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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: macintosh on Tuesday 04 October 16 08:51 BST (UK)
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Sometime ago I was asking for info on the above officer who served in Mesopatamia with the Royal Engineers, the gist of the story was that I had rescued a photo album of his (not complete) time in Mesopotamia in ww1.
Unable to find a direct descendant to hand over the album to I said I would offer it anyone who had an interest, some time later I was asked by a person if I still had it and said I had posted onto someone who had expressed an intetest, this turned out to be another "senior moment" as I have refound the album in amongst some of my papers, if that person can contact me again I am willing to post it if they still want it.
James
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I am not the original person who contacted you regarding the album of Arthur Law Marshall, RE, but I have a great interest in him. I have his medals from World War I and would very much like to have a photograph or photographs of him. I know that you may have promised the album to someone else, and that is fine. If that person no longer wants it, I would love to have it. Failing that, I would love to get copies of some photos of him that may be in the album.
Regards,
Lt. Col. (Ret'd) Edward De Santis, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Search engines find entries on Rootschat very easily with results appearing near the top of the first page. If you were to post a number of the photographs on this forum you will be ensuring the maximum number of people will see them in the future. You need to put the subject's name in the title you give each image. And each title has to be unique.
Ken
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Lt.Col. Edward De Santis,
Sir,
You will need to post at least three posts on this site in order to be allowed to send a pm, if you do this I will be able to correspond with you.
Regards
James
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James,
I am new to RootsChat. What is a pm?
When you say three posts on this site do you mean posts regarding Marshall? Sorry that I am being so ignorant in this regard. I hate to take up your time having you explain things to me.
I can post some details regarding my research to date on Lieutenant Marshall. Will that suffice?
Regards,
Ed
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PM is a personal message that only the sender and receiver can read, post any thing you like regarding Lt A Marshall.
I am intrigued as to why you are researching an WW1 Royal Engineer Officer from Sunderland in what was County Durham, England,
I am ex military, Scots Guards.
Regards
James
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James,
I have his Great War medals (British War Medal and Victory Medal) as well as his Special Constabulary (GVIR) Long Service Medal. I always try to research in depth the lives and military service of the men whose medals I have, that is why I am so interested in getting photos of him.
I realize that you may have found his next of kin and that you may have sent them the photo album. If not I would like to get a photo of him from you, if you would be so kind, or if you no longer have the album, perhaps you could ask the people you sent it to to contact me.
I am retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1960-1980) and saw active service in Vietnam, 1970-1971. I also am a member of the Institution of Royal Engineers.
My web site at www.reubique.com may interest you.
Regards,
Ed
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Personal message sent.
James
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James,
My address is:
Moderator comment: Details removed, please use the personal message system for exchanging this type of information
http://www.rootschat.com/help/pms.php
I want to reimburse you for any postage costs. Do you have a PayPal account?
Ed
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My daughter lives in Chicago and birthday and xmas gifts as well as father's day gifts are a donation to the Wounded Warrior's Project, if you wish to donate the cost of the postage to this charity I will happy with that.
Regards
James
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James,
I will certainly do that!
Regards,
Ed
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posted today, usually 6 days.
James
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Wonderful! Thank you! I will let you know when it arrives.
Ed
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James,
Here are Marshall's medals. See attachment.
I have progressed very well on the story of his life and military service. The photo album, hopefully, will provide more details of his service - even if I have to interpolate based on the images
Ed
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The medals in my last post are, from left to right: British War Medal, Victory Medal and Special Constabulary Long Service Medal.
You may be familiar with these.
Ed
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Nice items, hope the album is of some use
James
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Album has not arrived yet, but should be due any day now.
I think the photos will help greatly in determining where he was and what he was doing, especially the one in Simla, which was a British rest camp in the mountains of India during that period. Wonder how he got there and why?
Ed
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Most of the pics as I recall were in Basra Port and other parts of Iraq, the pencil annotations beneath the pics are so difficult to read.
Yours Aye
james
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When I finish my write-up of his life and service I would like to send you a copy. Is there a way to send a lengthy MicroSoft Word document (.doc) through RootsChat?
Alternatively, I will be uploading it to my web site. I can let you know when it is up and give you the web site address for it.
Ed
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The web site is fine, look forward to it.
James
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James,
The album arrived today. I have donated $15.00 to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Fortunately Marshall wrote a good deal of information on the backs of the photos, so I don't have to try too hard to decipher the pencil notes beneath the photos. I am sorting and scanning and trying to improve some of the images so that they can be included in my research.
I found it interesting that he had more photos of India (presumably post war) than he did of Basra during the war.
This was a great find and I am truly grateful for your generosity.
Ed
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I am pleased it arrived safely and is of some use in your research, to many items from ww1 and other conflicts are discarded when the person dies and the info is permantly lost.
I like the fact an American Army Engineer is researching the war and life of a British Royal Engineer.
Many thanks for the donation to the WWP.
Best Wishes
James
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Sapper 5 - have you read WO 95/64/4 which I came across while researching an Inland Waterways man who served in France and Belgium?
Although its National Archives title suggests it is a war diary covering Sep 16 to Mar 17 is is in fact a series of memos written by Colonel G E Holland, the first Director of Inland Water Transport recounting the history of the formation and early development of IWT from Dec 1914. The memos stop at Mar 1917.
WO 158/851 is also a history but as it is not digitised I haven't looked at that one.
maxD
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Dear maxD,
Thanks for the references. I'll have a look at them.
Sapper5