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9th November 2017, 10:45 AM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
Sorry image has not worked and I keep getting an error message ......I'll try again later
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9th November 2017, 11:24 AM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
40, Hi Helen, You are most welcome and thank you for your pm. Have to leave shorty, [hos app for my mum] will be home again around 7pm and will try then.
There was another chap SIMILAR name who had been a P.O.W. in Japan but didn't match up completely so didn't want to build up false hope. However will try and find him again. Did your grandfather have any other middle names that you recall? There are around 4 family trees on Ancestry with your grandfathers details all stating his dob as 1923/24. Hence why I had no doubt in posting what I did. Dates and spellings can and do deviate on genealogy sites but usually not too far out. We now know of course Richard was born in 1926 and shall allow for that. Delighted to hear your mum was pleased, that in essence is what it's all about
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9th November 2017, 03:52 PM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
Hi Helen (Richard.)
Stick with,I am sure that there are people out here
that will be able to help you with your search.
Dave Williams
Last edited by Doc Vernon; 10th November 2017 at 08:11 AM.
Reason: Just corrected name
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9th November 2017, 10:50 PM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
Here is the Photograph of Richard sent to me by Helen ,so may be we can get a bit futher in this quest
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9th November 2017, 10:57 PM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
Rn / rnvr / rnr ?
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Here is the Photograph of Richard sent to me by Helen ,so may be we can get a bit futher in this quest
Cheers
Ta, bit busy 11/11 and all, will try harder.
K.
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9th November 2017, 10:58 PM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
Yes Keith that is what we will now have to work out! Anyone know for certain?????Thanks in advance!
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9th November 2017, 10:59 PM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
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9th November 2017, 11:34 PM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
Will look, doubt with tribute / remembrance much response before Monday.
k.
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10th November 2017, 06:24 PM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
Hello again Helen, finally found the other chap same name as your grandfather, different spelling.
THORNE, Richard E, Act/Stoker Petty Officer, D/KX 78141, Matabele, Zim17 January 1942, ship loss, MPK The other two Thorns were Army one in Poland the other Germany.
I'm terribly sorry Helen but I cannot find any data on Richard Eric being a POW in Italy.
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10th November 2017, 06:37 PM
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Re: Request for help - Richard Eric Thorn
THORNE, RICHARD ELI
Service Number D/KX 78141
Died 17/01/1942
Aged 34
H.M.S. Matabele
Royal Navy
Son of Alfred and Lillian Thorne; husband of Caroline Bertha Thorne, of Plympton St. Mary, Devon.
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