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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Peter Ford
« on: Monday 14 April 14 20:15 BST (UK) »
Hi Mat,
Just came across your enquiries about Peter Ford and spent 20 minutes getting back to you after getting lost on RootsChat.
I notice a few dates that didn't jell but can offer the following extract for something I'm writing that might help resolve them
"The bunch of blokes in the dojo were friendly and the teacher, Peter Ford, was a smiling half oriental 2nd Dan. He’d been in the paras, I suppose in WW2 because he talked about guarding this German 4th Dan, but Peter didn’t look old enough. He told me they would use blackout material to make Judo suits and a mat canvas."
This would have been around 1964, Peter was already a 2nd dan so that couldn't have been him in 1972, unless he was regrading! As far as I know Peter was never in the BJA, he was definitely in the BJC but I suspect this might have been a later move, sometime around 1966?
I'm not going to wade through all the postings to pursue this; if you want to contact please do so directly: (*)
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Just came across your enquiries about Peter Ford and spent 20 minutes getting back to you after getting lost on RootsChat.
I notice a few dates that didn't jell but can offer the following extract for something I'm writing that might help resolve them
"The bunch of blokes in the dojo were friendly and the teacher, Peter Ford, was a smiling half oriental 2nd Dan. He’d been in the paras, I suppose in WW2 because he talked about guarding this German 4th Dan, but Peter didn’t look old enough. He told me they would use blackout material to make Judo suits and a mat canvas."
This would have been around 1964, Peter was already a 2nd dan so that couldn't have been him in 1972, unless he was regrading! As far as I know Peter was never in the BJA, he was definitely in the BJC but I suspect this might have been a later move, sometime around 1966?
I'm not going to wade through all the postings to pursue this; if you want to contact please do so directly: (*)
(*) Moderator Comment: e-mail removed in accordance with RootsChat policy,
to avoid spamming and other abuses.
Please use the Personal Message (PM) system for exchanging personal data.