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James Spencer Badger appears to be my great uncle, although I had no knowledge of his existence, let alone his death in World War II, before now.
My father's mother, Dorothy Spencer Badger, was born in Wolverhampton on 4th May 1904. She was the daughter of Walter Spencer Badger (who came from Liverpool) and Ada Frances Hall (who came from Leeds). She was the first child. I assume that James Spencer Badger was quite a bit younger.
Relations with the Badger family were strained when Dorothy married a certain Shropshireman, (Harold) Kenneth Midgley, apparently since they considered that his family's social status was beneath theirs ("trade", not "professional"). The marriage went ahead without Badger approval. My father was born in Middlesex and grew up in Hertfordshire and Suffolk, but when he was a teenager Dorothy decided to divorce Kenneth on the dubious grounds of long-standing "mental cruelty", and called upon her teenage son to support her as a witness in the divorce case! The divorce was granted. Kenneth moved back to Shropshire, remarried, and eventually wrote the book "Garden Design". Thus, my father had relatively little contact either with the Midgleys or with the Badgers.
Any information about this branch of the Badger family would be most interesting to me. I am sure there are some fascinating things to be discovered.
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