Thanks, Philippe. I’ve moved the RAF’s start date by a century :-)
And I think that the power station is upright.
Chris
> On 4 Apr 2020, at 12:31, Frank <wijsmuller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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...
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> 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?
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> Best from the Netherlands (but keep away ;-)..
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> Op za 4 apr. 2020 om 12:19 schreef Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> 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:
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>> http://cbimages.uk/?p=700 <http://cbimages.uk/?p=700>
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>> 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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