Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project

The photo search is really interesting.

I had a chap that offered all of Belgium for me. I had about 100 and needed 212 in 45 cemeteries.

He did them all over a period of 6 months on his travels around for work.

Quite amazing really.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Hi Sniper, I'll send them by disc as there are a few too many to send by EMail. I will let you know when I send them.

Cheers
Paul

 

That would be great Paul, very much appreciated believe me.

Cheers
Mike

 

Mike, Please send me your list for West Park Cemetery (Military Section)

Cheers
Paul

 

Hi Paul,
Don't have the list on a data spreadsheet as yet but i have it on a Word Document which i'll email to you shortly.

Thanks
Mike

 

you all realise he has set up a den in the attic with an old PC, TV, hundreds of discs, MP3 converting turntable and printers etc, all in the name of doing this project?

 

Yes hun and how often do i get up there? Anyway, you can use it if you want to. Jez its going to be busy over the winter naming all the cemeteries, mp3'ing all my old vinyl, converting all my old vhs videos onto dvd. Wonder if there's going to be time for me to go to work, haha. On a note of cemeteries, we are heading into the far reaches of Bedfordshire in a few weeks, does anyone have any requests of headstone photos from that county? If so let me know and we will do our best to get them for you.

Sniper

 

Me go up there? Do you think there is room?! Admittedly once I can figure out what is wrong with that damn puter and why so much of the memory is taken up, then it will be better. I think first things first we have to remove all of the images onto an external to free up 17gigs of space, then i can defrag it properly.

 

Australian Headstones in Bedfordshire

ALL NOW COMPLETED

Hi Sniper,

Of the nearly 3,000 Aussies buried or memorialised in the UK, I only had (2) originally in Bedfordshire and have just found another in the RAF with an Australian connection.

If you are near any of them it would be great to cross them off the list.

NEWTON , TERENCE Flying Officer 39943 218sq 13/07/1940 25 RAF UK West of Tower. CARLTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD UK Bedfordshire

His parents lived in Australia however I am unable to confirm "if" he was Australian and living with his uncle in the UK. (EDIT) moved to Australia with his family in 1920 aged 5 years.

NEVETT, HORACE ARTHUR Pilot Officer 86701 24 EFT 16/02/1941 26 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve UK Sec. 3. Row D. Grave 18. LUTON CHURCH BURIAL GROUND UK Bedfordshire

Worked his passage on a cargo ship in 1939 to join the RAF and arrived just after the declaration of war.

BYRNE, CALVERT PHILIP Flight Sergeant 436143 11 AFU 23/11/1944 24 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 224. LUTON GENERAL CEMETERY UK Bedfordshire

Cheers

Geoff

 

I'll see what i can do Spidge. The other half wants to check out RAF Cardington and i'm hoping to be able to see the Airship hanger at Cardington where the R100 airship was based. My grandfather was an engineer aboard the R100 when it flew to Canada in 1929. Also he married a local girl there so i'm trying to track down the family history from that area.

Mike

 

No Problem Mike.

I had not even looked where Carlton and Luton are on the map.

Hope you enjoy the research.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Hi Spidge,

Carlton is not too far from Bedford but Luton is now part of Hertfordshire and at the other end of the county to Bedford, however i do have most of that cemetery done and will look tonight for you to see if i have them. I have a few i have to look for Reece in that cemetery and will get it done tonight and get them emailed over to the pair of you. Will do my best to get you Carlton, its the next village on from where i have to go and see if i can find some family graves and hopefully some church records.

Sniper

 

Hi Mike, Disc will be in the mail tomorrow. I have included West Park Military Cemetery, Geraldton Civil Cemetery, Geraldton War Cemetery and HMAS Sydney Memorial.

 

Not sure he's managed to access he photos yet, am still having trouble sorting the puter out, but then it should be fine. And when he says look at RAF Cardington and the airship sheds, what he means is a full urbex of the place with hundreds of photos taken

 

That would be great but don't put pressure on yourself. The good thing about headstones is they will still be there next time.

Cheers and thanks

Geoff

 

Hi All,
Got some new volunteers who are covering the following areas, if you need a pic from there please let me know.
Ontario, Canada
Bristol
Plymouth
Great Crosby, Lancs

Cheers
Mike

 

Hi Mike,

I am lucky enough to have all of Ontario and Gloucestershire.

This is the only one I have in Plymouth:
FLETCHER, DAVID JAMES Flight Lieutenant 41166 201sq RAF 21/12/1941 28 Royal Air Force UK Church Sec. C. Row 5. Grave 38. FORD PARK CEMETERY (FORMERLY PLYMOUTH OLD CEMETERY) (PENNYCOMEQUICK) UK PLYMOUTH

Not quite sure of the Lancs area mentioned however this is what I have outstanding there. If not they go onto my 2011 itinerary.

PORTER, JOHN ROBERT BYRON Flying Officer 420263 126sq 14/09/1944 26 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Sec. F. Grave 178. BLACKPOOL (CARLETON) CEMETERY UK Lancashire

WILLIAMS, JAMES Flight Sergeant 415709 20 O T U 23/01/1944 33 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Sec. 21. C. of E. Grave 509. LIVERPOOL (ANFIELD) CEMETERY UK Lancashire

HERON, ROYAL GEORGE Sergeant 404820 50sq 21/01/1942 25 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Sec. Q. Grave 204. MANCHESTER SOUTHERN CEMETERY UK Lancashire

ECCLES, JOHN STOPPARD Sergeant 414664 27 O T U RAF 11/01/1943 20 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Sec. 28. Grave 59. SALFORD (AGECROFT) CEMETERY UK Lancashire

WALLWORK, RALPH STANLEY Sergeant 400360 142sq RAF 24/07/1941 24 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Sec. J. Grave 2351. SALFORD (WEASTE) CEMETERY UK Lancashire


Cheers

Geoff

 

Hi Geoff,
Will ask Barbara to do the one in Liverpool for you when she gets round to doing that one, she prefers the smaller ones at the moment. Will also ask Karen to do the one in Plymouth for you.

Cheers
Mike

 

Thanks Mike,

Please pass on my thanks to the ladies in advance.

Cheers

Geoff

 

I will do Geoff. They are on other cemeteries at the moment, namely The Plymouth Naval Memorial and Barbara is doing her locla ones in Crosby but it won't be long before she is available to do LIVERPOOL (ANFIELD) CEMETERY for you.

Cheers
Mike