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World War Two / Re: Archivist searches for former Prisoner of War
« on: Thursday 19 August 10 09:12 BST (UK) »
Thanks Nick. Waiting to hear ref 8 Sept idea.
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World War Two / Re: Archivist searches for former Prisoner of War
« on: Wednesday 18 August 10 17:18 BST (UK) »
You're in for a long and exciting journey. David Layne is a great contact for a start. So is Nick Fenton. Both had Dads in the PoW camp that your Dad was in. I would recommend you google all the bits of info that you have - if like me you'll find lots of nice surprises. Looking up your Dad in my trusty 'Footprints on the Sands of Time' by Oliver Clutton-Brock, I see the following in the massive PoW index:
Bliss, EJ, Sgt, 7 Sqdrn, Aircraft N3716, Stirling, Shot down 19 May '42, Mannheim, PoW camps L1 (Barth) L6 (Heydekrug) and 357 (Fallingbostel), PoW number 796
These little snippets will keep you occupied researching ... so many avenues await you.
Good luck and wait to hear of your progress. By the way, my Dad was Flt Sgt R C S Hancock (later Warrant Officer). And he was at L6 and 357, after a stint at L3 before they made it an Oflag, when he went off to Lithuania with the NCO fraternity in autumn of '43.
Pat
Bliss, EJ, Sgt, 7 Sqdrn, Aircraft N3716, Stirling, Shot down 19 May '42, Mannheim, PoW camps L1 (Barth) L6 (Heydekrug) and 357 (Fallingbostel), PoW number 796
These little snippets will keep you occupied researching ... so many avenues await you.
Good luck and wait to hear of your progress. By the way, my Dad was Flt Sgt R C S Hancock (later Warrant Officer). And he was at L6 and 357, after a stint at L3 before they made it an Oflag, when he went off to Lithuania with the NCO fraternity in autumn of '43.
Pat
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World War Two / Re: Archivist searches for former Prisoner of War
« on: Monday 10 August 09 17:35 BST (UK) »
Thanks David. I've just joined RootsChat in order to find you. I'm simply amazed at this miraculous turn of events and have now looked up your Dad, P O Wally Lane, in my Bomber Command reference book 'Footprints in the Sands of Time'. Lots of questions, like how was an officer in with an NCO in 357 Heyderkrug? Looking forward to sharing much more with you when you return from holiday. I'm based near Rickmansworth, by the way.
Kind regards,
Pat
Kind regards,
Pat
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World War Two / Re: Archivist searches for former Prisoner of War
« on: Monday 10 August 09 16:02 BST (UK) »
Dear David,
RE: Warrant Officer R C S Hancock:
I hope this finds you ... as I've specially joined RootsChat to try and get this message through to you. Having just picked myself up off the floor, I was shocked to see a page in my dear father's handwriting from someone's POW logbook. All I did was Google in his name - and bof! - there you are and there it was!
Just to let you know why he was featured in The Kriegie, Yorkshire Post Edition, but wasn't included in the address list at the back. With a Wiltshire father, Irish mother, born in India, he was an honorary Yorkshireman, by virtue of the fact that he married my Mum, a Yorkshire farmer's daughter (Woodhouse Farm, etc, as per the extract from the logbook). I have his logbook, miraculously, and also The Kriegie copy. Sadly his 'Handle with Care' disappeared in one of the many moves we had during his subsequent career in the RAF until he retired beginning of the 60s. He passed 18 months after a debilitating stroke in 1984.
My Dad, as one of 'Trenchard's brats' was a regular and so was a little bit older and more experienced than the conscripts. Hence he found himself up there with the camp leaders, as the second line of command to the greats such as the hero Warrant Officer J A G Dixie Deans.
So can I help you any further? And can you help me? I personally want to track down Ann Whittam, who is the daughter of one of the crew of the Whitley Z9280, shot down over Holland on 27/28 February 1942. All the crew perished except my father.
Hoping to hear from you (or see a reply somewhere). Otherwise, please find me on (*).
Regards,
Pat Jackson
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RE: Warrant Officer R C S Hancock:
I hope this finds you ... as I've specially joined RootsChat to try and get this message through to you. Having just picked myself up off the floor, I was shocked to see a page in my dear father's handwriting from someone's POW logbook. All I did was Google in his name - and bof! - there you are and there it was!
Just to let you know why he was featured in The Kriegie, Yorkshire Post Edition, but wasn't included in the address list at the back. With a Wiltshire father, Irish mother, born in India, he was an honorary Yorkshireman, by virtue of the fact that he married my Mum, a Yorkshire farmer's daughter (Woodhouse Farm, etc, as per the extract from the logbook). I have his logbook, miraculously, and also The Kriegie copy. Sadly his 'Handle with Care' disappeared in one of the many moves we had during his subsequent career in the RAF until he retired beginning of the 60s. He passed 18 months after a debilitating stroke in 1984.
My Dad, as one of 'Trenchard's brats' was a regular and so was a little bit older and more experienced than the conscripts. Hence he found himself up there with the camp leaders, as the second line of command to the greats such as the hero Warrant Officer J A G Dixie Deans.
So can I help you any further? And can you help me? I personally want to track down Ann Whittam, who is the daughter of one of the crew of the Whitley Z9280, shot down over Holland on 27/28 February 1942. All the crew perished except my father.
Hoping to hear from you (or see a reply somewhere). Otherwise, please find me on (*).
Regards,
Pat Jackson
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