Rank: Private
Service: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Parents: Mr Edward & Mrs Susanna Montague
Home Address: 7 Manor Road, Hastings
Other Info: Archibald Montague died aged 24 on 9th September 1916. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial, pier and face 7C. He is also remembered on a family grave at Hastings Cemetery. He is not named on Hastings War Memorial.
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This man's parents are probably those who are in Dover, Kent in the 1911 census, the only Edward and Susanna couple in that census.
This shows Edward, 57, a jeweller and dealer, own account, working from home, born Lambeth, and his wife Susanna, 51, tobacconist, born Little Hadham, Hertfordshire. They had been married 22 years and had had three children, of whom two were alive. One child was present in the household: Daisy, 20, milliner, born Melbourne, Australia. The other would presumably be Archibald.
This Edward married, 1888, in Victoria, Australia, Susanna Charge. However, the 1901 census for Willesden, Middlesex, has the family, with, besides Daisy, Edward, age 8, born Melbourne. Assuming that Edward is not the dead child, then this is the wrong family as they claimed only to have two surviving children.
However, Australian records show a Edward Archibald William Montague being born in 1892, Victoria, to Edward McFarlane Montague and Susanna Charge.
I think that this is indeed the right man, as the probate record for the deceased soldier, Archibald Montague *(which gives his home address as 92 Portland Road, South Norwood, Surrey), dated 24 March 1917, gives the executrix as Susanna wife of Edward Montague.
Edward MacFarlane Montague died at Billericay, Essex, in 1936. Daisy Winifred Montague was one executrix. She is in the September 1939 Register at Southend, Essex, a milliner, born 19 August 1890, living with Mary Hathaway, millinery salesman, who was the other executrix to Edward.