Sapper 1940

echo · 10-01-2006, 12:43 AM

Hello everyone,

My first post:

I have recently discovered an uncle, who died in 1940

George Smythe: Sapper B/29063
Served with: Royal Canadian Engineers
Died: April 16th 1940
Buried: Toronto (Prospect) Cemetery Ontario

Question:
Where can I obtain further information:
Re: Next of kin - where he died etc.

I wrote to the National Archives, Ottawa, beginning of November, and have received no reply.

Also, trying to find a site to check obits, for April 1940, Toronto Telegram, and Toronto Star.

All help greatly appreciated!!

Many thanks,

Joan

Kiwiwriter · 10-01-2006, 06:25 PM

Joan, don't know, but the new Canadian War Museum might be able to help.

Welcome aboard, and thank you for your uncle's service to Crown and Country.

spidge · 10-01-2006, 10:26 PM

Welcome to the forum Joan.

Good luck with your quest.

Gnomey · 10-01-2006, 10:30 PM

Welcome to the forum Joan, good luck with your quest and thankyou for your uncles service to crown and country.

echo · 11-01-2006, 12:09 AM

Hi,

Thank you for your very kind words of welcome,. and I shall indeed get in touch with the
Canadian War Museum!!

Joan

10-01-2006, 06:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,431	Joan, don't know, but the new Canadian War Museum might be able to help. Welcome aboard, and thank you for your uncle's service to Crown and Country. __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

10-01-2006, 10:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,055	Welcome to the forum Joan. Good luck with your quest. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

10-01-2006, 10:30 PM	#4 (permalink)
Gnomey Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 2,963	Welcome to the forum Joan, good luck with your quest and thankyou for your uncles service to crown and country. __________________ "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum

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10-01-2006, 12:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
echo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2	Hello everyone, My first post: I have recently discovered an uncle, who died in 1940 George Smythe: Sapper B/29063 Served with: Royal Canadian Engineers Died: April 16th 1940 Buried: Toronto (Prospect) Cemetery Ontario Question: Where can I obtain further information: Re: Next of kin - where he died etc. I wrote to the National Archives, Ottawa, beginning of November, and have received no reply. Also, trying to find a site to check obits, for April 1940, Toronto Telegram, and Toronto Star. All help greatly appreciated!! Many thanks, Joan

11-01-2006, 12:09 AM	#5 (permalink)
echo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2	Hi, Thank you for your very kind words of welcome,. and I shall indeed get in touch with the Canadian War Museum!! Joan

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