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Somerset / Re: John Ernest PARSONS - Keynsham
« on: Sunday 21 January 24 18:05 GMT (UK)  »
John's widow's daughter contacted us and provided photos, shown on the website now.

https://ww2irishaviation.com/dw110.htm


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World War Two / Re: Family of the Crew of Sunderland DW110
« on: Sunday 21 January 24 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
Update!

J E Parson's widow's daughter contacted us some years back so we got a series of photos and found an obituary to tell his story.

H C S Armstrong, he has a thread else where on the forum, no surviving relatives that I can see.

leaving only, Charles Stanley HOBBS

His name was confirmed from RAF AIR78 indexes, next of kin determined from next of kin address.

So far I have determined:

Sgt Charles Stanley HOBBS 1644857
Charles Hobbs was the one crew that little was learned about.  His service number 1644857, indicated he enlisted sometime on or after October 1941 at Cardington (Bedfordhire).

He was listed on the crew list as FME/AG, a flight mechanic engines/air gunner.  His next of kin is listed as Ethel Hobbs at an address in Islington.  This address reveals Stanley was still resident there at the time of of the 1939 register and working as a General metal worker.  He and Ethel had married in 1934 in the Finbury district, their marriage certificate revealing his parents were Florence and Charles Alfred Hobbs.  His father is listed as a silversmith in 1934 and at the time of his death, his probate records listed Charles Stanley Hobbs, silversmith as his next of next of kin.

Charles is described as seriously injured in crash in casualty notices but survived and at this time there is no indication that he ever returned to active duty.
He passed away in Islington, London in late 1990.

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Cumberland Completed Lookups / Re: Howard Charles Sheffied Armstrong
« on: Sunday 21 January 24 18:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hello all

I found that he had a brother, John Alfred Sheffield Armstrong, who died in 2000.  His 1997 will left things to a number of institutions, including, tantalizingly, his family history and photo albums to Carlisle County Archives.  Sadly, they have no record of receiving anything like this following enquiry last week.  The probate solicitor likely remembers nothing of the case but it was 23 years ago.  The will mentioned no relatives at all.

He left some paintings to a museum so I will check with them as a last resort.

I have managed to contact grand daughter of one of H C S Armstrong's co pilots, she might have some other photos.

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Canada / Re: Charles Stewart Brady and family - Toronto search goes on
« on: Monday 13 May 19 22:46 BST (UK)  »
Excellent,

I would love a copy of the Irish Military Archive G2 report if you have it to hand, I am trying to gather them together for each of the 180+ events.

I have at the moment a summary of his wartime RCAF service, not including overseas service and am will tonight again try to extract all the relevant mentions of him in the 434 Squadron ORB (Diary).  His posting in is proving elusive.  I did note that the chap writing the Squadron diary at times mentions when men got married etc, I was hoping to cross reference the date of his wedding with the ORB to see if its mentioned.

If you drop me an email at dp_burke@yahoo.com, I have a few pages from the ORB to send on at least.
regards

Dennis

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Canada / Re: Charles Stewart Brady and family - Toronto search goes on
« on: Wednesday 08 May 19 12:35 BST (UK)  »
Hello there
its been seven years since this topic was active, and its breifly mentioned above in post#1 but the young Charles Stewart BRADY of the RCAF on 23 Oct 1941 found himself in the sea off the coast of neutral Ireland after his aircraft crashed.  He was interned with the other crew member who survived in the Irish Army internment camp in the Curragh Army base.  he was released on 18 Oct 1943.

I would love to make contact with any relatives of his.  there are a number of archival documents I have available and links to online accounts of his time interned, etc.

My website is:
www.ww2irishaviation.com

best regards

Dennis Burke

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