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Thanks for your postings.
Yes Robert snr was a Candy Maker in one census and confectioner in another.

In the 1910 US census Mary D Hunter is given as sister-in-law to Robert age 48yrs widowed.  If I read it correctly she arrived in the US in 1890, occ Nurse.
In the 1920 US census she is Mary D Wilcox, sister-in-law age 60 years widowed.

I wonder if Wilcox is her maiden name?  Will take a look at this

TPB

Grateful for any assistance to identify the parents of a Robert A[Alexander] HUNTER born c 1857, Scotland.  County not known.

What I know: Robert A Hunter b 1857, Scotland immigrated to the USA (Michigan) c 1876 (source US 1920 census record).  He married Elizabeth Wotherspoon in the USA sometime between 1877-1886.  She was b c 1858, Scotland.  She arrived in the USA c 1877.
They had a son Robert A Hunter (Jnr) born 4 July 1886 Detroit, Michigan.  He married Rossie Bowman in 1920.  Robert A Hunter Jnr died in 1965 in Custer, Mason, Michigan, USA.  The 1920 census gives Robert Snr occupation as Confectioner.

Checked: Familysearch, Ancestry Public Family Trees, US census 1910, 1920 and 1940.  The 1940 census gives the transcribed surname as "Huster", living at Mason, Michigan.  Contacted 3 Ancestry account holders who have these people in their family tree - no response to date.

I have a low DNA match to a Hunter family from around Dalry, Ayrshire.  I found a John Hunter b 6 January 1827, Templand, Dalry but not sure if there is a connection.  I have had trouble searching due to the common names in the area.  It appears that their occupation may have been Baker.

Any assistance appreciated.

TPB

Yes, interesting what you find on PP!
I found an engagement notice for my father and a Vera Anne Johnston, dau of Hugh Johnston of Taihape (not my mother) in the Evening Post on 24 April 1943.
This was shortly before he left for war.
I regularly check PP for any new additions.

TPB

Many thanks Shanreagh for your helpful suggestions and advice.
I am meaning that Archives will do its own digitising and hold this on the archives site.

I have checked the NZETC site for details and I have a copy of the Dept of Internal Affairs, Historical Publications Branch, 2nd NZ Divisional Artillery.  Inside this book I found a copy of the NZED Order of Service of thanksgiving on the occasion of cessation of hostilities in Europe.

There are no letters written by him about his time in Italy and he did not keep a diary.  I do have a number of negatives [some I have lost because they were stored incorrectly], photos and postcards.

My Dad did not talk much about the war.  What little I know I am in the process of writing down as you have suggested, hence my enquiry.  It took me awhile, but in his latter years I got his permission to apply for his medals and I now have these.

He did talk about arriving in Egypt in Maadi Camp.  He spoke about fellow soldiers buying water melons from the market.  The locals had bored small holes and put water into them to increase the weight, as they were sold by weight.  Needless to say they got sick!  As a young child I remember him making pizzas.

I liked your stories from your Dad that you mentioned in no. 5.

He made friends with a Dr Franc[e or o] Ziffer in Solferino, Florence, whom my older sister visited while on her OE in the 1970s.  I am trying to trace his family as well as that of D Celestino Cerri.

Thanks again for your many suggestions for further research which I will work through.

TPB

Thanks all for your suggestions.
I will work with Bookbox's suggestion and see if I can find him?

TPB