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The Common Room / Re: Searching for cousins - Smethwick area?
« on: Thursday 17 August 17 17:30 BST (UK)  »
Thanks - have replied to your PM !

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The Common Room / Re: Searching for cousins - Smethwick area?
« on: Thursday 17 August 17 17:00 BST (UK)  »
From my little basic research I think it would be the 1947 one - so I may have a 66 year old cousin - trouble is, if she is female, her name may well not be Janes anymore - that's the trouble I've had all along - we women change our names when we marry!!  Thank you!

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World War Two / Re: My uncle, John Albert (Jack) Pritchard
« on: Thursday 17 August 17 14:12 BST (UK)  »
I have a copy of the relevant page of the 1939 register with my grandparents, my mum and my other uncle on - and as it seems to be in chronological order, his being missing and older than the other two would indicate he was elsewhere - and maybe in the forces - hence my search!  Thanks.

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The Common Room / Re: Searching for cousins - Smethwick area?
« on: Thursday 17 August 17 13:53 BST (UK)  »
No, I'm not sure whether she is still alive since I haven't seen her for over 50 years.  I know you can't post about the living - which is why I've appealed to her relatives if they are out there - that's OK isn't it?  Thanks for your help!

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World War Two / Re: My uncle, John Albert (Jack) Pritchard
« on: Thursday 17 August 17 13:37 BST (UK)  »
Yes -that's him - I knew about the lack of will etc. but can find no trace of war records.  he is absent from the 1939 register so must have been somewhere!!  Thank you

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The Common Room / Searching for cousins - Smethwick area?
« on: Thursday 17 August 17 13:32 BST (UK)  »
Are there any children/grandchildren of Beryl S Janes (formerly Pritchard, born June 1928 and my mum's baby sister!) married to James Janes? I'm trying to research my grandfather, John David Pritchard - and if he is your grandfather (or great-grandfather) too, maybe you have a photograph of him?  He died two months before I was born and I've never even seen a photo, let alone met him. His dates are 19.2.1894 - 12.1.1946.

Hope you're out there - somewhere!  :)

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World War Two / My uncle, John Albert (Jack) Pritchard
« on: Thursday 17 August 17 13:04 BST (UK)  »
My uncle Jack born 5.6.1918 and died in 1979 - I believe from my mother that he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in WW2. He was born in Smethwick, Staffs - in the borough of King's Norton then, I believe.  Cannot trace any details of marriage, so probably no heirs (my cousins!). Can find nothing on the 1939 Register for the house in which his parents and siblings lived then (one of them was my mom!) - so presume he had enlisted already? - so with whom, where did he go, was he captured etc.  He was obviously released as he lived until 1979.  Any information would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance

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World War One / Re: HMHS Oxfordshire
« on: Friday 31 March 17 15:51 BST (UK)  »
Great maps and info! His Casualty form puts him in 12 CCS which was at Hazebrouck but then he was sent to 23 General Hospital in Etaples - presumably to await the departure of the Oxfordshire - presumably Boulogne to Liverpool? Must have been quite an ordeal - sailing with gastritis!!! Still he was lucky to get out well before Etaples got bombed - and all his mates who had to stay and endure the hell of the trenches!

Thanks, Jim! ;)

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World War One / Re: HMHS Oxfordshire
« on: Friday 31 March 17 12:46 BST (UK)  »
Romilly - thank you - that's the picture I have of the Oxfordshire - I'll check the 1943 footage too!

Jim - once again, thank you - Grandad seems to have been in and out of some hospital!  I have a copy of his Casualty Form but can't decipher it all. He's admitted on 1 Jan, 16 and then again on 3 Jan, 16 - so did they send him back for a day only to have to re-admit him?  And would it be a field hospital, or different ones - or even a real building?  They finally decided that they couldn't cure him and sent him back home 24.2.16 - or at least they discharged him from hospital on that date and presumably he had to wait until the Oxfordshire was setting sail for home.

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