Vernon Douglas HARRIDGE [34598]

  General Notes:

Vernon & Lucile's Marriage group photo.
L to R Finette Harridge (the adopted daughter of Vernon's parents Stamford & Sybil), Iris Siebel bridesmaid, Bridgroom, Bride, Conrad Harridge, bestman, (Vernons cousin), Estel Pereira, (Vernon's niece)

Vernon was enlisted in the Ceylon Army for a number of years until he and Lucy divorced in the early 50s.
He remarried, and moved to Trincomalee in the north of Ceylon, where he was employed as Ranger, Dept. of Wildlife
Conservation.
Vernon's second wife was killed by Tamil terrorists near Trincomalee, which was by then, not a safe region of Sri Lanka to be living in.
He moved to the hillside town of Gurutalawa in the Uva District, where he lived with his son Clifford (from his second marriage) and family.

  Other Records

1. Vernon and Lucile with their daughter Valerie.

Vernon married Lucile Pauline LAYARD [34561] [MRIN: 12460], daughter of Raymond Julius LAYARD [1235] and Dissanayake Gerdera Sumana MENIKA [34560], on 3 Feb 1931 in Christ Church Dehiwela Colombo Ceylon. (Lucile Pauline LAYARD [34561] was born in 1915 in Ceylon and died on 6 May 1988 in Melbourne Aust.)