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L/Cpl. John Stanley Coleman
British Army 4th Battalion East Kent Regiment
from:Dover
John Stanley Coleman was my grandfather, who served in India where he met my grandmother, Sybil. She was a young Anglo-Indian widow with 4 children. He sent them on ahead of his army discharge to his family in Dover, and on his return they moved to the north of England where they married in 1921. There were 2 children of their marriage, one of which was my mother. John took a job as the local postman in a small town (Romiley) until he retired in 1954.
He served in the Home Guard in WW2. He had learned to knit in the army, and I remember he knitted socks and gloves for me and my cousins, never used a pattern also crocheted bedspreads! He liked a drink, and played the piano in the local pubs to earn extra money, and was considered as something of a character. He was also a keen gardener, growing vegetables in an allotment. Sybil pre-deceased him, and he died in 1977. Like many of his generation, he never discussed his war service, and while I wish I knew more about that part of his life, I have fond memories of a wonderful grandad.
