Gardner, Norman

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Category: 1918-19

Norman Gardner

Lanarkshire Fusiliers

16th Batt. Lancashire Fusiliers
He is remembered with honour on St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Larchfield School memorial and Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 3, Line 50.

The family home was at Camden, 5, East Montrose Street, Helensburgh. The son of John Gardner M.D. and Annie Little Gardner.
Siblings: Not Known.
Norman Gardner was brought up in Helensburgh where his father was the local doctor. He attended Larchfield Academy, and later, Glasgow Agricultural College.
Norman was employed in rubber cultivation in Kilantan on the Malay Peninsula before returning to join first the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment and then the 16th Batt. Lancashire Fusiliers.
Norman was reported as wounded in August 1918 but returned to the front, he was killed in action in October. He was 32 years old.