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men who serve their country

greywolf

greywolf

hunter of ancestry
I don't know who these gentlemen are, i salvage the photos from the garbage can ...these men serve their country and i thought if it was all right you folks in honor of them i could put their pictures here.
 
Thank goodness for people like you greywolf, sometimes people can be traced on photo's. I have done it through my family history!
 
Thank you for posting these photographs. They are lovely. It is such a shame that we will never know who they were. I am lucky and have a few old photographs of my family. Unfortunately I wish their names had been written on the back because there are quite a few that I have no idea who they were, and the people who did know are no longer with us.
 
greywolf, it is people like yourself who respect and admire our brave hero's past and present that will help carry on our traditions and customs.
 
Greywolf thank you for posting these ..can't believe people would throw Pics like this away:shocked: .thanks again
Maggie
 
This gives you an idea how the detective work begins The first photo is my great grandparents including my grandfather. I made contact with the family of one of his sisters in Canada. I now know which one she is (second left back row) and have several more photo's of her family.
 
I am so glad so many of you enjoyed these pictures,:) i have been collecting old pictures and stuff from the past for yrs now..i love the history they hold with in them, and the challange to unlock them...oh the stories they could tell!!;)I have no pictures of any of my family, ever thing there was went to my sister, and im the oldest, and she keeps it lock in a storage room so my research into my family history is the little things i heard here and there when i was a kid but i enjoy the detective work involved and trying to patch it all together.:)
 
the first photo is sign Sincerely J A Macdonald not sure if this could Sir John a Macdonald i think he was premier of canada at one time?
the third has writing on back This is Bob Dick &Myself and friend.My boy is in the navey sign margaret
 
Here two more the first is sign 1st Batt H.L.J Gales for 3 months trianing then he has to be sent to front sign Dick

the second one has writen what do you think of this bunch of dough head sailors. taken in the woods i guess you can pick me out second to the left from your brother in law Jas s Legg
 
Greywolf
Thanks again for posting these..it is so hard to believe that someone has thrown these pictures away. Like you i have no pictures of my family and find it hard to understand that they mean so little to someone..maybe somebody on the site may recognise some of the pics... and if not thanks for sharing the pictures of these men who fought for us
Maggie
 
Annie - thank you for sharing these with us. It is fantastic that you saved these photographs as they reflect true sacrifice and bravery. As you can see, one of the photographs is related to the H M S Victory - incedible.

Well done Annie :)

keith
 
Thanks Keith you have a good eye I had not notice the H M S Victory on his hat band now i can do some research see if i can find out more about him annie
 
Greywolf

Thank you for posting the photographs. Like others have already mentioned I can't understand why people throw away their family history, in this way.

One can only assume it's a generation thing, once the generation who knew the people in the photograph's have passed away, it no longer means anything.

I pick up/collect "anonymous" photograph postcard's of WW1 serviceman. In many cases I have been unable to identify even the regiment. What gets me about them though. Is if you hold them up to the light, on many you can see the outline on the photograph of a shaped frame. Meaning the photograph once hung in someones house on their wall or stood on their mantlepiece. The photograph meant something to someone once and even if I am unable to indentify the men in the photograph, I think they need to be saved, because of that.

Stephen
 
I agree with you Stephen, what gets me is that these men and women who serve their country had dreams and families and friends. they where fathers , mothers, brothers,sisters sons and daughters who step up to the plate they put their dreams their needs aside to protect the dreams and needs of others .. and who if it was for them their families and their fellow country men would not have what they have now FREEDOM !! and now they are to be discarded like a use mop??? thats what really burns me.. in honor of them i would not let that happen if i can help it they deserve to be remember with honor not a garbage can..i have other old pic from the victorian era on this site under Old Cards took a look ..they were also found tossed a side

annie
 
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