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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: ALAMO2008 on Friday 10 March 23 13:32 GMT (UK)
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Any Ideas please?
(https://i.postimg.cc/3NsgTCk0/20230310-132311.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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All I can say at the moment is that it seems to start with 'G' and end with 'son'.
It's a difficult one and I may be wrong about even that attempt!
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I'm wondering if it's Watkinson, preceded by either Geo or G and another initial. (Or possibly Matkinson, though that's a lot rarer.)
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G?? matkinson
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Matkinson looks good as does Geo.
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See also this thread-
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=871057.0
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FreeBMD throws up just 1 of that name.. a female.
Possibly just Atkinson with 3 initials.
Not particularly relevant but just wondering what's going on
with his posting.
18th. Supply column was an ASC operation.
The 3/5th. KLR was a Reserve Btn. based in Oswestry pretty
much for the entire war.
Temporary secondment perhaps.
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Geo Watkinson
That signature reminded me of the time our bank asked my late husband (initials BWM) to change his full signature which had deteriorated to three or four ovals.
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18th. Supply column was an ASC operation.
The 3/5th. KLR was a Reserve Btn. based in Oswestry pretty
much for the entire war.
Temporary secondment perhaps.
It is the 18th Supernumerary Company of the 5th Bn KLT [TF]
These were the companies formed to guard vulnerable points [bridges etc] and also guard PoW's. These Coys went to form the Royal Defence Corps when that was formed around April 1916.
The location for this one, the Isle of Man*, suggests the 18th Supernumerary Coy, 5th Bn KLR was a PoW guard unit.
* see other thread
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Brilliant find !!
Cheers
I always wondered where Carl Bernard Bartels was imprisoned on Isle of Man 1914 to 1919
away from his British Wife and British Children
and then Deported from Isle of Man back to Germany
even though he had been a Naturalized British Subject pre War
Haven't been able to look at the Liver Birds with Pride for Years after I found out about his Treatment
http://www.liverpoolmonuments.co.uk/sculpture/bartels.htm
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The address on the Isle of Man might be for a HQ or Admin. The actual camps were sizeable ones.
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The main WW1 Internment Camp was at Knockaloe, Patrick, nr Peel (rhymes with halo!).
There was a smaller camp at Cunningham's Holiday Camp, which was close to Little Switzerland, nr Douglas.
See: http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/history/intrn_ww1/douglas/index.htm
and: http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/history/intrn_ww1/index.htm
ManxNoteBook written by RC member Frances_mnb
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he was held in Knockaloe (Knockaloe camp #5793 where he was registered on 18 May 1915 - transferred to Spalding for deportation on 14 Jan 1919
(see my site www.manxnotebook.com for details of these camps)
his PoWIB number was 14924 from which brief details can be found as those with PoWIB #s below 15000 can be found under the Military section in the Red Cross (ICRC records) - age 24 gave address as 7,11 Bahnhofstr Hamburg
he came to Knockaloe from Handforth (a Camp nr Manchester that was being cleared of Civilian internees ready for Military combatant PoWs) and was probably in Camp 2 compound 1