Gas Light & Coke Company London 1915

[Pete Keane]

Thats very kind of you Barry, thanks.

If you can, readable photos of the memorial panels would be of great help, I can then correlate a panel number and the ROH names, makes it easier to provide info without having to hunt through discs.

Pete.

[PanMan]

No problem I will do my best.

Barry

[bolshybob]

 
I have absolutely no experience of researching family history. I am however writing a short (30-page) autobiography which I hope to will be passed on to future generations of my family.

Whilst writing a paragraph on my grandfather George Henry Dixon yesterday I searched on Google for the Gas Light and Coke Company for whom he worked. I came across Biker's post on 6th June 2006 and followed the thread to the bottom of the page.

Imagine my emotions when I scrolled down to a photograph of my grandfather which biker had posted in response to a query from meles.

I never met him, and have no photographs of him, but there is absolutely no doubt that the photo is him, as the family resemblance is really strong. I know that he served in France as a NCO before being repatriated to the UK where he ended the war as a weapons instructor.

Biker, meles, and everyone involved in RootsChat thank you so very much.

Amazing!

Bolshybob
 

[Pete Keane]

Bob

For your paragraph on him, you can add that he worked in the Gas Sales Dept in Goswell Road.

From the 1914 annual.

Pete

[Pete Keane]

Fao KAT60087

I have been through the 14/15/16 books, no mention of Collins in 'men with the colours'.

Pete

[bolshybob]

Thanks Pete. He is shown on his 1907 marriage certificate as a gas fitter and when he emigrated to Australia in 1923 he is shown as a plumber so I would think that in 1914 he was installing new gas appliances bought from Goswell Road.

This forum is great

Regards

Bob

[Pete Keane]

I think that would be spot on.

Pete.

[treehunter]

Hi there

Thank you for doing this, I have the family  name of Priddy that were lamp lighters most in Camberwell few other places as well.

Many thanks

Hazelx

[Pete Keane]

Hazel,

Can you give me a possible year?

Do you have any info that they enlisted, tells me where to look, as the books are big and not really listed in any sensible fashion.

Pete