Possibly his home was bombed during WW11 thus cause of death due to War Operations....? Ellen ----- Original Message ----- From: <sly211@btinternet.com> To: <devon@rootsweb.com>; <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 8:54 PM Subject: [DEV] UNUSUAL CAUSE OF DEATH: WILLIAM JAMES SLY Although this particular branch of the SLY tree comes from the Southampton area rather than from Devon or Cornwall, I hope that fellow listers might be able to help with an unusual cause of death WILLIAM JAMES SLY was born at Bitterne Brewery in July 1887, the son of a licensed victualler. He appears to have followed his father in this trade, and his death certificate records that he died on 22 June 1942 at Bitterne Brewery. The cause of death was stated to be 'Due to War Operations'. I have never come across this before I cannot guess what a 55 year old licensed victualler would have been doing that would cause his death at what appears to be his home that could be attributed to 'war operations'. Service in the Home Guard comes to mind, but I would have expected the cause of death to be something more specific. Could he have been killed accidentally by a member of the armed services? John S Sly ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

John He was killed during WW2 (no doubt by bombing). See : - http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3112536/SLY,%20WILLIAM%20JAMES Adrian On 02/01/2014 02:07, Ellen Murray wrote: > Possibly his home was bombed during WW11 thus cause of death due to War > Operations....? > > Ellen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <sly211@btinternet.com> > To: <devon@rootsweb.com>; <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 8:54 PM > Subject: [DEV] UNUSUAL CAUSE OF DEATH: WILLIAM JAMES SLY > > > Although this particular branch of the SLY tree comes from the Southampton > area rather than from Devon or Cornwall, I hope that fellow listers might be > able to help with an unusual cause of death > > WILLIAM JAMES SLY was born at Bitterne Brewery in July 1887, the son of a > licensed victualler. He appears to have followed his father in this trade, > and his death certificate records that he died on 22 June 1942 at Bitterne > Brewery. The cause of death was stated to be 'Due to War Operations'. I have > never come across this before > > I cannot guess what a 55 year old licensed victualler would have been doing > that would cause his death at what appears to be his home that could be > attributed to 'war operations'. Service in the Home Guard comes to mind, but > I would have expected the cause of death to be something more specific. > Could he have been killed accidentally by a member of the armed services? > > John S Sly >

John >From CWGC site http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3112536/SLY,%20WILLIAM%20JAMES SLY, WILLIAM JAMES Rank: Civilian Date of Death: 22/06/1942 Age: 55 Regiment/Service: Civilian War Dead Reporting Authority SOUTHAMPTON, COUNTY BOROUGH Additional Information: Husband of Ruby Sly, of Holmecroft, Chalk Hill. Died at Bitterne Brewery. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Ellen Murray [mailto:ellen.murray@sympatico.ca] Sent: 02 January 2014 02:07 To: sly211@btinternet.com; devon@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DEV] UNUSUAL CAUSE OF DEATH: WILLIAM JAMES SLY Possibly his home was bombed during WW11 thus cause of death due to War Operations....? Ellen ----- Original Message ----- From: <sly211@btinternet.com> To: <devon@rootsweb.com>; <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 8:54 PM Subject: [DEV] UNUSUAL CAUSE OF DEATH: WILLIAM JAMES SLY Although this particular branch of the SLY tree comes from the Southampton area rather than from Devon or Cornwall, I hope that fellow listers might be able to help with an unusual cause of death WILLIAM JAMES SLY was born at Bitterne Brewery in July 1887, the son of a licensed victualler. He appears to have followed his father in this trade, and his death certificate records that he died on 22 June 1942 at Bitterne Brewery. The cause of death was stated to be 'Due to War Operations'. I have never come across this before I cannot guess what a 55 year old licensed victualler would have been doing that would cause his death at what appears to be his home that could be attributed to 'war operations'. Service in the Home Guard comes to mind, but I would have expected the cause of death to be something more specific. Could he have been killed accidentally by a member of the armed services? John S Sly ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message