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World War Two / Re: POW Matthew Draper
« on: Wednesday 09 March 11 22:45 GMT (UK)  »
hi Jim, was there national service in 1922? it was making him 17 the first time he enlisted then?
Didn't get to the Museum today glad I've read your mail would have gone for no reason.
thanks Gill

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World War Two / Re: POW Matthew Draper
« on: Tuesday 08 March 11 22:39 GMT (UK)  »
hi Jim, got loads of information from the questionaire that the PoW's filled in when they got back to England. He put down his enrolment date as 6-4 -1938 and that before he was a miner, which would be right living in the village that he did in the northeast of england.
Hopefully I'll get to the DLI museum tomorrow, I'm in the area.

Gill

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World War Two / Re: POW Matthew Draper
« on: Friday 18 February 11 08:58 GMT (UK)  »
this is getting interesting.
We now know that his PoW number was 3885 and that he was at different camps 014 Memmingen, 344 Lamsdorf and 030 Poznan. He was a private in the DLI number 4442769
Just read an interesting picec about men taking the identity of another man so that they could escape. writing letters home and everything, so could mean he wasn't in one of the camps as well.
If he did survive all that and come back to England what became of him?

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World War Two / Re: POW Matthew Draper
« on: Thursday 17 February 11 13:38 GMT (UK)  »
found the camp it's the one in poland also a website with photo's
www.lamsdorf.com
looking into it further

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World War Two / Re: POW Matthew Draper
« on: Thursday 17 February 11 13:10 GMT (UK)  »
been on Google earth. Lamsdorf is in germany under Berlin and lambinowice is in poland under Wroclaw So miles from each other.
could be that Lamsdorf was a holding camp and from there that he went to Poznan.
Here is the postcard from.
Will have to dig deeper

thanks Gill

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World War Two / Re: POW Matthew Draper
« on: Thursday 17 February 11 09:34 GMT (UK)  »
My grandmother came from Sunderland so I think he did as well.
Always thought he died that she then married my grandfather in okt 1946

also had a number of 3885014

gill

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World War Two / POW Matthew Draper
« on: Thursday 17 February 11 08:30 GMT (UK)  »
Found a photo and postcard in my grandmothers things.
the photo is of a old boyfriend Matthew Draper that we think died in the war ( ww2)
With a postcard out of the POW camp Stalag XXI D.
Where can I find information I'm not a relative
thanks gill

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Europe Resources & Offers / Re: Finding Dutch ancestors
« on: Thursday 09 September 10 19:31 BST (UK)  »
I married a Dutch man so his family tree was easy,
If you have Family from Brabant this is also a good site where people have done the research already.

http://www.regionaalarchieftilburg.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=225&Itemid=364

or this site   www.bhic.nl

unfortunately not in English, I'll help translate if you need it

Gill

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US Lookup Requests / Re: James Wright 1869 and Family
« on: Tuesday 07 September 10 15:21 BST (UK)  »
thanks Sandra, we'll see if it gets a result.

Gill

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