Just a little sideline on Private Sykes...............there was a steam locomotive named after him on the LMS railway.......'Private E.Sykes, V.C.' as I believe he was a railwayman at the time. Gordon Warrington FreeREG Lincs Co-ordinator see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~darfield/ Heckington Genealogy see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heckington/ Live messenger address willie800@hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elaine Sykes" <elaine.sykes@sympatico.ca> To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [WRY] Ernest SYKES VC > Hi Christine et al > > Not quite everything I wanted to know! I'm still searching for a local > Huddersfield death notice/obituary in the hope that it mentions family > names. > > > Thanks and regards, > > Elaine > >> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:01:04 +0100 >> From: "CHRISTINE" <CHRISTINE.SHELMERDINE@NTLWORLD.COM> >> Subject: Re: [WRY] Ernest SYKES VC >> To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <017c01c80088$bef30910$6be00152@D98VGG2J> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> Hello Elaine, if you type Ernest Sykes V.C. in Google you will see a >> wonderful page to this man. It tells you everything that you want to >> know. >> >> Cheers >> >> Christine from Oldham > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-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: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.32/1032 - Release Date: > 26/09/2007 20:20 > >