Cadge

Selected Biographies

Cadge, Arthur – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 25.3.1880.[1]  Parents: Charles Cadge (Labourer) and Elizabeth [née Gridley] (Horsehair Weaver).  Family Connections: Cousin of William Cadge [b1885], William Cadge [b1878], Charles Ebenezer Cadge [b1880] and George Roy Cadge [b1887].  Home: The Green, Long Melford (1881 and 1891), 4 Elder Road, Lambeth, London (1901), 4 Leslie Road, Custom House, Canning Town, London (1911), 7 Otley Road, Custom House, Canning Town [1919 to 1963].  Occupation: Journeyman Baker (1901), Pawnbroker’s Assistant (1911), Tyre Moulder [1916], Wharf Labourer (1939).  Married: Ethel Caroline Howe in 1910.  Service Record: Attested on 9.12.1916 as Pte.75152 with 21^st Labour Company, attached to The King’s [Liverpool] Regiment, being posted to France from 20.3.1917 to 17.3.1919.  Arthur transferred on 9.8.1917 as Pte.51070 to 745^th [Employment] Company, Labour Corps, moving to the Army Reserve in April 1919.[2]  Died: West Ham, Essex on 11.2.1963.[3]

Cadge, Charles Ebenezer – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 5.2.1880.[4]  Parents: William Cadge (Bricklayer) and Minerva [née Grice].  Family Connections: Brother to William Cadge [b1878] and George Roy Cadge [b1887], half-brother to Philip Charles Grice [b1874]; also, cousin of William Cadge [b1885] and Arthur Cadge [b1880], and brother-in-law of Albert George Boreham [b1892], Henry Dennis Boreham [b1896] and Ernest Frank Wickens [b1893].  Home: Liston Lane, Long Melford (1881), St Marys Street, Long Melford (1891 to 1911), Swan Lane, Long Melford (1939), 2 Allotment View, Swan Lane, Long Melford [1952].  Occupation: Bricklayer (1901 to 1939), Special Constable (1939).  Married: Ellen ‘Nellie’ May Boreham in 1920.  Service Record: Charles is recorded as a member of the Melford Silver Band in 1900 and 1914.[5]  He was conscripted on 29.2.1916 as Private, later L/Cpl.166400 with 438^th [Cheshire] Field Company, Royal Engineers, part of 3^rd Division.  He was posted to France from April 1918 to January 1919 and would have been involved in the following actions between April and October 1918:  First and Second Battles of the Somme, Battle of the Lys, and the Battles of the Hindenburg Line.  He received his discharge in March 1919.[6]  Died: Long Melford, Suffolk on 13.12.1952.[7]

Cadge, Ernest [8] – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on.[9]  Parents: Philip Charles Cadge Grice (Builder) [see details below] and Maud Mary [née Allen].  Family Connections: Brother to Frederick George Cadge [b1912] and Stanley Horace Cadge [b1914].  Home: St Marys Street, Long Melford (1921 to 1939).  Occupation: Carpenter’s Apprentice (1939).  Married: Frances M. Clarke in 1949.  Service Record:  Ernest was a member of ‘H’ Company, 10^th Battalion, Suffolk Home Guard when it was formed in 1942, his name being recorded in the official tribute to the organization entitled The Lion Roared his Defiance, photographed in and around Long Melford in 1944.[10]  Died: Sudbury, Suffolk on 22.4.2009.

Cadge, Frederick George [11] – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 1.1.1912.[12]  Parents: Philip Charles Cadge Grice (Builder) [see details below] and Maud Mary [née Allen].  Family Connections: Brother to Stanley Horace Cadge [b1914] and Ernest Cadge [b1921].  Home: St Marys Street, Long Melford (1921 to 1939).  Occupation: Carpenter (1939).  Married: Amy Elizabeth Steward in 1952.  Service Record:  In 1939 Frederick was a member of the Air Raid Precaution Utility Squad, later being part of ‘H’ Company, 10^th Battalion, Suffolk Home Guard when it was formed in 1942, his name being recorded in the official tribute to the organization entitled The Lion Roared his Defiance, photographed in and around Long Melford in 1944.[13]  Died: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on 28.6.200.

