{"id":33435,"date":"2024-05-09T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T09:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e5f58a4e-ff4d-45f6-8737-6e243053963c"},"modified":"2024-05-09T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T09:34:33","slug":"from-a-railwayman-in-india-to-a-dunkirk-hero-my-family-photographs-capture-my-fascinating-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/rss_feed\/from-a-railwayman-in-india-to-a-dunkirk-hero-my-family-photographs-capture-my-fascinating-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"From a railwayman in India to a Dunkirk hero, my family photographs capture my fascinating ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Thursday, 09 May 2024 at 09:24 AM<\/p>

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Grandad top left. This looks to be the same building as previous photos so I’m guessing it is Lahore. I would love to know who all these gentlemen are.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
James’ son Harry Hawkins (back row, far left) spent a decade as a boilermaker with Indian Railways.\u00a0<\/p>
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Harry & Doris on their wediing day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Harry and Doris Hawkins wed in 1922.<\/p>
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Doris, Grandma Williams, Peter, Ida & Brian. Peter’s christening 1927.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Left to right: Doris; my great grandmother, Sarah Williams, holding my father Peter; Doris\u2019 sister Ida May Jessie; and my uncle Brian, who was born in India.<\/p>
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Aunty Ada & husband, Herbert Campaign, Ascension Islands.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
My great aunt<\/a> Ada Hawkins and her husband Herbert Campaign on a ship in the Ascension Islands.<\/p>
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Thomas Williams, Royal Horse Artillery<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Thomas Williams, my great grandfather, joined the Royal Horse Artillery in 1866. He transferred to the Reserves in 1893.\u00a0<\/p>
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Nanny Brown & Wiliam Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>
My maternal grandmother Daisy Dawe was a spinster when she married Robert Brown in 1940. She\u2019d already had eight children (it\u2019s a long story!)<\/p>
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Daisy Dawe with Jack on her lap, Frederick George Bray (Taylor), Ruth and Vera<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Daisy with George Bray AKA Taylor, my grandfather.<\/p>
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Leonard Brown. Killed at Dunkirk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Mum\u2019s stepbrother, Leonard Brown, died at Dunkirk<\/a> in the Royal Berkshire Regiment.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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