The GANDER (& GANDAR)
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1698 Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years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

British Military Records

Soldiers Discharged to Pension/Reserve: 1913-1920 (continued) - GANDER and GANDAR

« Military (& Naval) Index«

WO364/4914 (/5220?)
Frederick GANDER: 5588 (?3388) 3/3 Battalion London Regiment, later 252565 3rd London Regiment Private. 70 Sutton Street, Cable Street, Stepney. Enlisted on 7 Feb 1915 aged 25 years 10 months; (also an address given: '19 Wellesley Street, Stepney E.'). Trade: Carpenter, Single; height 5 feet 4.5 inches, 116lbs and 34 inches chest. Teeth 'decayed and defective'. Birthplace: St.Georges, Mdx. NOK: Emily GANDER Mother: 70 Sutton Street, St.Georges. Posted 14 Feb 1917. Invaliding debility: GSW (Gun Shot Wound?) 16 (or 13?) May 1917 'Bullecourt, France' - wounded on left elbow joint 'prevents extension beyond 95 degrees, soundly healed'. Discharged 31 Aug 1917 'no longer physically fit'; 'Good character'. Age on Discharge: '27 years 0 months'. 'Fresh complexion, grey eyes, dark hair'. Address on discharge: '90 Sutton Street, Commercial Road, London E.' Lived 18 Perth Street, Stepney on 15 Nov 1918.

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Frederick Allan GANDER: 17139 Guardsman (Private) 1st Coldstream Gds. Enlisted 2 Nov 1915 aged 35 years 9days. Single. Former Trade: Bricklayer. Born Woodmancote, Ssx. NOK: father, Harry GANDER. Previous employer: Frank DIKE, Builders Court, Steyning, Ssx. Noted spent 2 years in France. Transferred to Reserve 8 Feb 1919, Pension rejected. Intended Place of Residence: Charlton Cottage, Steyning, Ssx. Admitted hospital 31 Aug 1918 and Discharged Hospital 9 Nov 1918 with Synoritis - right knee.

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Frend GANDER: 428699 Sapper 426 Reserve Field Company. Royal Engineers. Enlisted 27 Nov 1915 aged 34 years 3 months. 5 feet 6 inches, Church of England. Married: Eliza BAILEY, spinster 28.(?7) 1904. Child: Leslie Frend GANDER born 8 Aug 1905 Battle. Former Trade: Bricklayer and Postman. Born 24 Aug 1881. Age on Commencement of Pension: 35. Intended Place of Residence: 44 Camperdown Street, Sidley, Bexhill. Discharged 20 Apr 1917 'no longer physically fit' (Seemed to have suffered from bronchitis all his life and whilst in the Army).

WO364/5220
George GANDER: Private Labour Corps Regiment No. 357753, Unit 802 Area Emp. Company. (Originally down as No.50127 Gunner in Royal Garrison Artillery - but then deleted). Enlisted London 3 Nov 1914 for duration of the war. (Former Regiment : 3rd East Surrey Regiment (L159554), discharged 1892 (by purchasing discharge). Examined 3 Nov 1914 and gave age as '37 years 300 days'; born Bermondsey. A Carman (also a 'Carman Labourer'); Last employer before 1914: John MATHEWS, New Kent Road, London SE. 5 feet 7.5 inches height, 182 lbs, 43 inches chest. Address: 2a Chatham Street, Rodney Road, Walworth. NOK: 'Guardian of children - Mrs Blackman, 2a Chatham Street, Walworth SE'. Embarked at Avonmouth to join MEF 19 Jul 1915; disembarked Alexandria 3 Jul 1915. Served Egypt 3 years 9 months as Gunner and Driver. Claimed disability of Rheumatism in feet and gout in Jany.1917 due to 'sleeping out in the wet'. Treated at 21st General Hospital, Alexandria - 'admitted to a touch in 1904'. 'Assessed as having less than a 20% disability' - osteoarthritis. Embarked Port Said for UK 9 Mar 1919. On discharge (NB:) 'Aged 51'! (ie born c.1868).

