G'day..My name is Derek Anderson, and I'm Frank Leo Lamoon's grandson. Frank Leo was married to Joanna Spooner, but they split up about 1928/29. Frank & Joanna had four children: Frank (b about 1903); Wilfred (b about 1906); Irene (Reeny) (b about 1913 but died of diphtheria in WWI); and my mum Olive Ivy May (b 23rd Feb. 1921). Frank and Joanna went their separate ways when mum was about 7 or 8, so I never knew him. Joanna was 42 when mum was born and died when I was about 6 months old, late 1948 or early 1949 when she would have been 69/70, so I never knew her either. Mum said her grandfather Martyn (that's how she spelt it) was tall, about 6'3'' and was in the Coldstream Guards and used to take his grandson Frank down to the guards barracks sometimes. Mum married my dad Edward (Ted) Anderson in October 1941 as they lived in London throughout the war (due to dad's job), and had three boys: Graham (b 1944); Barry (b 1946) and myself (b June 1948). We migrated to Australia in 1957 and have lived here eversince. Mum died in 1999 aged 78, and dad in 2013, just short of his 92nd birthday.
