Sydney Graham Saint GILES [7498]

  General Notes:

Sydney had polio as a child and was looked after by his mother until she died, then he had it again and became paraplegic.

Rosamond Stewart in New Zealand writes to Simon Potter:
"My Aunt Rosamond Giles (Pickford ) mother of Giles who spoke at Fort San Domingo Museum & my Mother Marjory Giles (House) both talked about Sydney who had polio at 2yrs & then later again & was in a wheelchair from then on .They used to play with him when they were at school in England,(their home being in China where Lancelot was Consul General in different places).Indeed my Mother was at High school in Wimbledon in 1928 when Bertram collapsed in his doorway on returning from work,of a Heart attack and/or a Stroke. It was not because of his being shot in the Nanking Incident as reported in some areas. Anyway Mum had quite a bit to do with Aunt Violet & Sydney.Violet found it quite hard to look after him after Bertram had died.When Violet died he was in a Home not sure where,but after he was grown up he went to Italy and was looked after by an Italian couple till he died. He corresponded with my Aunt Rosamond till he died & I know she sent him regular money to live on"

Another memory of Sydney:
Sydney (sic) "last heard of by us escaping from German advance in South of France in wheelchair pushed by his nurse (they eventually married) on to the Hospital Ship"