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Offline ladynicotine

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Military magazines in Dover
« on: Friday 28 February 14 18:39 GMT (UK) »
Hi

My grandfather was an "explosives maker & filler" before he joined the army in WW2, & he was born & grew up in Dover.  I know there where no gunpowder mills in the town, but believe that there may have been magazines at the Castle &/or the Western Heights, so he could have been employed at one of these places (his father & both grandfathers were also ex-army men).  Does anyone know if there are records anywhere of those who may have worked at such places?

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Re: Military magazines in Dover
« Reply #1 on: Monday 01 December 14 02:35 GMT (UK) »
I don't know of any explosive factories here in Dover - I think they were further up the line.
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA

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Re: Military magazines in Dover
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 04 December 14 17:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi Bill

Many thanks for letting me know.

Lady N
Eastwood - Kent/Sussex; Apted, Phillips- Sussex; Jermy - Norfolk; Grove - Buckinghamshire; Coles - London; Pilgrim, Harvey - Kent/Essex; Gambrell/Gambrill - Kent
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