Children of Robert Watson and Lilly Gray Corder

01. Arnold Corder

1891-10-24 b. Sunderland, Durham GRO index; TNA: RG 13/4716 f168 p9; RG14PN30184 RG78PN1741 RD555 SD2 ED3 SN39
1901 of 2 The Grove, Sunderland, living with his family, a servant, and a visiting school mistress RG 13/4716 f168 p9
1904/1906 of Sunderland; at Ackworth School Edgar Barron Collinson (1931) List of the Boys and Girls Admitted into Ackworth School from . . . 1879 to the end of 1930. Ackworth
1911 corresponding clerk in coal exporter's office, worker, living with his family in 7 rooms in Cuba Street, Sunderland RG14PN30184 RG78PN1741 RD555 SD2 ED3 SN39
before 1915-05-26

Mr R.W. Corder of Sunderland has received information that his son, Private Arnold Corder, is at the 2nd Canadian S. Hospital, Le Toquet, suffering from shrapnel wounds in the head and left arm.

Newcastle Journal, 1915-06-11
1915-05-26 of 31 Cuba St, Sunderland; Private 2584, 7th Bn, Durham Light Infantry; died of wounds at Ypres, Belgium CWGC; British Army World War I medal rolls index cards

Word has been received in Sunderland of the death from wounds of Private Arnold Corder, 7th D.L.I., only son of Mr and Mrs R.W. Corder, of 31, Cuba Street. Private Corder was a member of the Ashbrooke Cricket Club.

Newcastle Journal, 1915-06-15
"PRIVATE ARNOLD CORDER (7th Durham Light Infantry), a member of the Sunderland first eleven, died of wounds during the week ending June 19." Wisden
1915-05-28 bur. plot VIII.A.47, Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France CWGC; AOSA Annual Report 34, 1915
1920-06-06 already awarded the Victory and British Medals, his father also successfully applied for the 1914/15 Star British Army World War I medal rolls index cards
 

Arnold Corder: (scholar (1904–6), was the only son of Robert Watson and Lilly Gray Corder, of Sunderland), where he was born in 1891. He was educated at the Boys' High School in Sunderland and at Ackworth School. His great-grandfather, Thomas Carter, was an Ackworth scholar 1802–7. After leaving Ackworth he went to France, and then spent several months at the Ecole de Commerce at Neuchatel, studying especially French and German commercial correspondence and French shorthand, preparatory to entering on commercial life. He afterwards joined the staff of Huntly Brothers, coal exporters, of Sunderland and Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was for five years one of their foreign correspondents. During his business career he kept up his close study of foreign languages and attended the evening classes at the Technical College. He attained excellent proficiency in French.

Like some other old Ackworth boys and so many young Englishmen, hitherto strangers to practical warfare and military life, he felt and responded to the clear call of duty to his country, and on the 6th of September, 1914, with about forty other members of the Ashbrooke Cricket Club at Sunderland, he enlisted in the 7th. Durham Light Infantry. He went out to France under the command of his mother's cousin, Colonel Vaux. He was wounded near Ypres on Whit-Monday, May 24th, in an action of great severity, and was admitted on the evening of the following day to the second Canadian Hospital at Le Touquet. He was permitted to leave for England in the ambulance train on the following day, but an unforeseen complication developed, and he died in the train from the effects of the shrapnel wounds in his head. The doctor who attended him wrote to his parents that their boy "had looked forward with keen and eager anticipation to his home-coming." He was buried at Boulogne on May 28th, 1915.

He was a promising cricketer, keen and devoted to the game, and, as a writer in the "Sunderland Echo" said, "a great favourite with both players and spectators, and a regular member of the first eleven." He was a hardworking, honourable young fellow, the best of sons, and steadily concerned in the best interests of his employers. The following appropriate lines, written by one who knew him well, aptly tell the lesson of his life, and its final sacrifice:—

"In boyhoods' days he played the game on Ashbrooke's sunny ground;

In early manhood, keener still, his pleasures there were found.

But suddenly, when duty's call rang sharply o'er the land,

He with his brave and faithful chums, responded heart and hand.

Now for his King and country dear he's played another game.

And the score is—England's honour, and his own untarnished name."

AOSA Annual Report 34, 1915


02. Dorothy Corder

1893-08-04 b. 2 The Grove, Sunderland, Durham GRO index; The Friend; Mount School admission register; TNA: RG 13/4716 f168 p9; RG14PN30184 RG78PN1741 RD555 SD2 ED3 SN39
1901 of 2 The Grove, Sunderland, living with her family, a servant, and a visiting school mistress RG 13/4716 f168 p9
1908-09-25 of Cuba St, Ryhope Rd, Sunderland; applied for admission to The Mount School, York; had been at school in Kendal Mount School admission register
1909-09/1911-07 at The Mount School, York; address given as "(Cuba St, Ryhope Rd, Sunderland) address Miss Ruth Corder, 1 Ashbrook Ter., Sunderland" Mount School admission registers; H. Winifred Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932]) A Register of Old Scholars of The Mount School, York 19311932. Leominster: The Orphans' Printing Press
1911 living with her family in 7 rooms in Cuba Street, Sunderland RG14PN30184 RG78PN1741 RD555 SD2 ED3 SN39
1921 [no occupation or employment details]; one of two visitors in the household of Gladys Whitfield, in 4 rooms at Mowhay Terrace, Thornton-le-Moor, Yorkshire RG 15/23948 RD530 SD2 ED12 SN16
1924-12-11 among the principal mourners at the funeral of Alexander Corder, at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery Shields Daily News, 1924-12-12
1932 of 7 Oakwood Street, Sunderland Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932])
1936-12-29 sent a wreath for the funeral of William Dowell Todd Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette
1937-09-27 of Sunderland; one of the mourners at the funeral of Herbert Corder, at Preston Patrick, Westmorland Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 1937-09-28
1939-09-29 unpaid domestic duties, living at Sunderland Mental Hospital, Ryhope, Durham 1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101)
1957-03-11 of Cherry Knowle Hospital, Ryhope, Durham; d. Durham Eastern RD GRO index; National Probate Calendar
1957-05-09 will proved at Durham by Barclays Bank Limited; effects £2744 3s. 4d. National Probate Calendar


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