Happy Birthday, Dennis Gear
On this day eighty years ago Dennis Gear was born prematurely at Dellwood Hospital in Reading.
On the same day, newly born Elizabeth York was visited by her uncle and aunt, the King and Queen of England.
Dennis spent the first days of his life in an incubator; history does not record who visited him.
In 1952 Elizabeth became the Queen of England.
By this time Dennis, who at 16 had been deemed “too much of a handful” for his mother, had already spent 10 years of his life in Peppard’s Borocourt mental hospital, an asylum for the criminally insane.
By today’s standards he had committed no great crime; they said he was a “naughty boy” and didn’t know what else to do with him. He was too young, at 16, to send to war.
After 42 years, in 1984 (perhaps significantly?), Dennis was released. He was 58 years old.
“I was pleased to get out of there,” he said, “but after so many years it was a big shock.”
Today he celebrated his birthday at the Phab Day Centre in Mount Pleasant, Reading, watching TV with his friends.
He enjoys John Wayne movies.
http://www.icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/
On the same day, newly born Elizabeth York was visited by her uncle and aunt, the King and Queen of England.
Dennis spent the first days of his life in an incubator; history does not record who visited him.
In 1952 Elizabeth became the Queen of England.
By this time Dennis, who at 16 had been deemed “too much of a handful” for his mother, had already spent 10 years of his life in Peppard’s Borocourt mental hospital, an asylum for the criminally insane.
By today’s standards he had committed no great crime; they said he was a “naughty boy” and didn’t know what else to do with him. He was too young, at 16, to send to war.
After 42 years, in 1984 (perhaps significantly?), Dennis was released. He was 58 years old.
“I was pleased to get out of there,” he said, “but after so many years it was a big shock.”
Today he celebrated his birthday at the Phab Day Centre in Mount Pleasant, Reading, watching TV with his friends.
He enjoys John Wayne movies.
http://www.icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/
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