See, for details of the parents, "Mrs. J. Tidbury", Surrey Advertiser, 7 April 1945, p. 2 (retrieved 5 March 2016); "Deaths", Times (London), 23 December 1936, p. 1; and "Obituary", Times (London), 24 December 1936, p. 14. According to the latter source, James Tidbury served in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882 and was the Medical Officer at the Royal Military College Sandhurst between 1900 and 1910. During the First World War, he was in charge of the Woking Military Hospital.