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The attached photograph show the crew of an RAF Lancaster bomber taken in 1945. My uncle was flying with this crew until a few days before the photograph was taken, when he was killed by flak over Germany.

It would be fantastic if this precious photograph could be tidied up and coloured in honour of these brave men. I have made a few attempts myself but the results have been awful, so I was wondering if the very talented people here could perhaps have a go 

In terms of the colours, I would have thought that the life jackets would have been yellow; the Lancaster was mostly black with brown camouflage at the top, but I am sure that there are some real experts out there who could advise...

Thanking you all in anticipation - John

It would be greatly appreciated if some kind person is able to get to the Glasgow Western Necropolis and take a photograph of the gravestone of an RAF airman who was killed in an aircraft crash that I am researching.

The crash took place close to RAF Chivenor in North Devon and the man was taken back to Glasgow where he came from to be buried.

These are the details from the CWGC:-

HEAVISIDES, WILLIAM LEONARD     Flight Sergeant   802520   06/02/1942    23   Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force)   United Kingdom   Sec. R. Grave 1275.   GLASGOW WESTERN NECROPOLIS

Thank you very much - John

Many years ago I bought a box of photographs from a 'junk shop' in Burgess Hill in West Sussex.

I have now scanned them onto my website and I would be very pleased to pass any original onto descendants etc..

Some of the photographs have details on the back and among these the Sellwood name features, as does the family at West Worthing railway station.

http://www.reffell.org.uk/plogger/index.php?level=album&id=13

John

I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience...

Eighteen months ago I had a Y-DNA test in order to find out more about my deep past, not really expecting any connections to be made to any living person.

Surprisingly, two close connection (within 3 generations) have been made by ancestry, which is good news.

The bad news is that both of those are linked by by the same surname and seem to have been in the USA for several generations. It certainly looks like I am in the minority here.

However, I am reasonably confident of my paternal line here in the UK and can see no possible connection. Not withstanding some personal issue in the family (always possible of course, but seems very unlikely), I am wondering if it is possible that these companies can make a mistake either in the testing or something else???

John