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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Trying to get a date
« on: Monday 31 December 12 09:19 GMT (UK) »
Hi
I am trying to get a date from this postmark. I know the letter was posted in Lavenham Suffolk in (99% sure) 1942. It predates my parents wedding which took place on the 8th August. My Father was here (I think training) with the RAMC. Mum was at home in Sunbury on Thames.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Peter
I am trying to get a date from this postmark. I know the letter was posted in Lavenham Suffolk in (99% sure) 1942. It predates my parents wedding which took place on the 8th August. My Father was here (I think training) with the RAMC. Mum was at home in Sunbury on Thames.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Peter
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Any Chance PLEASE? ~ COMLETE Thanks.
« on: Sunday 19 August 12 19:57 BST (UK) »
Hi
not been on here for a while, so if you all tell me to clear off I will not be surprised. The problem is, I have a picture taken from Binfield (Berks) Cemetery and it has road signs in it. Is there any chance someone could remove them for me.
Thanks in anticipation.
peter
not been on here for a while, so if you all tell me to clear off I will not be surprised. The problem is, I have a picture taken from Binfield (Berks) Cemetery and it has road signs in it. Is there any chance someone could remove them for me.
Thanks in anticipation.
peter
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / trying to read the name, Help if you can PLEASE.
« on: Monday 14 November 11 21:06 GMT (UK) »
Thanks
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Flight Lieutenant Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM KSG MA RAF - COMPLETED THANKS
« on: Thursday 06 October 11 13:50 BST (UK) »
The Red Cross Tea Chest
Because of his very small stature Dominic Bruce (Flight Lieutenant Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM KSG MA RAF) was known ironically as the "medium-sized man". He arrived at Colditz in 1942 (after attempting to escape from Spangenberg Castle disguised as a Red Cross doctor). When a new Commandant arrived at Colditz in the summer of the same year he enforced rules restricting prisoners’ personal belongings. On 8 September POWs were told to pack up all excess belongings and an assortment of boxes were delivered to carry them into store. Dominic Bruce immediately seized his chance and was packed inside a Red Cross packing case, three foot square, with just a file and a 40-foot (12 m) length rope made of bed sheets. Bruce was taken to a storeroom on the third floor of the German Kommandantur and that night made his escape. When the German guards discovered the bed rope dangling from the window the following morning and entered the storeroom they found the empty box on which Bruce had inscribed Die Luft in Colditz gefällt mir nicht mehr. Auf Wiedersehen! — "The air in Colditz no longer agrees with me. See you later!" Bruce was recaptured a week later trying to stow aboard a Swedish ship in Danzig.....................(thanks to Wikipedia)
He was a Friend of my Fathers and I went to school with one of his sons. Anny chance of a tidy up please.
Peter
Because of his very small stature Dominic Bruce (Flight Lieutenant Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM KSG MA RAF) was known ironically as the "medium-sized man". He arrived at Colditz in 1942 (after attempting to escape from Spangenberg Castle disguised as a Red Cross doctor). When a new Commandant arrived at Colditz in the summer of the same year he enforced rules restricting prisoners’ personal belongings. On 8 September POWs were told to pack up all excess belongings and an assortment of boxes were delivered to carry them into store. Dominic Bruce immediately seized his chance and was packed inside a Red Cross packing case, three foot square, with just a file and a 40-foot (12 m) length rope made of bed sheets. Bruce was taken to a storeroom on the third floor of the German Kommandantur and that night made his escape. When the German guards discovered the bed rope dangling from the window the following morning and entered the storeroom they found the empty box on which Bruce had inscribed Die Luft in Colditz gefällt mir nicht mehr. Auf Wiedersehen! — "The air in Colditz no longer agrees with me. See you later!" Bruce was recaptured a week later trying to stow aboard a Swedish ship in Danzig.....................(thanks to Wikipedia)
He was a Friend of my Fathers and I went to school with one of his sons. Anny chance of a tidy up please.
Peter
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Other Countries / Imigration
« on: Thursday 10 February 11 14:35 GMT (UK) »
Hi all
the 1878 to 1960 immigration lists are now readily available.
Does anybody know how to check 1961 onwards. This does involve a person who MAY still be alive, so no names published here.
Thanks
Peter
the 1878 to 1960 immigration lists are now readily available.
Does anybody know how to check 1961 onwards. This does involve a person who MAY still be alive, so no names published here.
Thanks
Peter
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Elizabeth Clay Watson
« on: Tuesday 01 February 11 16:00 GMT (UK) »
Hi all
can anything be done with this. Thanks in advance.
Peter
can anything be done with this. Thanks in advance.
Peter
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Other Countries / James Rutherford HYLTON~Completed
« on: Monday 10 January 11 13:22 GMT (UK) »
Hi
looking for info regarding James Rutherford HYLTON, he came to England in the 1950's from jamaica. His wife Cynthia arrived after him in (9th Oct) 1960 aboard the m/s Northern Lights.
Address in UK given as 28 Tynmouth Rd Tottenham, N15.
Any help will be of use.
Thanks
Peter
looking for info regarding James Rutherford HYLTON, he came to England in the 1950's from jamaica. His wife Cynthia arrived after him in (9th Oct) 1960 aboard the m/s Northern Lights.
Address in UK given as 28 Tynmouth Rd Tottenham, N15.
Any help will be of use.
Thanks
Peter
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The Common Room / This may be OLD NEWS ~ 1911
« on: Wednesday 29 December 10 15:35 GMT (UK) »
Hi all
Ancestry have ~
1911 England & Wales Census Summary Books
1911 Isle of Man Census Summary Books And
1911 Channel Islands Census Summary Books online.
Not much detail but still interesting.
Peter
Ancestry have ~
1911 England & Wales Census Summary Books
1911 Isle of Man Census Summary Books And
1911 Channel Islands Census Summary Books online.
Not much detail but still interesting.
Peter