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Re: Family Secrets
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 03 June 12 18:14 BST (UK) »
My mother-in-law was an abandoned when the parents went abroad baby - went to an Aunt until old enough for boarding school.  The parents came back now and then and had more children which went back to Africa with them .. but the MIL didn't see her parents again until she was late teens so didn't really know her siblings (or her parents come to that) so its not unheard of ...
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« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 05 June 12 18:08 BST (UK) »
Hi,

would it be of any help to you to send for his service records.

If your mother is no longer alive you would be his next of kin.



http://veterans-uk.info/sevice_records/army.html

Marysma
Horn/Horne,Johnston,East Lothian
Horn/e, Farquhar,Shanks,Reid,Geddes, Banff and Buckie

Petrie--Moray/Portgordon
Shanks,Moray

Morgan,Peirce,Thomas,Branch,South Wales

Crimmins/Crimin, Ring, Co,Cork.

Flynn-- Dungarvan,Waterford,Ireland.
Christopher, Waterford



Pride and Long ,Newington Bagpath,Glous,England.

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« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 06 June 12 17:18 BST (UK) »
Good idea I'll try, although I could find nothing on Findmypast, but you never know.
Coomber, Scrimgeour, Shiel, Thiel,

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« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 06 June 12 17:23 BST (UK) »
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

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« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 06 June 12 17:57 BST (UK) »
Tried the War Graves Commission and the Memorials with no results, I suppose he could have been Merchant Navy.
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« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 06 June 12 18:04 BST (UK) »
might be worth dropping email to cwgc

http://www.cwgc.org/about-us/contact-us.aspx

and ask about people who died in Aden/Yemen

There were airforce bases there and the navy were stationed around there so he might not necessarily be army. 

What was his name .. I've just skimmed through past posts and either I can't see it or nobody has asked ??
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« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 06 June 12 19:09 BST (UK) »
He was David Malcolm Scrimgeour born Gateshead born the 4th quarter of 1917. i haven't got a birth cert. yet.
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« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 06 June 12 19:40 BST (UK) »
Theres a death in the MARITIME BMD REGISTER

SCRIMGEOUR  March 1940  Ships name British Architect  series BT334 Box 0095
(no initial given but theres another entry for a D A same date/ship and in Overseas deaths its David A age 21 - so can't be sure its him ... lol optimistically the David is right though)

GRO Deaths Overseas is:
Name: SCRIMGEOUR, David A
Vessel : British Architect
Country: At sea
Age at death: 21
Year: 1940
Page: 33  Record source: GRO Marine Death Indices (1903 to 1965)

The British Architect was owned by British Tanker Company - having though oh that would make him merchant navy or working for oil company (and going to that area would make sense)  I just read that in 1939 The Royal Navy commissioned all 93 ships of the British Tanker Company
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« Reply #26 on: Thursday 07 June 12 10:26 BST (UK) »
Someone called David has your David on a tree on GenesReunited.  Might be worth making contact?
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