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From: "whitetw" <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] Non -Gen Football
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 12:36:55 +0100
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Judy

Your father must have had an interesting time as a test pilot. Was he
an officer or NCO or civilian? What aircraft did he fly? Where was he
based? How old was he when he became a test pilot? Both my
grandfathers served in World War 1 in much more humble roles in the
trenches and both were wounded, though lucky enough to escape with
their lives. They both served again in the Army in the Second World
War as did my father but he joined the Royal Navy.

Richard White
Tunbridge Wells Kent UK



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Subject: Re: [YKS] Non -Gen Football


>
> Hi list
>
> Denise wrote
> > It's actually very interesting how hobbies and interests are
carried on
> > through the generations in the family, without necessarily people
being
> aware
> > in the first instance of those connections<
>
> I have a series of adventurers, travellers and entrepreneurs
throughout my
> family.
>
> One was a merchant adventurer in the East India Co., another started
from
> scratch sand built up one of the biggest silver plating companies in
the
> world, another founded a copper plating works. My father was
always in
> various enterprises and lied about his age to become a test pilot
serving in
> France in WW1.
>
> My son has been to India twice. He has visited Nepal to Goa and
rode with a
> Maharaja who invited him to stay for a few days. He accompanied
some very
> poor camel drivers to their mud huts in the Gobi desert and came
back with a
> drum and one of their songs. He has been to the foot of the
Himalayas and
> hired a porter to go walking there. He has toured the Australian
Outback and
> whilst there met a man who lived a mile away from him at home. He
has also
> been to Burma to see the Burma railway. Oh and he has taken all
his exams
> and become a class four captain for which he trained in the
Caribbean.
>
> His photographs are wonderful and we are trying to persuade him to
put them
> in a book.
>
> I look forward to writing his story into my family tree for future
> generations but he is only 34 so I shall have to live a bit longer
to see
> what he does next.
>
> Genealogy coupled with history can be fun can't it.
>
> Regards
>
> Judy in Derbyshire
>
>
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