When Maurice John Mowbray was born on 15 September 1913, his father, Charles Reed Mowbray, was 29 and his mother, Sophie Mary Piper, was 31. He married Dora Evelyn Ronsley on 20 November 1939, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wanstead, Essex, England, United Kingdom in 1921. He died on 17 July 1997, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 83.
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Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
English (northern; of Norman origin): habitational name from Montbray (Manche). Robert de Mowbray was Earl of Northumbria 1086–95, but was later imprisoned and deposed for rebelling against William II.
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