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Subject: Re: [OM] Grandpa
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:39:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     I was curious as the lower wing is forward of the upper wing, same as with 
a Staggerwing Beachcraft.  The aircraft in your photo appears to be a Sopwith 
Dolphin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Dolphin




>
>     What is that aircraft in the first photo?  It's definitely NOT an FE2b.
>
>>
>>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

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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