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Marion Harman [Reader]
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19th July 1913
Born
Fred Harman's research
 
1952
Married
Sidney Frank Harman
Fred Harman's research
 
November 2003
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Fred Harman
Fred Harman's research
 

Sidney Frank Harman - the next eldest son - was born on 24th December 1911 at Town Row, Mark Cross and baptised on 11th February 1912 at St Denys parish church. He worked in his early years on various estates as a footman, then in 1932 he joined the Royal Engineers and trained at Aldershot as a bricklayer among other trades and in 1933 he was sent overseas to India as a sapper. Within a very short time, owing to the huge expansion of the Indian army he rose through the ranks to Major.

When his retirement time arrived in 1946 he emigrated to New Zealand where he worked as a bricklayer for himself. He retired from work at the age of sixty-five and busied himself by helping elderly people by such things as collecting scrap firewood from the dump and distributing it to them. His early vegetables were nearly always given away.

At the age of forty he had married Marion Reader and they acted as guardians to three welfare department boys. They had no children of their own. He was a very active man and well thought of in the Methodist church. He died of a heart attack in 1954 age 73.


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Harman, Harmen, Harmon, Hermon family records
Read, Reade, Reader, Reades, Reed, Reede, Reeder, Reedar, Reid, Rheade individual records

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