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The Common Room / Re: WW2: Internment Camp British civilians at Bourg Leopold and Dongelberg, Belgium
« on: Thursday 04 August 22 15:37 BST (UK)  »
It seems that some gardeners employed by the Imperial War Graves Commission (now CWGC) may have been interned. It may be worth contacting the CWGC Archives at Maidenhead to see if they hold lists of any who may have been interned in Belgium. As I recall CWGC have lots of information about the impact of WW2 on their French and Belgian staff. Apart from that the following may be of interest:

https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/news/the-story-of-cwgc-staff-rescued-and-left-behind-in-the-dunkirk-evacuation/

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Wales / Re: Very high brick wall
« on: Sunday 03 July 22 13:46 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: amondg on Sunday 03 July 22 13:23 BST (UK)
24 September 1925 she received her certificate of training as a nurse in Edinburgh Scotland

address looks like Stothill Hospital Springtown

Age 22

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I would try Scotland's People- I don't a DOB in England or Wales

Should that perhaps be Stobhill Hospital, Springburn? That's Glasgow.

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The Common Room / Re: Death Registration
« on: Wednesday 01 June 22 12:16 BST (UK)  »
You can register a death at any registration office in Scotland. It does not need to be the district where the person lived or died.

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World War One / Re: Missing 1918 then found.
« on: Monday 30 May 22 18:53 BST (UK)  »


To find out what happened to him all you have to do is look him up on the CWGC website and it will tell you where he is buried. He will no longer be listed online as commemorated on the Arras Memorial although his name will continue to appear on a panel of the memorial itself until such time as the panel in question is due for replacement at which point it will be removed.

https://www.cwgc.org/

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World War Two / Re: My late Granddad Eric Newall RAF- Help deciphering information
« on: Sunday 15 May 22 18:56 BST (UK)  »
Not sure whether you need help with the abbreviations but just in case:

ACSB Air Crew Candidate Selection Board
ACRC Air Crew Reception Centre
ITW Initial Training Wing
ACDC Air Crew Despatch Centre
HE Home Embarkation
CRC Combined Recruiting Centre (there were quite a few of these)
MAFD Mobile Air Force Depot - In Pretoria where air crew could be stationed on standby prior to being posted to a more active squadron.
3RC Recruit Centre, Padgate
61MU - Sited at RAF Handworth, Wilmslow. A Universal Stores Depot containing just about any equipment the RAF used from knives and forks upward.
!01 PDC. Personnel Despatch Centre, Kirkham

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: JOHN BANGE
« on: Thursday 12 May 22 11:23 BST (UK)  »
Thanks GR2. I missed that bit about the census.

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: JOHN BANGE
« on: Thursday 12 May 22 10:48 BST (UK)  »
My understanding of "Home" in service records was that it referred to service anywhere in the United Kingdom. Leave would certainly be easier of course.

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Armed Forces / Re: Fleet Air Arm
« on: Tuesday 10 May 22 17:51 BST (UK)  »
The Fleet Air Arm was actively involved in the Graf Spee episode. The Ark Royal and other ships had been in the South Atlantic hunting the Graf Spee since October 1939. On 14 December Graf Spee had entered Montevideo harbour for repairs and Ark Royal was despatched to join the cruisers keeping watch on her from outside the harbour but was still over a day away when Graf Spee was scuttled. Her aircrew would clearly have anticipated being in action against her.

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World War Two / Re: War Graves
« on: Sunday 08 May 22 12:42 BST (UK)  »
The Dutch almost certainly got his wife's details from the CWGC. As can be seen from the photo of the old grave marker posted earlier it was marked with the IWGC (now CWGC) initials. Reburials were very common in the case of German burials in the UK:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=860996.msg7301360#msg7301360


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