Hi What is your grandmothers name ? I have some photographs that my mother (She was in the WAAF) took of one of her colleagues wedding in Cairo about 1942. Ron Barnard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sigrid de Wit" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 12:24 PM Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Oscar Denis Mathews > Dear all, > > I'm trying to trace descendants or relatives of one Oscar Denis Mathews. I > don't know much about him other than that he was briefly married to my > grandmother during WW2 - in Cairo no less. He intrigues me because less > than > a year later they got divorced and she married my grandfather. I was > wondering who he was, what he did in Cairo (what rank/occupation he had in > the war) and perhaps even why they got divorced so quickly. > > He must've been born around 1920 (give or take a few years, my gran was > born > in 1922 and they were married in 1942, so there are limits as to his age). > I > believe he was South African because when I googled him, aside from the > guesstimates my father put into his family tree site, out came some > (though > no longer accessible) records from Ancestry24 and from those I gather that > he died in SA in 1995. The same year as my grandmother, coincidentally. > > Is there anyone in this list that had a (grand-) father or (great-) uncle > called Oscar Denis Mathews? > > Thanks in advance! > > Sigrid de Wit. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4158 / Virus Database: 3629/6820 - Release Date: 11/08/13 >