sentences:  He was married to Peggy Duncan, The stage name of Peggy Doreen Edwards (Born 19th April 1912 in Chigwell, Essex to Ernest Leslie Edwards a commercial traveler and Louisa Farly) and they had two children, a daughter Jacqueline and son Gerald.After World War II Desmonde and his family settled in London and his daughter Jacqueline married clarinettist Peter Howes, the son of actor Bobby Howes and brother to actress Sally Ann Howes.In 1967 following bouts of depression after the death of his wife the previous year, Desmonde took his own life.