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Originally Posted by trayjo
Retlaw you are a star! thankyou so much. He looks so much like my grandad. I have some more questions for you if that's ok.
Is there an unburnt record for Daniel?
Do you have any photos or other details for Fred and William Ackrill.
I have been very interested in the great war and my family tree for some years now and wish I could speak to my grandad (he was too young to serve) again to ask him about these family members. My gt uncle Walter desperately wanted to sign up for the East Lancs and was rejected because he had a chronic illness. My dad tells me that all Uncle Walter's mates went and when they marched from Accrington he accompanied them and then returned on his own. What I wouldnt give to be able to sit down with him now and talk about it. When you are younger you dont appreciate things do you. thankyou.
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I don't know wether there is a record for him or not, I've been searching the records since May this year, 2 hours everyday in the library, started with A's and now nearly finished B's. I don't type in the christian name, just surname, and then troll thro the lot, found several blokes in Greater Acc, I would have missed, not all used their proper christian name Fred/Frederick, Bert/Albert/Herbert/Philbert/Robert, etc etc.
Barnes was the worst, more Barnes's in the Army than fleas on a dog.
So you can see its a long job, by the time I get to Yates I will be using a motorised zimmer frame.
I've met a lot of people who wished they'd talked to their granddads & uncles, I did, I used to sit and listen to them when I was a kid, on what was called the Wesley form, at the bottom of Adelaide St.
I will do a search on Monday.
Retlaw.