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From: garrywilson <>
Subject: [LAN] Re: LANCSGEN-D Digest V00 #1622
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:40:03 +1000
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Ron

Thank you for your kind offer:

My grandfather was killed in action on what I worked out would probably have been the last day of the Paschendale campaign according to a book I read many years ago.

Anyway his details are as follows:

Wilson, Spr Alan 15439. 5th Field Coy Australian Engineers. Killed in action 6 November 1917, age 25.

Buried in Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium
Plot 3, Row M, grave no 1.

If its not too much inconvenience I would also appreciate a photo (or two :-) ...) of the Paschendale area

Let me know if there is anything you need to cover out-of-pocket expenses for this.

As you will see from my address I am from Sydney and I hope to make the pilgrimage myself one day when time and finances permit. In the meantime your offer is too good to refuse.

Garry Wilson
PO Box 553
ALEXANDRIA NSW 1435
Australia



> Subject: [LAN] World War 1 Battlefield Trip
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:20:41 -0400
> From: "Andrew Ronald Hamilton" <>
> To:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> On Monday 23rd October, 2000, I am visiting several of the Flanders
> Battlefields and Cemeteries to trace fallen family members. Hooge Crater;
> Zillebeke and Zonnebeke areas; Menin Gate; Tyne Cot at Passchendaele Ridge
> and what others I can fit in during the two days that I am there.
>
> If you have lost someone in these areas and you have their full name,
> Regiment, Regimental Number, Cemetery and burial plot details (In full) I
> will try and locate the grave and take a photograph of it for you.
>
> I must stress that I would need the fullest of details, I shall not have the
> time to go searching for individual burials.
>
> If you would like a photograph to add to your genealogical tree, please send
> me the details off-line.
>
> Ron Hamilton.
>
>

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