Grandfathers worked together
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My husband and I are were born in Australia. During WW1 his grandfather, Claude, (an engineer, who was also Australian) came over to England and worked as an engineer in a relatively small Vickers armaments factory in Birmingham. According to family history tales, my grandfather, William (an engineer, born and bred in Birmingham) also worked at Vickers during the war. This all seemed too unlikely until my sister-in-law found a photo of the staff of the factory (20 or so men) taken with her grandfather, Claude posing in the front row - and there was the proof - my grandfather very clearly appearing in the back row. After the war, Claude returned to Australia and had a family and my grandfather, William, eventually emigrated to New Zealand. When Wiliam's wife died and his own health broke down my mother (his daughter) went to live with relatives in Sydney where she married and I was born. 60 years after the end of WW1 my husband and I met and married in Sydney and, now, interestingly, live in England.
Date submitted:Mon, 21 May 2012 07:46:51 +0000Coincidence ID:6385
