The GANDER (& GANDAR)

The GANDER (& GANDAR)

One-Name Study

One-Name Study

 

Timeline

1642-1700

1642 First Civil War in England (to 1649)
1649 King Charles I executed
1649-1660 Commonwealth Period - Oliver Cromwell
1651-1652 The second English Civil War
1660 Restoration Period
- Commonwealth registers ended, Parish Registers resumed
1663 Earliest Roman Catholic registers
1665 Great Plague of London
1666 Great Fire of London
- Act of Parliament - burials to be in woollen
1668 British East India Company obtains control of Bombay
1684 Huguenot registers begin in London
1685 Monmouth rebellion and battle of Sedgemoor
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes - drove thousands of Protestants (Huguenots) from France
1688 Nov: James II abdicates - William of Orange lands at Torbay on 5 Nov - William III and Mary II, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne
1689 Deposed James II flees to Ireland - defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1 Jul 1690)
1696 Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
1698 Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
1700 population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million

1701-1750

1702 Anne Stuart becomes Queen
1707 Union with Scotland
1708 First Jacobite rising in Scotland
1710 Tax on Apprentice Indentures
1712 Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
1714 Queen Anne Stuart dies - George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727)
1715 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender
1719 Third abortive Jacobite rising
1721 Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
1723 The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
1727 George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
1729 Methodists begin at Oxford
1730 Irish famine
1732 Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls
1733 Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
1738 Earliest Calvinistic Methodist registers
1739 Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
1741 Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian registers
1743 Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle
1745 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland ('The Forty-five')
1746 Battle of Culloden - last battle fought in Britain
1748-1756 Countess of Huntington's (Calvinistic) Methodist Connexion founded

1751-1800

1751 decision to adopt Gregorian Calendar in 1752: so 1752 started on 1 January and 1751 was a short year.
1752 - 3 Sep: Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England and Scotland, making this 14 Sep
1753 Earliest Inghamite registers
1754 Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt
- First printed Annual Army Lists
1755 Publication of Dictionary of the English Language by Dr Samuel Johnson
1756 The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
1760 George II dies - George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king
- Beginning of intense Inclosure Acts in England
1762 Earliest Unitarian registers
1764 Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
- Practice of numbering houses introduced to London
1765 Stamp Act passed - imposed a tax on publications and legal documents in the American colonies
1769 Capt James Cook maps the coast of New Zealand
1770 Capt James Cook lands in Australia (Botany Bay) formally claims Australia for Britain
1772 First Navy Lists published
1775 Battle of Lexington: first action in American War of Independence (1775-1783)
1776 American Declaration of Independence
- Somerset House in London becomes the repository of records of population
1780 The Gordon Riots
- Earliest Wesleyan registers
1781 Lord Cornwallis's army surrenders to George Washington; ends the American War of Independence
1783 Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794) - led to a fall in entries
1788 First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales - the 'First Fleet'
1789 14 Jul: The French Revolution begins - storming of the Bastille
1791 Establishment of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
1793 England declares war on France (1793-1802)
- Execution of Louis XVI - Reign of Terror starts in France
1795 Speenhamland Act proclaims that the Parish is responsible for bringing up the labourer's wage to subsistence level
1798 The Irish Rebellion; 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die - Irish Parliament abolished
- Battle of the Nile (won by Nelson)
1799 'Combination Laws' in Britain against political associations and combinations
1800 Parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland
- Earliest Bible Christian registers

