Stubbs William C 1900

William Cecil Stubbs

1900-1965

Father Nm: William Compion Stubbs was born about Aug 1874 in Guisborough, Yorkshire, He died on 13 Oct 1952 at age of 78 years in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire North Riding

Mother Nm: Fanny Maud [4020] Blincoe was born 17 june 1877 in Witton Park, Durham, she died 1 February 1961 Bramhope, Leeds

Marriage Dt: Aug 3 1925 St Barnabas Church, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England

K comments: Brother Raymond Leonard Stubbs served with the Royal Navy as Medical Officer in the Surgeon Generals dept
Spouse comments:

Marriage to: Irene Maud Alethea Copeland 3 Aug 1925 St Barnabas Church, Middlesborough

Children. Sheila Jean Stubbs (1926-2000)

Born 1900

15 Jun 1900 57 Lorne Terrace, South Bank, Yorkshire

Baptised 4 July 1900 Ormesby, Yorkshire

1904

Admitted to South Bank Wesleyan School

1911 CENSUS

55 Parliament Road Middlesbrough

William Campion Stubbs Head Married Male 36 1875 Chemist and Drugist Castleton Grosmont Yorks
Fanny Maud Stubbs Wife Married Female 33 1878 – Witton Park Yorks
William Cecil Stubbs Son Single Male 10 1901 – South Bank Yorks
Raymond Leonard Stubbs Son Single Male 9 1902 – South Bank Yorks
Mary Stubbs Daughter Single Female 4 1907

1912

Attended Middlesborough High School for boys.

WW1

 

William C Stubbs Cadet Officer, Sergeant RAF, Airman 176707 RAF

1918

• 7 June. Joined the RAF he was an Apprentice on entry as a Cadet. Posted to 5 Cadet Wing, Denham , Middlesex. At the Cadet Wing pupils received basic military training during a two-month course which included drill, physical training, military law, map reading and signalling using Morse code.
• 28 August. RAF No 1 School of Aeronautics.a two-month course of military training and ground instruction. The topics covered included aviation theory, navigation, map reading, wireless signalling using Morse code, photography, and artillery and infantry cooperation. The students were also taught the working of aero engines and instruments and basic rigging.
• 28 September. Appointed to Sergeant and sent to the Armament School at Uxbridge MiddlesexThe next phase involved flying at a Training Depot Stations (TDS). Cadets were expected to complete a minimum of 25 hours elementary flying training – both dual and solo – on Avro 504 aircraft logged over three months. Thorough ground instruction was also provided. This achieved, student pilots received the grade ‘A’.RFC class being given instruction on the rotary engine, n.d. Cadets remained at the same TDS for the second phase of their instruction. This two-month course included a further 35 hours of flying time with a minimum of five hours on a modern ‘front-line’ type of aircraft. Student pilots also had to demonstrate proficiency in cross-country and formation flying, reconnaissance work and gunnery. Successful cadets were graded ‘B’ and commissioned.

1919

• 15 January. Posted finally to 43 Training  Depot  Station at Chattis Hill near Stockbridge in Hampshire. It’s likely that William learned to fly in the Avro 504 aircraft.

  

Medals

1939

January. William following his father now a Pharmacist of 35 Beaumont Rd, Ormesby, Middlesborough applies for a licence to sell medicinal wines.

However by Census time in September 1939, William is living with Irene at 10 Westwood Ave and  incapacitated

William C Smith 15 Jun 1900 Male Pharmacist Crown Incapacitated Married  
Irene M C Stubbs 15 Nov 1901 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married

Sources

1. 1. Find My Past  and BFA database
   2. Chattis Hill Flying Station 1919

Death 1965

He died lived at 33 Heythorp Drive, Acklam, Middlesborough on 30 Nov 1965 at the age of 65 years in the Aegean Sea, Mediterranean. Was this a drowning or natural causes?

Gallery

William was baptised here in 1900

Story posted by author in 2022 on Facebook

In 1911 Fanny Maud Blincoe (1878-1962) was happily married to Pharmacist William Compton Stubbs (1874-1952) they had three children (one more to come) and lived above the Pharmacy on 55 Parliament Road Middlesborough. Amazingly the very same location is still a Pharmacy 111 years later.
But this isn’t the story, my story is about two sons whose imaginations were captured by the new flying machines at the beginning of the 20th Century.
William and Fanny’s two sons William Cecil Stubbs born in 1900 and Raymond Leonard Stubbs born in 1902 were born just before the Wright brother’s first flight in 1903 and like many young boys at the time would have wanted to be pilots – they both achieved this dream.
Both also inherited their father’s interest in medical science and both over-achieved at Middlesborough High School.
Both brothers were very keen to learn to fly and Williams’s opportunity came along first in 1918 he volunteered to be a Flying Cadet for the RAF where he underwent Pilot training. Discharged in 1919 he was now a qualified Pilot but decided instead to follow his father and open a Pharmacy in Middlesborough. In 1939 William might have volunteered for the RAF again but something happened that prevented this in the September 1939 census he is reported as – an occupation pharmacist incapacitated.
Younger brother Raymond missed WW1 by his age and instead went to Newcastle University and obtained his Medical Doctorate.
He became a Physician and Surgeon but did achieve that boyhood dream in 1934 when he became a qualified Pilot flying the Gipsy Moth Airplane at Yorkshire Air Services airfield.
When WW2 came around Raymond volunteered for the Royal Navy and the next 6 years was a Surgeon Commander based in the north of England and taking care of Navy personnel. Married to Dorothy Crisp he had four children and may well have stayed with the Royal Navy after WW2 because he died near Portsmouth (Navy Base) at age 73 in 1975.
William Cecil Stubbs died mysteriously in 1965 in the Aegean Sea , I have been unable to find the cause.