Can you help with the Mills / Pollard / Tanner family in connection to our WW2 memorial? Any photos or information welcomed.
Glyndwr Jesse (known as Jesse) Pollard was born in 1912 at Pontypridd, where his father (Emmanuel) worked for a short time. The family returned to Gloucester, before moving in the 1920s to Cashes Green and in the 1930s to 2 Lansdown Villas, Slad Road, Stroud.
Jesse married Gwendoline Ruth Mills (from Rodborough / Woodchester) in Stroud in 1939, and when the 1939 register was compiled, they lived at 6 Erin Park (now 229 Bath Road), Lightpill, and both worked as piano key makers, presumably at Bentley Pianos in Woodchester.
Jesse served with the 3rd Carabiniers, as part of the Royal Armoured Corps. in southern India. We have no military record, but we can be confident that Jesse died during the Battle of Imphal that raged from March to July 1944 with heavy losses. It resulted in the Japanese being driven back into Burma and was the turning point in the Burma campaign.
Gwendoline remained at 6 Erin Park, and in 1958 she married Reginald Tanner.