1801-1850

1801 First census puts the population of England and Wales at 9,168,000 - population of Britain nearly 11 million (75% rural)
1802 Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands
1803 Peace of Amiens ends on 12 May - resumption of war with France - The Napoleonic Wars (1803-18l5)
1805 - 21 Oct: Nelson's victory at Trafalgar
1806 Earliest Primitive Methodist registers
1807 Parliament passes Act prohibiting slavery and the importation of slaves from 1808 - but does not prohibit colonial slavery
1808 Peninsular War (1808-1814)
- Beginning of 'Luddite' troubles in England
1810 Bible Christians denomination formed by schism in Wesleyan Methodists
1811 Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane
1812 Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, assassinated
- Napoleon retreats from Moscow
1813 Rose's Act (1812) established a printed format for baptism & burial registers
1814 Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
1815 - 1 Mar: Napoleon escapes Elba; arrives in France
- 18 Jun: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
1819 Peterloo Massacre at Manchester
1820 Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena
- Populations: France 30.4M, German States 26M, Britain 20.8M, Italian States 18M, Austria 12M, the USA 9.6M
1824 Pitt's Combination Acts repealed (Trades Unions allowed)
1829 Earliest Irvingite registers
1830 George IV dies - his brother, William IV, accedes to the throne
- Agricultural 'Swing' Riots in southern England, repressed with many transportations
1833 Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9
1834 Slavery abolished in British possessions
- Poor Law amendment, tightening up relief
- Tolpuddle Martyrs transported (to Australia) for Trades Union activities
1835 Earliest Universalist registers
1836 First Potato famine in Ireland
1837 William IV dies - accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)
- 1 Jul: Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales - Registration Districts were formed
1840 Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849)
1841 6 Jun: First full census in Britain in which all names were recorded
- Population: Britain 18.5M, USA 17M, Ireland 8M
1842 Civil Registration in Channel Islands started
- Illustrated London News published
1844 Outdoor Relief Prohibition Order - parish relief received only in a workhouse
1848 General revolutionary movement throughout the Continent ('Year of Revolution')
- Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto

1851-1900

1851 - 30 Mar: Second full British Census
1852 Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement
1854 Allied armies land in Crimea
1855 Registration of births, marriages & deaths made compulsory in Scotland
1856 End of Crimean War
1857 London postal districts introduced
1857-8 Indian Mutiny
1858 Proving of Wills taken out of ecclesiastical jurisdiction
1861 American Civil War begins
- 7 Apr: Third full British Census
- Prince Albert dies
- Populations: Russia 76M, USA 32M, Italy 25M, Britain 23M
1864 Civil Registration in Ireland starts
- Civil Registration of marriages in Isle of Man starts
1865 End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
1867 Dominion of Canada founded
1868 Last British election for which Poll Books available
- Last convicts landed in (Western) Australia
1871 - 2 Apr: Fourth full British census
- Trades Unions legalised in Britain, but picketing made illegal
- Commissions in British armed forces no longer to be purchased
1872 Secret Ballot introduced in Britain (no further Poll Books produced)
- Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng. & Wales)
1874 Disraeli and the Tories come to power in Britain - pass 11 major Acts of social reform in next 2 years
- First Trades Union MP is elected
- Factory Act introduces 56-hour week
1876 Victoria proclaimed Empress of India
1879 Zulu war
1880 Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK
1881 - 3 Apr: Fifth full British Census
- First Boer War - Transvaal independence recognised
- Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy
1883 Married Women's Property Act of 1882 becomes law
1887 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
1891 5 Apr: Sixth full British Census
1893 Keir Hardy founds Independent Labour Party
1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1899-1902 Second Boer War
1900 Relief of Ladysmith
- Relief of Mafeking

