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Offline Manchester Rambler

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SDGW lookup request
« on: Sunday 26 March 06 12:27 BST (UK) »
I'd be very grateful for any supplementary info from SDGW on my rellies:

Sydney JAMES - Corporal, Royal Welsh Fusiliers - d. 1916

Harry GOODWIN - Private, Sth Staffs Regt - d. Somme, 1916

Alfred Edwin SHAPLEY - Lieut, Northumberland Fusiliers - d. Somme, 1916

James McConning POTTS - Lieut, 2nd Bn Canadian Infantry - d. 1918

(Already have CWGC info.)

Many thanks!

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ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: SDGW lookup request
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 March 06 12:55 BST (UK) »
james

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Re: SDGW lookup request
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 26 March 06 12:59 BST (UK) »
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Re: SDGW lookup request
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 March 06 13:02 BST (UK) »
shapley....a 1st july man

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Re: SDGW lookup request
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 26 March 06 13:05 BST (UK) »
Potts is a canadian and doesn't appear in SDGW but his papers are on line here

http://www.rootschat.com/links/09h/

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Re: SDGW lookup request
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 26 March 06 14:25 BST (UK) »
all it says in SDGW canadian version is that he was killed in action aged 23,mack
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Re: SDGW lookup request
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 26 March 06 14:34 BST (UK) »
afternoon Mack!

his canadian attestation papers are full of information,  down to him being 5' 6" fair hair and of the Wesleyian faith!

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Re: SDGW lookup request
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 26 March 06 14:44 BST (UK) »
Yep - that's my guy, "cousin Jim".  Went off to Canada as a teenager (as far as I can see), and wasn't on speaking terms with his father when he died...  Sent my grandma (his aunt) lovely embroidered postcards from France, and died "rushing a machine gun post".   Invented the middle name McConning - blowed if I can find anything to explain it, becaude he's plain James Potts on his birth cert..

Thanks for the lookups - what's a 1st July man?   ???

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PS  We're a family of short****s!   ;D
ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: SDGW lookup request
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 26 March 06 14:54 BST (UK) »

1st July 1916

the opening day of the battle of the Somme, the worst day in the history of the british army  :(
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