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G. GANDER: 50127 Gunner RGA - transferred to Labour Corps 802 ASC 27 Sep 1917. (This is same man as above).

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George Richard GANDER: 8379 Private Army Cyclist Corps. Enlisted 26 Jul 1915. Born Hurstpierpoint, Ssx (said he was 19 years and 5 months old). NOK: father Henry GANDER. Beaconsfield Cottage, Western Road, Hurstpierpoint, Ssx. 5 feet 8 inches Church of England. fresh complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair. Labourer. Discharged 30 Dec 1915 aged 16 years 5 months. Served only 159 days. Discharged due to 'having made a misstatement as to age on enlistment'.
[NOT on 'Medals Roll'].

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Harry GANDER: 8770 (?Rank) Northumberland Fusiliers on Discharge (but previously in 3rd Royal Sussex Regiment and 3rd Battalion Border Regiment ). On Enlistment aged 18 years 4 months on 16 Jun 1905. Born 16 Feb 1887 St.Lukes, Brighton, Ssx, Labourer, 5 feet 6.75 inches, 119lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, Church of England. Did 1 year 78 days in Northumberland Fusiliers (Previously in 3rd Royal Sussex Regiment ) 8 years 99 days in The Border Regiment [Noted on discharge from 3rd Border Regiment date given as 22 Jun 1905(? - date needs checking). [Noted went absent a lot!] NOK: father: Henry GANDER, 8 Franklin Street, Brighton, older brother: Alfred, younger brothers: William, Fred, Charles. Married Alice Kathleen RICHARDSON 24 Oct 1905, Brighton but NB: file notes 'Man married in name of RICHARDSON' (!). Discharged as permanently unfit 16 Oct 1914 with acute appendicitis.

[NOT on 'Medals Roll' under 'Harry GANDER'. Am unable to trace this man's birth registration (as 'Harry' or 'Henry' GANDER) nor his marriage under 'GANDER' - DG]

WO364/5220
Harry GANDER: Private 22881 East Surrey Regiment Born: Hove,Ssx. Services reckoned from 19 Nov 1915; Age on enlistment: 32 years 4 months. 5 feet 5.5 inches. C of E. Trade before Nov 1915: Clerk and Traveller; last worked for J.Evershed and Son, 81 and 83 Eastern Road, Brighton. Home Address given as: 189 Queens (Queens Park?) Road, Brighton. Served Salonika for 25 months as an Infantryman, had rheumatism; in 4 Oct 1918 'seriously ill' and invalided to UK with malaria Dec 1918. Demobilised 19 Feb 1919. [Further record at the PRO under PIN26/6466 duplicating much of above though marriage date of 14 Sep 1907 and a daughter named: Jean Florence GANDER.]

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Herbert GANDER: 11724 Private 6th (Service) Battalion Wiltshire Regiment Enlisted 7 Sep 1914 - gave age as '19 years days'. 5 feet 6.75 inches, sallow complexion, blue eyes, dark brown hair. Former trade: Hairdresser. Born Poplar, London. NOK: father: Harry GANDER, Mother Mary GANDER, brother Fred. GANDER: all 89 Gough Street, Poplar. Father (Percy H. GANDER) wrote War Office on 29 Apr 1915 to say his son was under age on enlistment in Sep 1914 as 'only 16 years'. Discharged 2 Jun 1915 aged 17 years 2 months as 'under 17 years of age at date of application'. Good character, served 269 days.
[NOT on 'Medals Roll'].

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Herbert Henry GANDER: 2243 Private 3rd Royal Sussex Regiment. Enlisted 10 Aug 1914 Brighton aged 17 years 55 days. NOK: Mother, Jane GANDER, 11 Newport Road, Burgess Hill. 5 feet 6 inches, grey eyes, brown hair. Hotel Porter. Baptist. Reference from C.ROBSON, Royal Hotel, Brighton, 10 Aug 1914 - employed as Hotel Porter last 3 months 'honest, willing and obliging - he is a total abstainer'. Discharged 20 Jan 1915 aged 17 years 219 days, due to 'his not likely to become an efficient soldier'. (due to pulmonary tuberculosis - advanced). Had good character during his 164 days service. Intended place of residence: 11 Newport Road, Burgess Hill.
[NOT on 'Medals Roll'].