1901-1960

1901 Commonwealth of Australia founded
- Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king
- 31 Mar: Seventh full British Census
1902 Second Boer War ends
1906 Labour Party formed
1907 New Zealand becomes a Dominion
1909 Old Age Pensions Act came into force
1910 Union of South Africa formed - Botha first Prime Minister
- Edward VII dies - George V king
1911 - 2 Apr Census: Pop. Eng.&Wales 36M, Scot. 4.6M, North.Ire. 1.25M
1912 The Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives
- Captain Scott's last expedition - he and his team die on way back from the south pole
1913 Suffragette demonstrations in London
1914 -1918 First World War (The Great War)
1914 - 28 Jun: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
- 4 Aug: Britain declares war on Germany
- Oct-Nov: Battle of Ypres - beginning of trench warfare on western front
- First Zeppelin air raid on England
1915 - Apr-May: Second Battle of Ypres - poison gas used for first time
- 25 Apr: Gallipoli campaign starts
- 7 May: RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland - 1,198 died
- Coalition Government formed in Britain under Asquith
1916 - Feb-Dec: Battle of Verdun - appalling losses on both sides
- 24 Apr: Easter Rising in Ireland
- 31 May-1 Jun: Battle of Jutland - only major naval battle between the British and German fleets
- 1 Jul: Battle of the Somme starts - first use of tanks by Britain
- Compulsory military service introduced in Britain
1917 - February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates
- USA declares war on Germany
- 16 Apr: Lenin returns to Russia after exile
- Jul-Nov: Battle of Passchendaele
- October Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
1918 - Jul-Aug: Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive
- 11 Nov: Armistice signed
- War of Independence in Ireland
- World-wide 'flu epidemic
1919 Treaty of Versailles
1920 First meeting of the League of Nations
1921 - 19 Jun: Census: Pop. Eng. & Wales 37.9M, Scot. 4.9M, North. Ire. 1.25M
- Irish Free State and Northern Ireland formed
1922 Fall of Lloyd-George coalition
- Law of Property Act - the manorial system effectively ended
1923 Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
- Canberra made Federal Capital of Australia
1924 First Labour government, headed by Ramsay MacDonald
- Death of Lenin; succeeded by Stalin
1925 Adolf Hitler writes Mein Kampf
1926 - 26 Apr: General Strike begins, till 12 May (mine workers for 6 months more)
- Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
1928 Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes
1929 Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain
- Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl) now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21
1930 First Nazis elected to the German Reichstag
- R101 airship disaster - British abandons airship construction
1931 - 26 Apr Census: Pop. Eng.&Wales 40M, Scot. 4.8M, North.Ire. 1.24M (but details destroyed by fire during WW2)
- Statute of Westminster: British Dominions become independent sovereign states
1933 Hitler becomes German Chancellor
1934 Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
- Mao Tse-tung's 'Long March' starts in China
1935 Italy invades Abyssinia
1936 - 20 Jan: George V dies; Edward VIII king
- 18 Jul: Spanish Civil War starts
- 5 Dec: Edward VIII abdicates Duke of York becomes George VI
1937 Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister in Britain
- German planes bomb Guernica in Spain
- Japanese forces invade China
1938 Germany invades and annexes Austria
- Chamberlain visits Hitler in Munich - promises 'peace in our time'
1939 Germany annexes Czechoslovakia
- 1 Sep: Germany invades Poland
- 3 Sep: Britain and France declare war on Germany at 5pm
- 6 Sep: First air-raid on Britain
- 11 Sep: British Expeditionary Force sent to France
- 14 Oct: HMS Royal Oak sunk in Scapa Flow with loss of 810 lives
1940 - 11 May: National Government formed under Churchill
- 24 May: Germany invades France
- 27 May-4 Jun: Evacuation of British Army at Dunkirk
- 25 Jun: Fall of France
- 7 Sep: Germany launches bombing blitz on Britain
- 15 Sep: Battle of Britain in the air ends with British victory
- Trotsky assassinated on Stalin's orders
1941 No census - total British population estimated at 48.2M
- 22 June: Germany invades Russia
- 7 Dec: Japan attacks US fleet at Pearl Harbour
- Britain introduces severe rationing
1942 - 30 May: Over 1,000 bombers raid Cologne
- 4 Jun: Battle of Midway
- 19 Aug: Abortive raid on Dieppe, largely by Canadian troops
- 6 Sep: Germans defeated at Stalingrad
- 23 Oct-4 Nov: Battle of El Alamein - Montgomery defeats Rommel
1943 - May: 'Dam Buster' raids on Ruhr dams by RAF
- 24 Jul: Allies invade Italy - Benito Mussolini resigns as Italian Dictator
1944 - 4 Jun: Allies enter Rome
- 6 Jun: D-Day invasion of Normandy
-12 Jun: First V1 flying bombs hit London
- 8 Sep: First V2 rocket bombs hit London
- 11 Sep: Allies enter Germany
- 16 Dec: Battle of the Bulge: German counter-offensive
1945 Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
- 25 Apr: Berlin surrounded by Russian troops
- 30 Apr: Hitler commits suicide
- 8 May: Victory in Europe Day
- 6 Aug: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- 9 Aug: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- 15 Aug: Victory in Japan Day
- 2 Sep: Japanese surrender
1946 First session of new United Nations Organisation
1947 India gains independence: sub-continent partitioned to form India and Pakistan
1948 Gandhi assassinated
- Apartheid starts in South Africa
- Berlin airlift starts
- National Health Service begins in Britain
1949 Russians lift the Berlin blockade
- 1950 Points rationing ends in Britain
- Petrol rationing ends in Britain
- Korean War starts (to 27 Jul 1953)
- Soap rationing ends in Britain
1951 Census: Pop. Eng.& Wales 43.7M, Scot. 5M. North.Ire. 1.37M
1952 George VI dies
- End of tea rationing in Britain
1953 Sweet rationing ends in Britain
- Everest conquered by Hillary and Tensing
- Coronation of Elizabeth II
- Sugar rationing ends in Britain (after nearly 14 years)
- Death of Stalin: Malenkov becomes Premier of USSR
- End of the Korean War
1954 Food rationing officially ends in Britain
1956 Britain and France invade Suez
1957 Sputnik I launched by Soviet Union - first artificial satellite
1959 Postcodes introduced in Britain
1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa

