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Offline Andy J2022

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Re: Arthur Raymond Fortt at Pennfield ridge New Brunswick
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 03 September 22 21:56 BST (UK) »
That's an excellent result, Jason.

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Re: Arthur Raymond Fortt at Pennfield ridge New Brunswick
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 04 October 22 11:26 BST (UK) »
Good morning,
I presume you will already have found details of the Pennfield Parish Military History Society.
Such a fantastic resource and a mine of information with many course photographs as someone else mentioned.  Maybe your relative took my Uncles course photo.
I had a photo but did not know where it was taken until l stumbled across the Pennfield site and there were others with similar backgrounds.
My Uncle was posted there from No.9 Bombing and Gunnery school at Mont-Joli, Quebec and was then on a further course for air gunners before he got his stripes.
See my original post, search "21 Brave Airmen".
I tried to search for details of all 21 airmen on the photo with good success.

My Uncle ended up at RAF Grimsby (Waltham) as a Lancaster rear gunner and was lost without trace on a raid to Berlin in September 1943.
I still have the fateful telegram that reported him missing.
His story is in a book, Battle of Berlin, Failed to Return. (first chapter).

Good luck with your research.
Hayton 1800-Present Day

Maynard, Jones-Hertford

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HONOUR THE BRAVE BOMBER BOYS-NEVER FORGET

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Re: Arthur Raymond Fortt at Pennfield ridge New Brunswick
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 04 October 22 13:41 BST (UK) »
I would love to track down more of is photos. My parents have some but the donated all the glass slides of the planes and military stuff to a museum after he passed away and they where extremely happy to have them.
We are in Canada and my parents said they were too difficult to ship here.

He was a professional photographer and cataloguer of antiques after WWII. He even photographed Queen Elizabeth coronation gifts.     

Some of his 'still life' photographs relating to his work on antiques sold in two lots at auction, this listing has a few details about him in the last photo related to the lot. It all relates to that part of his life and mentions where some of those photos were published.

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/east-bristol-auctions/catalogue-id-sreas10330/lot-a144c7e3-62ce-4c32-95fb-aa2d012f0f3d#lotDetails

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