Captain Adrian H Gardner Beruit 1943

[alan o]

I am after Audrey Evelyn Wright b 1911 Exeter and d. 1991 Honiton.

She married Captain Adrian H Gardner in Beruit Syria (as it was then) on 14 Aug 1943. This is from a newspaper notice.

He disappeared and she never saw him after the war.

Any ideas on finding any more about him?

I am not sure what regiment he was in nor any dates.

[Milliepede]

I am after Audrey Evelyn Wright b 1911 Exeter and d. 1991 Honiton.

So is it Audrey or Adrian you are looking at?

Did they have any children together?

Have you looked at overseas deaths for him

[alan o]

Yes I am seeking out Adrian.  One son born Chard 1945 Christopher.

Adrian is not on any casualty list for WW2.  He did not meet his son and I can't find a UK death for him.

[Milliepede]

I see so they came back to this country and then he disappeared at the end of the war do you think or during it 

Thinking the disappearance need not be war related.

[alan o]

Yes you are right.  She came back to the UK to have the baby.  He did not come back with her nor joined her after the war.

if he was in Syria in 1943 then that sounds like a desk job as there was no fighting there.  I am struggling to identify his regiment.

[Milliepede]

I see so she came back by herself. 

I wonder how they met and if there is evidence on passenger lists of either or both travelling out of the UK?

[alan o]

They met in the Middle east during the war.  We know he was a Captain in the Army from the newspaper.  She working for the British Govt out there.  The get married in 1943 and she is pregnant by mid 1944 and has the boy in UK in early 1945.

[Milliepede]

There's an Adrian H born 1915, guess we don't know when or where your one was born, travelling to Liverpool in 1948 age 33 from Lagos but that one has a wife Ella M 30 and is a trader.

[alan o]

There is a possibility that the reason he never saw his son was because he was already married and his 1943 marraige was bigamous.