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Frank

For some reason my WW2 Forums list includes a number of your threads eg the chat with Carey in America. I hope you don't mind my reading some of them - most interesting, not least the ones about your knees. Incidentally I had a photo in a story I sent recently. It was too small and I have managed to send a larger version which I hope will be visible soon. It's in a story about Penicillin. Not a very exciting piece.

I've just written a short account for a printed journal about a cousin of my father's who tried to join the Royal Navy in 1915 at the age of 15 and a half. He was sent home to get his birth certificate and was never heard of again. The family story is that he was rrying to get away from his mother as also did his elder brother but the latter turns up in 1919 changing his name from the foreign Marks Gorsky to the very English Harold St John Gore!
Strange that the younger man should have tried for the Royal Navy as to get into that service you had to have had both parents born in Britain and his parents were I think immigrants.

Harold

Harold,
You have me among your friends and that automatically sends any of my writings to your page, it is how we keep in touch with each other. I get all sorts of stuff on my page and read it all.
I never write anything I would not want others to read as I have no secrets that I know of and try to tell the truth as I know it so no problems read away.
I think this country was glad of the immigrants once they got over the first few months of being nervous nelly's. In this area we had Poles and other Eastern Europeans in uniform and they certainly hated the Germans more than we did. I suppose they had every right to do so considering what we found out after the war.
Without our allies we would have struggled as the war became world wide. I am catching up on the Jewish brigades and the wonderful work they did for this country so I think the Navy would have had your cousin if he had been old enough.
Keep up the writing and do what I do;- latch on to the names on articles go to the personal page and read their mail, it is great being nosy.
Regards Frank.