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Another Sgt Andrew Malsbury mystery

Claire West from the Malsbury family, her two daughters and Frank Osborne a local farmer.

A message from the Northamptonshire village of Denton explained that a group there is working on a project to remember the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. The group has “a bit of a mystery on their hands.”
 
Sergeant Andrew Malsbury is listed on the Denton village Roll of Honour but his name does not appear on their war memorial. As he is listed as coming from Abthorpe could we shed any light on this they asked? Well – this is the second mystery surrounding Sgt Malsbury. Back in 2014 Claire West a member of the Malsbury family came to Abthorpe and explained at a Remembrance Day service that he had died on 3rd March 1919 almost four months after the end of that war and records show that he was in fact a casualty of the Irish War of Independence between the Irish Republican Army and British security forces. Claire stated then that the family story is that he died near the River Liffey in Dublin although his death was registered in Dundalk. He is buried in a war grave in Abthorpe’s Main Street cemetery and his name appears on our war memorial.
 
Notes provided by Claire West in 2014 showed that Andrew Malsbury, a Sergeant in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps was a groom and spent a number of years working in Church Brampton and Sywell. He married his wife Ellen Eva Rose in the Hardingstone District in July 1913 – a the year before the war started. Perhaps at that time Denton was in the Hardingstone District and Sgt Malsbury’s widow wished to have him commemorated in her home village.
 
For more information see: https://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Northamptonshire/Towcester/NN12/News/Local-News/280166-The-Sgt-Andrew-Malsbury-Mystery-In-Abthorpe

https://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Northamptonshire/Towcester/NN12/News/Local-News/284169-More-Of-The-Serjeant-Andrew-Malsbury-Mystery

John Riches

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