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Other Countries / Re: Russia in 1915? George Blees Boardman 1915-1998
« on: Friday 09 January 26 20:53 GMT (UK)  »
Heywood, thanks for the welcome.

Sadly the Essex Chronicle of June 9th 1944 reported on the passing of one of George's twin sons, Robert Andrew Boardman at the age of 11 weeks in what would now be called a cot death. At the time, George was a Sergeant in the RAF but returned to his teaching post after the war.

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Other Countries / Re: Russia in 1915? George Blees Boardman 1915-1998
« on: Thursday 08 January 26 20:16 GMT (UK)  »
Well, I never knew that George's middle name was Blees. Mind you we just called him "Sir" when he was the German master at Braintree County High School from circa 1939 to the 1970s. I vaguely recall that we did know that he could speak Russian but we didn't know his background. He used to cycle in to school on his elderly bike which, looking back, he had probably bought new when he first came to Braintree.

One newspaper report describes him as acting as a "Perruquier" at an amateur dramatics performance. I had to look that up but it may be an indicator of an ancestors occupation.

His next door neighbour was the Physics teacher while a few doors down was the Biology mistress. 
 

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