Casualties listed with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

GANDER & GANDAR

Belgium

Ploegsteert Memorial:

GANDER, Private, Frederick Charles, 69536. 23rd Northumberland Fusiliers. 9th April 1918. Age 18. Son of Mr. E. and Mrs. E. GANDER, of 3, Weybridge St., Culvert Rd., Battersea, London.

Tyne Cot Memorial:

GANDER, Private, Frank, G/39870. 1st Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.). 24th September 1917.

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial:

GANDER, Private, Ernest, G/13805. 13th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment. 31st July 1917. Age 19. Son of Edwin Alfred and Annie GANDER, of 4, Hillside Cottages, White Hill Rd., Crowborough, Sussex.

GANDER, Private, John Thomas, 1755. 'A' Sqdn. I1th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars. 1st November 1914. Age 26. Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. GANDER, of 31, Wilton Rd., Ilford, Essex.

Egypt

Alamein Memorial:

GANDER, Private, Leonard Arthur, 6097138. 2nd Bn. The Queen's Royal Regt (West Surrey). 21st November 1941. Age 24. Son of Charles and Elizabeth GANDER; husband of Daisy Florence GANDER, of Portslade, Sussex. Column 54.

France

Thiepval Memorial:

GANDAR, Rifleman, William Gustave, 471246. 1st/12th Bn. London Regt (The Rangers). 1st July 1916.

Arras Memorial:

GANDER. Private, Albert Nelson, 55954. 18th Bn. Welch Regiment. 24th March 1918. Age 28. Son of Albert Nelson GANDER and Ruth Jane GANDER, of 18, Commercial Rd., Eastbourne.

GANDER, Private, John, 50671. 12th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment. 3rd May 1917.

GANDAR-DOWER, 2nd Lt. Leonard Francis. 2nd Bn. Hon. Artillery Company. 3rd May 1917.

Cambrai Memorial, Louverval:

GANDER, Private, Charles, 25707. 13th Bn. East Surrey Regiment. 26th November 1917. Age 20. Son of James and Annie GANDER, of 3, Wickham Terrace, Hurst Wickham, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex.

Cambrin Churchyard Extension:

GANDER, Private, Percy Albert, TF/1928. "D" Coy. 1st/5th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed accidentally 31st May 1915. Age 19. Son of Edwin Alfed and Annie GANDER, of 4, Hillside Cottage, White Hill Rd., Crowborough, Sussex. D.35.

Etaples Military Cemetery:

GANDER, Second Lieutenant, Leslie Stephen, 1st/4th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders. Died of wounds 5th June 1918. Age 24. Son of Philip and Jane Ada GANDER, of Uckfield, Sussex. XXVIII. N.II.

Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery:

GANDER, Serjeant, R. W., 201175. 3rd/4th Bn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). 30th December 1917. Age 23. Son of Alfred William and Martha Maria GANDER, of 8, Thomas St., Tunbridge Wells. VIII. E.2.

