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Re: Miss E Pycroft/Craddock
« Reply #18 on: Monday 04 August 25 17:54 BST (UK) »
He was returning to England for the VC Centenary Review, hosted by the Queen, and I have photographs -- so he definitely came back in 1956, it was national news!
I will say I haven't checked which ship he came on, even though one photograph shows him on board ship ...
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« Reply #19 on: Monday 04 August 25 18:11 BST (UK) »
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« Reply #20 on: Monday 04 August 25 18:16 BST (UK) »
Quote from: CaroleW on Monday 04 August 25 18:11 BST (UK)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gee

Yes, his wartime career is insane, both for the amount of trauma and injury he suffered, and for his astonishing bravery. A complicated man.
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« Reply #21 on: Monday 04 August 25 18:21 BST (UK) »
Died 1960 Australia & cremated there which explains Elsie's death there in 1976.  the Wiki  article mentions that when he resigned as an MP in 1927 he had been in Australia for a year
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« Reply #22 on: Monday 04 August 25 18:25 BST (UK) »
Of course you're right, Carole -- just double checked what I noted down some years ago, and had misremembered. He died in Australia and asked his daughter in England to donate his medals to the Royal Fusiliers Museum.
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« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 05:01 BST (UK) »
Of interest if you've not seen it.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx

The two travelled to Australia per Ormonde and had embarked at Toulon, South of France.
Capt Gee is listed as a Member of Parliament.

In the column 'Country of intended permanent residence, Mrs Craddock states England.
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« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 06:34 BST (UK) »
I am not sure if you needed information about their daughter Ruth (deceased).

Happy to post if required.

Sue

EDIT
To add.
Elsie used the first name Joan in Western Australia
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« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 07:38 BST (UK) »
Hi Sue, thank you so much for your contributions. I knew about their journey out to Australia but not that they had a daughter.
If anyone would like to explore the extraordinary wartime career of Captain Robert Gee VC further then my source is A Tiger and A Fusilier, by Derek Seaton, privately published in Leicester in 2001. Rather surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be another biography. It's evident that Seaton had the help of Gee's relatives.
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« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 05 August 25 07:46 BST (UK) »
The daughter died in 2021.
I wonder whether she made a contribution to the information in the Seaton book.
Sue

A picture of him in his summer suit ;D
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59540997

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