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Re: WW1 & WW2 Soldiers - Pic heavy - Any idea who they could be?
« Reply #45 on: Wednesday 26 November 08 10:54 GMT (UK) »
Hi Emma

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There is also another chap on here who does Northamptons as well....


I think Scrimnet meant Alan Clarke.

http://www.northants-familytree.net/soldier%20index.htm

And I am from NORTHAMPTON too. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and was in the Northampton Independent in 1953.  ;D ;D ;D

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« Reply #46 on: Wednesday 26 November 08 15:48 GMT (UK) »
I was in the Merry Comrades.....
One more charge and then be dumb,
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        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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« Reply #47 on: Wednesday 26 November 08 17:22 GMT (UK) »
I'm telling you, it's the fame capital of the world!! ;D
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« Reply #48 on: Wednesday 26 November 08 19:34 GMT (UK) »
Well...A few other notables...

Princess Di (goes without saying...)
The Sitwell family (Weston by Weedon Lois)
Richard III (born at Fotheringhay)
Malcolm Arnold (composer)
John Clare (poet)
Edmund Rubbra (composer)
Nanette Newman
John Dryden (Poet Laureate)
Alan Carr (who now despises the town...Just because his dad was a pants Assoc Football manager)
Andrew Collins
Des O'Connor
Eric Coates (Dambusters March)
Jim Dale
HE Bates (author, Darling Buds of May, Flying Officer X etc)
Charles Montague (Prime Minister)
Robert Llewellyn (Kryten)
Lesley Joseph
Joan Hickson (Miss Marple)

Ooh I cold wax lyrical for ages...
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.


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Re: WW1 & WW2 Soldiers - Pic heavy - Any idea who they could be?
« Reply #49 on: Wednesday 26 November 08 19:38 GMT (UK) »
I think we'll have to get back on topic soon...Or we will be "moderated" for gossip!
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.