GRADWELL Frederick Arthur

1904 - 1984  (79 years)

• Name	GRADWELL Frederick Arthur
  Birth	25 Jun 1904	Back 118 Green Lane, Aston, U.D., Sub-District Of Deritend, County Of Birmingham, England   [1]
  	registered in Aston, Vol 6d, page 251
  Baptism	15 Jul 1906	Saint Elizabeth Vineyard, Richmond   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	2 Apr 1911	51 Selwyn Ave., Richmond, Surrey   [3]
  Burial	1984	Riverside Crematorium Chapel, Etobicoke, Ontario
  Death	26 Mar 1984	Etobicoke, Ontario
  	Queensway General Hospital
  Person ID	I19	Lynda Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	GRADWELL Edward William,   b. 30 Nov 1869, New Bartholomew Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England d. 16 Nov 1905, Aston Union Workhouse, Erdington, Warwickshire (Age 35 years)
  Mother	BROWNE (BROWN) Charlotte Mary,   b. 12 Oct 1873, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
  Marriage	3 Nov 1895	St. Bartholemew’s Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire   [4]
  	Witnesses: William Gradwell, Mary Copus
  Family ID	F71	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	PRYOR Ellen (Eleanor) Mabel,   b. 14 Mar 1903, 66 Vanderbilt Road, Southfields, London, England d. 16 Jan 1993, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	22 Jun 1927	St Barnabas Church, Southfields, London   [5]
  Children	1. GRADWELL Roy William,   b. 14 Nov 1927, Wandsworth, SW 17, London, England d. 8 Feb 2013, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario (Age 85 years)   2. GRADWELL Doreen Iris,   b. 10 Jul 1929, 30a Penwith Road, Southfields, London d. 21 Jun 2018, Owen Sound, Grey County, Ontario, Canada (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F13	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Joined army with Teddy’s birth certificate, Second Battalion? Coldstream Guards. Served in Turkey in 1920; crossed the Gobi Desert. Served in Ireland during Irish Rebellion, getting bayonet wound in his neck. Probably served for 7 years with Coldstream Guards because he was married in uniform in 1927. Late 1920s, worked for Watneys Brewery as drayman in Mortlake. Later joined Territorial Army, was a Regimental Sergeant Major when WWII started, but became a Battery Sergeant Major in Royal Engineers. Stationed at Hatfield, then later elsewhere in England, manning searchlights with Royal Engineers. Royal Artillery took them over about 1940. Medically discharged for duodenal ulcer near the end of the war. In 1945, took over as custodian and bartender in Drill Hall in Southfields, London, for Territorial Army for about 5 years. Lived with Ellen in adjoining apartment while Roy, Joyce, Maureen and Doreen, Norman and Lynda stayed at their house in Birdhurst Road. *** England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 about Frederick Arthur Gradwell Name: Frederick Arthur Gradwell Gender: Male Birth Date: 25 Jun 1904 Baptism Date: 17 Jul 1904 Baptism Place: St. James, Ashted, Warwick, England Father: Edward Gradwell Mother: Charlotte Gradwell FHL Film Number: 1545522 Reference ID: item 3 p 132 Save This Record Attach this record to a person in your tree as a source record, or save for later evaluation. Save  Source Information: Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. [6]

  
  

• Sources

  [S17] Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth of Frederick Arthur GRADWELL. [S54] Father Hudson Society, Gradwell File Part 1 & Part 2. [S150] 1911 England Census. [S40] Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage of Edward Gradwell & Charlotte Browne. [S18] Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage of Frederick Edward Gradwell & Ellen Mabel Pryor. [S79] Soldier’s Service and Pay Book for Fred Gradwell.