Parachute Regiment Wedding photo Mystery?

Thanks for finding this. Incredible work from this forum! I hope I can post more mysteries if they ever arise? I do love WW2 history in general so joining was long overdue. There are some other mysteries I was researching for a journalist on a bomber crash in England and I think this website is a place I should have visited long ago. Thank you all.

 

I was thinking of purchasing the book but it looks out of print on Amazon. I'm a librarian so I think I'll get it from an Inter Library Loan request. Thank you.

 

Arthur Bert James
1923–1988
BIRTH 23/10/1923 • Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
DEATH 13/01/1988 • Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
Name: A B James
Rank: Private
Army Number: 7022654
Regiment: Army Air Corps
POW Number: 75364
Camp Type: Stalag
Camp Number: XII-A
Camp Location: Limburg, Baden-Württemberg

England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
Name: Arthur B James
Registration Date: Oct 1923
[Nov 1923]
[Dec 1923]
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District: Northampton
Inferred County: Northamptonshire
Mother's Maiden Name: Byrne
Volume Number: 3b
Page Number: 60

Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current
Name: Arthur Bert James
Death Date: 13 Jan 1988
Cemetery: Enfield Memorial Park
Burial or Cremation Place: Clearview, Port Adelaide Enfield City, South Australia, Australia
Has Bio?: N





TD

edited to delete one of the photos as there are better ones

 

Patient search in online newspapers with various keywords - Northampton, paratroop, Edmund, November, glad to have helped. Is there any other story behind you getting the photo in the first place? Who can find the link with Ashford?

 

Well done everybody, what a superb team effort.

 

A few copies out there but t’ain’t cheap!

https://www.paulmeekins.co.uk/produ...PANY-1942-1946-Gijbels-Peter--Truesdale-David

 

With all due deference and agreement to AB64's post here; Parachute Regiment Wedding photo Mystery?, and the admirable work of all good folk who have added to this thread.

Extracts from a book of an earlier time;

"FIRST IN! PARACHUTE PATHFINDER COMPANY by RON KENT" first published 1979 by B.T. Batsford Ltd.

Photo (not great quality unfortunately) may possibly have Arthur "Jimmy" James to the left (as you look at it) of the late Sgt. Thompson.

Kind regards, always remember, never forget,

Jim.

 

Yes. I do get it for most posts on this thread. I didn't get an email for the post with the solution and clipping for some reason?

 

I like geolocation photo mysteries and historical photo mysteries as a hobby so I search online for them. I posted this photo to a Twitter OSINT group who does modern photo mysteries but they also like the odd historical mystery. The original poster is at this Twitter link. I've contacted him on the thread so he knows the couple and location were found. He wants to find the family to get the photo back to them. This forum is a great resource and has some great people. I hope ww2talk members like these mysteries also and it's not a pain to see these types of threads? Thanks again!

https://twitter.com/NickGammage/status/1364550267031728129

 

I appreciate the added genealogical work! I've given this information to the owner of the photo who probably found it at a boot sale or something like that near Ashford, Kent. He says on the original Twitter post that he is looking for relatives to give the photo back to them. If I find anything out I will do a follow up post to this thread and forum. That would be awesome for all this great work to have a great ending. Thank you.

 

And no DCM. I've learned a valuable lesson on not believing everything I think I see and to listen to the experts!

 

Where did you find that nice studio photo?

Where did you find that nice studio photo? It's interesting to note I can't seem to find Private A.B. James mentioned on the Para Museum website Paradata.com. Are these photos copyright protected, privately owned or open sourced?

 

I always give credit to those who solve them or credit information. It's always a group effort in some way and needs a diverse set of people helping. The OSINT community on Twitter like to solve these through technology but classic research and genealogy skills are invaluable. That's why I like to give them these historical mysteries to crack. And as you see this forum cracked it to a level not possible through just basic OSINT techniques. I'll use the Twitter name link in the future if I can find any good WW2 mysteries to post here.

 

Thanks for this information. I tried some photo programs that convert the image to color but you can tell it's not correct. I thought for sure there must be technology out there that can tell the colors correctly but your information explains the difficulty and why just looking at it is very difficult. I have to be open to all options when looking at black and white but in the search for clues you must make a guess and work with it in order to progress in finding things. Thank you!

 

They are from a Public family tree on Ancestry

TD