By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Summer 2003 and Revised 24 Jul 2006
Update of 24 Jul 2006: Richard Prentice is #7 in our Fall 1999 article about Richard Prentice of London, England . That article now replaces this article
1. Richard Prentice was b. c. 1837-38 in Chelsea, London, Middlesex, England. He appears there in the 1861 Chelsea census and in the 1881 and 1891 census as a Greengrocer with his wife, Eliza, b. c. 1837, Chelsea, and children:
- William Prentice, b. c. 1858, Chelsea (per 1861 census).
- Eliza Prentice, b. c. 1860, Chelsea (per 1861 census).
- Richard Prentice, b. c. 1869-70, Chelsea. . . . . . . . [2]
- Fred Prentice, b. c. 1873, Chelsea.
2. Richard Prentice, b. c. 1870, Chelsea. He appears in the 1891 Chelsea census as a "Cratemonger" with his wife, Elizabeth, b. c. 1871, Chelsea, and son:
- Richard Prentice, b. c. 1890, Chelsea, London.
- (perhaps) Joseph Henry Prentice. WW I military death records identify a Joseph Henry Prentice, Driver, Royal Field Artillery, "B" Bty. 116th Bde., who d. at the age of 25 on 29 Oct 1917, son of Elizabeth Emily Hunt (formerly Prentice) of 95 Mitcham Rd., Tooting, London, and the late Richard Prentice. Born at Chelsea, London. His memorial is 1255, Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery. A Google search discloses the following information:
- Location:
Thessalonika (Salonika) is the town in Greece at the head of the Gulf of Thessalonika. The cemetery is on the northern outskirts of Thessalonika, adjoining the Roman Catholic French and Italian War Cemeteries. It lies on the west side of the road to Seres.
Historical Information: At the invitation of the Greek Prime Minister, M. Venizelos, Salonika (now Thessalonika) was occupied by three French Divisions and the 10th (Irish) Division from Gallipoli, in October 1915. Other French and Commonwealth forces landed during the year and in the Summer of 1916, they were joined by Russian and Italian troops. In August 1916, a Greek revolution broke out in Salonika, with the result that the Greek national army came into the War on the Allied side.
The town was the base of the British Salonika Force and it contained, from time to time, eighteen general and stationary hospitals. Three of these hospitals were Canadian, although there were no other Canadian units in the force. The earliest Commonwealth burials took place in the local Protestant and Catholic cemeteries.
Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery (formerly known as the Anglo-French Military Cemetery) was begun in November 1915, and Commonwealth, French, Serbian, Italian and Russian sections, were formed. The Commonwealth section remained in use until October 1918, although from the beginning of 1917, burials were also made in Mikra British Cemetery. After the Armistice, some graves were brought in from other cemeteries in Macedonia and from Scala Cemetery, near Cassivita on the island of Thasos. There are now 1,648 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. The Commonwealth Plot also contains 45 Bulgarian and one Serbian
Although conjecture at this point, Richard Prentice might a son of Richard Prentice and Susan who appear as #5 in our Prentice Newsletter article about Richard Prentice of London England k. By email of 3 Nov 2003, Kerri Prentice has also suggested that he might be Richard, #7 in that same article, with Eliza as a 2nd wife. Richard's sons, Richard and Fred, above, may be sons born subsequent to those shown in the earlier article.
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