Sgt. H V F. Archer 1287321 RAFVR.

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  1. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Looking for a photo of the following airman.........


    Sgt Hector Vivian Francis ARCHER 1287321.

    Survived the ditching of Liberator MkIIIA LV341 (120 Squadron) on 13 August 1942 but was killed when with 224 Squadron when Liberator BZ713 was shot down on 30 May 1943 by German heavy fighters. Son of Francis and Florence Archer of Twickenham. Middlesex and was 32 at the time of his death.

    http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1082893/ARCHER,%20HECTOR%20VIVIAN%20FRANCIS

    Been looking for a photo of Archer for quite a few years now, the only one missing from the crew of LV341.
     
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  2. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Thought I would give this another try.
     
  3. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Hi Peter
    Have checked through Ancestry - nothing showing I'm afraid

    TD
     
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  4. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Thanks for looking TD
     
  5. dp_burke

    dp_burke Junior Member

    I've hunted ancestry myself many times.

    As he was born in 1911 the birth index doesn't list a mothers maiden name but he is on the 1911 census aged 3 months.

    Ill try compile a tree
     
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  6. dp_burke

    dp_burke Junior Member

    I'm confident that i found the family in electoral registers, father may have passed awy around 1936, there abouts, then there was a brother (assumption) named Norman Dudley Archer, lived with his parents from 1933 through to the time of his death in 1988. Mother died around 1963, and the son Norman, was still living at the family h9ome of 58 Morley Rd, Twickenham. Doesn't look like he got married, there is no spouse listed in the electoral registers up to 1965.
     
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  7. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    One possible way around this is to use the parents information - fathers full name, mothers forename and calculation of the marriage date, then find their marriage details, which should hold her maiden name.

    TD
     
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  8. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

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  9. alieneyes

    alieneyes Senior Member

    Does anybody happen to know which OTU Sgt. Archer attended?
     
  10. dp_burke

    dp_burke Junior Member

    I have addresed the parents issue.. his brother being born in 1913 that birth index gives Cottrell as mothers name.
     
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  11. dp_burke

    dp_burke Junior Member

    Since found that his parents married in India in 1909. His dad may have been in the Army but its a bit confusing within available records.
     
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  12. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Peter

    Don't know why I didn't mention it before - have you applied for his service record, sometimes there is a photo attached to them - you might be lucky - there was one of my dad attached to his.

    TD
     
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  13. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

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  14. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Good idea Clive, I'll contact the paper early next week with a request for help. We'll see what the result is

    Regards

    Peter
     
  15. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Peter perhaps a call to the British legion
    each copy of their magazine that comes out has a section of "looking for someone" from WW2 or other conflicts
    The Royal British Legion's Head Office and postal address is:
    199 Borough High Street
    London SE1 1AA
    0808 802 8080
     
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  16. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Another good idea Clive, I've already sent a request for help to the Twickenham local paper, lets hope they print it.
     
  17. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    At Clive's suggestion I contacted the Richmond and Twickenham Times newspaper at the beginning of May, and as far as I am aware they did not print my request for help, in fact they did not even reply to my email.

    Still looking
     
  18. dp_burke

    dp_burke Junior Member

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  19. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Thanks for that, I didn't realise. I had looked on their website but failed to find it. Not a lot of luck by the looks of it :(
     
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  20. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

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