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Sun Oct 12, 2014 2:27 pm
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Thank you Alan thats fantastic, have sent the email. Please check your inbox!

Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:37 am
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Hi guys!
Me again, found some more photos of Alexander (and i cant for the life of me remember how to post photos I've saved to my laptop on here!) , and a newspaper article which me and my family fi ...

Sat Nov 02, 2013 8:04 pm
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This has been a very long time since I was on here, but I wanted to post this as at the time a lot of members tried to help me find out more about Alexander.
Thanks to a lovely lady in Canada, we ha ...

Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:43 pm
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Havent been here in ages, but if John Young still comes on and sees this, would you be able to PM please? I have sent you an email but have not heard a reply, you could of changed your email i don't kn ...

Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:27 pm
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I'm in contact with Tony Jones, so hopefully i should get more on Alexander, hopefully leading me to his death place. Me and my Aunt always wanted to go over to France and research are French ancestry, ...

Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:38 pm
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Sarah

He could still have disposed of his DCM and campaign medals at any time before his supposed departure to France. You don't seem very certain about the information from your sources - perhaps ...

Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:50 pm
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I have contacted the medal place and i have been told that there is no DCM medal for Alexander Walkinshaw. So that in my mind he must of taken his medal with him, and my second cousin seems to think t ...

Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:48 am
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Yes i do know and after a talking through email, it was my 2nd cousin Tom who he took around, and originally that is where we found the most out about Alexander and where we got the photos from.

Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:47 pm
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I hardly know anything on the subject, but it also gives me some insight into what my great great grandfather used. And for that picture to be used as well is great, i only got sent it recently becaus ...

Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:47 pm
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Thats OK Keith, we are at a loss of where he died, its like he disapeared off the face of the earth! LOL.

Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:01 pm
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Oh right, thank you Smile

Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:58 pm
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What does that mean?

Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:09 pm
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Thank you very much, i hope i have some luck!

Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:11 pm
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Peter,

No i havent, do you have an email or address of some kind?

I'm not sure they will have it, but its possible.

Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:56 pm
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Wow thank you Martin. He had many other medals as well but the most prestigious was his DCM.

Edit: Actually on the picture we have of him in 1910 he has 5 medals exactly, one of them being the DCM.
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