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World War Two / Re: Call-up if colour blind
« on: Monday 04 March 24 22:32 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Ashtone on Monday 04 March 24 21:42 GMT (UK)
Examples of reserved occupations in the Second World War included coal mining, ship building, railway and dockworkers, farmers, teachers, doctors and lighthouse keepers.

Haven't found anything yet about excluding someone who was colour blind, except:
"In World War II, color blind observers were used to penetrate camouflage."
Now that looks like a rabbit hole to dive into! Thank you

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World War Two / Call-up if colour blind
« on: Monday 04 March 24 21:33 GMT (UK)  »
My grandad was born in 1909 so he'd be 30 years old when WW2 broke out.  He worked as a miner in a coal pit owned by the local steelworks.  He was married with four children.  I have always assumed that he was in a reserved occupation, but did that automatically mean he wasn't called up?  I've recently been looking into WW1 tribunals about call-up and that was very interesting.
Or, would he have failed a medical because he was colour blind?  I've tried searching Google but all the results seem to be American.

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World War One / help with identifying unknown uniforms
« on: Wednesday 28 February 24 22:54 GMT (UK)  »
I think this is WW1 era but I might be completely wrong.  It's come to light among my late aunt's possessions and the man on the left has a real family resemblance but I have no idea who it might be.  The family were from Stocksbridge near Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, but those aren't the York & Lancaster badges which was the "usual" regiment for the locals to enlist in.  I'd appreciate any comments about this, which might help me to try and work out who is on it.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Meltham WW1
« on: Sunday 03 December 23 14:42 GMT (UK)  »
I found regular reports in our local newspapers but very few named names.  The ones with names came from the National Archives website; they were not local to me but I used them when writing a piece for our local history forum because they served as good examples of what was said etc. 

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Meltham WW1
« on: Saturday 02 December 23 21:30 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: heywood on Saturday 11 November 23 21:05 GMT (UK)
Does this help?
https://huddersfield.exposed/book/16717#page/n1/mode/2up

The Arnold Greaves in that booklet was from Stocksbridge WRY.  Took us a while to work out why he wasn't on any of our our local memorials.  His mother moved to Meltham after she was widowed.  That's an interesting booklet, thanks for the link.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Meltham WW1
« on: Saturday 02 December 23 21:28 GMT (UK)  »
It's a long shot but you could try the Call-Up Exemption Tribunals.  A lot of ours (Stocksbridge WRY) don't name names but it is sometimes possible to work out who they were (a local auctioneer and valuer - there was only one), a butcher with four sons (worked that one out).  Also, some of the records at the National Archives mention people by name, usually when they were appealing the tribunal's decision. 
EDIT the tribunals were reported in the local newspapers

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Sentenced to 1 day in prison, Sheffield
« on: Saturday 02 December 23 20:45 GMT (UK)  »
On 28th May 1920 Sheffield magistrates sentenced Rose Artliff to 1 day's imprisonment for abandoning her three children home alone while she walked to Nottingham from Sheffield to find the father of two of her three children (she had just completed a month's sentence in Nottingham for criminal damage).  She was heavily pregnant with a fourth child. Her three children were in the Sheffield Workhouse and she refused to be admitted there, so the one day sentence was "the only course which seemed human" to the Bench.  What is odd is that the very next day she gave birth to the child in the Nottingham Workhouse.  She was the informant on the birth certificate.
What I need to know is:
1. Where would she spend one day in prison?  I assumed Wakefield but maybe they just kept her in the cells in Sheffield for a day?
2. How did she get to Nottingham?  The first time she went, she walked there.  As she was the informant on the birth certificate, did she lie about the date?  Surely she didn't walk to Nottinham again in that condition? 
Just trying, and failing, to get my head around this, if anyone has any suggestions.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Family member
« on: Friday 27 October 23 22:13 BST (UK)  »
Are you on Facebook?  There's a "Heritage Silkstone" page.  I see some of their posts now and again, graveyard transcriptions, photos etc.  Might be worth a look. 

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The Common Room / Re: flags/bunting on an old photo
« on: Friday 08 September 23 11:45 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: tonepad on Wednesday 30 August 23 06:37 BST (UK)
Hi Claire64

What is on the other side of the street where the camera is?
There are many youngsters/children at the front of the crowd, many female.
There are also babes in arms in the crowd.

Most of the flags are for Nations or Navy Ensigns, but two are possibly not.
Would go for USA flags, the flag of Malaysia was adopted in 1950.


Tony


I have been unable to find out where this was taken, though I have many similar photos taken at Whitsuntide or on various procession days.  They did like a good procession. The photographer had a studio at Old Haywoods, Deepcar, and I thought at first that this photo was taken in that area on the main road through Stocksbridge/Deepcar but no one locally recognises the buildings.  I thought perhaps the photo was taken from a bedroom window but it could have been taken from a stage.  I've been looking at the local papers but without a date I am struggling.  I cannot believe no one on our local Facebook history group with many thousands of members knows where it is.  I've been comparing other photos in my collection and going cross-eyed with it all!

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