Good to have those old pictures. Note to self: write your own memoires
since your (grand-) children will only get interested when you're gone...
Small typo: I guess the RAF was founded in 1918? ;-). And your indeed nice
power station is attractive, but it looks slightly tilted to the left?
Best from the Netherlands (but keep away ;-)..
*Frank Wijsmuller*
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Op za 4 apr. 2020 om 12:19 schreef Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> My maternal grandfather served in both World Wars, mostly as a pilot, but
> also as an engineer (from what I can gather). He worked in Iraq (where he
> was interned during the revolution of the 1950s), Ghana and India as a
> railway engineer after the Second World War and I last saw him a couple of
> years before he died in 1993, just short of his 100th birthday.
>
> I’ve started taking a (belated) interest in his career and his ancestry,
> but it has been impossible to find out anything about his parents. So i
> thought to check through some of his early photos for clues. I’ve scanned
> a few and put them in a mid-March blog entry:
>
> http://cbimages.uk/?p=700 <http://cbimages.uk/?p=700>
>
> The photo of him and some young lady wearing an army tunic is a little
> strange, but he’s not here to defend himself or his motives . . .
>
> Chris
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