Professor Alfie Mallard

[ScouseBoy]

Which official body awarded him the title "Professor"

Or was professor  simply his nick name?

Why don't you check on this.

[ScouseBoy]

Note to moderator:

This thread only incidentally refers to WW2.  Can I suggest that it could be moved to a more appropriate board,   such as "Beginners"  board.

[Archivist_47]

whatever you suggest

[Drew5233]

Try WW2Talk.com. Some of the guys in that forum are registered to Ancestry and FindMyPast and happily do look ups for free for new members if there's a WW2 link. Regardless of how tenuous - Good luck

[Archivist_47]

Just found this on him: "He grew up in a very poor area (West Bromwich) outside Birmingham. There was a large ICI factory nearby which spewed out chemicals and the smell of sulphur was really dreadful sometimes. He was one of 5 children. He ran away, under age, to join the Royal Marines and managed to get in somehow. His Dad tried to buy him out but he wouldn't leave. Tragically, all his siblings died of TB before they were 30. I guess he would have died too if he hadn't run away.

As a PTI in the Marines he was very fit and it was there that he learned to fence. He was in the Earls Court Royal Tournament PE displays too".

Any idea how to find out who his siblings were, who is mother was (Bowen, Galloway, Murray or Baker), what he did during WW2?
Any assistance would be gratefully received.

[ScouseBoy]

Have you sent off for his birth certificate yet?

[Drew5233]

Any idea how to find out who his siblings were, who is mother was (Bowen, Galloway, Murray or Baker), what he did during WW2?
Any assistance would be gratefully received.

See my last post

[Archivist_47]

Seems like a good idea.

[ScouseBoy]

Hi All,

Thanks for the interest. He was our PE teacher in the 1950s and 1960s and the only info we have on him is what was given during my study for a history of the school in Folkestone, Kent.
His wife Irene was on the Olympic Fencing Squad. I only know that he left the Marines as a Sgt. I don't know whether he was in the army or not.

   The Royal Marines are a separate structure to the Army.