Private in the Australian Infantry A.I.F.2/3 M.G.Bn.Service No.SX6344.Died 24/6/1944.Grave Singapore Memorial Column 138.
Flying Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force.Service No.407199.Died 11/5/1944.Buried Wevelgem Communal Cemetery Grave E.469.
Killed flying over Belgium with the RAF.
1861 Census with parents.
!1881 Census Colchester St Giles Essex. RG11 1788/56/6 Draper.Married but wife not in house.His brother in law Alexander Girvan was also a draper in Essex in the 1881 Census.
From GRO Indexes.Married between 1Oct-31Dec 1879 Colchester December Quarter 4a.589
His wife Annie remarried in 1890.Divorced or had Montgomery died?Death not found in England to 1902.
Montgomery died Sep1884 Colchester 4a 290.Middle name given as Lauder.
1881 Census Folio 56 Page 6 same as husbands but a different house.Annie was head living with daughter Jeannie.
Remarried Apr/Jun 1890 Colchester 4a 738 to Isaac William Godwin who died Sept1899 age 30.They had five children.
1901 Census.Annie was still living in Colchester.Living on own means.Gave her age as 41.
1881 Census living with mother.
Death Colchester Dec1883 4a 227
1901 Census Lewisham,London Age 19.
Dec 1883 Colchester 4a 462
Died Jun1884 Colchester 4a 225