I played here 60 years ago......
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yes it is
lovely old lady
as a teenager worked in a kennels [the hunt?]
then quit to raise 4 siblings when parents died very young TB etc
quite a usual thing after WW1 when Fathers never returned
never married - what a shame/waste
always cried poverty [yeah-right]
died at 93 - me and my bruv were executors so we KNOW what she had..
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Mary's brother Alexander [Alec] shared the house
he had a zillion Nat Geo magazines - together with boxes of old "Steamship'' mags
when he died, she found he didn't leave her a penny
so she threw ALL his stuff in the bin.....family huh..:razz:
what is terrible, I remember he had 100's of glass slides [positives] of his WW2 times in Egypt [tanks] which you looked at with a holder to the light ....all gone too..
so the certificate 'could' be National Geographic Society as the word lenghts look about right
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he had a zillion Nat Geo magazines - together with boxes of old "Steamship'' mags
when he died, she found he didn't leave her a penny
so she threw ALL his stuff in the bin.....family huh..:razz:
what is terrible, I remember he had 100's of glass slides [positives] of his WW2 times in Egypt [tanks] which you looked at with a holder to the light ....all gone too..
so the certificate 'could' be National Geographic Society as the word lenghts look about right
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LOL. I've been an executor twice and vowed I'd never do it again. Unbelievable petty squabbling from people you'd least expect it from.
I think you'll find that's the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo. Painted by Elizabeth Thompson in 1881 - it's called 'Scotland Forever'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Thompson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Forever!
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Sir you are absolutely right...!
I recognize it now from one of your links...
it figures --- as she was the Daughter of Alexander Craig Wilson who lived in Dunoon, Scotland.....and her Grandfather was connected with the Army in Greenock [I'm still researching]
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Great peice of older works
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Were the Scots Greys a heavy Brigade?
Yes, they were part of the Heavy Brigade.
See Charge of the Heavy Brigade here: http://www.britishbattles.com/crimean-war/balaclava.htm
Sir you are absolutely right...!
I recognize it now from one of your links...
it figures --- as she was the Daughter of Alexander Craig Wilson who lived in Dunoon, Scotland.....and her Grandfather was connected with the Army in Greenock [I'm still researching]
John - perhaps her Grandfather was in the Scots Greys (later) regiment. This list of their battle honours might help: http://military-genealogy.forcesreunited.org.uk/1523/Royal_Scots_Greys.
Or this (the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards are derived partly from the Scots Greys): http://www.scotsdg.co.uk/
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''family tree' is on my bucket list.....
I tried that - It got back something like 3 generations, and everybody either went offshore or were "from the wrong side of the sheets"
so I gave up!
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thanks ....don't get me started - the old dear left behind a shed load of photos
she was the last so no doubt ended up with them all over the years
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1931 pearls and boa ... classic..
