My G.Grandfather, had loads of sons, all of whom played cricket for England. His eldest son, who also played for the MCC. I am told that he was cricketer of the year in 1914. Uncle was a friend of Ranjitsinhji, he coached his sons at Wellington college after WW!.
Ernest was killed in WW1 I have not been able to find his brother’s records, but I have a signed picture of him in uniform dated 1918.
I am told that the sons only had daughters, except my Grandma, that son was spoiled as a child by his doting uncles.
My dad used to hang out with all sorts of people, I have a picture of him with Jack Dempsey who looks huge against him, I also found a snap of Jimmy Cagney, when dad died, they had met at some do..
He lived in the USA for about 6-7 years the rest of the time her was in both wars in the RNAS & RAF.before he started his own company which he ran with a partner until he retired after a stroke.
On the other side of the family my OH uncle served with Mountbatten on his ship which was torpedoed off the coast of Malta, we saw a picture of the whole crew in the war museum when we went there on holiday. There was Uncle H bang in the middle of the picture, my OH was thrilled to see him like that.
Rabbit B
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