{"id":1857,"date":"2023-07-11T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/favell.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=1857"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:50:37","slug":"maurice-arthur-pugh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/maurice-arthur-pugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Arthur Pugh"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Maurice Pugh was the brother of my Great Grandmother Hannah Favell (nee Pugh).\u00a0 Maurice was the second youngest of six children born to Lewis Pugh and his wife Hannah.\u00a0 Lewis was a shoemaker who had come to London from Leominster and his wife Hannah (nee Becht) had been born in Holland.<\/p>

Maurice was only 3 years old when his mother died at the age of only 35 in 1900.\u00a0 His father died just five years later.\u00a0 \u00a0In the intervening years his Father had to resort to the workhouse, being admitted in 1903, with his younger children following him shortly after along with a woman named Alice Pugh, presumably an Aunt, after being ejected from 29 William Street.\u00a0 One can only guess that the rent could not be paid.<\/p>

Maurice’s older siblings Lewis (17) and Hannah (16) were making their own way in life, but Thomas (12) Edith (9) Maurice (7) and Alice (5) were taken into the St Pancras Workhouse and were then sent to the Workhouse School at Leavesden near Watford.<\/p>

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At the end of March 1916, just a few months past his nineteenth birthday, Maurice joined up with the armed forces.\u00a0 But rather than the Army or Navy, Maurice was allocated to the Royal Flying Corps, which was later to become the RAF.\u00a0 \u00a0Maurice had joined for the ‘duration of the war’ and after some initial training was posted to the RFC\u00a0 on the 1st February 1917.\u00a0 Why was Maurice allocated to this new branch of the forces that was then in its infancy?\u00a0 Maurice must have come away from the St Pancras Schools at Leavesden with a decent basic education and perhaps a natural talent for drawing.\u00a0 His civilian occupation on joining up was given as ‘Process Artist’ and I had always been told that he drew maps for one of the large newspapers during the second world war, so perhaps that was a needed talent that was recognised when he came to join up.\u00a0 Maybe an aptitude for technical drawing and mechanics.<\/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\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Maurice was allocated to the newly formed RAF in April 1918.\u00a0 61035 Maurice A Pugh was noted as a Fitter (Eng) in the RFC (Engine Fitter?)\u00a0 which then translated to the rank of A Mech 1 in the new RAF.\u00a0 Air Mechanic 1st Class?\u00a0 He was retained for a while after the war when he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.\u00a0 The census of 1939 records Maurice as living in Watford with his wife Dorothy.\u00a0 his occupation was Process Artist, Draughtsman, Mechanical.\u00a0 He died in Watford in March 1982 at the age of 86.<\/p>

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Maurice Arthur Pugh Maurice Pugh was the brother of my Great Grandmother Hannah Favell (nee Pugh).\u00a0 Maurice was the second youngest of six children born to Lewis Pugh and his wife Hannah.\u00a0 Lewis was a shoemaker who had come to London from Leominster and his wife Hannah (nee Becht) had been born in Holland. Maurice […]<\/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-1857","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1857","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=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1857\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}