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Offline MaxD

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Re: WW2 Italy Star
« Reply #18 on: Friday 20 October 17 09:20 BST (UK) »
ankerdine

Sadly there were many troopships lost to enemy action https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/2528.html
but there may well be clues in his records when you get them.

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I am Zoe Northeast, granddaughter of Maximilian Double.
 
It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

With deep sadness,
Zoe



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Re: WW2 Italy Star
« Reply #19 on: Friday 20 October 17 10:04 BST (UK) »
Medpat, thanks for the link on the Vesuvius eruption. If you click on the highlighted text (in pink) beneath the photo there is actual film. It's absolutely amazing photography by the Americans. I wonder what FIL was doing on that day?

Max, thanks for your comments and link. I'm now geared up to try and obtain his service records. However I now understand his daughter obtained some service records whilst he was still alive but they were only the very basic ones.

Judy
Blair, Marshall, Williamson - Ayrshire, Wigtownshire
Saxton, Sketchley - Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire
Brown, Green - Rutland
Hawker, Malone, Bradbury, Arnott, Turner, Woodings, Blakemore, Upton, Merricks - Warwickshire, Staffordshire
Silvers, Dudley, Worcs
Deakin - Staffordshire