Robert Orlando Peterson, RCAF

[jamcat95]

Yes, as far as I know from a cousin in Sweden, Alma came alone.

She travelled with her brother Johan Edvin Svendsen born Oslo 3 Sept 1887:
https://digitalarkivet.no/view/8/pe00000001093892

Here is the Svendsen family in Nittedal Kjulsbraaten 1900:
http://urn.digitalarkivet.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-ft20090824330486.jpg


Ian

[jamcat95]

I will never know how they came up with the middle name of Orlando for a 1/2 Swedish and 1/2 Norwegian baby...maybe to make him sound North American.

"Origin of the name Orlando:
Latinate cognate of Roland, which is from the Old High German Hruodland, a compound name composed of the elements hruod (fame) and land (land): hence, "fame of the land.""


Looking, for example, in the 1880 Swedish Database there were only 3 Orlando's back then:
Else Orlando b.1851
Manilla Orlando b.1872
Justus Orlando Emanuel Lagerholm b.1876

and in Norway between 1800 and 1890 there were also only 3 (that are in the database):
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ls1/


Ian

[jamcat95]

Johan Edvin and Alma's passenger list - Liverpool to Quebec:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2Q3N-645


Ian

[skewness]

Hi Joan and DTD

You may already have this by now - a book by Stanislaw Derus, "SZLI PARTYZANCI: Zarys działalności I Batalionu 16 pp. Armii Krajowej Ziemi Tarnowskiej, kryptonim "BARBARA" w 1944 r." published in 1996 in Lubaszowa, Poland.

It lists the four surviving airmen from the shot-down Halifax as being on the strength of this Home Army (AK) battalion, specifically the "Leliwy" company, and includes a photograph of Peterson and Jolly with a Polish partisan. They apparently fought at the battle of Jamną in which 600 partisans were encircled by more than 2,000 troops primarily from the 14th Waffen-SS Galizien division.

Do you know if any of the airmen or their family members ever mentioned fighting alongside the partisans? My interest is in the partisans and the local population.