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« Reply #369 on: Monday 22 January 07 23:36 GMT (UK) »
Bonsoir à tous,

C'est difficile pour moi de dire ce que je pense en anglais, alors je vais le faire en français et vous traduirez dans la langue de Shakespear si vous le désirez.

Merci beaucoup pour vos paroles, souvent charmantes et pertinentes, vous êtes si nombreux à vous adresser à moi dans les messages que je suis un peu perdu et ma lenteur à écrire en (mauvais) anglais ne me permet pas de répondre à chacun d'entre vous individuellement, comme j'aimerais tant pouvoir le faire.

Plusieurs de vos messages m'ont fait fondre en larmes.... je suis un grand sensible !

Je  m'adresse donc maintenant à vous tous qui avez pris la peine de suivre Annie, relevé le défi, car c'était un défi,  et vous êtes lancés dans cette fabuleuse aventure, pour un français inconnu mais sincère, qui a eu l' outrecuidance un jour de lui demander, sans détour, par internet (quelle belle invention) : "Annie, vivez-vous à LIVERPOOL ?".

Je m'adresse aussi à ceux qui ont suivi, jour après jour, la progression des recherches, à ceux qui ont simplement lu les messages, à ceux qui ont amené des réflexions, des avis et des conseils  pleins de sagesse et d'humanité, ceux qui ont compris, dans un petit message de quelques lignes la motivation qui m'anime depuis si longtemps (en réalité, j'ai trouvé le wrist tag en juin 1977 quand j'ai pris mes fonctions à la Mairie de LA COUTURE).

j'espère de tout mon coeur que la parution de l' article dans le journal "ECHO" de LIVERPOOL sera utile et provoquera  le déclic qui permettra de trouver une fin heureuse à cette affaire.

Je n'avais qu'une crainte, que Robert William STEAD ait encore été de ce monde au moment où j'ai commencé à le chercher et que, par manque de réussite dans ma maladroite recherche, je l'ais en quelque sorte manqué, raté, dans l'espace temps.

Imaginez un instant qu'un jour je sois allé frapper à sa porte et lui dire : "bonjour Monsieur STEAD, je viens de France vous rapporter ce que vous y avez perdu pendant la guerre, il y un demi siècle" !

J'ai souvent imaginé cette scène dans mes phantasmes les plus fous, j'ai même un jour rêvé que Robert avait mon visage et mon corps... allez comprendre ce que cela pourrait bien vouloir dire...

Bien sûr, je suis désolé que sa vie ait été si courte et qu'il n'ait pas pu couler des jours heureux après les souffrances qu'il a du endurer au front, son corps blessé, son âme meurtrie par les horreurs que ses yeux ont vues dans la boue des tranchées.

je crois qu'un jour, quand tout ceci sera terminé et que la médaille de Robert aura trouvé une place qui corresponde parfaitement à sa véritable signification, j'écrirai,  peut-être pas un livre, mais plutôt un petit receuil, court et facile à lire,  pour expliquer ce qui m'a un jour amené à entreprendre cette démarche.

Excusez-moi, je vous prie d'avoir été si long.

Michel KNOCKAERT


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« Reply #370 on: Monday 22 January 07 23:44 GMT (UK) »
TRANSLATION for us lot! ;D ;D ;D

Good evening with all, It is difficult for me to say what I think in English, then I will make it in French and you will translate in the language of Shakespear if you wish it. Thank you very much for your words, often charming and pertinantes, you are so numerous to address to you to me in the messages which I am a little lost and my slowness to be written in (bad) English does not allow me to answer each one among you individually, as I would like so much to be able to do it. Several of your messages dissolved to me in tears.... I am large sensitive! I thus address now to you all which took the trouble to follow Annie, taken up the challenge, because it was a challenge, and you are launched in this fabulous adventure, for unknown but sincere French, who had the impertinence one day to ask him, without turning, by Internet (which beautiful invention): "Annie, you in LIVERPOOL live?". I also address myself to those which followed, day after day, the progression of research, with those which simply read the messages, to those which brought reflexions, opinions and councils full with wisdom and humanity, those which included/understood, in a small message of some lines the motivation which animates me since so a long time (actually, I found the wrist tag in June 1977 when I took my functions with the Town hall of the SEAM). I hope of all my heart that the publication of the article in the newspaper "ECHO" of LIVERPOOL is useful and causes the catch which will make it possible to find an end happy with this business. I had only one fear, that Robert William STEAD still was of this world at the time when I started with the chercheret that, for lack of success in my awkward research, I to some extent missed it, missed, in space time. Imagine one moment that one day I would have gone to strike with his door and to say to him: "hello Mr STEAD, I come from France to report to you what lost there you during the war, it there a half century"! I often imagined this scene in my most insane phantasms, I have even a dreamed day that Robert had my face and my body... will include/understand what that could agree to say... Of course, I am sorry that his life was so short and that it could not run out of the happy days after the sufferings which it has of enduring with the face, his wounded body, his ravaged heart by the horrors which its eyes saw in the mud of the trenches. I believe that one day, when all this is finished and that the medal of Robert will have found a place which corresponds perfectly to its true significance, I will write, perhaps not a book, but rather small a receuil, short and easy to read, to explain what has me one day brought to take this step. Excuse me, please have been so long.
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« Reply #371 on: Monday 22 January 07 23:47 GMT (UK) »
Jude,

Many many thanks for your speedy translation

Simply, The SEAM is LA COUTURE
I am your obliged

Michel

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« Reply #372 on: Monday 22 January 07 23:51 GMT (UK) »
C'est ma plasir mon ami

(that is the extent of my French phrasing I am afraid)
Grand Merci pour Alta Vista!!!

J ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #373 on: Tuesday 23 January 07 00:01 GMT (UK) »
I dont know how everyone else feels but this bit got me

which it has of enduring with the face, his wounded body, his ravaged heart by the horrors which its eyes saw in the mud of the trenches.

Pardonez moi mes amis - said with a true Lancastrian accent there - but that bit says it all - what that this "little" wrist tag witnessed.

All the more reason why this "petit" tag should find a "maison" to live in - n'est pas???

J
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Barnicoat - Cornwall Lancashire Stockport,Cheshire
Jones (!) - Caernarvonshire,NWales  USA - Iowa, Wisconsin, S Dakota.
Thomas - Anglesey, USA Iowa, Oregon

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« Reply #374 on: Tuesday 23 January 07 00:10 GMT (UK) »
Jude,

for : wich it has of enduring with the face, please read with the front"line"

Michel

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« Reply #375 on: Tuesday 23 January 07 00:17 GMT (UK) »
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« Reply #376 on: Tuesday 23 January 07 00:21 GMT (UK) »

Thanks Kev !  :) :)

I'm such a dufuss at posting that stuff !

Wonder how come he only got one medal ??

Annie  :) :)
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« Reply #377 on: Tuesday 23 January 07 01:26 GMT (UK) »
He has 3 medals the 1915 Star  he got when he was in the Kings.

Then the BWM & VM would have him as a  S/Lt in the MGC.

So on the 1915 Star Should be 1466 Pte R.W.Stead L/Pool Regt.

On the BWM & VM Should have Lt R.W.Stead, it may or may not have MGC.

The MGC would have issue them, but the 15/Star Should have the L/pool Regt on it