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Berkshire / Re: Belcher ancestry
« on: Friday 26 August 22 07:05 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Trees on Tuesday 09 March 10 10:42 GMT (UK)
William and Elizabeth King

Why don't you think  William was;
William bapt 28 Jan 1730 son of Henry Belcher ?

Its been ages since I looked at the Belcher tree and many personal events have hindered my thought processes along the way!
But I am still not convinced that Elizabeth King's William was not the son of Henry.
I had a burial for what I thought was this William
William   BELCHER   6 Jan 1813   St James   West Hanney   83   Lyford
this giving a birth in 1730 which matches Henry's son    do you have another burial which is conclusively Elizabeth King's husband showing his age?

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World War Two / Re: Identifying a service record
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 19:32 BST (UK)  »
Ah so possibly Syria at least POW is unlikely
Poor chap he was very traumatised after the war not sure how much was due to his service and how much from this awful event :
The girl mentioned in the letter and he planned to marry as soon as he returned home but the day  he landed on GB her house was bombed, killing her.

Many thanks for your invaluable help

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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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