Cn anyone find this mans relatives ?

[Gert in Oz]

This came upon face book, asking everyone to share,

Genuine WW2 POW letter !!

Ok folks, let's see just how powerful this internet thing really is.... Can I ask everyone of you to share this please....

I found this letter in amongst some junk recently and it has absolutely no link whatsoever to my family. It would be great to see this piece of WW2 memorabilia find it's way back to someone that actually has a link to it...

Share Share and Share some more...


http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb101/gert1945/10557174_10152305081601025_6826269072846096234_n.j pg (http://s206.photobucket.com/user/gert1945/media/10557174_10152305081601025_6826269072846096234_n.j pg.html)

[ElizabethHerts]

The is this death:

First name(s) WILLIAM RICHARD
Last name MARSHALL
Gender Male
Birth day 30
Birth month 11
Birth year 1912
Age -
Death quarter 1
Death year 1985
District BARKING & DAGENHAM
Register number 385
County Essex
Volume 11
Page 57
Country England
Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Record collection Deaths & burials
Collections from Great Britain

[Merry]

Well, I guess this is probably him, but with a fairly common name I'm not sure I would want to try and do his tree when we can't be sure even which country he was born in. There's more than one possible birth reg in England/Wales


Name: William Richard Marshall
Birth Date: 30 Nov 1912
Date of Registration: Mar 1985
Age at Death: 72
Registration district: Barking and Dagenham
Inferred County: Essex
Volume: 11
Page: 57

[Gert in Oz]

Thank you Elizabeth and Merry, looks like he made it home then.

[Merry]

Having said that there's a thread on GR from two days ago that's already sorted the name of a child and who they married. so looks like they are almost there.

[Gert in Oz]

Thanks Merry, I shall go and have a look, I haven`t been on there for ages.

[garstonite]

and 31 years later I built the extension for the stage at Bluecoat School - but I have to ask
why the connection with Bluecoat School ,Wavertree ??...was he living in Liverpool at the time...?...was he a Liverpool born man ?
added....next to Bluecoat School is Holy Trinity Church - I have been in the churchyard and seen several WW2 soldiers buried there ...so - am I right in thinking it was turned into a Hospital and was a base for the Army - hence those who died in Bluecoat School ( Hospital) were buried next door - if so ,I never knew that but it would make sense ...

[Olde Crone]

Allan

The Blue Coat School/Hospital was being used by the War Office. They are writing to the occupier at the address at the bottom of the letter.

OC

[garstonite]

Doh ....of course ...sometimes I amaze myself how daft I can be ...so - Bluecoat school have been given the info and are writing to London to inform them ...couldn`t they have just phoned them ...?...lol
thanks OC ....

[Merry]

Firstly, they didn't know the name of the person they were writing to and secondly, they recipient probably didn't have a phone anyway! :D:D:D