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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 08:00 BST (UK)  »
Here he is as an MP with his wife Elizabeth ...

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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 07:38 BST (UK)  »
Hi Sue, thank you so much for your contributions. I knew about their journey out to Australia but not that they had a daughter.
If anyone would like to explore the extraordinary wartime career of Captain Robert Gee VC further then my source is A Tiger and A Fusilier, by Derek Seaton, privately published in Leicester in 2001. Rather surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be another biography. It's evident that Seaton had the help of Gee's relatives.

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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Monday 04 August 25 18:25 BST (UK)  »
Of course you're right, Carole -- just double checked what I noted down some years ago, and had misremembered. He died in Australia and asked his daughter in England to donate his medals to the Royal Fusiliers Museum.

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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Monday 04 August 25 18:16 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: CaroleW on Monday 04 August 25 18:11 BST (UK)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gee

Yes, his wartime career is insane, both for the amount of trauma and injury he suffered, and for his astonishing bravery. A complicated man.

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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Monday 04 August 25 17:54 BST (UK)  »
He was returning to England for the VC Centenary Review, hosted by the Queen, and I have photographs -- so he definitely came back in 1956, it was national news!
I will say I haven't checked which ship he came on, even though one photograph shows him on board ship ...

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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Monday 04 August 25 17:48 BST (UK)  »
Once again RootsChat members have proved their genius!

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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Monday 04 August 25 17:48 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: JenB on Monday 04 August 25 17:35 BST (UK)
Ladies National Clubs fits with your mention of hostels in your original post.
Thank you, that's brilliant! We are absolutely motoring now ...

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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Monday 04 August 25 17:36 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: CaroleW on Monday 04 August 25 17:34 BST (UK)
She features in a tree on Ancestry linking her to Robert Gee.  Died Australia 1976

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/161757344/person/422107305378/facts?_phsrc=Tro4&_phstart=successSource
You are right, this is the woman!
In 1921 Elsie Maud Pycroft described herself as 'Secretary to the Ladies' National Clubs' which sounds awfully close to the description I had originally!
Carole, thank you for the link to the family tree. How interesting that she stayed in Australia! Robert Gee returned to Britain in 1956 and died there in 1960.

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The Common Room / Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« on: Monday 04 August 25 17:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: osprey on Monday 04 August 25 17:24 BST (UK)
possibly Elsie Maud Pycroft

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWHN-Q7N?lang=en

not seeing a marriage to Craddock, but she had a brother William Craddock Pycroft
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPTY-4VG?lang=en

 :-\
Oh my goodness, that's so interesting! No, she definitely didn't marry a Craddock, just used the name to go out to Australia. Once she got there she called herself 'Mrs Gee', the real Mrs Gee being back in England!

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