Hi All,
Things are moving at a pace in the above project with anumber of
developments this week...............
I will list them here but in no particular order of importance..............
Ken James sent a letter to P.O. H. MAGUIRE`s stated residence from the CWGC
Website (South Cote, Nyewood, Petersfield, Hants) and recieved a phone call
from the current occupier who is going to ferret around the very small
village and see what he can find out..........
Haven`t received the copy of the Petersfield Post who were going to run a
narticle on the proposed memorial so will phone them this week.........
I have however succeeded in getting a small article in the "Scrapbook"
section of the Oldham Evening Chronicle (Monday 21st Jan edition - they have
posted us a copy) and as a result I have recieved two phone calls and 3
e-mails giving us some snippets of info on Francis BOUSFIELD, known as
"Frank".
Two very kind ladies phoned, first a Mrs Marion DRUGGIST who was present at
Frank and Nora`s wedding in April 1939 and regularly visited Franks grave at
Hollinwood cemetery to place flowers on the grave. She thought Frank was
from either Scotland or the Lake District, Nora (Nee SMITH) re-married a Mr
SMITH who had a ypunger brother also called Frank.
Another lady, Mrs MOODY rang to say she remembered the couple and her
younger brother actually went to the funeral of Frank in 1940, she thought
Franks was from the Lake District, and she confirmed that Frank and Nora
didn`t have any children of their own.
One of the e-mails I recieved was to inform us of where Frank was buried,
together with the contact number for the cemetry, which we already knew,
however it came together with an offer to photograph the gravestone, which I
have recieved tonight. I will be phoning the cemetery tommorrow as the
Gravestone has a large letter "B" right in the centre top which I`ve never
seen on a headstone before and it isn`t a typical "Commonwealth War Graves
Headstone", it is a private granite headstone erecteed by his wife.
It also has fresh flowers on the grave so maybe the cemetry may be able to
shed some light on who is placing the flowers on the grave? It`s not Marion
(above) as she was very specific that she hasn`t been there in a
while.........
We have also managed to secure the very gracious assistance of British
Airways to shot blast the remains of the hurricane for free for us, just
have to arrange transport to their works at Llantrisant.
Next stage will be the contact we have been given for the local press for
Peter INGLEBY in Chesire.............
Regards
Huw
Ogmore Valley, Thurlow & Glamorgan Administrator
huw.daniel(a)yesmate.com
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