Anne Patricia Tiarks

• General Notes
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    Notes for ANN PATRICIA TIARKS:
    Ann's father was Brigadier John Gerhard Edward Tiarks, Colonel of the 1st Kings Dragoon Guards, and subsequently ADC to king George VI 1947-1950, and Master of the Staff College Hounds. He was later killed in a hunting accident.
    He was born in British Columbia circa 1899.
    Anne's mother was Evelyn Florence Cripps, b 1st Qtr 1899, in Bedminster Glos, daughter of Rev Percy Cripps, rector of Winford parish, Somerset in 1901.
    First reference we can find of Evelyn in British records is as an army family returning from Bombay India, landed Plymouth 1st May 1936, from P&O liner Strathnaver.
    Destination address listed as Laneside, Wooten under Edge, Gloucestershire.
    Ann died of kidney failure after several weeks in a coma.