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Essex / Re: 1953 Essex floods: Stanley Gray age 47 MOD war department 'officer'
« on: Sunday 21 April 24 19:38 BST (UK)  »
Hi, thank you to all for your help! I have managed to reply to Keith via the email address he kindly provided over private message. Apologies for the slow response.

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Essex / Re: 1953 Essex floods: Stanley Gray age 47 MOD war department 'officer'
« on: Friday 09 February 24 12:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hello I hope this chat is still active.
Stanley Gray was my great grandfather. There is extracts about him in the book “the 1953 Essex Floof Disaster” by Patricia rennoldson smith. Page 83.
He was a war dept constable. He was alone at 11:50pm when he telephoned headquarters from havengore bridge, sergeant gray decided he would go and warn the stockman at havengore farm. He then went to Taylor’s hut to report back to headquarters but that was the last anyone heard from him. People saw him on the roof of Taylor’s hut when the flood water had gotten higher. The Southend pilot saw him there too. He survived there overnight. It was reported in the morning he tried to wade back to foulness. Sadly he drowned. His body was found two months later. He was only 47. I have spent many years trying to find why there are no memorials for him and why he was never commemorated for his heroic acts that night. My name is Leah Digby and I am his great granddaughter.

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