Ted Gee

Albert Edward GEE

Ted Gee

Albert Edward GEE was born 26 June 1902 and baptized at Holy Trinity Church Bishop Stortford 7 September 1902 - Confirmed St Andrew's Day 1917 by the Lord Bishop of Winchester and had first Communion second Sunday in Advent 1917 in the Chapel of St Agatha Training Ship Mercury.

Ted Gee


He wrote a short history of the early part of his life which you can read by clicking on autobiography

He Married Dorothy Nellie Fudge on 7 July 1923.

He was depth charged off Heligoland in early 1940 and spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner of War.

The Chelmsford Chronicle reported on 2 February 1940

"News has been received that Able Seaman A.T.Gee, Bishop's Stortford, of the lost submarine Undine, is a prisoner in Germany."


Stortford Seaman Saved From Submarine

The Herts and Essex Observer, Saturday, February 3, 1940

A prisoner of War in Germany

A native of Bihop's Stortford, Able Seaman A. E. Gee, who was reported missing when the submarine Undine was lost, is safe. On Saturday, his wife received a post- card intimating that he was a prisoner of war in Germany. At the time Mrs. Gee was stay- ing with her sister-in-law, Mrs. T Hammond, of Grange Cottage, London Road, whose son, Sergt. R Hammond, was recently reported missing and believed killed in action with the R.A.F. A brother of Able Seaman Gee, Mr. T. S. Gee Lives at 150, London Road.


He died at Poole Hospital on 13 January 1992

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