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Title: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: martin hooper on Friday 27 September 24 10:50 BST (UK)
Hello

This is the 5th and last signature from the 1938 RAF Uxbridge postcard that I can't interpret. Can you help?

thanks

Martin
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: mckha489 on Friday 27 September 24 11:00 BST (UK)
E. C. POWEL?
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: martin hooper on Friday 27 September 24 11:16 BST (UK)
Hello mckha489

Yes I tried that name but didn't come up with a result.

Thanks

Martin
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: arthurk on Friday 27 September 24 11:32 BST (UK)
Parnell? (but the 'rn' doesn't look quite right to me)
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: martin hooper on Friday 27 September 24 11:46 BST (UK)
Parnell? Everything's worth a try. I can look through the images in Air 78 and if the name appears with a service number in the right range - Bingo.

I'll report back - it takes a bit of time.

Thanks

Martin
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: martin hooper on Friday 27 September 24 14:31 BST (UK)
No it isn't Parnell. Nothing in Air 78 fits.

Martin
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: arthurk on Friday 27 September 24 15:25 BST (UK)
Powley? Or Pawley? - if you haven't already checked these.
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: martin hooper on Friday 27 September 24 16:35 BST (UK)
Hi - just tried Powley and Pawley. Drew a blank.

Martin
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: tonepad on Friday 27 September 24 16:50 BST (UK)
Paseley?


Tony
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: arthurk on Friday 27 September 24 16:58 BST (UK)
Or Pardew?
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: martin hooper on Sunday 29 September 24 17:41 BST (UK)
Tried all the ideas, but still working on it. He's the last.

I'm determined to find him.

Martin
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: hepburn on Sunday 29 September 24 19:44 BST (UK)
powner
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: Cas (stallc) on Sunday 29 September 24 19:52 BST (UK)
Maybe  :-\

E C Pawell

Cas
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: ChrissieL on Sunday 29 September 24 20:01 BST (UK)
POYSER maybe?

Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: haliared on Sunday 29 September 24 20:03 BST (UK)
Maybe a swirly E C Power?
Title: Re: Help with names on RAF postcard. No. 5
Post by: martin hooper on Monday 30 September 24 11:09 BST (UK)
I finally found an entry that seems to fit.

Ernest Harry Pownall.

His service number is 621889 which is midway between two other sequences of numbers in the list of men. The signature doesn't look like an H as the second initial but I'll accept it for now. Nothing else came close.

I've posted an image of all the names and numbers in my other thread.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=885979.msg7591534#msg7591534

Thanks for all your help - I appreciate it.

Martin