Edward Gordon Gedge Archives

Date:: August 31, 2016
Categories:: Edward Gordon Gedge, Eileen Ruth Gedge, England, family, germany, history, TRAVELS FROM THE PAST, Uncategorized
Tags:: England, facebook, family, germany, history, nanny, occupation, reunites, war, wing commander, world war two
Comments:: 6

Facebook reunites mum with family of war-time German nanny

So here’s a beautiful and moving story I want to share …. It’s not a travel story as such but it’s certainly a story that’s travelled a long way and over a very long time …. Several days ago a lady from Kiel Germany contacted me via Facebook to ask if I was the granddaughter of Wing Commander Edward Gordon Gedge and his wife Eileen – which I am. Her name was Dagmar and she said she was the daughter of my mum’s nanny from more than sixty years ago and had been searching for us. Her mum Cristel cared[…]

Date:: August 9, 2012
Categories:: Antwerp, Blogger, Duke Kahanamoku, Edward Gordon Gedge, Egypt, Europe, history, Olympics
Tags:: 1920 Olympics, Antwerp, Duke Kahanamoku, Olympics, Riots, Summer Olympics, V11 Olympiad, water polo
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Riots Over British Gold At the 1920 Antwerp Olympics

It was an amazing Summer for Team GB at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. Britain won 65 medals, of which 27 were gold. The British athletes left Rio on a high and there was huge congratulations all around on their success. Now imagine this is 1920, we’re at the Antwerp Olympics and the British Water polo team has just beaten Belgium to the gold medal. Instead of admitting defeat, being happy with a Silver and congratulating the British in the sporting spirit of the games, the Belgians have erupted and started a riot. Soldiers in full riot gear with bayonets and swords have entered the games to control[…]

Date:: March 30, 2009
Categories:: Ancestors, Blogger, Cavenagh-mainwarings, Edward Gordon Gedge, history, King Abbas, Kitchener, Middle East, Olympics, Whitmore Hall
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The Ancestors

I had it drummed into me from an early age that family and knowing where your roots come from are vitally important. My Grandfather, Edward Gordon Gedge, told me fantastic stories about his aristocratic life and my parents often said to me that I had ‘blue blood’ in my veins although I had no idea what they meant, and that I could trace my ancestry back to William the Conqueror. Living in New Zealand, I didn’t have any appreciation of my ancestry until I first came to England and visited Whitmore Hall – my roots; the ancestral home in Staffordshire. […]

Date:: December 10, 2005
Categories:: Alexandria, Blogger, Cairo, Edward Gordon Gedge, Egypt, Karnak Temple, King Abbas, Luxor, Middle East, royal children
Comments:: 3

Sailing down Egypt’s Nile

Egypt 2004Following in my grandfather’s footstepsMy grandfather grew up in the royal palace in Alexandria, Egypt so this trip was very poignant for me. Gordon, my grandfather, died at the age of 95 in 1991 and was an Olympic medal winner (Antwerp Games) and a decorated soldier. But it was his stories of growing up in Egypt that I remember the most.My great grandfather was an Admiral and naval adviser to the King of Egypt – Abbas II. He was also honoured with the title of Pasha in 1912. The family moved into the Royal Palace and my grandfather (we[…]