Can anybody shed some light on this 42 year old buried/remembered at Portslade Cemetery? Casualty I found him today on the 1939 ID register under the exact date of birth as a guy I've hunted for years by the name Herman Jeeteman. Ancestry records are free this weekend and his 1939 entry linked to my tree.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 Name: Harold L Goodman Death Age: 42 Birth Date: abt 1904 Registration Date: Dec 1946 Registration district: Brighton Inferred County: Sussex Volume: 5h Page: 152 UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current Name: Cpl Harold Lawrence Goodman Death Date: 18 Dec 1946 Death Place: Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority, East Sussex, England Cemetery: Portslade Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Portslade, Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority, East Sussex, England Has Bio?: Y URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem... TD
Thanks Tricky. I'm so glad I checked his new hints today on Ancestry. Think I've been looking for him for over a decade.
Apart from the obvious, get the service record, is there anything to be gleaned from the photographs Harold's granddaughter has kindly given me permission to post. I see he is an AC2 at Skegness in 1941. I don't know anything about the other uniform or if there is any further information on the back of either photo. His granddaughter Suzanne and her cousin Kev are keen to explore Harold's service, but she is on holiday at the moment. All I can tell you is my Herman Jeeteman is definitely Suzanne's grandfather Harold. Thanks in advance if there's anything you can suggest apart from getting the record. Cheers Maria
Harold's record has arrived. There's more, but our computer has decided not to cooperate with the scanner. Not the best photo, but the copies are quite blurry. His 1943 entry explains the uniform (Africa, with 298 Wing - Suzanne's husband reckons they were based at Takoradi, Gold Coast (Ghana)? Harold has kept his civilian occupation as a Chef by the looks of it. I don't feel I can guide the family through his record. What do you suggest they research first? Should they be looking for war diaries for 2756 Squadron, 298 Wing etc?
Did you know of this? https://www.greatwarforum.org › Home Fronts › Places & Infrastructure 1 Aug 2014 - When Herman married my g. aunt in 1924 he was using the name Harry Jutman, but when he dies in 1928 he is named Herman Jeeteman ... also seems to link somehow to https://www.facebook.com/pg/knockaloeinternmentcampiom/posts/ Naturalised German/Dutch? Don't know how you can make head or tails of it, but felt you should be made aware.... From RAFCommands
No. 298 Wing RAF - Wikipedia ...........was based at Takoradi, Gold Coast (Ghana), West Africa during the Second World War RAFCommands :: Old Forum Archive 2756 was formed from 756 Airfield Defence Squadron 2756, Eglington 1941-LAA May 1943- Disbanded 1944 2 Pdc details of 2 PDC Morecambe TD
A Google search links to a George Pegler on Ancestry Canada with many scanned photos and documents. His mothers maiden name was Lizzie May Pegler, from the Birth Registration in Post #3 - does that help?
Cheers lads for the info and links. Those are my queries Kevin on the Great War Forum, when I was researching Harold's father. He was from Saxony and had been a waiter in Scotland and was interred during WW1 at the Knockoloe Camp on the Isle of Man. I see there's a few threads about Takoradi. Away for a read through. Thanks again.
Some articles (titles below) from '43 mentioning Takoradi 026 We have got some air routes after all 041 Seamans Club In The West Med 060 They're off to the circus
