Leonard Courtman

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Len married Violet in 1930 and they had one daughter Dawn Courtman, Violet never stayed faithfull to Len, forcing him to leave his wife and young daughter and set up home with Emily, they decided to move to Australia after the war to Hobart, Tasmania. Len was a carpenter and continued his trade there. They never had any children from the marriage.
They moved back to England in the 1980s because Len said he wished to be buried here, but they never settled and moved back to Australia.

He later decided to return to England yet again, and stayed with family in Chelmsford, he stayed to long and made family members angry as it seemed he had no intention of finding somewhere to live. They did finally move down to Dorset, but following a severe winter and heavy snowfall they once again packed there bags and moved back to Australia, and who could blame them.

Len once more decided to return to England to rest in peace when his time came, and again tried to load himself on family in Chelmsford, they were having none of it and told him to find somewhere else to live. He chose to live in a hostel for some time, but not sure where Emily was, it was known she had an old school friend down Bournemouth way and could have stayed with her.

Len finally bought a house in Tamworth, Warickshire, probably because the house prices were a lot cheaper then, money was probably becoming a problem with all this coming and going.
Here they stayed until his death in 1990.
Emily is believed to still living there, and still visits her friend in Bournemouth from time to time.