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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Tuesday 22 August 23 12:40 BST (UK)  »
Thanks. Opened in February 1948, he was listed as living their on the marriage certificate of October 1948 and said to be a "Cook". This feels like the person I'm looking for though now. I don't know how the RASC fits into this, and there doesn't appear to be much info using a regular internet search about the forgandenny hostel either though.

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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Tuesday 22 August 23 11:28 BST (UK)  »
Some updates:

The name of the man I am looking for is likely to be Hans Baer, not Hans Behr as I had previously suggested. I have found two such men with that name with ties to the area that my mother was born, so it looks like it's one of them but clues are scarce for which one it is. The one thing that could suggest something is the military link, mentioned in the opening post about the RASC, and now I think with one of the men. When this man married he was stated to be living at the "British Agricultural Hostel" Forgandenny, Perthshire. Am I right in thinking this may have been a camp of some sort? Any help would be massively appreciated. Thanks.

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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Saturday 14 August 21 15:06 BST (UK)  »
Most of the POWs were supposed to be young so I guess working back from 1928 would be most logical of all, maybe even 1930 depending on just how young the prisoners were.

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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Saturday 14 August 21 14:59 BST (UK)  »
I don't know any dates so it would be casting a wide net to say he would be at least 16 and maybe at the most 50 at the time they were together. My grandmother (born in 1928) would have been 20 when she fell pregnant and gave birth so anything from 1900-1931 seems reasonable as a birth date for Hans.

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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Friday 13 August 21 12:16 BST (UK)  »
Yeah I'm currently using my free trial on Ancestry while I work through things, piecing things and names together etc. I'll do that for the next few days at least while FTDNA completes its transfer of the AncestryDNA data. Thanks for your help people, I'm determined to find something about this man!

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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Friday 13 August 21 09:45 BST (UK)  »
Which would be better to subscribe to: Ancestry or Family Tree? (or both?) I've already asked my mother and she wants as much info as possible so is willing to jump in with the most expensive subscription, but at the same time I don't want her wasting it. What do you guys recommend?

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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Friday 13 August 21 08:53 BST (UK)  »
Yeah I'll give that a try too. I've contacted a couple of other things/people I've found as well so hopefully something turns up. I'll try FTDNA today as well.

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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Thursday 12 August 21 17:27 BST (UK)  »
Lisa, I tried the German POW search previously to no avail. I think I may have done one of the others as well, I can't remember 100% right at this moment.
Honestly, this guy is like a ghost, there must be something on him somewhere! (I've contacted a Comrie group about potential info so I've got that to wait on in the meantime too).

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World War Two / Re: Information found on the back of a photograph. Please help.
« on: Thursday 12 August 21 17:24 BST (UK)  »
I'll try the FTDNA thing as well then. I'm not seeing anything for any children between Behr & Muller so far.

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