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Yes please, Janice, if you would. When as much information as possible has been unearthed about him, I'm going to put a note about this young man in my HG website, commemorating his life and service. It would be wonderful to have an image of him as well (as would, of course, anything about the...

Thank you again, Janice. Great background information! Chris

Thanks very much, Janice. It looks very much as though Robert, a "Brass Filer", was living with his mum (and dad?) in Henry Street and was fatally injured less than a mile away at Bowyer Road. Whether there was enemy action in the immediate area of the latter that evening and Robert was on duty...

This headstone image has appeared recently on a specialist history social media platform. It shows the resting place of Robert Silk in a Birmingham churchyard. This young lad was injured at 14 Bowyer Road, Alum Rock on the night of 24th October 1940 and died two days later. There was a heavy air...

Thanks, Brian. I recognise the name of Harold Binks on the certificate. He was Director of Amal Ltd which produced motor cycle carburettors on the Witton site. A company which bore his family name had combined with others to form Amalgamated Carburettors - later known as Amal - which was...

In an image from the same day, the gentleman to the King's right is Sir Arthur Smout, Chairman at the time; and on his left, H. E. Jackson. They appear also prominently in the press cuttings. Note the correct carrying of gas masks. (On the same day, my father, brother and future...

This has to be Kynoch. The King visited it on 26th October 1939. A bit of research would uncover the identity of the men showing him around. Chris

Thanks for all the thoughts. Useful indeed! The background COULD of course be anything at all, including horticultural, but I am now firmly of the conclusion that Mike has it right - MkII Ground Laying Radar. It appears that many AA batteries had this ground laying radar set-up. It had been...

A further thought. Could this group have been photographed on the edge of a heavy anti-aircraft battery? In which case they could have been the team which manned it. But, again, where? Chris

Here is a little mystery, on which I should greatly appreciate some expert opinion. This is a picture of a Home Guard Company, almost certainly the 24th Warwickshire (Birmingham) Battalion. This Battalion may have consisted entirely of works units and, in that case, would have spread over a...

Any chance of showing us the certificate, Brian? Chris

I think the following is all we have to go on. According to the Dutch researcher: One of the crew members was thus Flight Officer George Roland Wright (Navigator), service number: 148758. George (born 1908) was the son of Thomas Edgar and Ethel Mary Wright from Undercliffe Street, Bradford. As...

Thanks, Tinpot. The location of the widow does make you wonder if George and family had returned to Yorkshire (temporarily or permanently) whilst he was serving in the RAF. I did think she might have followed her husband to live near the aerodrome to which he had been posted, RAF Kirmington in...

Thanks for the interest. I believe that the Dutch researcher agrees with that Bradford background. What he has established is that George took up residence in Four Oaks in around 1938 (the time of his marriage?) as the local rep for the company. And also it seems that he gave the Sutton house...

Members might find it useful to know a little more about what lies behind Kathy's request for information. On the night of 21/22 June 1943 a Wellington of 166 Squadron crashed near Neerkant in Holland and all five crew members lost their lives.. The navigator on this aircraft was Pilot Officer...

I imagine that an expert might be able to look at the burial image and decide which type of craft the men are on (it's almost certainly the stern of whatever it was). This would possibly determine dates. I'm pretty sure that other images - showing R458 and R398 - are of vessels which came too...

A bit of googling suggests that this type of vessel appeared too late for the Sicilian/Italian landings and so the images are likely to have been taken in the Far East, perhaps in 1945. Wonderful material - this and the earlier post - and thanks for it. Several of them pose questions which...

Thanks for letting me know, Viv. It's coming up okay for me using Chrome on a normal PC or laptop. I wonder therefore whether you are using an Apple device (iPhone or iPad) and it does appear that, there, the Safari defences are objecting to it, for reasons wholly unknown and possibly dependent...

Linda, All I have on the area is several images of Brandwood House photographed in the war years. It's online and the link is in post #8 above. Chris

Yes, this and the others all taken from the top of Beechings Folly, 1961. See them here: https://www.staffshomeguard.co.uk/KOtherInformationKynochV2Eimages.htm Chris