159.
Regiment: 112th Pioneer Corps.
The body was buried in the grave of his stepmother, Mary Caswell.
Grave Reference:
New Consecrated Section. Grave No. 1690.
Cemetery Road,
South Yorkshire.
Relatives Notified and Address: Son of Joseph Caswell, of 43, Snape Hill Road, Darfield, South Yorkshire.
Mother: Polly Caswell (nee Sanderson), born 1896, Wath on Dearne, South Yorkshire and baptised on the 4th October 1896, at Christ Church, Brampton Bierlow, South Yorkshire – family home at Town End, Wath on Dearne. Polly Caswell died on the 18th March 1920, aged 23, at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary and was interred on Monday, 22nd March 1920, at Christ Church, Brampton Bierlow.
Father: Joseph Caswell, born 23rd August 1893, Barnsley, Yorkshire, a miner, was the son of Joseph Caswell, a shaft sinker. After the death of Polly, widower Joseph, of 12, St. John Street, Darfield, married on the 17th October 1921, at Wombwell, to widow Mary Lockwood (nee Owen), born 1st October 1897 – the daughter of William Henry Owen, a colliery shaft examiner, and Elizabeth Ann Owen (nee Jones), of 63, Bartholomew Street, Wombwell. (Mary was the widow of Allan Lockwood, who was killed in action in October 1918, in France.) Mary Caswell died in 1940, Staincross. On the 27th May 1944, Joseph Caswell, a miner, of 43, Snape Hill Road, Darfield, married Marion Hill, born St. Valentine’s Day, Darfield – the daughter of Benjamin Hill, a miner, and Hannah Hill (nee Dellows), of 106, Snape Hill Road, Darfield.
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday, 27th July 1940 DARFIELD – OBITUARY – Mrs Mary Caswell, aged 41, wife of Joseph Caswell, of Snape Hill Road, Darfield, died at her home last week, and was interred at Wombwell on Saturday. She was a native of Wombwell, but came to the Darfield district on her marriage.
Jack Caswell was recorded twice on the 1921 census taken on Sunday, 19th June 1921.
CENSUS
1921 23, Broomhill, Wombwell, South Yorkshire.
Jack was 6 years old and attended School. He was living at his widowed paternal grandmother’s home with his widowed father and sister.
Elizabeth Caswell, 66 years & 3 months old, Home Duties, born Newhall, Derbyshire.
Joseph Caswell, 27 years & 10 months old, a Miner – Haulage Rope Hand for Houghton Main Colliery Company, at Little Houghton.
Nora Clare Caswell, 3 years & 6 months old, born Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire.
1 boarder – James Gallagher.
1921 19, Stoneymount Road, Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire.
Jack was 6 years & 1 month old and attended School. He was living with his maternal grandparents and aunts and uncles.
Charles Sanderson, 62 years & 9 months old, a Coal Miner – Dateller for the Manvers Main Colliery Company, Wath upon Dearne, born Wath upon Dearne.
Annie Marie Sanderson (nee Glover), 54 years & 8 months, Home Duties, born Coalville, Leicestershire.
Thomas Sanderson, 30 years & 11 months old, a Coal Miner – Hewer for the Manvers Main Colliery Company, Wath upon Dearne, born Wath upon Dearne.
Harry Sanderson, 16 years & 7 months old, a Coal Miner – Pony Driver for the Manvers Main Colliery Company, Wath upon Dearne, born Wath upon Dearne.
Jack Sanderson, 14 years old, a Colliery Surface Worker for the Manvers Main Colliery Company, Wath upon Dearne, born Wath upon Dearne.
Charlotte Sanderson, 12 years & 8 months old, at School, born Wath upon Dearne – died in 1928.
Emma Eades (nee Sanderson), 20 years & 1 month old, Home Duties, born Wath upon Dearne.
Simeon Eades, 21 years old, a Coal Miner – Hewer for the Hickleton Main Colliery, Wath on Dearne, born Rawmarsh, Yorkshire.
ENGLAND and WALES REGISTER 1939.
Jack was a School Master for the Ipswich Corporation. He shared his accommodation with William Ford, at 67, Rosehill Road, Ipswich.
William Leslie Ford, a School Master, born in March 1908, at Steeple Langford, Wiltshire.
South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough and Swinton Times – Saturday, 3rd January 1942 – A promising career was brought to an untimely end when Corporal Jack Caswell, B.A., son of Mr. Joseph Caswell, of Snape Hill, was killed by enemy action.
South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough and Swinton Times – Saturday, 15th March 1941 – Mr. Joseph Caswell and family tender sincere thanks to relatives, friends and neighbours, for sympathy extended, and floral tributes sent in their sad loss; also to the Home Guard who kindly acted as bearers – 43, Snape Hill, Darfield.
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