Thank you Dorothy what a very kind thing to do for me it made my day when i checked my mail tonight.I was going to try and find Albert at a later date i will try and find out a little more about how Albert died.Thanks once more Paul Thompson Leicestershire Family from Soulby early 1800,s ----- Original Message ----- From: "DOROTHY WILLIAMS" <dotw@talktalk.net> To: <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Remembrance Day / Armistice Day > Hello Paul > > The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records the death and burial of an > Albert E Hooke, Pte, 202527, 1st / 5th Leicestershire Regt, son of William > Henry Hooke of Anstey, died 25/10/1918. Buried St Sever Cemetery > Extension, > Rouen, grave reference S. ll. FF.6. > Is this your man? Rouen was way back behind the lines, so he would have > died either of wounds, or illness, in a hospital there. > > Dorothy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "paul thompson" <p.thompson23@ntlworld.com> > To: <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:47 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Remembrance Day / Armistice Day > My mams uncle Albert >> Hooke buried not known (yet) France Albert came from Anstey in >> Leicestershire His father made the the long trip out to France just after >> the war to his sons grave.This must have been a very hard trip at that >> time >> Grt Granddad had never really been out of the village up untill then.How >> he >> managed we will never know he only ever used horse and carts in >> England.Paul >> Thompson Leicestershire home of The Tigers God Bless Them!!! >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Barb Baker" <bbaker48@sympatico.ca> >> To: "Genealogy-Cumberland" <Genealogy-Cumberland@googlegroups.com>; >> <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 12:43 PM >> Subject: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Remembrance Day / Armistice Day >> >> >>> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.1/1781 - Release Date: 11/11/2008 08:59