Rates of Pay and House Rents 1914

[snoopysue]

Having been researching my great grandfather who served in the Royal Engineers during WW1, and finding that they were paid a lot less than in civilian life, I was curious as to what he might have earned as a moulder.
The census and other records has him as an artisan moulder, an iron moulder, and a gas stove moulder.

As far as I can make out a soldier in WW1 earned a basic wage of one shilling a day.
It would be also interesting to know what they paid in rent - they lived in a four room terraced house. My gr grandfather and gr grandmother had 6 kids, and by the time of the war the eldest child was 13 years old and the youngest just a few months, so she probably had a heard time making ends meet!

Does anyone have any knowledge of pay etc, or of any websites?

Thanks

[peterd]

this help

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-Money.html

http://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.co ... -1914.html

war time

http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924000409460

[snoopysue]

Thanks Petard