CALEB GEORGE MOUSER
Born: 1886, Hoo Green, Suffolk.
Baptised on the 15th August 1886, at St. Andrew and St. Eustachius Church, Hoo – family home at Hoo.
Died: 27th May 1918; age 32; KiA. Served 2 years & 168 days.
Residence: 45, Cromer Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: Carpenter.
Enlistment Details: Location: Ipswich; date: 11th December 1915. began 11th October 1916; age: 29 years & 5 months; religion: CofE. Signed up for the duration of the war. Height: 5ft 4ins.
Service:
Mobilised 20th February 1917
Embarked at Folkestone – 17th September 1917
Transferred to Durham Light Infantry, 1st October 1917
Transferred back to Royal Engineers 12th December 1917.
Offence: 3rd January 1918 – While on active service in the field – Consumed his rations without authority – Punishment – 7 days F.P. No. 2.
Rank: Sapper; Service Number: 204028
Regiment: Royal Engineers, 78th Field Coy.
Formerly 76746, Durham Light Infantry.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
In May 1919, the body was exhumed by the 119th Labour Coy and identified from the information on a wooden cross marking the grave, before reburial at Englebelmer Communal Cemetery Extension.
Grave Reference:
F.28.
Englebelmer Communal Cemetery Extension,
Somme,
France.
Brother to JOHN HENRY MOUSER.
CENSUS
1891 Hoo Green, Suffolk.
Caleb was 4 years old and living with his parents, siblings & paternal grandfather.
Caleb Mouser, 38, a Bricklayer, born Framsden, Suffolk.
Roseanna Mouser (nee Carr), 36, born Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Robert William Mouser, 13, a Bricklayer’s Labourer, born Woodbridge.
Henry John Mouser, 11, born Woodbridge.
Mary Henrietta Mouser, 9, born Woodbridge.
Roseanna Sarah Mouser, 7, born Framsden.
Celia Mahala 2, born Hoo Green.
Henry Mouser, 73, a widower, living on his own means, born Framsden.
1901 63, Victoria Street, Ipswich.
Caleb was 14 years old and living with his widowed father, siblings & grandfather.
Caleb, 46, a Bricklayer.
Celia, 12.
Henry, 83.
1 housekeeper.
1911 106, Bramford Road, Ipswich.
Caleb was 24 years old and a Carpenter. He was living with his father.
Caleb Mouser, 58, a Bricklayer.
1 Housekeeper & her 2 teenage children.
Caleb’s mother, Roseanna Mouser, died in October 1900 in Ipswich and was buried on the 18th October at Ipswich Old Cemetery.
On the 25th October 1913, at St. Mary and St. Botolph Church, Whitton cum Thurlston, Suffolk, 27 year old Caleb, a carpenter, of Whitton, married 26 year old Margaret Ellen Pryke, born July 1887, Whitton cum Thurlston – daughter of Edward Pryke, a chemical manure labourer, and Ellen Pryke (nee Woodward), of Whitton Street.
Margaret and Caleb had one son:
Lawrence Edward Mouser, born 1st May 1915, Ipswich and baptised on the 4th July 1915, at St. Mary and St. Botolph Church, Whitton cum Thurlston.
On the 18th November 1924, Mrs. Margaret Mouser wrote to ask about the whereabouts of her late husband’s Victory & British War medals.
The medals were issued on the 30th December 1924 and sent on the 19th January 1925.
Soldiers’ Effects to Margaret E. Mouser – widow.
Royal Engineers, 78th Field Coy
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