08-04-2008, 02:10 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008
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 | hello hi, i'm amy, wife to peter, mother of 2 boys. i'm tracing my family tree and have found a few people that served in the forces. i found the great war forum yesterday and joined that and then googled to see if i could find 1 for ww2 and i did. i have pics of my maternal grandfather in uniform as well as his record books, and medals. he was in queens own royal west kent in the 1920's. my paternal grandfater was in RASC during ww2, i have 2 of his medals, this is all i know of his career. my father was in the local TA in the 1960's,his records dont tell me anything more than his number and the time served. m 3rdd grt uncle was in he 18th BN durham light infantry during ww1 and was killed in action. |
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08-04-2008, 02:13 PM
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| Pog mo thon   Join Date: Apr 2004
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 | First of all welcome Amyw1 and its nice to have you here. Feel free to post away!
__________________ "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 |
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08-04-2008, 02:14 PM
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| I Like Tanks   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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 | Ayup Amy, Hope you find what you're looking for here. Cheers, Adam.
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09-04-2008, 09:15 AM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Welcome Amy and good luck with your research.
__________________ 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 |
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09-04-2008, 10:52 AM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Neverland
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| Welcome to the forum Amy hope you enjoy it here.
__________________ 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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09-04-2008, 02:23 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Coulsdon Surrey UK
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| Welcome Amy, would love to see any pics or stories etc you would like to share with us, and hopefully someone wil be able to shed any light on things yo would like to know. Lee F
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09-04-2008, 10:12 PM
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| Battle of Barking Creek   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Hi Amy and welcome.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. John McClane: "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." Avatar: SOE (F Section) agent Andree Borrel murdered at Natzweiler Camp 6th July 1944.  |
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