Cadge, George Roy – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 26.5.1887.[14]  Parents: William Cadge (Bricklayer) and Minerva [née Grice].  Family Connections: Brother to William Cadge [b1878] and Charles Ebenezer Cadge [b1880], half-brother to Philip Charles Grice [b1874]; also, cousin of William Cadge [b1885] and Arthur Cadge [b1880], and brother-in-law of Ernest Frank Wickens [b1893].  Home: St Marys Street, Long Melford (1891 to 1911), Liston House, Long Melford (1939).  Occupation: Carpenter (1901 and 1911), Carpenter and Joiner [1916] to (1939).  Married: Ada Palmer Randle in 1925.  Service Record: Between 1909 and 1913 George was a member of the Army Service Corps.  He was attested on 13.11.1916 as Spr.213128 with the Royal Engineers, transferring as Pte.57369 to 14^th [Service] Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers [Pioneers], being posted to France from 8.9.1917 to 19.6.1919 and seeing action on the Somme in 1916, and the Arras Offensive and the Third Battles of Ypres in 1917.  On 6.1.1918 he was moved again as Spr.213128 to 209^th [Norfolk] Field Company, RE, part of 34^th Division, and finally to 465^th Field Company, RE.  George was issued with a Silver War Badge and discharged in July 1919 as ‘no longer physically fit for War Service’, due to sickness.[15]  In 1922 he is recorded as a committee member of the Long Melford Ex-Service Men’s Club.  Died: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in 1974 and buried in Long Melford Cemetery.

Cadge, Philip Charles – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk in 1874 – see under Grice.

Cadge, Stanley Horace [16] – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 7.6.1914.[17]  Parents: Philip Charles Cadge Grice and Maud Mary [née Allen].  Family Connections: Son-in-law of William Roper [b1872] and brother-in-law of Harry Edward Roper [b1904] and Frederick Charles Roper [b1922].  Home: St Marys Street, Long Melford (1921 to 1939).  Occupation: Bricklayer (1939).  Married: Florence Labyrinth Roper in 1942.  Service Record:  Stanley was a member of ‘H’ Company, 10^th Battalion, Suffolk Home Guard when it was formed in 1942, his name being recorded in the official tribute to the organization entitled The Lion Roared his Defiance, photographed in and around Long Melford in 1944.[18]  He was also conscripted in 1942 as Gnr.115.476 with the Royal Artillery.[19]  Died: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire on 14.10.2001.[20]

Cadge, Thomas – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 15.1.1871.[21]  Parents: William Cadge (Agricultural Labourer) and Elizabeth [née Knopp] (Horsehair Weaver).  Family Connections: Brother to William Cadge [b1864].  Home: Back Meadow, Long Melford (1871 and 1881), Cock and Bell Lane, Long Melford (1891 and 1901), Church Walk, Long Melford (1911), Hope Cottage, Westgate Street, Long Melford (1939) to [1960].  Occupation: Coconut Mat Weaver for George Whittle to 1908, Soldier [1908 to 1914], Shopkeeper [1937].  Married: Laura Byford in 1901.  Service Record: Thomas is recorded as a member of the Melford Silver Band in 1900, 1911 and 1914[22] and was also a member of 2^nd [Volunteer] Battalion, Suffolk Regiment and as L/Sgt.23 he served in ‘D’ Company, 5^th Battalion, Suffolks [Territorial] from 1908 to 1914.  Thomas was re-called to 5^th Suffolks on 13.8.1914 but discharged on 28.12.1914 as medically unfit.[23]  Died: Sudbury, Suffolk on 30.4.1960.[24]

Cadge, William – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk in 1864.  Parents: William Cadge (Agricultural Labourer) and Elizabeth [née Knopp] (Horsehair Weaver).  Family Connections: Brother to Thomas Cadge [b1871].  Home: Back Meadow, Long Melford (1871 and 1881), 16 Thomas Street, Plumstead, Kent [1903].  Occupation: Horsehair Weaver (1881), Groom [1889].  Service Record: Attested in 1887 as Tpr.3228 with 1^st King’s Dragoon Guards, transferring in 1889 to 14^th Battalion, Eastern Brigade, Royal Artillery and discharged in 1903.[25]  It is not known if William saw service during the First World War as no extant record has been found.

