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GRADWELL Roy William

Male 1927 - 2013  (85 years)

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  • Name GRADWELL Roy William 
    Birth 14 Nov 1927  Wandsworth, SW 17, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 8 Feb 2013  Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I21  Lynda Family Tree
    Last Modified 6 Nov 2024 

    Father GRADWELL Frederick Arthur,   b. 25 Jun 1904, Back 118 Green Lane, Aston, U.D., Sub-District Of Deritend, County Of Birmingham, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Mar 1984, Etobicoke, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Mother PRYOR Ellen (Eleanor) Mabel,   b. 14 Mar 1903, 66 Vanderbilt Road, Southfields, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jan 1993, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage 22 Jun 1927  St Barnabas Church, Southfields, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Family ID F13  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family SPRATT Joyce May,   b. 6 Nov 1929, Canterbury, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jan 2005, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 31 Jul 1948  Wandsworth, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. GRADWELL Barbara May,   b. 23 Mar 1951, Mitcham, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Dec 2022, Vancouver, BC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     3. Living
    Family ID F15  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2021 

  • Notes 
    • {Called up in 1945 for East Surrey Regiment and trained in Canterbury, where he met Joyce, who was a Bell Telephone operator there. After 12 weeks training, went to headquarters in Kingston. Regiment was sent to ISrael, but Roy was kept in office. After an adventure leading the guard platoon on a ship full of German POWs, he ended up in Germany, then was transferred to Royal Fusilliers, then stationed in Germany, first in Bauer, then in Rechlinghausen. After about 2 years there, he was demobilized. }

  • Sources 
    1. [S169] Doreen Fawcett, 2007 calendar.

    2. [S710] England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005.

    3. [S254] Barbara Gradwell, death of Uncle Roy.

    4. [S18] Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage of Frederick Edward Gradwell & Ellen Mabel Pryor.