Cyril Bernard Frank Weeks

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Cyril Bernard George Weeks was born in Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire, on 25 Aug 1899 and baptised there on 29 Oct 1899 the son of William Weeks and Amelia Weeks (nee Wright).  He lived most of his life in the Ebbesbourne Wake and Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, area.   He enlisted and joined the 2nd Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment as a Private (Service No. 35965).  It is not known in which theatre of war he served in but on his discharge on 15 Mar 1919 he was awarded the Victory and British War Medals.   The 1921 Census shows him living with his parents in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, assisting his father on the farm. His marriage to Sarah Margaret Trowbridge at Broad Chalke, Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire on 13 Feb 1926.  By the time of the 1939 Register he was living at Lush's Cottage, Near Cleaves Farm, Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire, working as a Stockman on his father's farm.  He later moved to The Bungalow, South Street, Broad Chalke, where he died on 29 Nov 1975.