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World War Two / Re: Identifying a service record
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 17:31 BST (UK)  »
Thank you ShaunJ. I assume as a driver he'd have taken the plant to where it was required? .Is there anyway of finding out where he was and is it possible he was ever a POW of the Italians?

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World War Two / Re: Identifying a service record
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 16:41 BST (UK)  »
This is the letter

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World War Two / Re: Identifying a service record
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 15:40 BST (UK)  »
I'm waiting to see if my son will be able to do this for me Shaunj

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Worcestershire / Re: Bromsgrove special school
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 15:13 BST (UK)  »
This is a verrry old thread but just goes to show how we need to keep an open mind and keep looking.
I was convinced the school that the library found was correct and posted the information on our web site BUT today some 12 years later I found a tiny tatty old envelope which contained a reference for my mother dated 1940 on the envelope is written "Hunter's Hill Open Air School Blackwell Nr Bromsgrove
So there it was hidden among my own clutter!!

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World War Two / Re: Identifying a service record
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 10:03 BST (UK)  »
Thank you both it will take me a step further in piecing this Uncles life together he sadly did not have children so its left to my cousins and I to remember him

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World War Two / Re: Identifying a service record
« on: Saturday 16 July 22 20:35 BST (UK)  »
Royal Engineers how interesting. I have a letter sent by him April 1942 from the desert so I  canstart by looking at RE Units in the desert early 1942  Its a long shot

Looking again at the tiny letter with my sadly inefficient eye sight I think it says
"138ME Company Middle East Forces"
 Is that a good clue ?
Any idea what that means please?


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World War Two / Identifying a service record
« on: Saturday 16 July 22 17:16 BST (UK)  »
Is it possible to find which unit a man served in in WW2 given I only have the following very sparse information?

Name Norman PRATT
born 23 Sep 1919 Birmingham son of John George Pratt and Maria nee Hall
service number 1884211   from a message home
Served in the desert  written on  the back of one photo has desert rat 1942 it the photo shows him in an open neck shirt
1939 he was a plumber

There  is very little else ...one cousin thinks he served with the RASC and an elderly sister thought he may have been a POW in Italy  but dates and other familymembers don't seem to agree with that!

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Oxfordshire / Re: Oxfordshire Marriage Index?
« on: Tuesday 14 June 22 13:00 BST (UK)  »
I agree and with two attempts at getting a little Elizabeth But she isn't the mysterious Elizabeth nee Hutt  :(

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Oxfordshire / Re: Oxfordshire Marriage Index?
« on: Tuesday 14 June 22 11:25 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks looks a very useful site Ive bookmarked it  :) sadly in this case it hasn't solved the mystery but added another!
There were two possible Thomas Woodwards able tobe the father one married to Mary Simmonds 1717 and one to Elizabeth Issard 1718

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