by Gary. M. Anstey, chief researcher of the Anstey story project.
John Edwin Anstey, a member of the Washfield Ansteys, was born in 1872 in Camberwell to parents Edwin Anstey and Sarah Rich; he was brother to fellow Anstey Hero Charles Rich Anstey
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He married Alice Hayward in 1899 in Lambeth and in the 1911 Census they were living at 149 Amesbury Avenue Streatham together with two ‘Ellery’ nieces and Alice’s sister Elizabeth Hayward – John was working as a law clerk.
WW1 , 23979 Army Pay Corps
See ‘ANSTEY: The Devon and Somerset Branch’ for correspondence
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