2ND AUGUST
I have only just realized that one of my dad’s grandfathers was born on this day, 2nd August, and the other died on this day.
1869 – Alfred Charles Newbold Hibbitt was born on 2nd August 1869 at Back 20, Chester Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire. He joined the Royal Navy in 1885 and went on to become a Chief Petty Officer in the Coastguards. He was invalided out in 1920 and died in 1928.
Alfred Charles Newbold Hibbitt with his daughter, Nellie
1959 – Charles Llewellyn Ernest Elbert Dando died on 2nd August 1959 at Moorhaven Hospital, Ugborough, Totnes, Devon. His death certificate shows he died of pulmonary oedema and pneumonia, left heart failure, anaemia and carcinoma of the prostate. He was born at 86 Regent Street, London, on 4th June 1876 and worked as a dentist for half a century.
Charles Llewellyn Ernest Elbert Dando with his wife, Alice, at Goodrington
