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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #108 on: Thursday 07 May 09 04:36 BST (UK) »
I've just been brushing up on the posts I missed.

Tim, your idea about a main Fromelles thread and a sub thread for each soldier by name is an excellent idea! I for one am very confused and the info about some of the individual soldiers has been repeated several times ... or does it just seem like that?  ::)

Your explanation of the battle is very interesting and easy to understand.

Newbie or not your contibutions make perfect sense.

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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #109 on: Thursday 07 May 09 05:22 BST (UK) »
Thanks Ruskie ... he is on our list ... if you go to www.fromelles.net and check the list of names you will see he is there.
He enlisted in Western Australia (where I live )...  however, having another family contact is wonderful (even more so because he is from my family's stamping ground in Cornwall)

Can you send me a pm with the email address :)

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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #110 on: Thursday 07 May 09 05:40 BST (UK) »
Hi All, Especially Sandra and Tim,

My OH and I will wait and see if the Moderators make separate threads for each lad on the list at page 1 of this thread, before we post results of our trawling through their AIF records, however we will also check our GR subscription to see if we can find any current members there who may have forebears on that list.  If so we will pm Sandra with any possible clues there.
OH has asked me to emphasise that even if we are duplicating anyone's previous work we would not ever consider this to be a chore, and we are not making adverse criticisms of anyone.  I have explained to him that no-one has even suggested that concept, and that the task that is important is to find descendants.  He is a mechanical engineer, you know, sees things as black or white, rather than in shades of grey.  But he understands this task is about finding possible descendants so it is a matter of finding shadows of clues and sharing them tactfully and with respect.
We await the Moderators considerations as to separate threads for each Lad.
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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #111 on: Thursday 07 May 09 13:01 BST (UK) »
Regarding Benjamin Richardson, who gave his family in Blaxhall as next of kin, we have a lead and I am expecting a telephone call this afternoon.

Tim, for me the saddest aspect of the battle at Fromelles, as told on television and radio here in the UK, is the fact that these men and boys were trying to divert attention away from the Battle of the Somme.  Instead we lost even more lives.

Pat ...

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SUFFOLK - Pendle, Stygall, Pipe, Fruer, Bridges, Fisk, Bellamy, Sparham - all link to  Framlingham 
DERBY - Bridges and Frost (originally Framlingham/Parham)
NOTTINGHAM - Lambert & Selby
BERKSHIRE/then Hammersmith LDN - Fulker
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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #112 on: Thursday 07 May 09 15:10 BST (UK) »
Australians first read of  this battle in newspapers. Here is how it was initially reported to the civilian population here in Australia

OTHER WESTERN LINES AUSTRALIANS IN ACTION. SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.LONDON July 20. General Haig, in his report this morning, announces raids in which Australian troops played a part, as folows : - 
Yesterday evening (Wednesday), to the south of Armentieres, and the north-west of Lille, we carried out some important raids along a front of two miles. The Australians took part in the raids. About 140 Germans were made prisoner.

EXCELLENT RESULTS.LONDON, July 20. The newspapers give prominence to the excellent results which attended the raids by the Australians in the Armentieres-Lille region. The raids were on a more extensive front than any General Haig had previously reported.

GERMAN VERSION.  AMSTERDAM. July 20. 
To-day's German communique states :  The English yesterday attacked with considerable force our positions west and north of Fromelles, but were thrown back by our counter-attacks from the points which they penetrated. We took 300 prisoners.   

This cutting is from the Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury, published in Hobart 22 July 1916.
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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #113 on: Thursday 07 May 09 17:31 BST (UK) »
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My OH and I will wait and see if the Moderators make separate threads for each lad on the list at page 1

As there are a lot of people on this list, we think it better for you to decide who you want to research further  :)

Start a new topic, titled "Fromelles - 'name being researched' ", and inform a moderator. 
We will add the topic link to the original list. (see the originating message for some examples).
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,379339.msg2522803.html#msg2522803

If there are already replies on this topic about particular individuals, and you wish to add more, let the moderators know.  We can then "split off" the existing material to form a new topic for you  :)


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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #114 on: Thursday 07 May 09 21:23 BST (UK) »
Regarding Benjamin Richardson, who gave his family in Blaxhall as next of kin, we have a lead and I am expecting a telephone call this afternoon.

Tim, for me the saddest aspect of the battle at Fromelles, as told on television and radio here in the UK, is the fact that these men and boys were trying to divert attention away from the Battle of the Somme.  Instead we lost even more lives.

Pat ...

(researching the names on the War Memorial in Little Waldingfield, Suffolk
 www.sudburysuffolk.co.uk/greatwar)



Hi Pat,

Drifting off topic for a moment, can I just say how wonderful that Sudbury website is?

Glen

Bezant (London/Suffolk), West (London/Essex), Walker (Yorkshire), Phillips (West Country - believed Bristol area), Tibbetts (Warwickshire), Armstrong (Co Fermanagh), Harvison (Co Wexford), Neeb (Germany), Becker (Germany), Jakobsson (Finland). Kanneworff (Germany and Denmark)

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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #115 on: Thursday 07 May 09 23:32 BST (UK) »
Thanks Pat ... getting a bit excited now :)

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Re: Fromelles Missing - UK lads in the AIF
« Reply #116 on: Thursday 07 May 09 23:55 BST (UK) »
Some of you have requested a"gathering" on this, and some of you may have noticed the new Mod on the AF board...

The x2 have come together in this thread to try and keep track of the Fromelles names...

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,380152.0.html

Send me a PM of any new name threads, and I will add them...Do stick with me a bit, as this RC Modding is all new to me... ;D ;D
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