« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 13 September 22 20:43 BST (UK) »
I'm among many people waiting for the WWII records to be released. I see that the National Archives at Kew have released official Cabinet Papers.
It's peculiar what pops up when searching for a surname. On my last search (for Smythe) amongst the results was:-
(1) "Shakespeare the tax evader"
(2) "Windrush 1948"
The transcript for the second result was:-
" Transcript
[Stamp: Central Telegraph Office London Office London 6 July 1948]
POST OFFICE TELEGRAM
136 W 1355 6 EMPIRE WINDRUSH
PORTISHEAD RADIO 59/58
= CUMMINGS COLONIAL OFFICE WELFARE DEPARTMENT KINNAIRD HOUSE PALLMALL LONDON, S.W.
= From Smythe Empire Windrush STOP 350 without any arrangements for accommodation. Preference for employment reported to be skilled engineers, 50 Builders 50 Ex-factory workers, 50 Farmers, 30 Mining, 30 to re-enlist RAF [Royal Air Force] 50 Army STOP. Remainder no preference regarding accommodation suggest you contact disembarkation authorities Southampton 060955 + O.C. Troops ++
CT 350 50 50 50 30 30 50 25 060955"
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/significant-events/windrush-1948/
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
