Ron's Uncle Tom (Gerald Lankshear)
I always knew him as Uncle Tom but in fact his name was Gerald as
was his son also known as Gaffer as I heard on grapevine from him.
But why Tom? was it as his father was a Thomas. I just don't... I never
knew he was really Gerald else I would have asked.
Click for his birth
1892 Gerald Lankshear Birth
re mother being Caroline please see
Thomas Sylvester
Lankshear Family His mother was Elizabeth Sarah Skeggs, my Nan a
lovely lady
1912 a short service in Army Ordnance Corps
eventually RAOC
20 Nov 1915 Marriage Place
St Paul, Canonbury, Islington, England
Father Thomas Lankshear
Spouse Grace Elizabeth Wilm
His son Gerald GAFFER Lankshear historical
family photos
1946 Lettercard from Broadstairs
Sent to my family by my Uncle Tom (Gerald Lankshear) on 5 June 1946
This was a pictorial lettercard - you wrote on one side and "postcards" on the other. It looks like printed after the war as paper is sort of austere. The photos look early in the century.
Love the postmark "Don't waste Bread others need it" - I wonder what waste they were thinking of?
Each column is in 2 parts - click part to see the larger copy
Uncle Tom and Aunt Grace with me and my parents at Chiswick House in 1938
1962
memorial card for Aunt Grace
Dad and uncle Tom in 1966. Dad's classic Royal Marine belt. It was so wide it
had pockets and he usually had a pair of scissors in them. He also wore braces
sometimes called suspenders. Must have been hot that day so left them off.
They are at Sheerness Naval Dockyard. The figureheads have been moved to Chatham
I think.
Mum and Dad had a caravan on Isle of Sheppey.
