Hi Christina,
I can see why you are listed as a 'super moderator'. Wow! I had not expected so much information so quickly. A pity none of it leads to a current descendant but it is early days yet. 72 Sqn plan to hold a celebration of the squadron's centenary in 2017 and we are hoping to trace descendants of those first airmen in 1917 during the Great War to take part in that. I will keep the forum posted about anything we find. Thanks very much.
Tom
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03-02-2016, 10:35 AM #11tomdocherty72Guest
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03-02-2016, 9:37 PM #12
Lt KM Pennington AFC
According to this site this man was from South Africa.
This site tells why he received the AFC and gives his full name as Kenneth Mission Pennington.
The following is on this site
"Born in September 1897 in Greytown, Natal, he went first to St. David’s School there and then on to Michaelhouse where he had a highly successful career both in the classroom and on the sports fields. World War 1 interrupted his career. He joined the Royal Flying Corps. was awarded the A.F.C. and mentioned in despatches during his service in Mesopotamia. After the War he went up to Oxford as the Natal Rhodes Scholar, gained his MA and B.C.I., and returned to Natal in 1923. He married Ruth Frampton in that year. They had grown up together in Greytown as children and their marriage was to last over fifty deeply happy and rewarding years. In 1925 he dramatically abandoned his promising career as a barrister at the Natal Bar to become a schoolmaster at his old school. The decision was not only to be of inestimable benefit to Michaelhouse, which he served for the next 34 years, but also gave him full scope during the school holidays to range far and wide over Southern Africa in pursuit of its butterflies. In his years of retirement at ‘Yellowwoods’, originally a Great Trek homestead near Curry’s Post, he began to compile the manuscript of his book; but so great was his interest as a collector in breaking new ground, and so vigorous his health, that much of his time was still spent away from home ‘on safari’ and the manuscript tended to be neglected."
This could be a difficult one to follow through
ChristinaSometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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03-02-2016, 10:13 PM #13
Lt MS McKay DFC
I just can't find anything on this man.
Christina
Added: I started looking for Lt RDP Pope DFC and a reference to both of them came up on the Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal but nothing to help with his first and middle names.Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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03-02-2016, 10:38 PM #14
Lt RDP Pope DFC
This may be him but the middle initial is incorrect
R P P Pope
2nd Lieutenant
Royal Flying Corps
British War Medal and Victory Medal
As with M S McKay the only reference I can find is in Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal
ChristinaSometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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03-02-2016, 11:07 PM #15
if this is your man it is highly unlikely he has any direct descendents as his parents are named as NOK.
Lieutenant Trevor Lewis Williams
Date of Death 1 January 1919
Age 21
Regiment - Royal Air Force 72nd Sqdn.
Grave Reference. C. 2.
Cemetery - Baghdad (North gate War Cemetery)
Son of Thomas and Margaret Williams, of Ynys House, Pontardulais, Swansea.
However he was from a large family so plenty to follow through.
1911 census
Llandeilo Talybont
Thomas Williams Farmer born Pontardulais Glamorgan
Margaret Williams 41 Pontardulais
Wm Howell Williams 19 Pontardulais
Annie Williams 18 Pontardulais
John Albert Williams 16 Pontardulais
Trevor Lewis Williams 12 Pontardulais
Margaret Mary Williams 10 Panty Llyuwen
Daviel Leigh Williams 8 Panty Llyuwen
Glyn Earvin Williams 4 Panty Llyuwen
Edgar Thomas Williams 2 Panty Llyuwen
ChristinaSometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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03-02-2016, 11:23 PM #16
The information below is from a public tree on ancestry. There are no marriages or children recorded to any of these people sothey will have to be ferreted out.
Wm Howell Williams
Birth June 1891 Llandeilo Talybont, Glamorgan, Wales
Death 1986
Annie Williams
Birth c 1893 Pantyffynnon,Llanedi, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Death 1988
John Albert Williams
Birth c1894 Pontardulais, Glamorganshire
Death Unknown
Margaretta Mary Williams
Birth October 1900 Panty Llyuwen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Death Sept 1/4 1954 Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
David Leigh Williams
Birth 15 May 1902 Fferm Pantyffynnon,Llanedi, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Death March 1982 Carmarthen, Dyfed, Wales
Glyn Euryn Williams
Birth 18 Ded 1906 Pant y Ffynnon, Llanedi, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Death June 1972 West Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, Wales
Edgar Thomas Williams
Birth July 1908 Fferm Pant-y-ffynnon, Llanedi, Carmarthenshire
Death Octoberr 2002 Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
Reverand Wyndham Haydn Williams
Birth 1 April 1914 Llandeilo Talybont, Glamorgan, Wales
Death March 1988 Llanelli, Camarthenshire, WalesSometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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04-02-2016, 10:16 AM #17tomdocherty72Guest
Thanks Christina,
What a strange combination of surnames for Westendarp's spouse. Married three times before? Perhaps Harold and Oscar are not the same man?
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04-02-2016, 10:22 AM #18tomdocherty72Guest
Thanks for all the follow up research Christina. All very useful and in the case of Williams I think we can give up the search for direct descendants in his case.
Yours
Tom
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05-02-2016, 1:01 AM #19
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05-02-2016, 1:21 AM #20
Lt H F C Cannell - Hugh Featherstone Cameron Cannell
Information on CWGC
Lieutenant
Date of Death - 31/10/1918Age - 25
Regiment/Service - 1st Duke of York's Lancers (Skinner's Horse) and 72nd Sqdn. Royal Air Force
Panel Reference - Panel 44.Memorial Basra Memorial
Additional Information
Only son of Cameron Corlett Cannell and Eva M. H. Cannell of the Literary Institute, Haig St., Perth, Western Australia. Had just returned from a special mission (flight) to Persia.
From a tree on ancestry
Siblings
Constance Christine Cannell
Birth 1892 Penge, Kent, England
Died 1973 Perth, Western Australia
Eva R Cannell
Birth 1897 Bagshot, Surrey, England
Death Unknown
Edith Heather C Cannell
Birth October 1898 Bagshot, Surrey, England
Death Unknown
So some to try and follow through later today.
ChristinaSometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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