Le Cateau Military Cemetery:

GANDER, Private, F. A., 541199. 2nd/6th Bn. Manchester Regiment. 27th March 1918. V.B.5.

Le Touret Memorial:

GANDER, Private, Charles Edward, TF/2804. lst/5th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment. 9th May 1915.

Meteren Military Cemetery:

GANDER, Private, J. V., 5032. 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). 14th January 1915. 11. N.350.

Pozieres British Cemetery:

GANDER, Private, John Henry, 820. 22nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Killed in action 27th July 1916. III. H.28.

St. Hilaire Cemetery Extension:

GANDER, Private, T., SD/2092, 7th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment. 6th April 1918. B.11.

Ste. Marie Cemetery:

GANDER, Sapper, John Henry, 235589. Inland Water Transport, Royal Engineers. Died of accidental injuries 28th May 1917. Age 17. Son of Richard John and Emma GANDER, of 180, Church Rd., Hove, Sussex. Div. 62. I.D.3.

Villers Bretonneux Memorial:

GANDER, Private, George Robert, 6795. 52nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I:.F. 5th April 1918. Age 23. Son of William John and Jane GANDER, of Neil St., Toowoomba, Queensland.

Vis-en-artois Memorial, Haucourt:

GANDER, Private, Albert Edward, G/68525. 7th Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.). 8th August 1918.

Germany

Kiel War Cemetery:

GANDER, Sgt. W.Op./Air Gnr., Owen Sandford, 552107. 83 Sqdn. Royal Air Force. 2nd July 1940. Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. GANDER, of South Kensington, London. Coll. grave 3.A. 13-16.

India

Madras 1914-1918 War Memorial:

GANDER, Bombardier, Jesse, 23501. 60th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. 28th December 1915. Age 28. Son of Albert and Annie GANDER, of Jesamine Cottage, Brook St., Cuckfield, Sussex. Face 5. Buried in Roorkee Cemetery.

Indonesia

Ambon War Cemetery:

GANDER, Sapper, Harold David, QX10747. A.I.F. 2/11 Field Coy., Royal Australian Engineers. 18th July 1944. Age 25. Son of Sydney James GANDER and Lilian Lucy GANDER, of Cowplain, Portsmouth, England. 24. C.14.

Israel

Ramleh War Cemetery:

GANDER, Captain A.S.C., (A.Obs. Post Pilot), D F C, 190850. Royal Artillery, attached to 651 A.O.P. Sqdn. Royal Air Force. 4th September 1946. Age 29. Son of Archer and Henrietta GANDER; husband of Gladys May GANDER, of Hook, Surbiton, Surrey. 7. I. 7.

Italy

Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio:

GANDER, Sapper, Frederick Arthur, 14516959. 252 Field Coy., Royal Engineers. 24th April 1944. Age 37. Son of Henry George and Clara GANDER; husband of Beatrice May GANDER, of Worthing, Sussex. I.H.1.

Libya

Knightsbridge War Cemetery:

GANDER, Private, Percy, 6097139. 2nd Bn, The Queen's Royal Regt (West Surrey). 29th November 1941. Age 26. Son of Horace and Helen GANDER; husband of Ann GANDER, of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. 8. G.22.

Papua New Guinea

Lae War Cemetery:

GANDER, Private, Horace Arthur, NX50592. A.I.F. 2/33 Bn. Australian Infantry. 11th October 1943. Age 35. Son of Albert John and Lucy Anne GANDER, of Randwick, New South Wales. IA. D.8.

South Africa

Durban (Stellawood) Cemetery:

GANDER, Staff Quartermaster Serjeant (WO.II), Alfred John, 547021. The Cheshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps. 16th September 1941. Age 42. European Sec. Block F. Grave 211.

Turkey

Helles Memorial:

GANDER, Driver, Charles, 2090. 1st/3rd (Kent) Field Coy. Royal Engineers. 28th October 1915.

United Kingdom

Brighton (Lewes and Bear Road) Borough Cemetery:

GANDER. Private. Joseph, 7386. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). 24th February 1919. Age 29. Husband of Annie Norah Margaret GANDER, of 29, Clifton St., Brighton. ZIE.56.

