Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameWilliam DUCKERING 
, 1795
, 1795Birth1 April 1881, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England4403
Census5 April 1891, 55 Hickman Street, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England4349 Age: 10
Occupation6th Ammunition Royal Field Artillery, Corporal, service number 18021
EducationScholar 18914349
FatherWilliam DUCKERING , 1744 (1853-1926)
MotherSarah Ann OGGLESBY , 1792 (1854-1888)
Notes for William DUCKERING
William died in 1916 in Turkey in the First World War. (Kathleen tel 8.12.96)
William's death also appears under War Deaths, where it advises that he was a Cpl and his no. was 18021 RFA. (Michael)
This record also states that William won a medal - see copy on file.
Will. William of 7 Love Lane, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Corporal 6th Ammunition column R.F.A. died between 1st August 1916 and 30th November 1916 in Turkey. Admin. to William Duckering agent. Effects £108 16s 9d. (Michael)
'William DUCKERING, Corporal 180211, 6th Ammunition Col., Royal Field Artillery, died 30th August 1916 aged 36. Buried, Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq, XXI C 12.'
Enlisted Sheffield, Yorkshire. 1911 Census - William Duckering, Bombardier, aged 30. Royal Field Reserve Artillery, 132nd Battery Royal Field Artillery. Born Gainsbury, Ewshott Barracks, Farnham, Hants.
He is commemorated on St Michael & All Saints Roll of Honour, Gainsborough
'Baghda (North Gate) War Cemetery is 800 metres beyond the NorthGate of the City of Baghdad on the south-eastern side of the road to Baguba. Within the cemetery is the Baghdad (North Gate) (Khanaquin) Memorial. The Commission, at their 480th Meeting in September 1965 approved a proposal for the erection of a memorial in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery to commemorate 107 Commonwealth and 438 Polish burials of the 1939/45 War in Khanaquin War Cemetery which, owing to difficulty of access, could not be fully constructed or properly maintained. A memorial has also been erected at Khanaqin.'
'Baghdad is a city on both banks of the Tigris, 220 miles fromthe Persian Gulf. It was built in the year 763, and for some time it was the capital of Caliphate. In 1914 it was a place of some 150,000 inhabitants, the capital of one of the three mesopotanian vilayets, the Headquarters of the Turkish Army in Mesopotamia, and a trading centre of supreme importance. It was the objective of Indian Expeditionary Force "D" from - at the least - March 1915, and it was the goal of the force besiged and captured in Kut. It fell into British hands on the 11th March 1917. The "Operations for the consolidation of the position at Baghdad" lasted to the 30th April; but mean while it had become the Advanced Base, with two Stationary Hospitals and three Casualty Clearing Stations.'
'The North Gate War Cemetery is half a mile beyond the North Gate, on the right-hand side of the road to Baquba. It stands on low and level ground, and a high earth "bund" is built around it to protect it against floods; within the bund is an iron fence. It is entered by a domed gate house, and bisected by a wide avenue which seperates the British plots, on the left, from the Muhammadan and Hindi plots, It covers an area of 74,609 squareyards. The cemetery was begun in April 1917, and it continued in use until 1922.' 'The tomb of Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude, who died at Baghdad in November 1917, is in the middle of the cemetery; and the Memorial of the 13th Division, which he commanded in 1916, is in the south-west corner among the graves of a number of officer and men of the Division.' (There is more detail on file.)
Awarded Victory Medal, British War medal WW1 and Memorial Death Plaque of WW1 (fold3.com)
William's death also appears under War Deaths, where it advises that he was a Cpl and his no. was 18021 RFA. (Michael)
This record also states that William won a medal - see copy on file.
Will. William of 7 Love Lane, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Corporal 6th Ammunition column R.F.A. died between 1st August 1916 and 30th November 1916 in Turkey. Admin. to William Duckering agent. Effects £108 16s 9d. (Michael)
'William DUCKERING, Corporal 180211, 6th Ammunition Col., Royal Field Artillery, died 30th August 1916 aged 36. Buried, Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq, XXI C 12.'
Enlisted Sheffield, Yorkshire. 1911 Census - William Duckering, Bombardier, aged 30. Royal Field Reserve Artillery, 132nd Battery Royal Field Artillery. Born Gainsbury, Ewshott Barracks, Farnham, Hants.
He is commemorated on St Michael & All Saints Roll of Honour, Gainsborough
'Baghda (North Gate) War Cemetery is 800 metres beyond the NorthGate of the City of Baghdad on the south-eastern side of the road to Baguba. Within the cemetery is the Baghdad (North Gate) (Khanaquin) Memorial. The Commission, at their 480th Meeting in September 1965 approved a proposal for the erection of a memorial in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery to commemorate 107 Commonwealth and 438 Polish burials of the 1939/45 War in Khanaquin War Cemetery which, owing to difficulty of access, could not be fully constructed or properly maintained. A memorial has also been erected at Khanaqin.'
'Baghdad is a city on both banks of the Tigris, 220 miles fromthe Persian Gulf. It was built in the year 763, and for some time it was the capital of Caliphate. In 1914 it was a place of some 150,000 inhabitants, the capital of one of the three mesopotanian vilayets, the Headquarters of the Turkish Army in Mesopotamia, and a trading centre of supreme importance. It was the objective of Indian Expeditionary Force "D" from - at the least - March 1915, and it was the goal of the force besiged and captured in Kut. It fell into British hands on the 11th March 1917. The "Operations for the consolidation of the position at Baghdad" lasted to the 30th April; but mean while it had become the Advanced Base, with two Stationary Hospitals and three Casualty Clearing Stations.'
'The North Gate War Cemetery is half a mile beyond the North Gate, on the right-hand side of the road to Baquba. It stands on low and level ground, and a high earth "bund" is built around it to protect it against floods; within the bund is an iron fence. It is entered by a domed gate house, and bisected by a wide avenue which seperates the British plots, on the left, from the Muhammadan and Hindi plots, It covers an area of 74,609 squareyards. The cemetery was begun in April 1917, and it continued in use until 1922.' 'The tomb of Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude, who died at Baghdad in November 1917, is in the middle of the cemetery; and the Memorial of the 13th Division, which he commanded in 1916, is in the south-west corner among the graves of a number of officer and men of the Division.' (There is more detail on file.)
Awarded Victory Medal, British War medal WW1 and Memorial Death Plaque of WW1 (fold3.com)