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  His service records are among those which are lost, but I know he was in the Army Service Corps, and from previous help on this forum, that he was in Motor Transport and joined in 1916. I now have 2 pieces of what I suppose might be called trench art which I remember from childhood in his house. One is a brass matchbox holder(?) with his name on one side and Onnaing Nov. 1918 on the other. I have recently had the other item returned to me - a paper knife engraved on one side 1914 France, and on the other 1919 Valenciennes.
   I have established that Onnaing and Valenciennes are very close together, so wonder if that was where he was in Nov 1918, though I guess that A.S.C. Motor Transport could have been all over the place! The only other thing known to the family is that he stayed in France for about a year after the war, some of the time in Wimereaux. Clearing up?

  I need to forward an attachment to about 35 people. It is 973KB. I have no idea whether this is a large amount, but there are a lot of colour illustrations in it. I am just wondering whether this might strain my computer and internet. Old Dell Latitude laptop, no idea about internet.

   I have just come across this term, which I have never heard before. The press cutting from 1930 relates to "the old stump windmill", (which was demolished about 1868), and says that the "stump was a very old one".
  I suspect it is another term for a post mill, but has anyone come across the term? All I found online were references to something rather different in Ireland; this one was in East Kent.

  I may be asking the impossible, but this is my problem. I have two Edwardian postcard albums which belonged to my great aunt. One in particular is now very fragile, and I am considering what to do about it. The rather Art Nouveau cover is probably salvageable, but the pages are a sort of sugar paper with slots for the cards and are fragile and coming out of the cover. I would prefer not to use the modern type of postcard album.
   Does anyone know whether there is a supplier of the old style pages?