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RSMACL
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Now, I have re-read your post - do you mean I should have it somewhere else, not in Picasa - say on desktop or something? Please advise.
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RSMACL
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Thanks. Not having any success - so will leave for now.
Just had another thought re the 'BARBARA McLEOD' who appears in the photo. This photo was sent to a relative in Scotland, by a niece in NZ - with "Aunty Barbara" C. 1945 on it and I am now wondering suddenly if this could perhaps be another member of the McLeod Family Tree: i.e. BARBARA McLEOD, b. 26 June, 1906 in Blairgowrie, Scotland, a teacher. (The niece was dau. of this Barbara's sister Caroline.)
So many family names are the same - think I may have been on the wrong 'tram'. But why she was in America at Rooseveldt airfield I do not know. BARBARA died in 1982 in Inverness, Scotland.
(Although I don't know her, I have written by snail mail to the relative in NZ and am awaiting her answer, although at that stage, I had not thought of the alternative Barbara.)
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RSMACL
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Hopefully this will transfer.
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RSMACL
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Whoo-eee, it worked at last!
This is photo. of Barbara McLeod at Rooseveldt Airfield, New York, c. 1945. Think this is Barbara McLeod , b. 26 June, 1906, Blairgowrie, Perth Shire, Scotland, who died in Inverness 1982 Scotland. Anyone identify this unit? May be British services? Ruth
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RSMACL
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Meant to add - rather poor photo. - copy of copy of copy, etc. but hopefully someone can help.
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mmm45
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Possibly WRENs -Womens Royal Navy c1939-45 ? or US equivalent?
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RSMACL
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Think you could be right. I looked up myriad sites and on one the uniform looks very similiar. Did the WRENS go overseas, say to New York during the second W.War?
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Flakdodger
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Delighted to see the photo posted.
I think they are Royal Navy WRENS. They are grouped in front of a Vought Corsair, an American naval fighter used in large numbers by The Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.
Roosevelt field was used as an acceptance and modification center for Corsairs.
That's to say Corsairs were delivered from the factory to Roosevelt Field and updated for FAA use then sent onto the relevant FAA unit.
Possibly Barbara was an Air Mechanic.
Dave
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RSMACL
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Thanks for that Dave. Does that mean she served in American forces or would she have been there from Britain?
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RSMACL
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Thanks, only trouble is, it is a multi-copied copy so cannot bring up any clearer. I have written to the particular relative in NZ who passed the copy on to a relative in Scotland - so if I get an answer, and she has any clearer photos, I will be 'in business'!. ( I notice your interests include Chisholm in Scotland - my husband's g.grandmother was Chisholm from Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire. Any connection?)
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Flakdodger
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Barbara served in the British armed forces. Her duties took her to the USA.
Cheers
Dave
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johnnyboy
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Hi Ruth: According to a June 1943 American newspaper report, a detachment of twenty-one WRENS was stationed at Roosevelt Field near New York City from 1943, helping to prepare U.S.-made planes for transfer to Britain. A number of nurses were identified by name in the article, but Babrbara McLeod was not one of them.
I've attached two quotations from of the article, which should give some idea of how the WRENS lived on New York's Long Island--where Roosevelt Field was located.
Regards,
John 
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ENGLAND, YKS: SLATER of Ovenden and Halifax; DRURY of Darton, Mapplewell, Sheffield and Halifax; DOBSON of Thornton (near Bradford); NEVILL(E) of Wigan, Lancs and Darton; MEGSON of Dewsbury; GARSIDE of Woolley and West Bretton. SCOTLAND: HENDRY of Who-knows-where-shire and Massachusetts, USA; HOUSTON of Lesmahagow and Glasgow and Massachusetts, USA; DEMPSTER of Lesmahagow; MEIKLE of Ayrshire, Hamilton, and Glasgow; COCHRAN of Hamilton.
Paradise: EVE and ADAM, also in exile
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RSMACL
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Thanks for that info. John. I'll keep digging.
I notice you have a "HENDRY' listed in your family connections (as being from 'who-knows-where-shire'!).
Strangely enough, in my husband's McLeod/MacLeod family tree, John Murdo McLEOD, the oldest brother of the Barbara I have been enquiring about, married a Jane Fletcher HENDRY in 1931 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. I don't know and haven't researched much further about the Hendrys, except I know that Jane's father (who married them) was:
Rev. Alexander Hendry, Episcopalian Minister & Curate-in-charge, Emmanuel Church, Denistoun, Glasgow, Scotland. Might pay you to look in this area for your connections?
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