The excellent series “Who do you think you are?” continues on BBC2 at 21.00hrs Wednesday evening.
This week’s subject delving into family history is Julian Clary and my TV guide shows him caressing(!) the prop of a Bristol Fighter at Duxford. Presumably an ancestor was in the R.F.C.?
A little later on BBC2 at 11.50 Jonathon Dimbleby flies with the Red Arrows.
Roger Smith.
Was the title “Heads up…” for a thread concerning Julian Clary inappropriate? – Discuss
By: topgun regect - 1st February 2006 at 14:41
bump – quick reminder
By: minter - 30th January 2006 at 14:13
my grandfher served as a carpenter in the RFC mainly on balloons,and rememberd, seeing american soldiers marching on their way to the front,and a couple of stray shells later, running back the other way.Also when the war finished they dug HUGE big pits and chucked all their equipment in inlcuding lorries, and he thought what a waste, guess they didnt want to take it all back home
By: Charley - 30th January 2006 at 12:19
I’m interested to see what he finds out about his grandfather’s service in the RFC. My grandfather was also an “ack-emma” but I know less than I should about the role of groundcrews in WW1.
By: hunterxf382 - 30th January 2006 at 11:58
The following taken from BBC website – makes interesting background…
“Julian’s paternal grandfather, Jack Clary, died before he was born but he makes some interesting discoveries about him at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. During the First World War, Jack was an engineer in the Royal Flying Corps (now the RAF).
The next characters to fascinate Julian are his paternal greatgrandparents,
Herman and Louisa Tiedemann – parents of Jack’s wife,Victoria. Julian knew Herman was from Germany but initially has mixed feelings about this heritage. However, he soon learns what difficult lives his great-grandparents endured. Herman, a German immigrant, came to England in the 1870s but, when the
First World War broke out, Germans were victimised and many were interned under the Aliens Act.
Julian then traces the life of Herman’s Essex-born wife, Louisa, and
seeks to uncover the reason why she was shunned by her family.
Eventually, he finds out that Herman and Louisa married when
Louisa was six months’ pregnant, which explains her ostracism.
Julian visits their daughter in the Isle of Wight who tells Julian that
Herman was too ill to be interned and later died of consumption.”
By: DazDaMan - 30th January 2006 at 10:11
The excellent series “Who do you think you are?” continues on BBC2 at 21.00hrs Wednesday evening.
This week’s subject delving into family history is Julian Clary and my TV guide shows him caressing(!) the prop of a Bristol Fighter at Duxford. Presumably an ancestor was in the R.F.C.?
A little later on BBC2 at 11.50 Jonathon Dimbleby flies with the Red Arrows.Roger Smith.
Was the title “Heads up…” for a thread concerning Julian Clary inappropriate? – Discuss
Bottoms up, surely?! :p
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