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John GANDER: 5530 Private 3rd Royal Sussex Regiment Enlisted Eastbourne 26 Mar 1915 aged 33 years 244 days. Previously served in Royal Field Artillery. 5 feet 6.75 inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair. Milkman. Married, NOK: wife, Edith Mary GANDER (nee HUTCHINSON), married 28 Apr 1906 (address then: Chapel Row, Herstmonceaux). Discharged 14 Jun 1915 at Newhaven aged 33 years 325 days. Intended place of residence: Chapel Row, Herstmonceaux, Ssx. 'Not likely to become an efficient soldier'. 'Good character during his 81 days service'. Discharge probably because of 'old fracture at right sacro-ilial joint. Walks in a stooping position and is clearly unfit. Not the result of military service'.
[NOT on 'Medals Roll'].

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N.E. GANDER: 144456 Gunner RGA transferring to Labour Corps 23 Nov 1917 .

[That was the entire entry! - believed to be Norman Ernest GANDER born Q1 1895?. Later Note: But 'Norman Ernest' is on Medal Rolls as being in RE and the Serial No.s don't match... ]

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Percy GANDER: M/297998 Private RASC 5 Company Hazeley Down. Age on Enlistment (?27 Nov 1915): 27 years 195 days. Steam Motor Driver (also listed on file as 'Steam Engine Driver' and 'Steam Tractor Driver'). Before Army employed by Balford the Brewers, Southover, Lewes. Married 3 Aug 1912 South Malling, Lewes; Wife: Mrs K.E. GANDER, 4 Green Lane, Lewes, Ssx. Children: Harold George GANDER born 15 Aug 1913. '1st joined'(?) 20 Feb 1917. Mobilized 26 Feb 1917. Served France Oct 1917 to Feb 1918. 'Weak chest following bronco-pneumonia'. Invalided to England 1 Mar 1919 with Influenza. Transferred to Reserve 15 Nov 1919. Age last birthday: 31. Rejected for Pension. Intended Place of Residence: 5 St.Pancras Terrace, Southover, Lewes, Ssx.

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Robin Daniel GANDER: 468248 Private 490 Company Labour Corps. First joined for duty 9th City of London 14 Nov 1914. Declared age: 17 years 0 days. Previous trade / employment: Engineer. Transferred to Queen Victoria Rifles. Served Belgium and France 5 May 1915-13 Nov 1916 as Rifleman. 'GSW (gunshot wound) Neck'. Transferred to Reserve: 30 Apr 1919. Age last birthday: 21. Intended Place of Residence: c/o Mrs Daniels, 12 Swanbank, Talke, Stoke-on-Trent.
[In 'Medal Rolls' is listed under 'Robert D.' as well as 'Robin D.' (?)]

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Thomas Joseph GANDER: 680152 Private Labour Corps 23 Company. Enlisted 6 Jun 1916. Single. Labourer. Born 1898 Barking, Ess. NOK: Mother, same address. Transferred to Reserve 8 Apr 1919. Rheumatism. Intended Place of Residence: 31 Wither Road, Ilford, Ess.
[NOT on 'Medals Roll'].

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Thomas Oliver GANDER: 1337 Lance Corporal. Discharged from Sussex Yeomanry 15 Nov 1915 at Minster, Sheppey, aged 38 years 159 days having signed on in 1910. Ruddy complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, height 5 feet 6 inches. Occupation: Farmer. 'Good Character'. Born: Pyecombe, Ssx. Intended address on Discharge: Dalton's Farm, Bolney, Near Haywards Heath. [NOT on 'Medals Roll'].

