Leo Coward was my lovely grampa. He was born in 1903 and died in 1973. He married Daisy Belben (1905-1996) in the late 1930s and they adopted a little girl, Christine Anne (b.1944), who is my mum. Not sure when 'Uncle' Cyril was born but he died (I think) in the late 1920s of gangrene after sketching a diseased bone. Leo said Cyril died in bed next to him at Green Rd - when Leo woke up Cyril had died in the night. Cyril was an artist and his gravestone is in the shape of an artist's palette. Grampa always said it was actually Cyril who discovered the age of Scaplen's court in Poole after part of the building fell down, and told his ?headmaster who took all the credit. Both he and Leo (and Daisy) are buried at Dorchester Rd Cemetery in Oakdale, Poole, as is 'Aunty' Terrie (Teresa). Grampa always remembered the awful moment he came home ?from school, and looked at his mother's face and realised his brother Fred(erick) had been killed in the First World War. It made him a lifelong Socialist. Well, he thought of himself as a Communist in those perhaps more idealistic days.
I remember Aunty Rose and uncle Jim, who seemed very old when I was little (I was born in 1962) and I also remember Pauline and Tony, who came and visited my gran in the 90's. They were lovely. Pauline's mother Gertie was my Godmother and her son, Pauline's brother Robin is my Godfather. Don't know why it wasn't Uncle Rex (Gertie's husband). I also remember Uncle Reg (see other post) who came to visit us at 22 Vicarage Rd, Oakdale, in the early 1970s. He was known in the family as 'Wumpy' because apparently when the younger ones were children he counted all the peas on their plates and said that one of them had one more pea on their plate than he did. 'Aunty' Terrie (Teresa) taught for years at the school I went to, St Joseph's RC school in Poole. Or maybe it was St Mary's. One of my primary teachers at St Joseph's remembered her very well. There is a postcard from Frederick to Terrie from the front in 1915 on the Canadian War memorial site (
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/fra/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/923060), and his recruitment details are here
http://data2.archives.ca/e/e444/e011089501.pdf
