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Hi,
Thank you for letting me join. I live in North Yorkshire with my husband and three cats. I served in the WRAF down in Suffolk at a RADAR station, as an Air Defence Operator 1958 and 59, otherwise known as Radar operator and Fighter Plotter.
I am very interested in Family Research, and was busy adding members to my MALLABY line, and to the Find a Grave website when I came across a bit of a puzzle that led me to this website. I had added a Francis Yeoman Mallaby and his wife Alice to the Find a Grave website, then on doing a bit of extra research found that Francis Yeoman is my 3rd Cousin, 3 times removed. He and Alice are buried at St. Paul's Church, Healey, Yorkshire, BUT his name is also on the War Memorial Cross at the Church of St. Mary, Masham, Yorkshire, not too far away from the Healey Church. Then I found a picture of it on this website, with the notation that a burial place could not be located. My Francis Yeoman was born 1891 and died 18 October 1961. Our names are not as unique as we would like to think, but our Francis Yeoman got his middle name from his paternal grandmother, her maiden name. So now I am curious, is it another man with the same name, from the same area, or my ancestor who possibly went missing, was thought killed, and then reappeared..?
I have two great uncles who died in WW1, 739114 Pte. Bernard Hall, he had emigrated to Ontario, Canada, then eventually enlisted with the 114th Canadian Brock Rangers, he was sent to France and was killed on April 9th, the first day of the Battle for Vimy Ridge. The other great uncle was Sgt. George William Selby, my father's uncle. He was badly wounded, shipped home to England and died in St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, he had earned quite a few medals which are now in my daughter's possession. I saw them on an Australian Auction site, and her husband bought them for her.
My parents separated when I was a babe in arms, during WWII, so I never got to know my father, he died in 1997 and it was then that I found out he had apparently joined the Royal Engineers and became a Paratrooper. At the time he disappeared from our lives he had been working as an aircraft engineer at De Havillands in Hatfield, Herts. I have a sneaking suspicion he ran away to join up. Unfortunately I do not have a service number for him, so I cannot check him out.
Thank you for letting me join. I live in North Yorkshire with my husband and three cats. I served in the WRAF down in Suffolk at a RADAR station, as an Air Defence Operator 1958 and 59, otherwise known as Radar operator and Fighter Plotter.
I am very interested in Family Research, and was busy adding members to my MALLABY line, and to the Find a Grave website when I came across a bit of a puzzle that led me to this website. I had added a Francis Yeoman Mallaby and his wife Alice to the Find a Grave website, then on doing a bit of extra research found that Francis Yeoman is my 3rd Cousin, 3 times removed. He and Alice are buried at St. Paul's Church, Healey, Yorkshire, BUT his name is also on the War Memorial Cross at the Church of St. Mary, Masham, Yorkshire, not too far away from the Healey Church. Then I found a picture of it on this website, with the notation that a burial place could not be located. My Francis Yeoman was born 1891 and died 18 October 1961. Our names are not as unique as we would like to think, but our Francis Yeoman got his middle name from his paternal grandmother, her maiden name. So now I am curious, is it another man with the same name, from the same area, or my ancestor who possibly went missing, was thought killed, and then reappeared..?
I have two great uncles who died in WW1, 739114 Pte. Bernard Hall, he had emigrated to Ontario, Canada, then eventually enlisted with the 114th Canadian Brock Rangers, he was sent to France and was killed on April 9th, the first day of the Battle for Vimy Ridge. The other great uncle was Sgt. George William Selby, my father's uncle. He was badly wounded, shipped home to England and died in St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, he had earned quite a few medals which are now in my daughter's possession. I saw them on an Australian Auction site, and her husband bought them for her.
My parents separated when I was a babe in arms, during WWII, so I never got to know my father, he died in 1997 and it was then that I found out he had apparently joined the Royal Engineers and became a Paratrooper. At the time he disappeared from our lives he had been working as an aircraft engineer at De Havillands in Hatfield, Herts. I have a sneaking suspicion he ran away to join up. Unfortunately I do not have a service number for him, so I cannot check him out.