Cadge, William – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 20.2.1878.[26]  Parents: William Cadge (Bricklayer) and Minerva [née Grice].  Family Connections: Brother to Charles Ebenezer Cadge [b1880] and George Roy Cadge [b1887], half-brother to Philip Charles Grice [b1874]; also, cousin of William Cadge [b1885] and Arthur Cadge [b1880], and brother-in-law to Ernest Frank Wickens [b1893].  Home: Liston Lane, Long Melford (1881), St Marys Street/Little St Marys, Long Melford (1891) to [1963].  Occupation: Telegram Messenger (1891), Bricklayer (1901 and 1911), Retired Bricklayer (1939).  Service Record: At the Melford Military Service Tribunal in March 1916 his half-brother Philip, who was also his employer, requested exemption for William on the grounds that his business has been seriously affected since four of his six workers have already gone off to the War.  The Tribunal adjourned without making a decision.  In May William’s case was reviewed when he was granted conditional exemption for one month.  Notwithstanding his brother’s pleas at earlier sessions, by the time of his next hearing in August 1917 William had relocated to Wivenhoe, some twenty miles away, where his new employer Barrell Brothers made a third request for exemption, which was refused.  His move to Wivenhoe may only have been temporary for in March 1918 his half-brother was again applying for his exemption before the Melford Tribunal, where a certificate for absolute exemption was finally granted.[27]  Died: Sudbury, Suffolk on 21.1.1963.[28]

Cadge, William Thomas – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 2.10.1885.[29]  Parents: John Cadge (Bricklayer) and Maria [née Howard] (Shopkeeper).  Family Connections: Cousin of William Cadge [b1878], Charles Ebenezer Cadge [b1880] and George Roy Cadge [b1887] and Arthur Cadge [b1880].  Home: 35 Sepulchre Street, Sudbury (1891), 31 New Street, Sudbury (1901), 8 Brooklyn Road, Dovercourt, Essex [1915], 140 Scorer Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire (1939) to [1950].  Occupation: Bricklayer (1901 and 1911), Master Builder (1939).  Married: Kate Smith in 1921.  Service Record: Attested on 18.11.1915 as Spr.107532 with 5^th Field Company, Royal Engineers, transferring to 80^th Field Company, RE and posted to France from 25.5.1916 as part of 18^th [Eastern] Division.  His unit saw action during the Somme Offensive of 1916 and the Battles of Arras in April 1917.  On 27.7.1917 William received gunshot wounds to his neck, chest and left arm, returning to England for treatment.  On 2.4.1918 he was re-posted to the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front and latterly sent to Germany as part of the Army of the Rhine before his discharge in March 1919.[30]  Died: Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 13.6.1950.[31]

Related Biographies

Grice, Philip Charles – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 4.7.1874.[32]  Parent: Minerva Grice (Horsehair Weaver) [married William Cadge (Bricklayer) in 1875].  Family Connections: Half-brother to William Cadge [b1878], Charles Ebenezer Cadge [b1880] and George Roy Cadge [b1887]; also, brother-in-law of Ernest Frank Wickens [b1893].  Home: Liston Lane, Long Melford (1881), St Marys Street/Little St Marys, Long Melford (1891) to [1947].  Occupation: Bricklayer (1901) Owner of a building company [1916], Builder’s Jobmaster (1939).  Married: Maud Mary Allen in 1903.  Service Record: Philip was a member of the Long Melford Volunteer Training Corps in 1915.  At the Melford Military Service Tribunal in March 1916 he requested exemption from conscription for his half-brother William who he employed as a bricklayer.  The application was made on the grounds that his business had been seriously affected since four of his six workers have already gone off to the War.[33]  See also the entry for William Cadge [b1878].  Died: Long Melford, Suffolk on 14.8.1947.[34]

Perkins, Bertie John – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 23.10.1882.  Parents: Henry Perkins (Fitter of Steam Looms) and Mary [née Hebditch].  Family Connections: Brother to Maurice Stanley Perkins [b1889].  Home: Hall Street, Long Melford (1891 to 1911), 10 Bull Lane, Long Melford (1939).  Occupation: Carpenter (1901 and 1911), Carpenter and Joiner (1939).  Married: Rose Hannah Cadge in 1906.  Service Record: Bertie served in South Africa seeing action during the Second Anglo-Boer War.  Up to 1908 he was a member of ‘D’ Company, 2^nd [Volunteer] Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.  On 5.5.1914 he attested as Pte.2013 with 5^th Battalion, Suffolks being engaged on home service.  He was promoted and transferred on 12.12.1914 as Cpl.40945 to ‘B’ Company, 7^th [Service] Battalion, Suffolks and posted to France from 26.12.1916 to 29.11.1917 as part of 35^th Brigade, 12^th [Eastern] Division.  On 1.4.1917 Private Perkins was wounded in the throat and chin by a grenade during a training exercise.  He was later promoted to Sgt.40945 in the Battalion’s ‘A’ Company and returned to the front line.  On 30.11.1917 he was captured at ‘Cheshire’ quarry during a German counterattack, being sent first to Münster II Prisoner of War camp in Westphalia, then to the camp at Parchim in Mecklenburg.  Following his repatriation to England at the end of the War, he was discharged in February 1919.[35]  Died: Sudbury, Suffolk in 1951.

