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    Royal Airforce

    Thank you Jonob, much appreciated. bewdley
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    MY FIRST/SECOND GRANDCHILD

    Awww Happy 1st birthday Evie xj
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    MY FIRST/SECOND GRANDCHILD

    My grandchildren paddling in the stream and making mud pies in the woods this morning. Hope you're all keeping cool too.
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    Its Alberta’s birthday

    Happiest birthday wishes Alberta xj
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    Aston Parish Church WW1 Memorial

    Not sure whether you have their marriage, but I noticed it has been transcribed incorrectly on Ancestry as Walte Thomas Woleson to Charlotte Bryant: I have corrected. Walter Thomas Dobson age 30 (bachelor), Rivetter, 225 New Town Row, father; Robert Henry Dobson, Policeman, married Charlotte...
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    Aston Parish Church WW1 Memorial

    Hi AnnieH55, I found it on Fold3, here's the link https://www.fold3.com/image/668370686?terms=20445,war,i,burns,world
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    Aston Parish Church WW1 Memorial

    Sidney George Clarke is also on the CWGC site and in 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at 116 Alfred Road.
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    Aston Parish Church WW1 Memorial

    George Caldicott is on the CWGC site. Here is his entry with his address.
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    Aston Parish Church WW1 Memorial

    I've found an address of 12 Park Street for James Burns on his pension record (Worcester 10th Battalion). Awarded to his wife Annie Eliza Burns dob 24.6.1860. He is also on the CWGC with a different address, here's the snip
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    Hickie (Heckil) Francis Stanley of Witton Lane Aston

    He was baptised at St Josephs in 1897. A little further information found on FMP: His death was registered as Stanley Hickie in March quarter 1916 at Gateshead, and there is a headstone. Also this snip says he died of pneumonia, which can lead to heart failure.
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    Hickie (Heckil) Francis Stanley of Witton Lane Aston

    So sad and so young. I took this snip off the CWGC site, here's the link. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/404541/francis-stanley-hickie/
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    Christmas greetings 2021

    Season's greetings one and all. Here's to a happy and healthy 2022 xj
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    Somme

    Two from my family (different branches) were killed on 1st July 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. One with the 8th Battalion Yorks and Lancs born Barnsley and the other with the 1st 8th Territorial Battalion Royal Warwickshire born in Leeds, but moved to Birmingham as a...
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    REMEMBRANCE DAY 2021/2022

    Hubby and myself have had our DNA taken in the hope that if any remains are found they may be matched to their descendants/family. THOMAS JAMES BUCK, 4573, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1st 8th Territorial Battalion, KIA 1 July 1916 at the Somme age 21. Body never found. On the Thiepval Memorial...
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    MY FIRST/SECOND GRANDCHILD

    Same here (apart from the chocs) we never get a caller.
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