MAJOR ALFRED GEORGE MONTANARO,
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.The following information concerning Major Alfred George Montanaro was obtained from the Public Record Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew from a variety of documents and was typed by Eardley Bryan on 20th February 1992.
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Document WO 25/3921 Temp Clerk Precise date of original appointment not certain. Est Clerk Est Clerk Est Clerk Dep Supt Dep Commissary 12 Feb 1870 Dep Commissary 12 Aug 1870 Dep Commissary 29 Aug 1873 His postings during his service
Malta Corfu Santa Maura Voyage Leave Guernsey Marchwood Stirling Leave Voyage Ceylon Voyage Home Leave Voyage Jamaica
The document is then closed with the following statement:
"Transferred to Ordnance Store Establishment Book page 24."
A further visit will be necessary in order to find this book and copy the relevant entry.
War Office List 1879 p.231 (plus last entry from a later edition)
MONTANARO ALFRED.
Deputy Commissary, Ordnance Store Department.
Appointed to the Store Department at Malta as Ordnance Clerk, April 1850.
Services:- Malta 1850-60 Ionian Islands, 1860-64 Guernsey 1864-65 Marchwood (charge) 1865-69 Stirling 1869-71 Ceylon 1871-74 Jamaica 1874-75 Pembroke 1875-80 Retired on re-organisation May 1880.
His eldest son Charles, who died of his wounds in Afghanistan, was stated to have been educated at the Southampton College, which is near Marchwood.
Amy Maud Mary was almost certainly born in Malta and was later married to Henry Gresham Paske at Pembroke Docks in 1876.
Lt Charles Alfred Montanaro RA, died of wounds
in Afghanistan 19th December 1879
Letters from Guiseppe Montanaro to obtain
an appointment for his son, Alfred George