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04-06-2008, 10:40 PM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | My old History teacher. Was wondering today about my old history teacher from Penhill Secondary School, Swindon when I was there ,1979-82. He was Mr Lowery (or was it Lowry?) He was in Bomber Command and postwar flew Vulcans. I think he was decorated, not sure though. Any RAF types able to shed any light on him? Long shot I know but he might be listed somewhere. Just wondered what he might have done and if he's still about. |
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04-06-2008, 11:46 PM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Windsor UK
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| Owen, Can you recall your history teachers first name, there are quite a few Lowery's and Lowry's listed in the London Gazette.
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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05-06-2008, 08:44 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: East Bay, CA, USA
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| Owen have you tried friendsreunited.com? A lot of teachers are listed there so perhaps one of the younger ones might know more about his RAF service. I understand it's now free to contact other members of the site. Lee
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05-06-2008, 08:54 AM
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| Ostfront is where its at!  Join Date: Apr 2004
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| friendsreunited is now free to contact others??? About time too. Owen have you tried contacting your school? Perhaps some staff members might remember him or have details?
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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05-06-2008, 09:39 AM
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| Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004
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| My History Teacher threw me out of class when I was 15 because I laughed at the idea of laying mines between the opposing trenches in WW1.
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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