Roper, Frederick Charles – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 6.1.1922.[36]  Parents: William Roper (Painter at Iron Foundry) [see below for details] and Rose Annie [née East].  Family Connections: Brother to Harry Edward Roper [b1904]; also, brother-in-law of George Edward Bernard Boreham [b1912] and Stanley Horace Cadge [b1914], and nephew of Harry Roper [b1877] and David Roper [b1882].  Home: Little St Marys, Long Melford (1939).  Occupation: Cowman (1939).  Married: Dorothy R. Swann in 1945.  Service Record: Frederick was a member of the ‘H’ Company, 10^th Battalion, Suffolk Home Guard when it was formed in August 1942.  His name is recorded in the official tribute to the organization entitled The Lion Roared his Defiance, photographed in and around Long Melford in 1944.[37]  Died: Ilfracombe, Devon on 22.7.2017.

Roper, Harry Edward – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 4.2.1904.[38]  Parents: William Roper (Painter at Iron Foundry) [see below for details] and Rose Annie [née East].  Family Connections: Brother to Frederick Charles Roper [b1922]; also, brother-in-law of George Edward Bernard Boreham [b1912] and Stanley Horace Cadge [b1914], and nephew of Harry Roper [b1877] and David Roper [b1882].  Home: St Marys Street, Long Melford (1911 to 1939).  Occupation: Painter at David Ward’s Iron Foundry (1921), Blacksmith at Ward’s Foundry (1939).  Married: Ethel Linda Alice Cahill in 1926.  Service Record: Harry was a member of the ‘H’ Company, 10^th Battalion, Suffolk Home Guard when it was formed in August 1942.  His name is recorded in the official tribute to the organization entitled The Lion Roared his Defiance, photographed in and around Long Melford in 1944.[39]  Died: Long Melford, Suffolk in 1964.

Roper, William – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 21.7.1872.[40]  Parents: David Roper (Asphalt Floor Layer) and Amelia [née Blackaby].  Family Connections: Father to Harry Edward Roper [b1904] and Frederick Charles Roper [b1922]; also, brother to Harry Roper [b1877] and David Roper [b1882], and father-in-law of George Edward Bernard Boreham [b1912] and Stanley Horace Cadge [b1914].  Home: Asphalt Works, Borley, Essex (1881), Military Barracks, St Peter Port, Guernsey (1901), St Marys Street/Little St Marys, Long Melford (1911 to 1939).  Occupation: Soldier [1890 to 1902], Painter at David Ward’s Iron Foundry (1911 to 1939).  Married: Rose Annie East in 1903.  Service Record: William enlisted in 1890 as Pte.2962 with 1^st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, serving in Rangoon and South Africa before his discharge in 1902.  He was recalled to his battalion on 2.3.1915 as Pte.18611 being posted to the Western Front and serving on the Ypres Salient from 18.5.1915 as part of 28^th Division’s 84^th Brigade.  Within six days of joining his unit in the field he took part in the bloody assault on Bellewaarde Farm where 140 of his comrades fell.[41]  On 21.10.1915 Private Roper was transferred to 2^nd Battalion, Suffolks, as part of 76^th Brigade, 3^rd Division.  During the Somme Offensive of 1916 2^nd Suffolks saw action at the Battles of Bezentin and Delville Wood.[42]  In November 1916, he transferred to the Police Company, 1^st [Garrison] Battalion, Suffolks, then towards the end of 1917 was moved as Pte.476338 to 262^nd [Area Employment] Company, Labour Corps, being discharged in April 1919.[43]  In 1922 William is recorded as a committee member of the Long Melford Ex-Service Men’s Club.  Died: Sudbury, Suffolk in 1941.[44]

Wickens, Ernest Frank – Born: Hastings, Sussex in 1893.[45]  Parents: Frederick Ashton Wickens (Paper Hanger) and Emma [née Hoad].  Family Connections: Brother-in-law of Philip Charles Grice [b1874], William Cadge [b1878], Charles Ebenezer Cadge [b1880] and George Roy Cadge [b1887].  Home: 84 Manor Road, Hastings, Sussex (1901), 42 Old London Road, Hastings (1911), 2 Rodbridge Hill, Long Melford [1936].  Occupation: Butcher [1909], Tram Conductor (1911), Painter’s Labourer [1912].  Married: Louisa Cadge of Long Melford in 1923.  Service Record: Ernest enlisted in April 1909 as Gnr.226 with 2^nd Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.  He re-enlisted in November 1912 as Gnr.14364 with 4^th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery, being posted to France from 22.8.1914.  This division fought in numerous battles on the Western Front, including: the Marne, the Aisne and Armentières in 1914, Second Ypres in 1915, the Somme in 1916, Arras and Third Ypres in 1917, and the Lys and the Hindenburg Line in 1918.  Ernest was discharged in May 1919 with the rank of Acting Sergeant.[46]  Died: Long Melford, Suffolk on 17.2.1936.[47]

