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World War Two / Re: Help tracing Squadron histories
« on: Thursday 27 July 23 09:44 BST (UK) »
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World War Two / Re: Help tracing Squadron histories
« on: Thursday 27 July 23 09:34 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much, again. After lots of snipping, here goes...
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World War Two / Re: Help tracing Squadron histories
« on: Wednesday 26 July 23 20:31 BST (UK) »
Annoyingly, my photo's won't upload because they are too large. I have no idea how to reduce their size.
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World War Two / Re: Help tracing Squadron histories
« on: Wednesday 26 July 23 20:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Andy,
This would definitely make sense. I am trying to upload photographs of his actual records so that they are clear enough to be uploaded here. They have more detail which may make sense to you!
This would definitely make sense. I am trying to upload photographs of his actual records so that they are clear enough to be uploaded here. They have more detail which may make sense to you!
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World War Two / Re: Help tracing Squadron histories
« on: Wednesday 26 July 23 19:09 BST (UK) »
Andy, thank you so much for all this information! We are so very grateful!
Grandad only told us that he was 'blown up' in the war and was for some weeks missing presumed dead. Grandma received a letter saying that too. He claimed in that time he was taken in by a family who spoke French and he thought they were French, but we have no idea how or what happened after. He never told the family any more than that. He said he was a driver but never mentioned where he had been except for Greece.
We note in his records it says 'North Africa' so we wonder if he was in a region which was French speaking when he was injured and then went to Greece afterwards, but his records don't have that level of detail really so we are trying to piece this all together.
Your help so far with this has been invaluable, so thank you!
Grandad only told us that he was 'blown up' in the war and was for some weeks missing presumed dead. Grandma received a letter saying that too. He claimed in that time he was taken in by a family who spoke French and he thought they were French, but we have no idea how or what happened after. He never told the family any more than that. He said he was a driver but never mentioned where he had been except for Greece.
We note in his records it says 'North Africa' so we wonder if he was in a region which was French speaking when he was injured and then went to Greece afterwards, but his records don't have that level of detail really so we are trying to piece this all together.
Your help so far with this has been invaluable, so thank you!
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World War Two / Help tracing Squadron histories
« on: Tuesday 25 July 23 18:34 BST (UK) »
Hello,
We have recently received my husband's grandfather's war records and we are having some difficulty tracing details on the squadrons and regiments he was listed as being in. We really would like to unpack some of the details a little more with war diaries etc., if possible.
The documents were printed on A3 so we cannot scan them in, but this is what we have learned so far about his service:
4/2/43 PTW Unit 63
14/4/43 Transferred to 4th Field Training Reg
18/8/43 147th Field Reg Royal Artillery 511 Battery
31/10/43 Appointed Driver
4/12/43 Transferred to RASC Unit 2TB (D)
20/2/44 London Dist. Ass Centre Draft RZYZG
12/3/44 North Africa
21/3/44 Disembarked Oran
21/3/44 TOS x4 list on disembarkation
23/3/44 SOS to ME33 North Africa
23/3/44 TOS ex x4 list
12/4/44 SOS to Special Force Unit
12/4/44 TOS. ex ME33
24/8/44 Special Force Unit Central Med Force Wounded (B.C) AFW3014/624
? 15.9.44
24/8/44 Oran? hospital & SOS to x(2)
2.10.44 Transferred to Y Con Depot? CMF
30/11/44 RASC/TD B Transit TOS from x(2) list
01/06/45 SOS to 4th Field Surg Unit
01/06/45 TOS from x(4)
28/1/46 Det'd from LIAP
9/2/46 97 Br Gen Hosp
*UPDATED WITH SOME EXTRA INFORMATION*
Please could anyone give us a little more info about his time in North Africa and where he would have been between joining up and arriving in Oran, please?
Thanks,
Colleen
We have recently received my husband's grandfather's war records and we are having some difficulty tracing details on the squadrons and regiments he was listed as being in. We really would like to unpack some of the details a little more with war diaries etc., if possible.
The documents were printed on A3 so we cannot scan them in, but this is what we have learned so far about his service:
4/2/43 PTW Unit 63
14/4/43 Transferred to 4th Field Training Reg
18/8/43 147th Field Reg Royal Artillery 511 Battery
31/10/43 Appointed Driver
4/12/43 Transferred to RASC Unit 2TB (D)
20/2/44 London Dist. Ass Centre Draft RZYZG
12/3/44 North Africa
21/3/44 Disembarked Oran
21/3/44 TOS x4 list on disembarkation
23/3/44 SOS to ME33 North Africa
23/3/44 TOS ex x4 list
12/4/44 SOS to Special Force Unit
12/4/44 TOS. ex ME33
24/8/44 Special Force Unit Central Med Force Wounded (B.C) AFW3014/624
? 15.9.4424/8/44 Oran? hospital & SOS to x(2)
2.10.44 Transferred to Y Con Depot? CMF
30/11/44 RASC/TD B Transit TOS from x(2) list
01/06/45 SOS to 4th Field Surg Unit
01/06/45 TOS from x(4)
28/1/46 Det'd from LIAP
9/2/46 97 Br Gen Hosp
*UPDATED WITH SOME EXTRA INFORMATION*
Please could anyone give us a little more info about his time in North Africa and where he would have been between joining up and arriving in Oran, please?
Thanks,
Colleen
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Europe / Re: France to Guernsey
« on: Thursday 16 March 23 15:42 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for both of the replies! I was hoping I might be able to trace them back in France before they moved to Guernsey but it seems unlikely.
There are two people: Joseph Marais born c1846 in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Haute Normandy, and his wife Josephine born c1852 in France (according to census data).
Me and hubby are visiting Normandy in August so it would be great to have any extra info on them really.
Thanks,
Colleen
There are two people: Joseph Marais born c1846 in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Haute Normandy, and his wife Josephine born c1852 in France (according to census data).
Me and hubby are visiting Normandy in August so it would be great to have any extra info on them really.
Thanks,
Colleen
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Europe / France to Guernsey
« on: Wednesday 15 March 23 21:56 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
Please can anyone advise what (if anything) someone who was born in France in 1846 would have needed to move to Guernsey in the 1850s/60s?
Thanks,
Colleen
Please can anyone advise what (if anything) someone who was born in France in 1846 would have needed to move to Guernsey in the 1850s/60s?
Thanks,
Colleen
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The Common Room / British Newspaper Search
« on: Saturday 09 January 21 11:11 GMT (UK) »
Hello all,
I am wondering if anybody would be kind enough to transcribe a record for me on the xxxxxx
I don't have the relevant subscription to view a record but I so rarely use the newspaper search that it isn't viable for me to upgrade. The record is for Thomas James Jones and he is appearing in 1936 in the Western Daily Press.
Please can you help?
Kind regards,
Colleen
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I am wondering if anybody would be kind enough to transcribe a record for me on the xxxxxx
I don't have the relevant subscription to view a record but I so rarely use the newspaper search that it isn't viable for me to upgrade. The record is for Thomas James Jones and he is appearing in 1936 in the Western Daily Press.
Please can you help?
Kind regards,
Colleen
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