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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 30 January 11 21:43 GMT (UK) »
Google GU35 9PD   it is possible that he was at that camp.  Go on to street view  and you can scroll along the perimeter fence.   Along the A3
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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 30 January 11 21:47 GMT (UK) »
Could be but who am I to argue - haven't a clue!!  ::)


Not even sure he was a casualty - just clutching at straws
I believe him to be a Francis Crook and just did a general search on a******y which came up with two casualties. I am assuming it could be Francis Gerrard Crook as he was born in Lancashire in 1910 the same year as my grandfather

Clutching at straws indeed!

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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 29 August 12 11:51 BST (UK) »
Hi Cheekymole.  I have been searching for information on my father whom died on 18/05/1941 and is buried in Aberdeen (Trinity) Cemetery his name FRANCIS GERRARD CROOK his Regiment was the Royal Artillery Rank Lance Bombardier Unit 182 Bty., 65 H.A.A. Regt.  I believe he was on The Troopship Archangel when it was bombed on 16/5/1941, he was picked out of the water and then died two days later. I was a very young boy then.
I do have a little more information but that can come later.
Regards Glenor.

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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 29 August 12 13:03 BST (UK) »
Have you looked at the "convoy"   web site  to find out more info on where the ship was going to?

www.convoy.web   I think the address is or something similar.
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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 29 August 12 19:50 BST (UK) »
Good evening,

Looks like royal signals to me also, greatcoat is british just like the one I had in the 60s.

These are royal signals pre 1947, r/h one on 1st row, l/h one on 2nd row.

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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 30 August 12 03:12 BST (UK) »
The attached photo may help somebody in their search for information. I think have the photo attached but am not sure if it is, there is a note saying that "you may need to reattach any files you attached"
so if there is no photo can somebody tell me how???.

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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #24 on: Thursday 30 August 12 03:16 BST (UK) »
In my last post I forgot to say that my Dad is the one with the football between his knee's.

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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #25 on: Thursday 30 August 12 19:11 BST (UK) »
They are Royal Artillerymen.A mix of uniforms so maybe early in WW2 or have a couple of Territorial soldiers on there.

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Blackburn (Castleford)
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Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

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Re: Which service/regiment please?
« Reply #26 on: Friday 31 August 12 00:27 BST (UK) »
Hi mmm45
If you look close at the teapot it has 1940 written on it. It looks, from the clothes they are wearing to be in the winter so I would have been about 3 years old when it was taken and have no personal memories  but do remember my late mother telling me dad was on his way home from the Orkney's when the ship was bombed. If you look at my posting a couple of days ago you will see the results of my research so far.
 
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