Carter-Aaron tree » William John Ames (1891-1968)
Personal data William John Ames
Sources 1, 2, 3- He was born on May 15, 1891 in Chelsea (RD), London.
- Resident starting November 1919: 20 Sandilands Rd, 20 Sandilands Rd, Wandsworth, London, Great Britain.
- Census in the year 1901, 64 Herries St, Paddington, London.
- Census in the year 1939, 13 Fairfield Rd, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.
Insurance Agent L'pool
- (Military Enlistment) August 1914.
- (Military Service) between August 1914 and November 1919 in India and Afghanistan-Agra, Aden, Rawal Pindi and Calcutta.
Wounded in Afghanistan
- (Military Discharge) November 1919.
- (Military Award) in the year 1919.
Indian General Service Medal with clasp "Afghanistan, North West Frontier 1919"
- (Military Award) in the year 1919.
1914-15 Star, General Service and Victory Medals
- He died in the year 1968 in Biggleswade (RD), Bedfordshire, he was 76 years old.
- A child of William George Ames and Mary Jane Caull Robb
Household of William John Ames
He is married to Hilda May Rowlett.
They got married on August 21, 1920 at Biggleswade (RD), Bedfordshire, he was 29 years old.
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- Illingworth Web Site, Anne Illingworth, William John Ames, December 30, 2016
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Historical events
Birthday May 15, 1891
- The temperature on May 15, 1891 was about 14.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
- August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
- August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
- October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
- October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
- December 22 » Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
Day of marriage August 21, 1920
- The temperature on August 21, 1920 was between 8.9 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 15.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
- February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
- March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
- May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
- May 5 » Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
- November 16 » Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
- November 28 » Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
Same birth/death day
- 1890 » Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist († 1980)
- 1891 » Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic († 1971)
- 1891 » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright († 1940)
- 1892 » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral († 1977)
- 1892 » Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer († 1969)
- 1893 » José Nepomuceno, Filipino filmmaker, founder of Philippine cinema († 1959)
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