Players: Gordon Berry

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The loss of Dovecots founding master weavers, John Jack Glassbrook and Gordon Berry in 1917 during World War 1, might have seen the end of the Tapestry Studio before it had fully begun, but the young apprentices Ronald Cruickshank, Richard Gordon and David Lindsay Anderson returned to continue weaving at the Studio. [Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh]

Glassbrook and Berry came from William Morriss Merton Abbey Workshops to set up the studio, which was then based in Corstorphine. [The Scotsman]

Genealogical Research:
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b1887 Q1 Kingston District

1891 Inman Road, Earlsfield

- Father Charles, b1851 Liphook

- Mother Eliza, b1860 Richmond

- Aged 4

x Smallwood Road school

1900 Haydons Road school adm 25 Aug 

1901 6, Leyton Road, Wimbledon

- Apprentice silk factory, aged 14

1911 49 High St Kingston upon Thames

- Silk tapestry weaver, aged 24



Gordon C.

Last name	Berry

Service number	S/8967

Rank	Private

Regiment	Princess Louise's (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders)

Battalion	14th Battalion.

Birth place	Wimbledon, Middx.

Residence	Kingston-On-Thames, Surrey

Enlistment place	Edinburgh, Midlothian

Death year	1917

Death day	24

Death month	4

Cause of death	Killed in action

Death place	France & Flanders



Casualty lists included in WO 95/2611/1

Buried at FIFTEEN RAVINE BRITISH CEMETERY, VILLERS-PLOUICH