Managed to find out some more about Cedric and his siblings at the British Library. Cedric went to Wellington College and then to India in 1916 where he becomes an officer in the Gurhkas. He fights for two years in WWI in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) where he was wounded, then in two wars in Afghanistan in 1919 and 1930. He retires from the army and returns to England in 1934 to take up teaching. He marries in 1938 and has a daughter in 1939. With the outbreak of WWII he is recalled to his old regiment in India and then on to Egypt in 1940. He is sent back to India where he spends the rest of the war (as he is still highly thought of by his superiors) in a training capacity. After the war he returns to his family and resumes his second career as a teacher. He lived to the ripe old age of 89 passing away in 1986. What I find sad is that he appears to be both sensitive and brave and must have been full of fascinating stories, yet lived and died only 20 miles from me and no one in my family even knew of his existence before the start of this forum post......
