Maud Jane Gardner

[Coromandel]

If you search for Stanley in the London Gazette you will be able to chart his progress from Captain to Major to Lt.-Col. and even acting Colonel for a while (try searching for the exact phrase S D Gardner). His gallantry awards are there too (search for his full name to find these).

[olliecat]

Incidentally, I still cannot find a death date for Edward Thomas Gardner but the marriage certificate of another son Gerald Howard Gardner dated 23/03/1931 gives his father as Edward Thomas Gardner, Army Officer, Royal Horse Artillery, decd..

Could be difficult finding a death if he was registered without his middle name. Could he have returned to living in the Westminster area?

Death Sep 1930 St George Hanover Square 1a 392
Edward T Gardner
Age 82
Est. birth date: 1848

[FredP]

Thanks Olliecat, but I already have this death cert. It says 'Old Age Pensioner, formerly an actor, and was registered by A. Gardner, widow of deceased, 164 Ebury Street, Westminster.'

I don't think this can be him as he was at different times described as Surveyor, Estate Agent, and Captain in the London Defence Regiment (Volunteers). However I see there was a marriage in Wandsworth in the last quater of 1919 of an Edward Thomas Gardner to an Alice Shorter. I am looking to see if I can find anything about her.

[FredP]

I now have the marriage cert of Edward Thomas Gardner - Wandsworth Register Office 24/12/1919: -

Edward Thomas Gardner, 71, Widower of Independent Means, 164 Ebury Street, Westminster; father Edward Gardner decd also of Independent Means.
Alice Shorter, 45, Spinster, 9 Sabine Road, Battersea; father George Thomas Shorter decd, Page in Royal Household.
The witnesses were W T and L Walter.

So the death cert is his, but how did widow suppose him to be a retired actor? Maybe a mis-transcription in the Probate Office?