Chatham Memorial:

GANDAR, Petty Officer, Bertram James, 196244. H.M.S. HAWKE. Royal Navy. Killed in action with submarine in North Sea 15th October 1914. Age 34. Son of G.T. and C. GANDAR, of 53, St John's Hill Grove, Clapham Junction, London, husband of Ethel Ellen Gandar, of 187, St. John's Hill, Clapham Junction, London.

GANDER, Able Seaman, George Arthur, 191637. (RFR/GH/B/8057). R.N. H.M,S. 'Foyle'. Royal Navy. Killed by mine explosion in Straits of Dover 15th March 1917. 21.

GANDER, Able Seaman, Reginald John, J/1747. H.M.S. 'Vanguard'. Royal Navy. Killed by internal explosion of vessel at Scapa Flow 9th July 1917. 21.

Hurstpierpoint New Cemetery:

GANDER, Sergeant, Noel Thomas, 1250546. 78 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 14th March 1942. Age 21. Son of Thomas and Rowena GANDER, of Hurstpierpoint. Plot G. Grave 66.

Portsmouth Naval Memorial:

GANDER, Leading Stoker, James, 307215. 'H.M.S. Hampshire', Royal. Navy. Killed.'by mine explosion, off Orkneys 5th June 1916. Age 32. Son of Charles and Eliza GANDER, of 55 Hanover Terrace, Brighton. 16.

GANDER, Leading Stoker, Charles Ernest, P/KX 102401. H.M S Royal Navy. 29th November 1940. Age 39. Son of Henry and Alice GANDER, of Brighton, Sussex; husband of Annie Alice GANDER, of Brighton, Sussex. Panel 41, Column 3.

GANDER, Leading Steward, Ronald Victor, P/LX 20037. H.M,S. Javelin Royal Navy. 29th November 1940. Age 34. Husband of Lilian Beatrice GANDER. Panel 43, Column 2.

GANDER, Able Seaman, William Clement, P/JX 261573. H.M.S. President III (lost in S.S. Stonepool) Royal Navy. 11th September 1941. Age 27. Son of David and Rosemary Annie GANDER, of Battle, Sussex; husband of Lillian Mary GANDER, of Battle, Sussex. Panel 48, Column L.

Runnymede Memorial:

GANDER, Sergeant, Alfred, 1320955. 161 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 2nd October 1942. Age 20. Son of Amos and Margret(sic) GANDER, of Brighton, Sussex. Panel 83.

GANDER, Sergeant, Arthur Frederick, R/169746. 427 Sqdn. Royal Canadian Air Force. 19th November 1943. Age 20. Son of Arthur E. and Gladys GANDER, of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Panel 186.

GANDER, Sergeant, Frank William, 1418028. 53 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 5th February 1944. Age 20. Son of Sydney James GANDER and Lilian Lucy GANDER, of Cowplain, Hampshire. Panel 229.

GANDER, Sergeant, Peter Edwin, 648878. 229 Sqdn. Royal Air Force. 24th December 1943. Age 22. Son of Joseph and Anne Lucy GANDER, of Partridge Green, Sussex. Panel 150.

Rusper (St. Mary Magdalene) Churchyard:

GANDER, Corporal, William Roy, 2358931. Royal Corps of Signals, 8th June 1945.

St. Gerrans Churchyard:

GANDER, Ordinary Seaman, Jonathan Charles, D/JX 192102. H.M.S. FORTE Royal Navy. 16th December 1940. Age 34. Son of William Charles and Mary Ann GANDER, husband of Dorothy Lilian GANDER, of Reading, Berkshire.

Civilian War Dead

County Borough of Brighton:

GANDER, Civilian, Albert, Civilian War Dead. 9th April 1941. Age 62. of 14 George Street Gardens. Son of the late Frederick GANDER, of 8 Windsor Street, at 14 George Street Gardens.

Metropolitan Borough of Deptford:

GANDER, Civilian, Charles Richard, Civilian War Dead. 25th June 1944. Age 63. Husband of Henrietta Louise GANDER, of 35 Gosterwood Street, at 35 Gosterwood Street.