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PLEASE Forgive me if I'm writing this part in the wrong area but following on from my last post, I have an interesting looking dilemma or query which I'm hoping someone smarter than I can assist me with please? :) OK starting off with what I know. Firstly the newspaper clipping from the Evening...

Hi Janice. Thank you SO much for Meerut. Yes indeed, that makes sense and fits. I've finally managed to discover what R.P.D.D. stands for. As you can see, there's one at Canterbury and Scarborough as well as one in India as well, although that one isn't described as a depot. Anyway I'm...

Ok thank you all for your patience but finally I've got the scan done that I promised Janice a day or two ago. The place or hospital name I can't make out is at the bottom. The AFB 104/91 is in the left margin as you can see with the 2nd battallion reference to training at the RPDD is in the...

A smart Gunner ! I'm interested to see your Dad is wearing a bayonet on his belt, I thought it was only the infantry that did that. Well they don't like it up 'em you know ... they do not like it! :D He does look very smart though.

Thank you Janice. OK no worries. Leave it with me for now.

I can't do it now Janice as I'm getting ready for a Twitch stream at 10pm. That might last an hour, give or take. I'll do a scan as soon as its finished ok? At some point he was in the 2nd battalion and also with the TA at various points. He seemed to move around a bit. :)

Hello Janice. Thank you for your feedback. Much appreciated. I am extremely busy tomorrow morning/early afternoon but I'll see if I can do with some judicial folding. Unfortunately, as I said, all the photocopies are A3 size but my scanner is A4. Maybe I can simply fold the relevant one in half...

Hello. I have received, finally, the service records of Edward Poyser, number 2573903. On his statement of services, there's an entry for 7th January 1939 which says 2nd Battalion R Warwick R and that he was posted on completion of training at the RPDD. I was sent a list of abbreviations with...

Hello again. Well you may like to know that finally, on Friday (17th), I received Edward's records applied for in January 2020! I'm still going through them but I don't think they mention anything about any secret unit(s) or missions and nothing about his medals awarded either, mostly just...

Just what the doctor ordered by the look of it, Mike. Thanks a million. If you don't mind me asking and without wishing in ANY way to sound ungrateful, was that the highest resolution available? Ideally I need to be able to print it out as high def as possible. If the answer is it's already the...

Hi folks, I do hope it's ok to ask this in here rather than starting a new thread but I have a friend I'm helping with his genealogy and he wants, if such exists, a map of birmingham showing all the various parishes. Does such a thing exist and if so can anyone point me in the right direction...

Wow was that really last February I wrote that last message above? Well as of today, we are still waiting for Edward's war records. So much for 6 months. I know Covid can be blamed in part but it's still very frustrating - more so that Glasgow couldn't even contact the people already waiting to...

Wow what a coincidence, mooky ... your family and mine were next door neighbours! Research-wise I mean. :)

What-a mistake-a to make-a ... (for 'Allo 'Allo aficianadoes lol)

Thank you very much indeed for the map, Rob. Very much appreciated. So the terrace is, in fact, off Erskine Street in a manner of speaking. I'll have to take another look at old-maps too.

Yes it looks like it, Eric. Sorry about that ... and only just seen some of these replies folks so apologies for the delay. Email confirmations just received again so ... :)

Hi peeps. Not been active much for a few months but am busy once again with my family history research, this time looking at the 1911 census for Samuel George Ferreday (Feraday?) and his family, listed at the address in the subject line above but they seem to me to be 2 different streets? It's...

Hi guys n gals ... Thank you all for your feedback. I already have an Ancestry sub for UK but nothing was coming up for some reason in my searches or hints for Edward. I will definitely take a look at midlandshistoricaldata though as many of my friend's ancestors were from this neck of the woods...

Thank you very much indeed, Mike. Really appreciate that. Just out of curiousity, do you mind if I ask where you got this from please? I tried to find it online, as I said, but without success. Cheers muchly, Nick

Wow it's gone so quiet in here of late. I've searched the newspaper archives and Google high and low for this expedition but can't find anything. However I'd still be interested if at all possible, of seeing the full page of that e-roll for 1947 showing Edward Poyser living at 9 Sandford Road...