Tosland Street – Named after Gordon Harry Saywell Tosland (1924-1996). Wing Commander Tosland was Wigram base commander February 1966- January 1967. Named to continue the theme of naming streets in Wigram Skies after people involved in the air force in New Zealand. There are a number of streets named after former RNZAF Wigram Base commanders. Named in 2013.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Found a little bit of information from ancestry website. He was born 3rd December 1924 at Opunake, Taranaki. He was married in October 1951 to Dorothy Jimson at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire UK. He died 18th September 1996 aged 71 in New Plymouth and I really had to search for this information but that is because he was cremated. I had trouble finding out where his wife was buried but that is because she moved back to the UK after Gordon’s death and died in April 1999 and is buried at Fulham. I feel that I should have more information especially from Papers Past and I might need to search under his job title as his name didn’t bring up much.
This street has 17 properties mostly built in 2015. They are fairly large houses and many are 4 bedroomed. Most are brick houses with columns at the front entrances. None stood out for me and no photos for this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 