How did your grandfather look? Tall, short??

So your grandma and grandpa. 5'10 quite tall They were from Ireland? Nice Farming was quite tough in those time, did he ever talked about his past?

 

Well i would love to know where my ancestors lived, but i don't know because i have never met them and my grandpa never asked his grandpa where in India we're coming from. But i would love to know about the war of India. And don't u worry sir I'm happy u told me the old names because i didn't knew, and now i know Are u ever going back to India? To see how it is?

 

Help me for a sec please. I'f im correct Irish people they worked very hard if i'm correct right sir?.. I mean they had a tough time in Ireland and in the Usa.

 

My paternal grandfather. Sgt Frank Baldwin, probably ASC taken durign WW1. His older brother Kipps was killed on 14th September 1914. He may have served at the same time as Hugh Alderman/Baldwin. They weren't related Frank and Kipps were from Eynsford in Kent, though Frank ended up managing a farm in Warwickshire near Widney Manor

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I don't have any photographs of my maternal grandfather, but I do know how tall he was. He was between 4'9" and 5'2" as he was a Kitchener volunteer who served on then Somme with then 17th (Bantam ) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. he is somewhere in this photograph. He was a bandsman and my mother swore she saw him in a photograph of their band.
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As my son pointed out when we visited the Somme. If he had not been invalided back to the UK after the Somme, he would never have met my maternal grandmother.

 

Oh yeah that is true yes. I remember yes alot of them were protesting yes. Had to be tough for your ancestors

 

Wow sir this is so intresting. He was not so tall But he had to be strong almost everyone of that time was strong or physical strong if im correct they were calling the somme also hell on earth if im right. He loved making music nice Could u tell some more story please.

 

My grandpa was born in 1920 in Des Moines, IA, the youngest of 3 sons. He stood about 6' 1" tall.
He was drafted into the Army Air Corps, 95th Bomb Group based out of Horham, England. He was the radio operator on a B17 when his plane was shot down over Germany in August 1944. Hi parachute tangled in a tree where he was captured by local German farmer and turned over to the Nazis. From there he was sent to Stalag Luft IV. He was one of the 1000s of POWs made to March through Germany as the Nazis tried to keep them from being liberated by the Allies. He was liberated the following April (by the British I think).

After coming home he (and his brothers) was a policeman in Des Moines, he worked for trucking company, and finally an auto mechanic.

He was a fantastic patriarch to our family and his terribly missed.