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    1. [ALBERTA] WOOD, Harry Gordon; Military??
    2. Bonnie Barnes
    3. Hi Listers....... I wrote before.....trying to find a needle in a haystack. Can we try again please!! My missing cousin is Harry Gordon WOOD. He was born in Washington State abt Nov 1919 to Thomas F. WOOD (his Canadian father) and Mary (Marie) Olivia KENSETH (Kjenseth) his mother who was born in Norway. I found them on the 1920 Washington State Census, but sometime after that they moved to Canada where they remained for the rest of their lives. The good news is that I have a snapshot of Harry that says Cousin Harry Wood on the back and the date 1941. He is wearing a uniform that isn't like any I'm familiar with. (I grew up in Seattle so what do I know?) This uniform looks a light color, maybe tan, with a shirt type jacket and wide belt. The shirt is 'out' at the bottom, over the top of his trousers. He is standing on the stairs in front of a building that has a sign on it. The building looks like a temporary type structure....not built to last for decades and the sign appears to say No. 3 HUT, 'A' WING. Mind you I am using a magnifying glass to read this, but underneath it looks as if it says 'B' ....and then it gets harder to read. It could be CDN or COY or ??? It doesn't really look like a C....it looks more like an ( or 'opening parenthesis mark' and then DN or DV. There appears to be four smaller letters after that, but I can't distinguish them for sure. Does anyone think they know what I'm trying to describe? Does the 'A' WING mean this is Air Force? Does anyone have any idea or suggestion as to what to do now? I've got to find out more about him to try to fit them into the family better. Harry's mother was my Norwegian aunt. She was the only one in this family to leave the Seattle area and the only thing we absolutely know is that they went to Canada to live. I know Canada's big and I'm fighting against all odds, but this photo has to help. Does anyone have military information available? I'm pretty sure this is World War II, as the 1941 indicates, but for all I know he could have been stationed anywhere. I just want to find his home so I can get this family together again. Please contact me if you can help. Anything at all is better than nothing. Many thanks, Bonnie Menzer Barnes Perth, Western Australia

    11/24/2001 06:24:00