Family mystery put to rest today

[Barcon]

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Can't you see this Dicko?

 

[better dead than red]

I see the pic on page 1. Not sure what's going on to be honest.

I don't either. When I attempted to edit it after people said it wasn't there, the three pics showed just like when I originally posted. I guess it just isn't going to work. I hoped it finally would. Thanks, mate!

 

[better dead than red]

I'm genuinely interested, loved your story and some of the others posted. just gutted I can't see your pictures that you're posting.

I misunderstood, clearly. ;) I tried for days to post these photos a year ago. And tried again now. Not sure, the issues.

 

[Dicko69]

Can't you see this Dicko?

Now you have quoted it, there is a white oblong, when I click on that, it took me to a new page with the pic. cheers. on the original post the white didn't show up on the white background.

 

[Barcon]

I'm in Mexico tomorrow!!!!! Cancun!!!

I fly into Cancun myself, Get there around 1:00pm I think, then to near Playa Del Carmen.

 

[better dead than red]

Now you have quoted it, there is a white oblong, when I click on that, it took me to a new page with the pic. cheers. on the original post the white didn't show up on the white background.

The other photos were monument listing the dead and a small monument with a plaque explaining a runaway slave was the cemetery sexton who kept meticulous records at this prison camp to make sure their memories weren't forgotten.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

My grandfather fought in the trenches at Passchaendale in 1917 but he joined up under a false name. The story I was told by my dad was that this was because he was too young but I checked and he was in his mid-twenties when he enlisted so that's clearly not right. With the centenary of the battle coming up later this year, I tried to find out something about him but drew a blank. He survived the battle although he was wounded and died in his 90's so he talked about the war and what he went through. I really should have got more details from him but you don't think about things like that unfortunately.

I thought he'd served in the Lancashire Fusiliers so asked at the museum in Bury but they had nothing on him or, more precisely, they had information about others with the same name but none appeared to be him. It's quite frustrating that I can't track him down. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[better dead than red]

My grandfather fought in the trenches at Passchaendale in 1917 but he joined up under a false name. The story I was told by my dad was that this was because he was too young but I checked and he was in his mid-twenties when he enlisted so that's clearly not right. With the centenary of the battle coming up later this year, I tried to find out something about him but drew a blank. He survived the battle although he was wounded and died in his 90's so he talked about the war and what he went through. I really should have got more details from him but you don't think about things like that unfortunately.

I thought he'd served in the Lancashire Fusiliers so asked at the museum in Bury but they had nothing on him or, more precisely, they had information about others with the same name but none appeared to be him. It's quite frustrating that I can't track him down. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Do you know the pseudonym he used?

Good story mate, by the way.

 

[Barcon]

My grandfather fought in the trenches at Passchaendale in 1917 but he joined up under a false name. The story I was told by my dad was that this was because he was too young but I checked and he was in his mid-twenties when he enlisted so that's clearly not right. With the centenary of the battle coming up later this year, I tried to find out something about him but drew a blank. He survived the battle although he was wounded and died in his 90's so he talked about the war and what he went through. I really should have got more details from him but you don't think about things like that unfortunately.

I thought he'd served in the Lancashire Fusiliers so asked at the museum in Bury but they had nothing on him or, more precisely, they had information about others with the same name but none appeared to be him. It's quite frustrating that I can't track him down. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Not sure mate but I'll ask my sister. She's been looking into some of this stuff recently.
My Grandad was in the Lancashire Fusiliers and dropped behind enemy lines in Burma.

 

[better dead than red]

Do you know the pseudonym he used?

Good story mate, by the way.

My grandfather fought in the trenches at Passchaendale in 1917 but he joined up under a false name. The story I was told by my dad was that this was because he was too young but I checked and he was in his mid-twenties when he enlisted so that's clearly not right. With the centenary of the battle coming up later this year, I tried to find out something about him but drew a blank. He survived the battle although he was wounded and died in his 90's so he talked about the war and what he went through. I really should have got more details from him but you don't think about things like that unfortunately.

I thought he'd served in the Lancashire Fusiliers so asked at the museum in Bury but they had nothing on him or, more precisely, they had information about others with the same name but none appeared to be him. It's quite frustrating that I can't track him down. Does anyone have any suggestions?

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/military-records/british-soldiers-ww1-service-records.htm

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...arch-guides/british-army-soldiers-after-1913/

You also might try familysearch.org. The Mormons keep meticulous records. it is free and worth a look.