One thing I’ve found when looking back on family history is that’s its a whole lot easier if family members have a military background of some form, as their service would have logged and noted This also applies to those from royal stock.
I'd have to search his papers for regiment, etc. Might have a cap badge or summat. I'll have a look...
You’re right. My brain is mush after going to bed at 1am, getting up again at 5am, a 5 hour round trip and half a day in court Although wasn’t there a west to east Allied retreat in 1941? I remember listening to James Holland talking about it on the WW2 podcast he presents with Al Murray.
My Dad was 323 Battery RA (Searchlights). 8th Army. He's 3rd from the right front row. Photo taken when stationed at Sharpness, Gloucestershire in 1941 About half of these lads are still in Italy ..... still dodging D-Day.
Suspected as much! Though it might help @Android853sp I managed to find out some of my family’s history through military records and various associated conflicts.
Also the same for my father in-law who then went on a did a tour in Korea (which I'm thinking he signed up for).
He-he-he - I was in the bath thinking about this and am now totally confused as to what actual direction I was trying to indicate. In my case this is nothing to do with anything as arduous as work - perhaps it was the remnants of the Christmas Stilton I had for lunch that got me off kilter Anyway No2 in that map I posted earlier was the retreat back to El Alamein. And here's a random picture of some stilton... mmmm
Well it just so happens that I do! "Bert LeVack drew up a radical DOHC racing motor for J.A.P. In 1922, and developed it in 344cc and 245cc forms through 1925. As J.A.P. No longer made whole motorcycles, these engines were supplied to New Imperial, Coventry Eagle, and Zenith, although it was LeVack himself who invariably piloted them at the TT or for record-breaking. This 1923 New Imperial racer has a third-gen ‘C’ type LeVack motor with 344cc and twin splayed exhaust ports. LeVack rode this machine in the 1923 Junior TT and at Brooklands, where he set a 200-mile record at 77.71mph. He set a 350cc class record in September 1923 at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, with a two-way average of 96.5mpg, amazing for that early year. This gorgeous machine was restored around an original LeVack motor, using a mix of original and new chassis parts, as racers from this era seldom stayed in one piece. It’s a testament to restorer Gernot Schuh and its owner, a man of vision.
I couldn't resist seeing what happened to this. Turns out it's an interesting Loco. It's great she's been preserved: https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/35018-british-india-line-sr-21c18-br-35018/ Interesting she was in a Scrapyard for 15yrs prior to be purchased for preservation. Somebody was obviously keeping her away from the Gas axes. May 1945 (First Shed) Nine Elms Locomotive Works 1 January 1948 Nine Elms, 9E 24 November 1960 Bournemouth, 71B 17 January 1961 (Final Shed) Nine Elms, 70A August 1964 Withdrawn December 1964 Arrived at Barry Scrapyard 23 November 1979 Purchased for preservation 3 March 1980 Moved to Mid Hants Railway May 2003 to 24 April 2012 Stored at South Coast Steam, Portland, Dorset May 2012 Moved to Carnforth Motive Power Depot. May 2017 Made first moves on the main line. 30 September 2017 Worked brief inaugural mainline railtour from Carnforth to York, failed at York 21 March 2018 Returned to full mainline service on a railtour from Carnforth to Shrewsbury
