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Agnes <URL:mailto:agnes_london@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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 ****ps 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 ****p(s) in which they served then the ****pping
Line, if it still exists, or the ****t 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 ****ps, not
the crews, at the Guildhall Library. See:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Cor****ation/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,
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