Sylvia May Rue was the second born of George Rue and Winifred Mary nee Hopkins.  She was born in East Glamorgan, somewhere in the Cardiff/Barry area on 15th August 1923.  She had 1 older sister, Winifred P born in 1922 and 2 younger sisters, Rose (1925) and Rita (1928).

Her mother, Winifred died in 1932.  Her father then remarried aged 41 to Dorothy Harrod and went on to have another 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls.

Sylvia married Frederick A Ridley in 1943 still in the East Glamorgan area.

It appears that she died in October 2004 in the Pembrokeshire district of South Wales