Brother of Mollie Dilnot Gambrill; died in World War Two. Served as a sub-lieutenant (Air) in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Gambrill, Edward Boys, -1945
Groups on holiday
Date: 1935-1936
From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1042
Description: Some of these images relate to a holiday trip taken by Edward Gambrill and three school friends, Christmas 1935. The rest are records of Edward with friends at Mungaroa and Carterton in 1935 and 1936 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Jack and Ted Gambrill, cats, and holiday snaps
Date: ca 1918-ca 1935
From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs
Reference: PAColl-7369-05
Description: Photographs of John (Jack) and Edward (Ted) Gambrill together, and also with their sister Mollie, their mother Elsie, their father Stephen, and their aunt Maud Seaward. There are also images of family cats, and snaps taken on holidays. Many of these record a visit Mollie made in the very late 1920s or early 1930s to a farm in the Waimata valley north of Gisborne owned by Dorothy and George Barber. Others are of buildings in Christchurch, unidentified houses and people, Ohinemutu, and the gannett colony at Cape Kidnappers Quantity: 84 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Edward (Ted) Gambrill and friends on holiday
Date: 1935-1936
From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1041
Description: Photographs taken on holidays, Christmas 1935 and Easter 1936. Waterfalls, streams, hills, valleys and Mount Taranaki; Edward on a horse, and with friends on Mount Taranaki Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Mollie Gambrill and her brothers John (Jack) and Edward (Ted)
Date: ca1915-ca1945
From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Photographs
Reference: PAColl-7369-04
Description: Mainly the children of Stephen and Elsie Gambrill. Images of Mollie and John (Jack) as children about 1916; Jack at high school (Rongotai College Wellington) in the late 1920s; as a young man with his mother Elsie and Aunt Maud and Uncle Arthur Seaward about 1940; as a soldier during the Second World War. Edward (Ted) as a baby, child, schoolboy (with his peddal car) and high school student (also Rongotai College late 1920s/early 1930s); as a young man with his parents, other family members, and friends, and as a soldier, a member of the navy, and a naval officer. There are three images of the Naval College at Greenwich where Ted trained for a short time Quantity: 75 b&w original photographic print(s).
Correspondence relating to the deaths of Jack and Ted Gambrill (C3) (c)
Date: [1943-1945]
From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7561-11
Description: Letters to Gambrill relating to the deaths of brothers Jack and Ted who died in World War II Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Arrangement listing in Back file.
Various personal documents
Date: [1911-1964]
From: Gambrill, Mollie Dilnot, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7688-06
Description: Papers relating to Gambrill's church associations; clippings; letter relating to Edward Boys Gambrill; souvenir of Sydney; and various other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Print by Molly O'Shea of Lennox Bridge, Parramatta.