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From: Matt Falvey <>
Subject: [WW1] Fwd: SDITGW check - Felton James
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:30:22 +0800


Hi Forrest, thanks very much to you and Peter for the James Felton info
and a big thank you for the info on Sean Falvey. Missed the auction
though.

I never realised he died only two months before the withdrawal. Isn't
coincidence weird, in 1996 I stayed at the kibbutz Ma'ale Ha-hanisha in
the Judean hills not far from Jerusalem and not that far from Ramla, I
hadn't started the family tree at that stage and so didn't realise that
I was that close to my 1st cousin's resting place.



Take care.

Matty


> On a different matter and I know it is not related to this list. I
> have a 1st cousin Sean (John) Falvey who "died on active service in
> Palestine by being shot by a sniper. He was aged 21" He would have
> been born in the later part of the 1920's, so this would have happened
> around 1941-1947. Unfortunately that is all I have. Can anyone tell
> me where to look in order to find out his details?

You could always make a bid on the following book, currently for sale on
Speedbid! Only 5 hours to go though, so you'd better be quick! ;-)

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http://www.speedbid.com/lot.cfm?lotID=347323

ROLL of all Casualties sustained by the BRITISH ARMY: Palestine 1945-48.

An A4 size 18-page typewritten photocopied Nominal Roll listing all 698
Fatal Casualties sustained by the British Army in Palestine from:
27th.,September 1945 to 30th.,June 1948. The list gives:
Number,Rank,Name,Regiment,and date (Although not cause) of death.
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From my own records I have a note that 19030188 Fusilier J Falvey, aged
20, of the 2nd Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers died on 2 Feb 1948 and is buried
at Ramleh War Cemetery.

No doubt he'll be one of the 525 non-war burials mentioned in the CWGC's
page about Ramleh:

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