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Powell Elizabeth Ann b1908

MWS said:
Have you transposed the years perhaps. William (Oxford & Bucks) appears to have died in 1917, though his age and service no. seem to be wrong on the CWGC site.
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William [Billy} enlisted in the Warwickshire Regiment, But died in Salonika 16th May 1917. I found his gravestone just outside Thessaloniki in Greece. His Commonwealth gravestone has the badge of the Ox and Bucks, tPrvt. Powell .jpghis was because so many regiments were decimated they made up the numbers from other regiments, in this case from the Warwicks.
 
I am wondering if this is them on the 1937/38 eroll in Edward Street
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Interesting for 2 reasons.
  • Extra name for Elizabeth of Lily (may prove to be helpful)
  • Also James living with them
 
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MWS said:
Have you transposed the years perhaps. William (Oxford & Bucks) appears to have died in 1917, though his age and service no. seem to be wrong on the CWGC site.
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James survived the war and dies in 1940, John Thomas [ Jackie] and William Charles [Billy] where killed in action in France and Greece.
 
In 1940 My Parents left my brother in Edward street with with my Aunt Nell, and they went to a cinema, could have been the Lyric,
the air raid sirens went, and my parents decided to stay in the cinema. After the All Clear, they went to their house in Cox Street, and found it bombed out. All the people who went to the shelter in Cox Street were killed, I think 21 women and children.
If my parents had gone home at the air raid warning they would have used the shelter in Cox Street and I wouldn't be writing this.
 
Ladywood 2 said:
I think my mother went to an orphanage at Coleshill, where my Aunt Nell would visit her when possible.
Aunt Nell was about 15, born 1903 so it would have been difficult for her to visit my mother.
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As she was a Catholic she may have gone to the Homes in Coleshill - later called fr Hudson's Homes.
Trying to find them on the 1921 census.
 
hi ladywood we have now given you your own thread under our surname interests section of the forum..this makes it easier to keep all the info on a dedicated thread to your mom and her family

lyn
 
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