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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Things you've found when tidying up |
So, we're tidying up all the junk from Mrs Grim...'s gran's house (apostrophe check!) which has been living in our dining room in place of a pool table for a couple of years. Didn't really expect to see this: Attachment: 2012-06-20 09.46.11.jpg Attachment: 2012-06-20 09.46.20.jpg 
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:18 ] |
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Who's is it? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:21 ] |
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Mrs Grim...'s great-grandfathers, we think. He used to live here. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:22 ] |
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By live, you mean 'own', yes? |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:26 ] |
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Bloody hell! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:27 ] |
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Aye. Aha, this is him: http://thepeerage.com/p26473.htm#i264726 |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:27 ] |
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Blimey, does it not say on the medal who it was awarded to? |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:33 ] |
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Grim... wrote: from Mrs Grim...'s gran's house (apostrophe check!) which has been living in our dining room in place of a pool table That's gotta be a small house. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:35 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Hands up if you didn't search for your name.... |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:44 ] |
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Are those ones on the side ribbons to little dress medals? As far as I can work out : 1914-18 Victory Medal British War medal 1914-1918 1914-18 Star What appears to be the Queen's South Africa Medal That big one might be the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:46 ] |
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Trooper wrote: Blimey, does it not say on the medal who it was awarded to? It perhaps would if we could find the OBE itself  Squirt wrote: What appears to be the Queen's South Africa Medal That big one might be the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal Good going - that sounds pretty likely as he was chief of police in South Africa. I'll post some better pictures of the dress medals in a minute. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:58 ] |
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Here we go. How come you know medals so well, Squirt? |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:14 ] |
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Bit of an interest of mine - we found some of Mrs Squirt's great-uncle's medals and I did some looking - poor bloke got a posthumous Military Medal on the first day of the Somme. He was an important chap, wasn't he? Civil OBE, Coronation Medals, and a couple I can't work out. The "Palestine" clasp meant he served in Palestine after WWII during the Israeli Independence Campaign, which must have been interesting. [Edit] - Grim... - what colour is the one between the pink one and the "palestine" one - can't tell if it's blue or green or black or purple 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:19 ] |
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Or he collected medals. 
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:26 ] |
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Possibly! All ties up though - various Police medals, and presumably the 1914-18 ones he got as a younger chap. The green and blue one is the Overseas Territories Police Medal for Meritorious Service, so that ties into his policing work. Also, can you read the writing on the clasp of the red, orange and blue one in the bottom pic? |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:29 ] |
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Hmm, they can't all be his - if he died in 1946 he'd be hard pressed to get the Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. Possibly two generations worth there. |
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| Author: | Slightly Green [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:30 ] |
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Squirt wrote: Also, can you read the writing on the clasp of the red, orange and blue one in the bottom pic? Looks like Tugela Heights to me, so from the Boer War, February 1900. |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:31 ] |
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Presumably that's his son's civil CBE, with his Military OBE ( which is what the box is for ) lost somewhere 
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:57 ] |
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Squirt wrote: [Edit] - Grim... - what colour is the one between the pink one and the "palestine" one - can't tell if it's blue or green or black or purple Black. You're right, they do cover two generations - he had a son called Hugo (this is about him) who was something to do with the Bahamas. There's a number of photos of Hugo with JFK and Harold Wilson. |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:06 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Black. In that case, it he was at least an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:07 ] |
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I should write this shit down Beex is fucking excellent. |
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| Author: | Slightly Green [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:09 ] |
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You wife has some very awesome ancestors, best I can come up with is that my Great great (and a few more Greats) Maternal Grandfather was the last person to be hung in England for Sheep Theft, after that they deported them to Australia. There is a plaque with his name and glorious achievement on it down Brighton and Hove way. That beats all these poxy new fangled Xbox achievments
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| Author: | GazChap [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:57 ] |
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My Grandad was one of the first Commandos, according to my Dad. Never bothered to try and look it up to see if he was telling the truth, though. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 13:55 ] |
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Stick a most excellent (£$%T^**&^%$&*) MBE in the pile Attachment: 2012-06-20 13.52.04.jpg
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| Author: | GazChap [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 14:02 ] |
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Next on BeEx: Mrs. Grim...'s great-grandfather is revealed to be King George VI! |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 17:24 ] |
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Grim... wrote: So, we're tidying up all the junk from Mrs Grim...'s gran's house (apostrophe check!) which has been living in our dining room in place of a pool table for a couple of years. Didn't really expect to see this: Attachment: 2012-06-20 09.46.11.jpg Attachment: 2012-06-20 09.46.20.jpg So her Gran's house lives in the middle of your dining room? Very small lady, I take it? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 17:43 ] |
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She's clearly got you on ignore, GazChap
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 18:15 ] |
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Gazchap is still on the forum?! |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 18:15 ] |
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(OK, so I only read the first post. Shh) |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 18:58 ] |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 19:25 ] |
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My ancestors did fuck all as far as I can tell, apart from work in various factories and mines, which isn't fuck all in the individual sense, it's actually a hell of a lot more worthy than what I do, but it isn't much in the grand scheme of things, so to speak, if you know what i'm saying, no disrespect to the hard working common man etc.... The question we really need answering, as Mrs Grim... comes from such prestigious stock, what the hell did she do to end up with Grim...!
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| Author: | Slightly Green [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 19:39 ] |
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Trooper wrote: The question we really need answering, as Mrs Grim... comes from such prestigious stock, what the hell did she do to end up with Grim...! Depends if you are religious and believe in original sin |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 20:13 ] |
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Trooper wrote: The question we really need answering, as Mrs Grim... comes from such prestigious stock, what the hell did she do to end up with Grim...! I was a bit of rough that, from her father's point of view, went fantastically wrong. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jun 20, 2012 20:45 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Trooper wrote: The question we really need answering, as Mrs Grim... comes from such prestigious stock, what the hell did she do to end up with Grim...! I was a bit of rough that, from her father's point of view, went fantastically wrong. 
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| Author: | Warhead [ Thu Jun 21, 2012 14:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Things you've found when tidying up |
Things I found when I was tidying up my parents' house after my step mother finally died (both my parents having died years earlier), included a large bag of live shotgun ammo which I handed in at the local cop shop, much to the disgust of the desk officer, a photo of my dad's class passing out photo from when he completed his basic training in the Royal Marines, and the actual deeds to the house itself. Damn lucky we found the deeds or it could have been ages before we could have put the house on the market. Never found all my dad's WWII campaign medals, which I'd seen many times as a child. My step-mother's scally family probably found them and flogged them. |
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| Author: | Squirt [ Thu Jun 21, 2012 15:09 ] |
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That's a shame. Campaign medals aren't normally worth a vast amount, but they're a great bit of family history. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Thu Jun 21, 2012 15:16 ] |
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Absolutely, but those tinkers would have swapped them for a couple of pints, given the chance. |
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