Trafford

Born during the December quarter 1893 in the Altrincham R.D. - ref: 8a/163,
the 2nd son of Ernest and Sarah Ann Ollier (nee Hall).

1901 Census - 26 Priory Street, Bowdon.  Son - aged: 7 - occ: Gardener
(domestic) - born: Bowdon.   Head of household - Ernest Ollier - Married -
aged: 36 - occ: Jobbing Gardener - born: Bowdon.   Also - Sarah Ann Ollier
- Wife - aged: 37 - born: Dawley, Shropshire.   Plus 5 siblings including
George William Ollier - aged: 4.

1911 Census - 26 Priory Street, Bowdon.   Son - aged: 17 - occ: Gardener
(domestic) - born: Bowdon.   Head of household - Ernest Ollier - Married -
aged: 46 - occ: Jobbing Gardener - born: Bowdon.   Also - Sarah Ann Ollier
- Wife - aged: 47 - born: Dawley, Shropshire.   Plus 4 siblings including
George Ollier.

Educated at St. Mary's School and a member of St. Mary's Church Choir.

MIC - gives no information other than he was awarded the BWM & the VM,
indicating that he did not go overseas until at least 1916.

WO363 - Attested at Altrincham on the 25th May 1915.  Enlisted at
Birkenhead on the 29th January 1916 and posted into the 14th Bn Cheshire
Rgt.  His address was given as 25 Priory Street, Bowdon.   Aged: 22 years 2
months, he was 5 feet 4½ inches in height and his chest measurement was 32
- 35 inches.  He weighed 122 lb and had bad teeth for which he was
immediately sent for dental treatment.  He had Cardiac Blowing (heart
Murmour) and Palpitations.   Posted to France on the 14th July 1916 and
into the 13th Bn, Cheshire Rgt on the 16th July 1916.

His brother - Rifleman George William Ollier was a POW at Dulman,
Westphalia.

Listed as Jack Oliver on the Roll of Honour.  Listed in the Guardian Year
Book - Roll of Honour for 1917.

His mother - Sarah Ann Ollier, received financial support from the "John
Sington Fund".
 
The John Sington Fund - John Sington was the son of Adolphus Sington, a
Jewish Prussian shipping merchant who came to Britain and in 1845 became a
naturalised citizen.   Adolphus had his own company, involved originally in
the production of linen and cotton, and later the import and export of
machinery for the cotton industry.  John and at least one of his brothers
worked in their father's business in Princess Street, Manchester.

In 1885 John married Mildred Campbell Maclure, daughter of Sir John William
Maclure, Bt., who became MP for Stretford the following year.  John and
Mildred had two sons, Alan John Campbell Sington and Edward Claude Sington.
 In 1914 both sons enlisted in the British Army, and their father is listed
in The Gazette in 1915 as Major John Sington, Royal Engineers Territorial
Force Reserve.   In 1909 the Sington family moved from Whalley Range to
Dunham House, on Charcoal Road, Dunham.

When Major John Sington's two sons returned safely from active service
during WW1 he established a fund 'as a Thanksgiving Offering for their safe
return for the benefit of the wives, children and dependants of any men
who, as a result of service with His Majesty's Forces or the Mercantile
Marine, have died or been killed or disabled, and for the benefit of any
members of His Majesty's Forces or the Mercantile Marine who have been
disabled as a result of such service.'   The fund's scope was limited to
those who had been resident in the Urban District of Bowdon or the village
of Dunham Town for at least six months.

Six trustees were appointed, namely, John Bleckly, Henry Edwin Gaddum,
William Alfred Hampson, Joseph Kenworthy, Joseph Watson Sidebotham and the
Major himself.  The Clerk to the Trustees was Willis Paterson the Bowdon
UDC Solicitor, 11 Stamford Street, Altrincham to whom applications for
grants had to be made.    Information about the Fund and its beneficiaries
was kindly supplied by Cynthia Hollingworth from the records kept in
Trafford Local Studies Library.