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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Tuesday 02 August 05 18:03 BST (UK)  »
Yes, sorry, that is where I tried and it will cost me 75 quid  :-[

Mack said he would "call in a favour" and try to find out more for me

Thanks for your reply

Judy

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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Tuesday 02 August 05 04:21 BST (UK)  »
 :( sorry to say anymore searching for Walter William will have to wait.  I got in touch with the National Archives and they want 75 pounds to determine if it is the right one I am looking for.  I don't mind paying the price if it is his papers/records, but I am not about to pay that sum to receive someone else's relative

Guess I will have to wait a long while until I can go to England myself (which is definitely not in the foreseeable future)

Woe is me !!

Judy

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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Saturday 16 July 05 22:22 BST (UK)  »
Wouldn't that be great if they did have a picture?  We don't even have one picture of anyone in the family and that would be an awesome surprise for my hubbie

Judy

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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Saturday 16 July 05 22:01 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Mack - will do !!  thanks for all the help

Yes, I am on a roll here and would really like to find out more about Walter William.  You see, he is my husband's maternal grandfather that he never knew.  My husband was adopted at 3 weeks old and his family immigrated to Canada when he was 5.  Some 50 years later, he found out he was adopted, quite by accident, and its been a search ever since (6 years now).

What is interesting is that his adoptive father was a gunner in WW2 and he also went into the Armed Forces in Canada for a few years.  Guess it was in his blood eh?

Thanks again - I'm off to the races !!

Judy

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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Saturday 16 July 05 21:08 BST (UK)  »
Wow - thanks Mack

I thought Coleshill was in Warwick?  But if it is in Bucks then all the more reason to believe it is the right WW Green - horray !!

Thanks for the info - isn't it interesting to read about such history years ago? especially when it involves someone related to you even more

Judy

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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Saturday 16 July 05 15:26 BST (UK)  »
I really don't have any papers other than his birth and marriage certificates

He was born in Pitstone, Bucks, married in Steyning, Sussex in 1920 and then returned to Watford/Bushey area of Herts and remained there until at least the 1940's because he was a witness to his daughter's wedding in 1945.

If he was in the Coleshill area during WW1 - only he would know that.

I guess my next plan of attack is to try and find any newspapers that would have been printed around the Pitstone area back then to see if he is mentioned

Judy

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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Saturday 16 July 05 06:27 BST (UK)  »
Walter and his family were originally from Pitstone, Bucks.  They flowed over into Herts and thats when where he and his new bride ended up (Bushey to be exact) in 1920 after they got married in Steyning, Sussex (February 14th to be exact).  Their daughter, Joyce, was born in October of that same year and a brother, Leslie Frank, 3 years later.  I don't know if there were anymore children of the marriage but Joyce and Leslie were both born in Watford

Judy

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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Saturday 16 July 05 06:15 BST (UK)  »
Not necessarily Annie because that's the number I gave Mack in the first place that I got from one of the medal cards.  It says Walter William Green on it but I am unsure as to whether it is the right Walter

His birth certificate said he was a Lt. Bombardier RFA

The information Mack found was as follows:

judy,heres the info i found.
gunner
walter.william green
625476
H.A.C
his majesty has graceously approved the award of the military medal to the following,for bravery in the field
625538.corporal p.m keen,from hampstead

625525.bombadier a.s chalis,from forest gate
625476.gunner w.w green,from coleshill
625461.gunner h.hammond,from addlethorpe
his military medal was gazetted on 14-5-19
his service medals are in WO372/8
it looks like the whole gun tam were decorated,if walter was from the area described,then hes your man,bernard

But that doesn't mean it's him.  It says he was in Coleshill but that would only have been where he was at the time

Oh woe is me  :'(

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World War One / Re: RFA WW1 - GREEN, Walter William
« on: Saturday 16 July 05 05:37 BST (UK)  »
Sure thing - here it is:

Medal card of Green, Walter W

Corps                     Regiment No          Rank
Honourable Artillery          625476                            Gunner
Company Artillery

Royal Field Artillery            279462                            Gunner

1914-1920

Catalogue reference - WO372/8

Dept - Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General and related bodies

Series - War Office:  Service Medal and Award Rolls Index, First World War

Piece - Gibson A - Hannas J M M

Image contains - 1 medal card of many for this collection   


That's all she wrote  ;D - Judy

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