Messages posted by: Rick Smallman

Hi all,
I need to find 'Elim Camp' that my Late Father was in around January 1946.

My sister has sent me some WW2 letters and the address on one of them is:
485 Flotilla
Elim Camp
c/o FMO Singapore
Malaya.

Dad was a Royal Navy Commando and around this time Mountbatten was in Singapore.

Any help welcome.

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Hi Steve,
Thank you taking the time to look.
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Hi Steve,

Could you look up:

Name: J. W. P. Ellingford
Rank: Sapper
Army Number: 2090929
Regiment: Royal Engineers
POW Number: 19766
Camp Number: XX-B.

He was/is my Late Mother's Brother

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Hi Lawrence,
I have sent you an email. Let me know on here if you do not receive it. Feel free to copy any of my postings.
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Hi,
Peter Lee who researches HMS Prinses Beatrix and her sistership HMS Queen Emma did not know that he has a possible Brian Mullins ship drawing.
Could I impose on Pete to send a copy to Mary Crawford for me so that she could look at the signature?

Attched is the whole drawing and a close up of the signature inverted to make it stand out.

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Hi,
A bit of a long shot but a good friend of mine is a Rodaway.

http://tonyrod.webs.com/ is his web site.

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Hi,

Re "The only one I haven?t seen before is the picture of HMS Prins Albert".

I am in contact with a surviving member of the crew and he has also stated that he bought one of the ship and named Brian Mullen as the artist.

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Hi all,
I am still here but have been very busy putting together a photo-history of HMS Armadillo, the Commando training base.

A good friend of mine has tracked down two more original huts for a total of four.

Also just finished locating the 'Prinses Marie-Jose' she was renamed a few times and was a barracks ship in Iceland during WW2 as HMS Baldur.

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Hi,

I have just been sent another picture drawn by BJ Mullen.

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Hi,

I have tried inverting the image so that the background is black and the writing is white and used a hi band sharpening filter and that is the best I can do.

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Hi Stéphane,

I shall have to ask my Aunt next time I phone here.

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I do not recall those names but I will look at the family history chart

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Thanks for that link Pete, it makes interesting reading.

Strange thing is that in another letter which I am retyping, because most of the letters are written in pencil, he also mentions being in the Nepal area. Walking along he sees a shrine with a lit candle, looks around and sees nothing as far as the eye can see and says to himself I wonder who lit that candle.

I have found that if I scan the letters and put them into Photoshop, tidy them up and then invert the black and white image, the writing is then white against a black background and makes it easier to read.

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If I may butt into your thread

In August of 1945 my Late Father was "drafted to India with Pontoon Unit 27 and arrived Chembur Camp, 1945."

I am slowly piecing together his war service which has not been easy owing to him being a "Special Service chap"

The words in " are a direct quote from his letter. My younger sister has sent me all his wartime letters and I am reading them eagerly.

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I am rather intrigued by this name for obvious reasons but I was wondering if he was a relative.

SMALLMAN kia 06 06 44

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