{"id":1453,"date":"2021-10-28T13:47:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/favell.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=1453"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:30:33","slug":"james-william-favell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/james-william-favell\/","title":{"rendered":"James William Favell"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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James William Favell – Private G\/78270 29th Battalion Middlesex Regiment died on Sunday, 18th February 1917.\u00a0 His grave is in Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.\u00a0 James contracted Pneumonia while on active service.\u00a0 He was born in Derby according to ‘Soldiers Died’ and also the 1911 census, which I believe refers to West Derby, Liverpool.\u00a0 He enlisted in the Army in Liverpool.\u00a0 In 1911\u00a0 he was living with his wife Maria Eleanor in Upton, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and working for himself as a Coach Builder.\u00a0 \u00a0In the census the spelling of their surname was Favill, with James signing the entry himself.\u00a0 \u00a0The 1901 census lists a 12 year old James Favell living with his parents and four siblings in Binns Road, West Derby.\u00a0 Head of the household was 49 year old Laurence Favell, a Bricklayers Labourer, born in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u00a0James and Maria\u00a0 had four daughters and at the time of his death Elsie Mary was 6, Lavinia 5, Mahala Selma 3 and Constance was born just a month after he died.\u00a0 \u00a0The 29th (Works) battalion was formed at Mill Hill in July 1916 and by March 1917 was stationed at Thetford in Norfolk. The battalion was never posted abroad during the war, being transferred to the Labour Corps later in 1917.\u00a0 The G prefix to his service number was used by Home County regiments like the Middlesex to denote a New Army man.<\/p>

\u2018Soldiers Died\u2019 interestingly states that he formerly served under number 78270 with the Middlesex Regiment, and he is listed separately again as being formerly 46366 Kings Liverpool Regiment.<\/p>

James’ Pension record card shows that on 26th August 1917 Maria remarried to a civilian, John Churchill and became Mrs Churchill, living in Everton, Liverpool.\u00a0 The two youngest children stayed with their Mother who received a \u00a331 re-marriage gratuity (presumably then forfeiting her widows pension) while the children were granted 9 shillings a week until their sixteenth birthday.\u00a0 The two older children had pensions paid to a Guardian, Mrs Mary Anne Favell, of Crumlin Road, Belfast, where presumably they went to live.\u00a0 The Pension card also carries a note against the name of the Widow Maria.\u00a0 Widow is crossed through and unmarried written beside it.\u00a0 The registration of Mahala’s birth also lists the Mother’s name as Emson, so perhaps they were never actually married, but it is difficult to imagine the Army paying a widows pension if they were not.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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James William Favell James William Favell – Private G\/78270 29th Battalion Middlesex Regiment died on Sunday, 18th February 1917.\u00a0 His grave is in Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.\u00a0 James contracted Pneumonia while on active service.\u00a0 He was born in Derby according to ‘Soldiers Died’ and also the 1911 census, which I believe refers to West Derby, Liverpool.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1453","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1453\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}