grandfather with no name ? Canadian solder ww2..

[slothbear]

hi
A friend of mine wanted help finding his grandfather from Canada , don't no if I am on the right forum ..

Problem is he was a solder in ww2 from Canada , no one knows his name , or if they did the name has gone with people who have passed on .

I am not 100 % but he worked in a hospital in Birmingham , during the war .

He did not marry the lady in question and whether he new he had a child or was going to have a child or not he returned to Canada , and everything was very hush hush..
and nothing else is known .
where do I start please  ?

[Jacquie in Canada]

Do you have a copy of the birth registration of the child this man fathered? Is his name not listed?

Without a name I don't know how you can do anything. There were over a million Canadians who served in  WWII.

Jacquie

[slothbear]

thank you for reply ..
know there is no name on birth cert .

some other information is he was a medic in the Canadian army and they think he worked in a hospital in Birmingham , maybe around the area of marston green , as that's where the family was from .
apparently he did not see his child who was born in 1945 , it is said he had gone back to Canada ..

don't know if this may narrow down the search or maybe this post belongs in another forum ?

hope to narrow down from a million Canadian solders , hope someone can come up with a idea of where to start .
thank you .

[sami]

...A friend of mine wanted help finding his grandfather from Canada.......

Going to be almost impossible without some kind of name to go by. But did the child born have anything unusual about his/her name? For example a middle name that might indicate the name of the father.

sami

[sami]

Here is a brief description of the RCAMC (Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps). It mentions Birmingham as follows: "....No. 1 Canadian General Hospital.......opened in early 1941 near Birmingham with 600 beds but moved, beginning in December 1943, to various locations in Italy....."

https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/the-army-medical-organization/

It may be useful to contact the Birmingham Archives to see what they have on the subject.

sami

[Bearnan]

Not that this is going to help any, but the Canadian Hospital was at Berwicks lane, Marston Green. It later became Marston Green maternity hospital...... My sister was born there!

[scotmum]

Some useful links at http://www.voicesoftheleftbehind.com/where.shtml , albeit unfortunately, with absolutely no name clues, I would imagine your task to be nigh on impossible. There were no doubt numerous Canadian men who served in various roles within the Medical Corps at the hospital in Birmingham, any one of whom could have been the chap in question.

[slothbear]

thank you very much for everyone's help , I know it is a very hard task .
I will show my friend some of the ideas everyone has put forward .
maybe he may be able to get a bit more information from this .
thank you