Morning! It's raining outside and I'll try to go back and answer each individual posting here, starting with the first. May take some time, as I have to check on everything.
On top of that, as Lodger said at the start "or, as some people tend to do here, do research for you that you are capeable of doing by yourself." I have done a lot of personal searching and some information coming through has now been duplicated. This refers mainly to newspaper reports in New Zealand (1906 - 1909) and Australia from 1911 to the present day. The New Zealand government first gave me these leads and the only extra information I now need about Gladstone pertains to possible voyages (uncle Adrian mentions stories from his mother to these, but didn't bother to listen at the time) to and from Europe for Gladstone after 1911 and also to his arrival in New Zealand in 1906 for the "Exhibition" starting in November.
Just as extra information, Gladstone is mentioned as having joined the Australian Army in 1941 (age 62), serving on the east coast and later somewhere near Darwin on the north coast. They threw him out at age 65, only for him to find that his wife had been cheating on him with somebody from the Red Cross. On a "never-give-up" baisis, this gave him the welcome opportunity to start an affair with later wife no. 3, Joan - Adrian being born when he was 73! My father was so disgusted he didn't speak for 3 days, though my mother found the situation "very amusing", which angered my father even further. My father died shortly before meeting Adrian, probably for the best, considering that out-of-work, long-haired hippies playing guitars in the shade of coolabah trees was not one of his ideals!
Lionel
