Hello again, I entered a piece about my admiration for telegraph boys in WW11 & within the hour I have received a reply from Jan & John Marchant in Australia & I am sharing it with you all (see below) Thank you Jan & John for sharing your thoughts, with me and those we should all remember at this time and for all time. Harold ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan & John Marchant" <jjmarchant@optusnet.com.au> To: "HAROLD" <h.j.singleton@btinternet.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [LEI] They also deserve to be remembered at this time > Hello Harold > > My father was killed in action in WWII and I remember the day when our > neighbour picked me up from nursery school at Humberstone, telling me my > mother wasn't very well. When I arrived home my mother, in tears, told me > about my father. I think she received a letter, although the first > notification could have been by telegram, followed later by the letter. > Yes, those bearers of bad tidings, by whatever means, should be remembered > too. > > Jan Marchant > Sanctuary Point, NSW, Australia > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "HAROLD" <h.j.singleton@btinternet.com> > To: <leicestershire-plus-l@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:10 PM > Subject: [LEI] They also deserve to be remembered at this time > > >> Could there have been a more sensitive duty to carry out in the 39/45 War >> than that of the telegraph boy? Not old enough for military service but >> certainly, in my eyes, doing a mans job. >> >> I well recall the day when one very tall lad, complete with pill box hat >> leaned his cycle against next the next door wall and delivered his >> telegram to # 47. >> >> A very short time later the distraught wife from next door came in with >> her two bewildered under school aged daughters waving the telegram which >> told her John, her husband, had been killed in Norway >> >> Amongst many others I will be remembering John and his family. He was >> the leading trombonist in the Ransome and Marles Brass Band (Ball Bearing >> manufacturers later to be bombed with the loss of 47 lives including my >> uncle Jim) >> >> Bless and remember them all >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-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 Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.22/1112 - Release Date: >> 5/11/2007 7:11 PM >> >> > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: > 269.15.22/1111 - Release Date: 05/11/2007 04:36 > >