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1888 Aug 11.Born Headington, Oxfordshire
1889 Sep 15 Bapt in Lowick, Northampton son of Matthew Henry and Jane Ann Gray
1891 census at Church Villas, Fair Lane, Thrapston
1901 census at High Street, Thrapston
1911 census at X Royal Hussars, Lucknow, India
1914 Dec 20 Lands in France
1916 Apr 24 Commissioned 2nd L.K. R. Rif. C.—Serjt. Victor Henry Gray,
1917 Jan/Mar Married in Northampton to Constance Rosa Smith
1917 Oct 24. To be Lt. KRRC. V. H. Gray
1918 Apr 16. K.R. Rif. C. Lt. V. H. Gray to be actg. Capt. (addtl.)
1919 Sep 8. K.E. Rif. G. 20th Bn.— Lt. V. H. Gray (K.R. Rif. C.) relinquishes the actg. rank of Capt. on ceasing to comd. a Co.
1920 Apr 14. K.R. Rif. C.—Lt. V. H. Gray retires, receiving gratuity, and is granted the rank of Capt.
1920 May 29 Applies for cinema licence
1920 Aug 7. He transfers the cinema licence to someone else
1920 Sep 14. Joined ADRIC with service no 545. Posted to E Coy
1920 Nov 10. Promoted Section Leader
1921 May 28. Promoted Platoon Commander
1921 Jul 13 to 27 Jul on Leave
1921 Sep 15 to 30 Sep on Leave
1922 Jan 18. Discharged on demobilisation of ADRIC
1928 Marriage to Florence Mary Hall On Ancestry tree, but I cannot find it, but given that he is with her in 1939, it must be correct. There were a number of children by this second marriage. I suspect he left his first wife, who was not dead at the time, never divorced, and set up home with the second lady. She in turn had married a William Huckle in 1922, but had three chidren by Gray from 1929
1939 Living with Florence M Gray in 63 Vicarage Road , Sunbury-on-Thames U.D., Middlesex. He is a Transport Controller
1951 Apr 28 Died in Hampton, Middlesex
WO 339/62633