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Offline NorthernGeezer

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Not a Lot to go on
« on: Friday 08 March 24 23:07 GMT (UK) »
Seems most posts start the same when looking up a soldiers service record.........................mine is no different  ::)

I'm looking for my wife's father, William Parkinson, born in Manchester 31/10/1919 which made him 20 at the outbreak of WW2.

Family story is he fought in Egypt but that's about it, she doesn't know ANYTHING about his war record, other than his favourite saying was "I've got sand in me boots, I know what I'm talking about"...................and I don't think he meant it was from Blackpool beach  ::)

Any help would be great, specifically where to look.

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Re: Not a Lot to go on
« Reply #1 on: Friday 08 March 24 23:56 GMT (UK) »
"Trees without roots fall over!"
 
""People who never look backward to their ancestors will never look forward to posterity." - Edmund Burke

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Re: Not a Lot to go on
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 09 March 24 06:48 GMT (UK) »
Ref: Ancestry
1939 register  125 Aintree Road? Manchester

William Parkinson  4 February 1891 Steel erector
Edith Parkinson  24 April 1891
William Parkinson 31 October 1919** Rubber Trade labourer

So if he joined up it was after 1939

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Re: Not a Lot to go on
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 09 March 24 17:08 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that Scotsmum.....................done it  ;)

That's them amondg and your right, as a 20 year old at the outbreak of WW2 he would have thought of it as an adventure.
Not sure he had a good war though, my wife comments on his sharp temper and his 2nd home being the pub, which could be the result of his service.
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