Sorry Julie, I didn’t reply to your post on the Cork forum, just picked your name up.
My roots are mainly from Waterford and also Dublin and Cork.
My interest started in Newport’s war dead when I was looking for the grave of Ronald Fairclough in St Cadoc’s graveyard in Trevethin.
Ronald was a member of my cousin’s RAF squadron and it took me two days to find his grave and when I did the words “We will remember them “ came to mind and I thought, who is remembering you?
That made me think where I could see the names of Newport’s wad dead on a public memorial and there isn’t one other than some on memorials in churches, schools etc, so I set the web site up also for Cwmbran.
I lost family members in both world wars both Irish and Welsh.
Ronald Fairclough’s name and my cousin’s Arthur Fitzgerald are both on the web site.
I have a web site on my cousin and it includes a lot of information about him and his crew as well as information about some other Lancaster bombers. It also includes letters from the German pilot that killed my cousin.
http://www.lancastered627.shaunmcguire.co.ukSo really that is my only knowledge of Newport in the war years
As a matter of interest, I have given permission to copy and archive my web sites to the National Library of Wales who in conjunction with the British and Scottish Library’s are archiving web sites so that they can be made available long after they have closed and so preserving the information they contain (I hope) for future generations.
