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I want to learn something about my father's time as a Chindit in Burma. Albert Thomas Pegler (b. Bethnal Green 1922) was in Burma with Brig. Michael Calvert in 1944, recording some of his experiences in a diary, brief snippets when he was able. Billeted in Blackpool before leaving the UK, he returned there in 1946 and married my mother. I have never been able to find his war service record, although I have been able to access my grandfather's (Alfred Richard Pegler, b. Northampton 1988) WW1 service record during free access allowed by Ancestry in the few days around Anzac Day.
My mother's father, Harold Percy Poxon, (b. Derby 18960 served at Gallipoli in 1915, and likewise, I have never been able to access his war service records. I would be very grateful for any info on the wartime exploits of Albert Thomas Pegler, and Harold Percy Poxon.

We are looking for information regarding Thomas William Welsh, who came to Australia, but not at the same time as other members of his family. His wife, Isabella Allan Welsh, came to Australia in 1927 with her 14 year old son, John Moore. She gave an address in Ayr, Scotland, her age as 57 and recorded her occupation as 'Grocer.' Robert Allan Welsh (roughly 24 years of age at the time) came to Australia in 1929 from Ayr. There were many, much older children, probably settled in Ayr. At least two other children came to Australia, May Montgomery Welsh, who married Albert Melrose Treloar in Narandara, NSW, in 1936. Another child, Elizabeth Montgomery Welsh, also came to Australia. We can find no record of Thomas William/May or Elizabeth Welsh arriving in Australia. It is possible Thomas was in Military service, as the second oldest child, William Bruce Welsh, was born in Peshawar in India in 1895. William Bruce came to Australia in 1913, served in the 1914-18 war, and died here in 1959. Could anyone help us find Thomas William Welsh. The family can be found in 1901, living in Midlothian. Before marriage Isabella (nee Rollo/Rolley b. Dreghorn 1870) worked as a domestic servant in the home of Henry James Montgomery at Chestnus Square, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. She can be found on the 1891 census. Isabella Allan Rolley Welsh died in Lalor in 1954 as is buried in Geelong East cemetery.

I was born in Romford and now live in Australia. My grandparents, Alfred Pegler and Polly Keen, were married at Bethnal Green in the September quarter in 1911.

The families of Alfred and Polly (perhaps born Mary Ann, or Mary Sabina) are a mystery. The marriage produced eight children, the majority born at Bethnal Green, and the family eventually settled in Dagenham.

I am currently waiting for their marriage certificate to arrive, but if Polly didn't give the right name, or the right age (she apparently didn't have parental permission) then how can I find her birth certificate, or Alfred's (who supposedly lied about his age, too)?

What I mean is, when I start looking for their birth certificates, how can I be certain, from the marriage certificate, that I have the right people?

Can anyone help me find out more about the Poxon family, who live in Ribble Road, Off Central Drive from the 1920's to 1985?



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