Barbara: I had no trouble downloading the file using Windows XP. From the Downloads folder it could be read only by certain of my programs after setting the...
Sorry for the delay in replying - things have been hectic recently. I can't find anyway into the blog now, byt I think the son is Kevan (sic) Manwaring, and if...
A cursory web search for "Kevan Manwaring" revealed that the name is unique to one individual in the UK, an academic "bardic poet" in Cardiff. The listings...
Tony This morning I found a path leading up the hill behind Cheshire Homes at Chung Hom Kok where in thick and matted undergrowth I found the myriad of...
How exciting! I'd love to join too... Geoff Emerson At 11:45 AM 2/10/2010, you wrote: Tony This morning I found a path leading up the hill behind Cheshire...
Hi Philip, I didn't expect this might happen so soon! I should be teaching this Sunday morning ((10 October) and will have to make changes if it is confirmed....
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Oct 2, 2010 10:54 am
Philip, I'm out this Sunday, unfortunately, as I will be here: http://www.researchingfepowhistory.org.uk/ Regards Tony...
Brian and Don Thanks for supplying an email address for Kevan Manwaring Have written . Not too sure he will be interested. A bardic poet sounds very grand....
Hi Tony! Just for completeness to let the group know I've already replied to you agreeing your suggestion sounds good. Dr Dan seems in favour too, which is...
Many thanks to Alison for all her hard work in typing out the diary which is of particular interest to me, reading it alongside my own diary for the same days....
Shell damage I assume Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Philip Cracknell <philipcracknell@...> Date: 12 October 2010 20:30:34 GMT+08:00 ...
Many of the tunnels have been cleared out and you can go down one tunnel and pop at one of the several interconnected pill boxes. Many of the ceilings and...
Shrapnel damage Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Philip Cracknell <philipcracknell@...> Date: 12 October 2010 20:29:11 GMT+08:00 To: Phil...
Battle scars Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Philip Cracknell <philipcracknell@...> Date: 12 October 2010 20:28:42 GMT+08:00 To: Phil...
It's all very overgrown and a lot of it is totally inaccessible Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Philip Cracknell <philipcracknell@...> ...
Top of the hill searchlight platform and a view of Cheshire Homes built over No 1 gun site and a view of Round Island. Benjamin Proulx watched Japanese...
Especially for WENDY: I was very interested to find several little mentions of you, your Mother and Father in the book 'Resist to the End - Hong Kong,...
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Tony Banham
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Oct 23, 2010 8:03 am
Philip, Yes it was. A British shell, in fact. Regards Tony...
Hi, Over on gwulo.com, one of our readers has just noticed a discrepancy in the date for Mrs Greenberg's death. They say: * There is a gravestone in Stanley...
30th Oct 2010 DAVID - I was working in the Tweed Bay Hospital, Stanley, during internment, and remember that Mrs. Greenberg died within the first few months,...
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Tony Banham
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Oct 30, 2010 11:30 pm
David, Note that the CWGC also spells her name 'Greenburg'. Although I missed this error, I found around 200 others when going through the entire CWGC records...
Update - I just found the list of people applying for a Liquor Licence on 7th November 1939 <http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/G1939/600163.pdf> includes a...
I have been looking at the CWGC records of Stanley Camp particularly the Rossini family Mrs E L Rossini 1899 Housewife Miss W V Rossini 1823 Secretary Miss...
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Tony Banham
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Nov 7, 2010 11:25 am
Ian, Edith L was the mother, W P was Wendy, W V was Winifred (and yes, 1923 for the latter). Regards Tony...
I have contacted by phone one of the members of our "cell" in Stanley Camp, Ann Lynn (now Ann Lynn Farrell). She was age 7 - then - 75 now. Our room...
