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The attached images form part of my Uncle's WW2 service record. He served in the Australian Army and died defending the Island of Crete during WW2. These two pages are in German so I am presuming he was captured after being wounded and sadly died. He is buried in in Suda Bay War Cemetery on Crete. I have shown these pages to a German colleague but she has had difficulty translating commenting that the style of writing is old and therefore difficult for her to translate.

Can anyone help please.

Hello. Just wondering if any kind person who will be visiting Crete would be prepared to take a picture of my Uncle's headstone. He was in the Australian Army Infantry 2/11 battalion killed defending the Island in 1941 and is buried in the cemetery at Suda Bay there. It would mean allot to the family to have a picture. Thank you.

I am trying to trace the service details of my relative Ernest Studham and wondering if anyone here can help me?

He was killed on the 20th October 1918 in Flanders at the foot of the Wulfsberg at the village of Zwevegem. From conversation with the wonderful local historian for the cemetery at Harlebeke New British Cemetery where he is buried I have the details of the action in which he was killed, so it is his service prior to 1918 that I am trying to research. I think he was married, did his wife  receive a war pension? how do i find out ? When did he enlist originally in the West Sussex Regiment, when did he transfer to the 29th Division RF from the Royal Sussex Regiment? where was he prior to 1918? all questions I am trying to answer.

If anyone can help me I would be very grateful and many thanks.
 
 

Ernest Studham
Birth Place: Monkton
Residence: Margate
Death Date: 20 Oct 1918
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Margate
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Battalion: 2nd Battalion
Number: G/78121
Type of Casualty: Killed Ernest Studham
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly  G/24889 Royal Sussex Regt.



 










 

Hello. I am hoping someone can help me. I am trying to trace my 3xGreat Aunt Elizabeth Studham b. Monkton Kent 1810 who was convicted of burning down the Poor House in Birchington Kent UK - during the Swing Riots sentenced to death - sentence commuted to transportation.

She sailed from Woolwich UK on the prison ship Mary111 on 11th June 1831 and arrived in Hobart Van Diemen's Land on 19th October 1831.

She went to Cascades Female Factory .

She made 4 applications to marry the last being to Joseph King and apparently they actually married on 24th. July 1843 ( not confirmed by certificate)

Thereafter I can find no trace of her except for a Ticket of Leave notification on 20th October 1843 in her maiden name, which is why I wonder about her marriage actually taking place, or did Tickets of Leave have to be requested in the name of arrival in Van Demien's Land regardless of marriage?

Which would be the best way to try and trace her after 1843.

Thanks very much.