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Tom and Rose Curson with family members

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Tom and Rose Curson celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with three other family members (? 1976), and a separate note of Mr Curson’s death at some later time.

(Seated, l–r): Rose and Tom Curson of Stanhoe.

(Standing, l–r): Adeline (second name unknown, a member of the family); Tom’s brother Ernest Curson; and Ernest’s wife Ethel.

Many thanks to Diane Reeve, granddaughter of Ernest Curson, for the names. As a child, Diane was fascinated by her great-uncle Tom. “He was a very kind and humble man,” she says.

He would never tell her how his leg came to be badly injured in the first world war, but he was awarded the Military Medal. “He was unable to bend his leg and managed to hobble with a stick,” Diane says.

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  • Charles - Tuesday 3 August 2021 17:25
    SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 13 SEPTEMBER, 1918.

    His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Military Medal for bravery in the Field to the under-mentioned Non-commissioned Officers and Men:—

    482108 Spr. T. W. Curson, R.E. (Drayton Hall)

    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30897/supplement/10763
  • Rosemary Brown - Tuesday 3 August 2021 15:24
    Mr Tom Curson was a Horseman, possibly at Stanhoe Hall Farm, before serving in WW1 where he was awarded the Military Medal, and returned to Stanhoe with a wounded leg. He always walked with a stick. After his return, being unable to work on the farm, he learnt to repair shoes , I think from a relative in Burnham. He then had a Shoe Menders Shop on the left of the entrance inside the Post Office. Later, when the Post Office was extended for family accommodation his Shop was moved next door to a small building attached to Post Office Cottage, opening into PostOffice Yard. Everyone took their shoes and boots there to be mended. Mr Curson sat on the left of the Shop where he could see out of the window, and there were large sheets of leather for resoling beside him and a pile of mended shoes straight ahead just inside the door.