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  1. ARippin

    Rae Helen (nee Nash)

    Has anyone any recollections of a Helen Nash who married Murry Rae in 1959? I am trying to make contact with long lost maternal family. In the 1939 Register Helen D Nash was living with her parents Frank Nash and Ellen Nash (nee Roberts) at 69 Swinford Road, Birmingham. Helen was born on 19th...
  2. ARippin

    Unknown sergeants

    Various Regiments, all Sergeants. Any thoughts on what this photo is all about? POW's? (Just a thought). It was with a collection from an Aunt that died who's parents were both from Birmingham (Dugdale and Halberton Street, off Dudley Road). She was a Nash, mother was originally a Palmer. (see...
  3. ARippin

    David Palmer (1869 - 1955) seated, and ?

    My Great Grandfather David Palmer of Halberton Street off Dudley Road. Although aged 45 in 1914, he volunteered and served on the Western Front in the Gloucestershire Regt. He sustained a gun shot wound to the scalp. Transferred to the Royal Flying Corp (then to the RAF when it was formed in...
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