Simon's Family History

 

SECOND GENERATION


Living persons :-
Full personal details of my parents have been omitted for privacy and security of identity.

Ron GALBREATH  

Ron grew up in South London in Bermondsey & Downham.

Ron was a member of the Blackheath Model Flying Club in the late 1930's and during the 1940's. He was a member of the British team in the 1939 King Peter Cup.  See article on the Hayes club website.      See photo gallery of Ron's planes.    See my Blackheath Model Flying Club webpage.

He worked at Wray (Optical Works) Ltd., a British camera and lens manufacturer based in Bromley, Kent.  Whilst at Wray's Ron developed a type of binocular which was patented in conjunction with the Ministry of Defence. 

After marriage they lived at Glenwood Rd, Catford, in South London, in a flat at Ron's Aunt Rene's.

Emigrating with the family to Australia in 1949. 

 

He was a co-patentee to an invention in 1985, of a photogrammetric stereoplotter. See patent.

He was married to :-

Margaret PARKER  

Children were:

child Simon PARKER-GALBREATH.

Further children not listed as they are living persons.

 


 

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