Manea Villa, Hamilton Road
53 Hamilton Road, Manea Villa (Montague Road)
History of 53 Hamilton Road
1939 Manea Villa, Montague Road
William Gadsby, b 1877, drapers clerk
Mary, b 1881
Reginald W, b 1908, university clerk
Kathleen Mary, b 1912
Frank Cyril, b 1913, hosier’s assistant
Frank Cyril Gadsby served as a private in the Cambridgeshire regiment. He was captured by the Japanese at the Battle of Singapore. He died of beriberi at Chungkai, Thailand on 9th July 1943, aged 29. He had been a pupil at the Boys Perse.
(For more information on the Cambridgeshire Regiment in WWII read ‘Battalion at War – Singapore 1942’ by Michael Moore, Gliddon Books 1988)
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