Notes – [1] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 6.6.1880, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.  [2] See also his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329], and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [3] Date of death from the National Probate Calendar.  [4] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 4.4.1880, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.  [5] My thanks to Tim Seppings of Sudbury for showing Charles’s connection to the Melford Silver Band.  [6] For details of 438^th Field Company’s movements see War Diary [WO 95/1403/3].  See also his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329], and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [7] National Probate Calendar.  [8] Name recorded on the Birth Register as Ernest Cadge Grice; all later official documents refer to him as Ernest Cadge.  [9] 1939 Register and Death Index.  [10] Published by Marten & Son, Ltd., of Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk in 1946.  [11] Name recorded on the Birth Register as Frederick G. C. Grice; all later official documents refer to him as Frederick George Cadge.  [12] 1939 Register.  [13] Marten & Son op. cit.  [14] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 7.8.1887, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.  [15] See also his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls, First World War, Silver War Badge [WO 329] record [ref: B252230], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [16] Name recorded on the Birth Register as Stanley H. C. Grice; all later official documents refer to him as Stanley Horace Cadge.  [17] 1939 Register and Death Index.  [18] Marten & Son op. cit.  [19] Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942.  [20] National Probate Calendar.  [21] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 7.8.1887, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.  [22] My thanks to Tim Seppings of Sudbury for showing Thomas’s connection to the Melford Silver Band.  [23] See also his Soldiers’ Documents and Pension Claims, First World War [WO 364].  [24] Date of death from the National Probate Calendar.  [25] See his Chelsea Hospital British Army Service Record [WO 97] up to 1903.  [26] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 7.4.1878, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.  [27] For the Tribunal’s rulings see Suffolk and Essex Free Press 15.3.1916, 10.5.1916, 1.8.1917 and 27.3.1918.  [28] Date of death from the National Probate Calendar.  [29] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 6.12.1885, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.  [30] For details of 80^th Field Company’s movements see War Diary [WO 95/2027/2].  See also his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329], and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [31] Date of death from the National Probate Calendar.  [32] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 6.9.1874, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.  Recorded on the UK Census as Phil(l)ip Cadge in 1881, 1891 and 1901, and as Philip Charles Cadge Grice in 1911.  Recorded as Philip Cadge in the Training Corps article see Suffolk and Essex Free Press 10.3.1915.  [33] For the Tribunal’s ruling see SEFP 15.3.1916.  [34] Recorded as Philip Charles Cadge on the Death Index and in the National Probate Calendar, which also records his date of death.  [35] For details of the action see 7^th Suffolk’s War Diary [WO 95/1852/3] and Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. R. Murphy The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1927 [London: Hutchinson and Co, 1928], pp.236-37.  See also his POW record see International Committee of the Red Cross [file refs: PA19691 and PA19467], Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329], and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [36] 1939 Register.  [37] Marten & Son op. cit.  [38] 1939 Register.  [39] Marten & Son op. cit. [40] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 1.9.1872, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford and the 1939 Register.  [41] For details of 1^st Suffolk’s movements see War Diary [TNA – WO 95/2277/3] and for a description of the action of May 1915 see Murphy op. cit., pp.79-80.  [42] For 2^nd Suffolk’s movements between October 1915 and November 1917 see War Diary [WO 95/1437/1] and Murphy op. cit., pp.133-42, 182-89 and 219-25.  For a brief account of the bravery of the Suffolks at Delville Wood see the entry for Harry Woodgate [b1896] elsewhere in this Roll. [43] Soldiers’ Documents and Pension Claims, First World War [WO 364], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [44] Photographs by kind permission of William’s grandson Desmond Boreham.  [45] Date of birth from the Baptism Register 3.12.1882, Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford.  [46] For details of 4^th DAC’s movements see War Diary [WO 95/1468/1].  See also his Soldiers’ Documents, First World War ‘Burnt Documents’ [WO 363], Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [47] Date of death from the National Probate Calendar.