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Thomas William GANDER: No.3160 (changed to 211983 also 351034?) Corporal (A/Sergeant) 7th(City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment. Attested 16 Nov 1914 at 24 Sun Street, London EC. Apparent age (at 16 Nov 1914): 27 years 9 months. Height: 5 feet 11.5 inches. Home Address: Waltham Villa, 83 Inwood Road, Hounslow, Mdx. Wife: Lily Esther GANDER (nee POULTON, spinster), same address. Married 8 Apr 1912 at Holy Trinity Church, (?Honner Road), Witnesses: Harry POULTON and Thomas GANDER. No children. Served in France 17 Aug to 2 Oct 1915. GSW back right shoulder 25 Sep 1915. Discharged London 10 Dec 1917 after 3 years 25 days as 'no longer physically fit for war service'. Character 'Very Good'. Awarded pension of 7 shillings to 8 shillings and 3 pence per week. British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914/15 Star issued in Jun 1921.

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Walter Seymour GANDER
Walter GANDER (sic) 78479 (?S/S Corporal?) Royal Field Artillery, 'A' Battery 99. Discharged 29 Aug 1919. Enlisted 15 Jan 1915 at Preston for 'duration of the war'; age then 21 years 60 days. No NOK given. Last employer before joining Army: Forest Hill Brewery, Forest Hill'. Occupation: Drayman. On 23 Sep 1919 'age last birthday': 25 years. Served UK 3 months, France 3 months, Balkans 3 years 2 months. Suffered from malaria or landfly fever. Intended address on discharge: 90 Whippingham Road, Brighton.

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Walter James GANDER: 3092 Lance Corporal 2/18th Battalion London Regiment Discharged 21 Apr 1916 in London as 'no longer physically fit for war service' (Medical examination 28 Mar 1916 - myopia 6/18 L and R eyes (which started 25 years previously and wore glasses then, therefore no pension). Character on discharge: "good" ('intelligent, industrious and an all round capable NCO'). Age on discharge: 34 years 6 months, height: 5 feet 8.5 inches, fresh complexion, grey eyes, dark hair. Born: Paddington. Trade: Fine Art Salesman. Intended place of residence: 186, Fairbridge Road, London N. Attested 9 Mar 1915, served 1 year 44 days. Served Home: 9 Mar 1915 to 21 Apr 1916. Wife: Susan Hannah GANDER, married 22 Dec 1906 at St.Mary's, Hornsey Rise. Child: Kathleen born: 7 Jan 1909, Holloway, baptised 24 Feb 1909 at St.Mary's, Hornsey Rise.

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William James GANDER: 551444 (transferred to 4128) Corporal, Territorial Force 16th Battalion County of London Regiment (Queens Westminster Rifles). Attested 19 (or 22nd?) May 1915 London; Apparent age: 26 years 6 months, height 5 feet 5 inches. NOK: father, Mr. W.J. GANDER, The Post Office, Robertsbridge, Ssx. Corporal 7 Aug 1917. Oct 1917: 'Not to be compulsorily posted for service under the Military Service (Review of Exceptions)'. Discharged 6 Dec 1917 'no longer fit for war service' after 2 years 202 days total service; served Home. Character 'Very Good'. Intended address on discharge: 217 Beckenham Road, Beckenham. War Badge and Certificate sent in Dec 1917 to 'Salehurst, Robertsbridge'. Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal.

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William James GANDER: 305171 Private Labour Corps. Discharged 30 Apr 1919 aged 46 as 'unfit for service'. Age on enlistment on 28 Jun 1915: 43 years. Former trade: Scaffolder. NOK: father, H. GANDER, Carpenter Yard, Blackstone, Ssx. Served Home 19 Jun 1915-18 Jul 1915, France 19 Jun 1915-22 Jan 1919, Home 23 Jan 1919-30 Apr 1919. Disability on discharge: Fractured Right Fibula - caused off-duty whilst on leave at home ('slipped in country lane') 18 Jan 1919. Intended address on discharge: 22 Hercules Road, Lambeth, London SE1.

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W.GANDER: 50510 - '?Dolts to Chelsea'? 27 Aug 1917. [Unable to trace in 'Medals Roll' from Serial No.].