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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Friday 24 June 11 10:36 BST (UK)  »
OK.  Jim and I met yesterday for a beer on (for a change given recent conditions) a very beautiful winter's day on the balcony of the Queanbeyan Leagues Club overlooking the river. Photos attached.  I apologise for the particularly bad hair day (on my part, I hasten to add).  The grim looks captured in the photo don't reflect the very pleasant afternoon we shared.

From left to right, the medals are:
.   The 1939-45 Star for operational service during World War II;
.   The Pacific Star for operational service in the Pacific theatre between 8 December 1941 and 2 September 1945;
.   The War Medal 1939-45 for full-time service in the Armed Forces, wherever that service may have been rendered during the war; and
.   The Australia Service Medal 1939-45 (ribbon in very poor condition).

Once again, thanks all for the interest and help, and especially thanks to Mr and Mrs Wilson (who found the medals and who made the effort to start tracking down the family), and to Jim who posted to this site.

John

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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Wednesday 08 June 11 11:13 BST (UK)  »
Hi all

I picked up my grandfather's medals from the post office today. 

My thanks to Kevin, Jimmy, Ruskie and all others who exprerssed interest or made such extraordinary efforts to help .

John

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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Monday 16 May 11 04:03 BST (UK)  »
Of course I'll let you know developments re the medals.

And I can see how this stuff might become addictive.  I was looking over google maps etc to check the locations and via Wigton found this, which is interesting given the coincidence of Daniel and Mary's son Jonathan Holiday in 1871. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Holliday.

John

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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Monday 16 May 11 02:38 BST (UK)  »
Back home and acess to the 'net.  Amazing detail you've managed to dig up, Ruskie.  Was going to PM this to you, but somehow seems impolite given the efforts you're going to.

No additional family information that I'm aware of - I think one or another of my aunts must have done some digging, cause I remember half listening to discussions when I was a kid (including the stuff about the death certificate) but I wasn't really paying much attention.  I need to ask around as to who is holding that info.

I can confirm you've got the right "Esther". The on-line NSW register of Births Deaths etc provides a very few details, including year of death and parents given names.  Presumably the full records (which cost money to access eeerrk!) provide more detailed info.  Esther Myles died in 1950 at (or was registered at) Hamilton (suburb of Newcastle NSW). Her parents given names were Daniel and Mary.

Robert Wilkinson Myles died Hamilton 1948, parents listed as Henry and Rachel.

I'll feed your info into the family meat grinder - I'm sure there's someone with fewer expensive and time-consuming hobbies than moi who would like to take this further.

Thanks again

John



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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Friday 13 May 11 10:40 BST (UK)  »
Crikey Ruskie, you have been busy!  Coalminer, Ag labourer, Ag Labourer, Van man(?) - looks like I can't expect to step into that vacant House of Lords seat from THAT side of the family.

 I'm away from home at the moment and only accessing the internet opportunistically (or however one spells that word...).  I can tell you that I think you have accurately picked up my ggrandfather and family.  I have some vague memory of the names Wilkinson and Mary Annie. 

Family gossip is that the spelling of the family name changed from "Miles" to "Myles" as a result of a misspelling by the immigration/customs officer on arrival in Australia. 

The only other thing I can tell you from here is that the coroner who signed off on the death certificate of one or the other of the Cumbria (is that right?) Miles mob was a Dr Lumb, which was a touch ironic given marriages several generations down the track

I'm very impressed....  I'll contact you (via PM) with any more info when I get back. 

Thanks again

John

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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Thursday 12 May 11 06:36 BST (UK)  »
OK folks.  I just spoke to a very fine bloke named Kevin Wilson, Secretary of the Qld branch of the Naval Association of Australia.  Hiis wife found my grandfather's service medals amongst some donations to the Lifeline shop at Nundah and he's been searching for the family ever since.

My sincerest thanks to Kevin and his wife, to Jimmy and to the others on this site for thinterest and assistance.

Haven't been particularly interested in family history to date (I most of the history of the Lumb and Myles families in Australia), but majm's contribution did highlight the fact that I know very little of either of my grandmothers (Annie Turvey and Alice Williams).  I have some vague memory that the Turveys were blacksmiths in the Hunter Valley.... (just joking folks).

Thanks again for everything

John

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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Wednesday 11 May 11 04:51 BST (UK)  »
Ruskie (and Billyblue)

Yes a google hit while chasing something completely different.  Stopped me in my tracks I can tell you.

My grandfather was a bit of a "volatile" character.  Not surprising I s'pose - the depression, kokoda etc etc.  Anyway, he cut his ties with the family in the late 60s early 70s. 
I resume he took his medals with him when he left.

I think Annie (my grandmother) reconciled with him shortly before his death, but he was in a nursing home by then and I guess the medals (like almost everything else in his life) had already fallen by the wayside.....

John



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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Wednesday 11 May 11 04:26 BST (UK)  »
And a third to get my posts up... (thanks again for the advice Ruskie)

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Armed Forces / Re: Medals Found Corp Myles NX80730
« on: Wednesday 11 May 11 04:24 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Ruskie

Sorry about breaking the rules (a little stunned to come across this by total chance).

I don't know how things work, so I'd appreciate it if you could email Jimmy on my behalf.

John

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