Hi All,
Some excellent news today, Ken James had a phone call from the
brother of Peter INGLEBY who was one of the two civilian victims on 07th Jan
1940.
Ken had written to both last known addresses of the civilian casualties and
recieved a surprised but very welcome phone call this morning off Peter`s
brother.
Ken will be arranging a meeting with the brother (don`t know his name yet)
but we already know that the father travelled down to idenify Peters remains
and his brother was called up the day before he died.
he is keen to travel down to the Valley to view the crash site and he too
has been searching for his brothers grave as he hs informed us Peter was
cremated at Glyntaff Crematorium and his ashes taken back to York.
Regards
Huw Daniel
Secretary
Ogmore Valley
Local History Society
Tel: 01656 842 258
E-mail: huw.daniel(a)yesmate.com
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 11:09 PM
Subject: [OV] Hurricane/Hudson Project Update................Jan 23
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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