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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Name: Alice L?th?b??-Lic?
« on: Wednesday 12 May 21 22:06 BST (UK)  »
I appreciate the help on this.
It is, in fact, "Bunker." Mrs. C. A. Bunker was Anna M Maxfield (1858-1937) who was married to Reverend Charles A. Bunker. Photo below.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Name: Alice L?th?b??-Lic?
« on: Wednesday 12 May 21 19:06 BST (UK)  »
Found five cabinet card photos at an antique store. All taken in Chicago ca. 1890 and labeled on the reverse by the same person. I've identified four of the subjects confirming they did live in Chicago ~1890. I can't conjure a coherent last name for the fifth (photos shown below). Unfortunately, the cards were taped in ziplock bags obscuring my photos of the names (I did not buy the cards). Plain reading: "Alice Lethebem-Lict" but can't find anyone even close to that. 
 

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WWII In Memoriam / 24 Nov 1943, John Stanton, age 21, RAF(VR) 7th Squadron
« on: Saturday 13 June 20 16:13 BST (UK)  »
On short notice John filled in for a flight engineer on another Lancaster bomber crew (JB 480). He'd already flown two missions in the previous four days with his regular crew on "Queenie" (JA 962). JB 480 went missing over the North Sea returning from Berlin.

Mechanically minded, John loved working with his hands. He enjoyed inviting others to eat out - he always picked up the tab.

Sgt Arthur John Stanton, service #1604584

Lest we forget.

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World War Two / US Navy base photo, where is this? Philippines 1945?
« on: Tuesday 26 January 16 19:59 GMT (UK)  »
This photo is from the collection of Alvin Wayne Rouggly, US Navy serial number 982 74 91. Can anyone confirm this is the amphitheater at the Navy Storage Depot on the southern tip of Samar, Philippines (NSD 3149)? The photo was taken in 1945/46. The stage is flanked by two vertically-mounted aircraft wings and, over center stage, there is the depiction of a cartoon rabbit holding something. The lettering to the left of the rabbit appears to say “NSD” in an art deco font. Can’t tell what it says to the right.

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WWII In Memoriam / 23/24 November 1943, Arthur John Stanton, age 21, 7 Squadron RAF
« on: Tuesday 26 January 16 18:38 GMT (UK)  »
John was lost during the Battle of Berlin. At the last minute John was ordered to replace a flight engineer on Lancaster JB 480 (marked “MG-N”) out of Oakington.  It was John’s third mission in six days. They took off the evening of 23 November, one of 26 bombers, loaded with a 4,000 pound “cookie” and 5 medium capacity bombs. They went missing and were never found. 
John’s regular crew, lead by Flight Sergeant Roger Clifford, went down ten weeks later, 29 January 1944, over Germany. Two crew members (including Clifford) survived the crash and were incarcerated in Stalag Luft 6.

John's last rank was Sergeant, he was service # 1604584.

John is still very much missed by his cousins who remember the lunches he treated them to in London. John’s name is on the Runnymede Air Forces Memorial.  Lest we forget.

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Europe / Re: Switzerland: question regarding birthplace, where or what is "Bam"
« on: Saturday 17 January 15 15:08 GMT (UK)  »
Yah, know, I bet that is it. Thanks!

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Europe / **Completed** Switzerland: question regarding birthplace, where or what is "Bam"
« on: Friday 16 January 15 21:17 GMT (UK)  »
The 1860 United States census provides the birthplace of Mary A. Rugley (b. ~1806 - I do not have her maiden name yet) as "Bam" which I have strong reason to believe is (was) in Switzerland. Below are two images of the term as it is written by that enumerator. Anyone know what or where is "Bam"?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: * COMPLETED * Need help with a word in a Royal Marine's record during WWI
« on: Tuesday 14 October 14 01:39 BST (UK)  »
Correct, he was not in battle but back at Chatham after being in front-line positions for about a year (he previously was in Antwerp, Ostend and Dunkirk). When he came back he kept going absent for a few days at a time for a period of about two months.

From what I have seen in my own family as well as other Navy records, "running" was not terribly uncommon when personnel came back from the front. I had another great uncle (this marine is my great uncle) who was a torpedoman and on two occasions left for a period of weeks to be with his widowed mother. Like this marine, he was later forgiven these absences because he performed well when he had to. He survived, on three separate occasions, a mine, a torpedo strike  and a collision.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Need help with a word in a Royal Marine's record during WWI
« on: Tuesday 14 October 14 00:29 BST (UK)  »
Yes, I think you are right! I was thrown by the scribble on the next line which made the "e" look like a "y." And that is some kinda capital "A."

Thank you Martin and Claire!

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