Bert Schroeder R674186

[Bert Schroeder]

Vindi catering 24/6/57...2/8/57,
Cheshire Coast, Coast lines, 6 months 57/58
Colebrooke, Belfast SS Co, 1 month 58,
Emp France CPR 12 months, april 58/59
Alfred Holt, various ships 59/63.
Adrastus, Diomed, Ajax, Achilles, Menalause.
I came ashore, went into Heavy auto engineering,
A job I would I would have liked to have done at sea.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Bert
Thanks for the info, just wondering why the Bert? Nickname perhaps.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ils/r/C8467552

[j.sabourn]

Bert is usually short for Albert Vernon. I should know as my father was called such but abbreviated to Albie . The one main person in his life my mother however never called him by such name. She always called him by his middle name Vic short for Victor. I remember in Whitley Bay shortly after the war there used to be a newspaper vendor on the sidewalk known to us kids as Daft Albert , my mother used to say all the Alberts she knew were Daft as well . he was probably a war veteran. My cousin from North Shields she must have also spoken to him as well as people who had sailed with him he used his middle name of Tommy in preference. Cheers JS
PS That is of course when they werent calling each other Duck or Hen, as said once before thought I was in a Farm Yard.
JS

[Doc Vernon]

Yes i know that JS but this Lad,s Initials are H F ??
cHEERS

[j.sabourn]

well short for Herbert ? JS

[happy daze john in oz]

My father was a Herbert but always called Bert for short.
Uncle Albert also called Bert.

He had a sister called Virginia, virge for short but not for long.

[Bert Schroeder]

Hi Bert
Thanks for the info, just wondering why the Bert? Nickname perhaps.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ils/r/C8467552

Yes BERT, was a nick name, HERBERT FRANK SCHROEDER of good German stock.