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| 01 May 2008 03:34:13 |
| Agnes |
| The Anchorites - looking for information |
My name is Agnes and I am member of Yacht Club of Poland London. Also I am Editor of website www.pogoria.org. My brother Thomas is looking for information about Polish sailors who in WWII was in UK.He found many information in The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum.There he found information that on 31.05.1944 President of Poland Mr.Raczkiewicz visited Polish Club (Klub Morski) where he meet members of British Anchorites : G.Pettigrew-Smith, Lord Alexander and E.C Danielsen from Norwegian Anchorites. We would like to get more information about The Anchorites and to know what happen with The Polish Anchorites? Regards, Agnes |
| 01 May 2008 12:41:11 |
| Martin |
| Re: The Anchorites - looking for information |
On Thu, 1 May 2008 03:34:13 -0700 (PDT), Agnes <agnes_london@vp.pl > wrote: >My name is Agnes and I am member of Yacht Club of Poland London. >Also I am Editor of website www.pogoria.org. My brother Thomas is >looking for information about Polish sailors who in WWII was in UK.He >found many information in The Polish Institute and Sikorski >Museum.There >he found information that on 31.05.1944 President of Poland >Mr.Raczkiewicz >visited Polish Club (Klub Morski) where he meet members of British >Anchorites : G.Pettigrew-Smith, Lord Alexander and E.C Danielsen from >Norwegian Anchorites. We would like to get more information about The >Anchorites and to know what happen with The Polish Anchorites? If you google with "Polish anchorites you might find what you are looking for. -- Martin |
| 04 May 2008 05:51:54 |
| Derek Moody |
| Re: The Anchorites - looking for information |
In article <993a6bba-8a0d-43d7-b551-2bc41b560aee@24g2000hsh.googlegroups.com >, Agnes <URL:mailto:agnes_london@vp.pl > wrote: > My name is Agnes and I am member of Yacht Club of Poland London. > Also I am Editor of website www.pogoria.org. My brother Thomas is > looking for information about Polish sailors who in WWII was in UK.He > found many information in The Polish Institute and Sikorski > Museum.There > he found information that on 31.05.1944 President of Poland > Mr.Raczkiewicz > visited Polish Club (Klub Morski) where he meet members of British > Anchorites : G.Pettigrew-Smith, Lord Alexander and E.C Danielsen from > Norwegian Anchorites. We would like to get more information about The > Anchorites and to know what happen with The Polish Anchorites? There may be a record of one of the meetings: http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FAVAR%2012%2F137 For any records concerning people of any nationality who served with British forces in WWII the first place to look is The Imperial War Museum: http://www.iwm.org.uk/ The Museum don't hold the records themselves but they make it their business to know where to look and they have useful references and guides for Family History?Genealogy research. Depending on when and where the personnel served the records might be in the National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ - or they might sill be held by the Ministry of Defence. For those who served in merchant ships a good starting point is the National Maritime Museum: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/ although many of the records are now in the National Archives as above. If you know the name of the ship(s) in which they served then the Shipping Line, if it still exists, or the Port of Registry may still hold records. For those on Convoy duty it is worth consulting the Canadadian Maritime History Archive: http://www.mun.ca/mha/ And, of course, Lloyd's Marine Collection holds records for the ships, not the crews, at the Guildhall Library. See: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Libraries/City_of_London_libraries/guildhall_lib.htm (Scroll down to 'Marine history') And see, for example: http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capintro.htm - note that non-English names were often spelled phonetically or otherwise anglicised. Cheerio, -- Fishing: http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/ Writing: http://www.author.casterbridge.net/derek-moody/ uk.rec.fishing.game Badge Page: http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/urfg/ |