Hello listers This message I mailed to a member of the Essex list, also Essex-UK, but I also wanted to post it to other lists principally London. Now I have re-subscribed to the latter I hope that someone, somewhere, may have news about these families and/or be interested in an event nearly one hundred years ago. To hear further details of this story, then the account relies on photographed documents, which are most revealing of what occurred so long ago. Of course no images will can be sent through rootsweb, but off-list they are available, as attachments on request. Michael. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "MICHAEL DANIELS" <michael.daniels1@tesco.net> To: "chris gadsby2" <chris.gadsby2@virgin.net> Cc: "Essex-UK" <Essex-UK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, 17 November, 2013 8:29:20 PM Subject: [Ess] A sad story unravelled. My orinial e-mail read: 'During a session deleting messages I came upon one of your mails. Just been dealing with a very sad story in which a relative, my uncle, Douglas DANIELS of Whitstable, Kent, performed a most courageous act in WW1. He had recovered the body of a young officer from no-mans-land under fire. In doing the research came to learn that the officer's mother's name was nee GADSBY and they were a north London family. Of course the name, like mine, is far from being uncommon, but just a very small chance that there could be a connection, thus reasoned no harm in getting in touch. Whilst sending this, thought I would take the opportunity to mention the soldier's less common name HELLICAR and so will send this to other rootsweb lists apart from yourself and Essex. I tried to trace the Hellicars further forward. The soldier's parents eventually moved to Buckinghamshire I suspect after there was considerable bomb damage along their road, or actually to their home in Finsbury Park. Officer Geoffrey Theodore Hellicar had two siblings, Christine Joan and Arnold Hugh Gadsby H, but both seem to have left no records of their later lives. Arnold did get married in 1934 and thence on, nothing. Around the time of the thirties there was the great depression and I wonder whether both decided to emigrate to seek better fortune overseas. Just possible someone of the old Commonwealth.the US, might recognise the above names. It is a small chance, but worth the try. Michael in Clacton, UK' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message