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Re: Robert Yardley Courtney
Thank you so much Suzanne!
I have just found Robert's promotion within the RAF announced in the Gazette in 1941 as well.
Sue
Re: Robert Yardley Courtney
Hi Suzanne
Thanks for all your help with this. I had been wondering the same thing re the possibility of a name change because of German/Jewish ancestry in the volatile times. I have been looking for births of children to Kathleen and Robert. Only 3 children in the...
Re: Robert Yardley Courtney
Hi Suzanne
I had hoped the death cert would have given me a next of kin - but unfortunately because there was a post mortem and an inquest, the death was registered by the Oxford Coroner on 20 December 1948. The only extra info on the cert is that Courtney (?Jacobs)...
Re: Robert Yardley Courtney
Hi Alberta
Thanks for responding. I have the death certificate for Robert Yardley Courtney - as you say, he died in Oxford in 1948. The death certificate has lots of info about his death as he fell down some stairs. There was an Inquest etc. I am trying to locate...
I have come across a death certificate for a Robert Yardley Courtney, which says he died aged 42 in 1948. At the time of his death he was living in Wycome Road, Hall Green, Birmingham. I haven't been able to find any birth registration for Robert Yardley Courtney (it would have been around...