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  • Record Office: TNA - Kew (SORTED, thanks)

    Just found a very promising-looking record (for a friend's tree) in the FMP databases:
    WWII Escapers & Evaders
    First Name(s) W M
    Last Name FORD
    Rank Gunner
    Unit 1st Air Landing Light Regiment
    Soldier Number 5958239
    Series Name: POW - Escape report
    TNA series: WO208
    TNA piece number: 3351
    WEA No: 2/656/2129

    If anyone is going to Kew sometime soon, it would be very helpful if I could have images - especially if the "W M" is "William Maurice" from Watford, or thereabouts. (William Maurice FORD died in 1999.)

    There has been a bereavement in that family very recently and I think that something like this would be a little something to cheer them. If it's the right record, he was part of "The Bridge Too Far" (the Arnhem drop) - which I think was code-named "Operation Market Garden" or something... but that could be wrong.

    I do have a reader's card myself (have to check if it's still current), so would certainly look for that if I were to get a chance to go, myself.

    Christine
    Last edited by Christine in Herts; 28-10-11, 15:24.
    Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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    Thanks to Ann Swabey, I now have the records safely - and have passed them on to very great appreciation by the family.

    Christine
    Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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    • #3
      Ann does great work!

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        Originally posted by PhotoFamily View Post
        Ann does great work!
        She does, indeed!

        Christine
        Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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