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Jumping up and down :)) because i found this

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Rambling

Rambling Report 31 Oct 2009 17:54

ARRANGED WITH AN
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND NOTES
BY
J. C. SQUIRE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK
1937

"to old Chiswick Church and the graveyard where Loutherbourg lies underneath the most perfectly orotund of inscriptions,*** to the ferry where old wrinkled Fishlock ***recalled the Crimea in August 1914, to the little Mall dock where the red-sailed barges lie moored in peaceful twilights, to a great tree over the pavement, to river-gardens and a cuckoo heard in one, to a company of old houses, a row of poplars, a flour-covered bakery with a quay, an old blind lady in a trim little house, full of mahogany, china, antimacassars and carpets, children playing on bicycles, a swan sitting in the osier bed of the Eyot, a dead friend, twelve years of my own life. The poplars one year were pollarded, and for days[20] two crows, which had always nested in them, flew bewildered round the ghost of its crown, in search of what was gone for ever."

" Old wrinkled Fishlock" is MINE :))))

my gt grandfather :))))) or no ! if he was recalling the crimean war that is my gt gt grandfather... will look into this!

Mauatthecoast

Mauatthecoast Report 31 Oct 2009 18:01

Fantastic Rose,and thrilled for you :O) x........I know just how you feel as I can now Google and see info.about my gggrandfather.......

Rambling

Rambling Report 31 Oct 2009 18:06

I've just edited a bit...my gt grandfather was 1858 to 1931 so was too young for the Crimean war, so that must be ref to my gt gt grandfather 1837 to 1918...

I don't know anything much about the Crimean war so will have to knuckle down :))))

Rambling

Rambling Report 31 Oct 2009 18:12

It points up the value of wading through google though!
that was on page 5 when I googled 'Joseph Fishlock' ( not his first name just one I thought might be connected) :))

xx

Rambling

Rambling Report 31 Oct 2009 19:00

Q: How can I find out if X served in the Army in the Crimean War?

Unless he was an officer, you will need to know his regiment before confirming Crimean service. If this information is available, then you can check to see whether Discharge Papers exist at the Public Record Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, in class WO97. These records were created on a soldier's discharge to pension, and therefore do not cover every individual who served in the Crimea. If you know that X died in service, or if WO97 papers are not found, you can check the Medal Rolls (also at the PRO) in class WO100. The medal rolls will confirm that he saw active service in the Crimea. For fuller details, you can check the Muster Rolls and Pay Lists in WO12

looks like i have to go to Kew lol

xx

J* Near M3.Jct4

J* Near M3.Jct4 Report 31 Oct 2009 19:02

Great news - you don't need to sleep tonight do you?

J*

was plain ann now annielaurie

was plain ann now annielaurie Report 31 Oct 2009 19:03

You'll only be able to find any record of him at Kew if you know which regiment he was in.

Rambling

Rambling Report 31 Oct 2009 19:07

lol J* , I am reading up about the Crimea as we speak , my knowledge on it extends little further than Florence Nightingale I'm afraid .... :)
Kicking myself trying to remember who ,on one of the the WDYTYA early episodes had relative involved there ?

xx

Mauatthecoast

Mauatthecoast Report 31 Oct 2009 21:08

Rose
Re WDYTYA .........Rory Bremner's GGrandfather was a surgeon in the Crimean war

Rambling

Rambling Report 31 Oct 2009 21:11

Mau, thanks that was probably what was lurking at the back of my mind lol

xx