Captain Adrian H Gardner Beruit 1943

[alan o]

It seems that there was a Gardner-Pothecary daughter, born Q3 1942.

Thanks.

Alan

[AlanBoyd]

There is a marriage record for an Adrian H A Gardner in Q4 1978 in Canterbury.

[alan o]

Hopefully he had divorced wife #1 before that....

[ShaunJ]

Fragment of a biography from the Register of Tonbridge School. Will try to find the rest of it: 

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Register_of_Tonbridge_School_from_18/kAAsJtC2_e0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=adrian+harry+austin+gardner&dq=adrian+harry+austin+gardner&printsec=frontcover

[ShaunJ]

Captain, 1943

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Register_Fo_Tonbridge_School_from_19/wAM2AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22T+wall+%26+son+the+friary%22&dq=%22T+wall+%26+son+the+friary%22&printsec=frontcover

[alan o]

Many thanks.  I do wonder what he was court martialed for.  My assumption is he would have been shipped back to UK in early 1944 if not before.

[AlanBoyd]

Following on from the item linked in reply #13, there is indeed a death registered in Castle Douglas in 2002 for Adrian Harry Au[truncated] Gardner (seen at Scotland's People). Age 87, matching his 1914 dob.

I don't see anything in newspapers for this.

[alan o]

So he appears to have changed his name from Harry to Hunter and then become part of the Hunter clan. what a rogue!

Father South African, mother English and nothing Scottish about him except for a wartime commission in the Cameronians.

[ShaunJ]

I see that Scotland's People also have a note of the 1943 marriage to Audrey Wright, in a Catholic record at Aldershot, Saints Michael and Sebastian, 14 August 1943.