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  1. JMB

    Heroes' Shrine, Aldershot

    I was just adding some pictures etc to the entry for the Heroes' Shrine in Aldershot to the IWM WMR. This has rubble from about sixty towns and cities that were bombed during WWII, but not Birmingham. A question is asked about this in a 1951 newspaper but the answer does not seem to be known...
  2. JMB

    Birmingham Civilians Killed-Bombings WW2 List Available

    There are a few links to the list that do not work, if someone can send me a copy then I will add to the IWM WMR. I will also turn the images through 90 degrees.
  3. JMB

    Hughes Biscuits

    If the Bordesley site was Group "H" then the pictures of Daventry are a bit irrelevant, it would have used a much smaller transmitter, probably the ET4336 as here.
  4. JMB

    Hughes Biscuits

    I think the BBC might have had a transmitter at the factory during WWII. They had a series of low power Group "H" transmitting stations around the country. A BBC engineer died at Bordesley in 1940, he was described as being at a New Station there. His probate shows he died at the Hughes...
  5. JMB

    Royal Engineers Inland Waterways and Docks

    I came across this thread whilst searching for information on the RE Inland Waterways and Docks companies. I have looking up a member of the unit who is buried locally, he died in November 1918 and was drowned. I suspect that might have been a common cause of death in that unit. He would have...
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