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Where is this? Grandfather in WW1
« on: Wednesday 22 April 20 20:06 BST (UK) »
I wonder if anyone can recognise this location, please. I've just received it from my niece who took it with her iphone so not as clear as it could be. I've done a bit of a clean up but hope to get a proper scan soon.

My grandfather was in the RWF.

Thanks for any ideas.

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Re: Where is this? Grandfather in WW!
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 22 April 20 20:17 BST (UK) »
Looks like it is in Cimiez,Nice.



Carroll - Monmouthshire/Glamorganshire/Cork
Hooley - Tattenhall, Cheshire
Lloyd - Gresford, Denbighshire
Platt - Wrexham, Denbighshire
Sullivan- Monmouthshire/Glamorganshire/Cork

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Re: Where is this? Grandfather in WW!
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 April 20 20:21 BST (UK) »
Carroll - Monmouthshire/Glamorganshire/Cork
Hooley - Tattenhall, Cheshire
Lloyd - Gresford, Denbighshire
Platt - Wrexham, Denbighshire
Sullivan- Monmouthshire/Glamorganshire/Cork

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Re: Where is this? Grandfather in WW1
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 22 April 20 20:23 BST (UK) »
Oh - it is isn't it,  Thank you so much  :)

I wonder when the RWF were there?

(Just noticed that I'd typed a ! rather than a 1 in the subject line so have edited)
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Re: Where is this? Grandfather in WW1
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 April 20 20:43 BST (UK) »
I've just been reading about the destruction of the monument by the Nazis in WW2 and its reconstruction

https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5809
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Re: Where is this? Grandfather in WW1
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 22 April 20 22:42 BST (UK) »
Just seen this and knew I had seen it before, but couldn't place it. Glad it has been found or I would have been puzzling over it.

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Re: Where is this? Grandfather in WW1
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 23 April 20 18:39 BST (UK) »
There were no RWF battalions with a posting as such in Nice during the WW1 conflict. He might have been there passing through France to an unit in other theatres e.g Palestine or India/Mespotamia.
What is his name/number? (address/home area if you haven't got his number)

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Re: Where is this? Grandfather in WW1
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 23 April 20 19:46 BST (UK) »
I'll have to look it up in my records.  I think I raised some of his WW1 history on here a few years ago.

As far as I recall from his diaries, he was mainly in France.
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Re: Where is this? Grandfather in WW1
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 23 April 20 19:52 BST (UK) »
Just found the info - Liverpool Annie found it - bless her heart:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=149750.msg690126#msg690126

Palestine looks the most likely
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