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Offline WelwynGC1

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Re: ED 393. VN-K.
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 06 November 10 11:51 GMT (UK) »
Great photos, thanks for posting them, do you know where they were taken???????

Shame the group one does not have names.

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Hayton 1800-Present Day

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« Reply #19 on: Saturday 06 November 10 19:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi WelwynGC1, thanks for that, alas there are no names on the rear of the photograph as it is in the form of a post card. I have always presumed that it was taken in Quebec as there were post cards which came along with the photographs, which were sent from Canada, which as I write this it has given me a idea. There is also one from the U.S., Albany. So I always had hoped that it was a training course over there. They are three which have dates on them May, July and September in 1942, one has no date stamp so I think he never sent that one but brought it home. He was a Observer at first then went on to earn his bomber wings which I presumed he earned through this period. I will have to be patient though until the records arrive. Oh my. :-\
Purvis/purves. conlon, carson. Birney, monaghan, moore. World war I/II. Raf.

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« Reply #20 on: Monday 15 November 10 22:14 GMT (UK) »
He looks too young to die but then they all did  :'(
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« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 24 April 18 11:42 BST (UK) »
I have just read a few of your threads about your Uncle J R Conlon and i had to create an account to reply and say how amazing his story is. I am a personal collector of medals and acquired his comrade Flight Engineer - Reginald Walter Laws  3x medals almost 6 years ago (Air Crew Europe, 1939-45 star and War medal)

These were the notes i was given with the medals (excuse the lack of grammar but this is exactly what i received):
AWARDED TO 1431816 REGINALD WALTER LAWS AIR CREW EUROPE, 1939-45 STAR AND WAR MEDAL SGT. FLT ENGINEER REGINALD WALTER LAWS 1431816
SERVED WITH 50 SQUADRON ROTAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
DIED 27TH NOVEMBER 1943 AGE 20SERVED UNDER GUY GIBSON VC IN 50 SQUADRON AND HAS A NEWS PAPER CLIPPING FROM THE DAILY MIRROR 1987 REGARDING PLAYING THE PIANO FOR GIBSON WHEN HIS RECORD HE PLAYED AS A LUCKY CHARM THE SHRINE OF SAINT CECILLIA WAS BROKEN AND REGINALD STEPPED IN TO PLAY THE TUNE ON THE PIANOINCLUDED IS THE NEWSPAPER CUTTING AND A WAR GRAVES COMMISION LETTER REGARDING THE ASHES OF REGINALDS BROTHER BEING PUT WITH REGINALD

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