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Eileen Ruth Gedge

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
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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:: January 12, 2014
Categories:: Amman Jordan, Blogger, Cambridge University, Eileen Ruth Gedge, history, Lebanon, Middle East
Tags:: Ahmed Tewfik Bey Al-Khalil, cambridge, gedge, jordan, lebanon, nablus, romance, travel, vacation
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Arab interlude – Summer in Lebanon, 1939

In 1939, my grandmother, Eileen Gedge (pictured above with my grandfather), met a wealthy Lebanese Law student called Ahmed Tewfik Bey Al-Khalil at Cambridge University where they were both studying. They became firm friends and according to family rumours, Ahmed fell in love with my grandmother – a tall, fine boned, beautiful woman, always impeccably dressed and an exceptional tennis player. Sadly my grandmother was forced to reject Ahmed’s advances as it was impossible then for her to marry an Arab. In those days, inter-racial marriages were frowned upon in High Society. After university, they lost touch, but not before[…]