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PLEASE OPEN THIS, EVERYONE!! The KEY is the FLEET AIR ARM and EVAN REES is proving to be a real scarlet pimpernel as I have so little information about him.

He is known to have been a sailor in the Fleet Arm as he was on shore leave in Gloucester in the UK during March / April 1942.

There is no information as to what ship he served on or where it was docked at the time or where it went when he re-joined it.

He would have joined the Fleet Air Arm around about 1940 but there is no record of where and when he was recruited or his age at the time.

Prior to joining up he was working for a builders in Gloucester (UK) but again there is a dearth of information about what firm he was working for.

It is believed that he came from Port Talbot - but whether this was just the place he had moved from when he went to Gloucester, or whether it was his actual birthplace is unknown

I appeal for more information about him from anyone who feels that they have heard of such a person in their family be he still living or deceased.

I ask everyone to question family, friends, and acquaintances about him to see if anyone on earth can tell me even the slightest thing about this Mr. Rees.

I am so desperately keen to be able to pursue further ancestry-tracing back beyond this very frustrating barrier.

I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can provide me with this cruicial key to unlocking my past.

Thank you, world!!


Margaret

Hi Margaret, I have sent some addresses. good luck.

Hello Margaret,
I had a quick look through a couple of sites and found 2 Evan Rees
Both died in 1960 and were recorded in Llanelly, Camarthenshire in the Apr-June Qtr.
Evan Rees age 77 Volume 8 page 303
Evan D Rees age 59 Volume 8 page 286

Don't know if this is relevant but you didn't give much info as to birth dates or approximate age. Also his relationship to you may have been helpful
There will surely be military records that are accessible to you.
I hope this helps a little.
John

John. The d.o.b. I have is a "guesstimate" - based on what I imagine his age might have been when he was recuited into the FAA. I'm guessing around about the mid-20s but he might have been older or younger. I'm trawling around for a start point where someone thinks "yes, I know who he is / was.

I'm really concerned and I've asked the poster to delete the info.

I don't think any of us would want our name, address and telephone number posted on an internet discussion board!

So just for future ref, that's a really unwise thing to do (and of course is against GR rules), and we all need to think about the personal safety of both ourselves and others when it comes to identifying info like that.

Joy,

Regarding the Navy News, my problem there would be that I have, so far, no means of knowing for definite whether or not he is deceased. Your offer of doing a bit of research in the relevant local area is much appreciated

You could always try the Fleet Air Arm museum at RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset. It's possible that they might have records of FAA personnel of that period, or at least tell you where those records may be kept now.

FAA Museum
RNAS Yeovilton
Yeovilton
BA22 8HT
Phone 09135 840565

If you google the museum, there is an e-mail address, and a search facility for finding personnel. Worth a try anyway.

Does anyone know how, online, I can find a list of builders firms that were in Gloucester in the late 1930s / early 1940s?

starr1

thanks for taking notice of my appeal, but can you please enlighten me as to how all this information is going to help me to track down Mr. Rees?

Good luck with your own researches.

Phantom4

I tried this site but all the online info that I could possibly have searched is unaccessible due to staffing shortages and other priorities.

Thanks anyway for the suggestion.

the info was just on the faa if not interested delete simple answer

starr!

Only you can delete what you post. I could not have done it as I did not put the post in. Thank you for the information anyway, but I could not see its relevance in tracing Evan Rees.

Margeret

i may have missed it but you odnt give his name?

And why are there so many deletions on this thread...anybody?
Ginny x

Karen

yes there was a lot of personal info on this thread

Because of the lack of details its going to be hard..... you have to go with rumour and to eliminate these. You say he might have been from Port Talbot area. Well this sits in between two registration districts. Neath and Swansea. These are possible births for both.

Births Dec 1915 (>99%)
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Rees Evan M Morgan Neath 11a 1725

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Births Sep 1916 (>99%)
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Rees Evan G Davies Neath 11a 1813

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Births Mar 1922 (>99%)
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Rees Evan D T Davies Neath 11a 2103

Births Jun 1915 (>99%)
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Rees Evan J Davies Swansea 11a 2240

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Births Mar 1918 (99%)
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Rees Evan J Rees Swansea 11a 2067

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Births Jun 1920 (>99%)
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Rees Evan T Morgan Swansea 11a 2531

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Births Mar 1922 (>99%)
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Rees Evan I Evans Swansea 11a 2405
Rees Evan J Thomas Swansea 11a 2286


it is about eliminating each one until you find the right person which is going to take a long time. Unless you can find other documentation on him from his military records.

thanks Karen/Paula, see what you mean now

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Ginny

The name of the person I am looking for is Evan Rees and the only way I can continue my research is if anybody out there knows of anyone of this name who was in the Fleet Air Arm at this time - the early 1940s.

In respect of the deletions; there was some personal information offered to me earlier but I asked the poster to delete it. Some other stuff, I could see, was not going to lead me anywhere so that, too was deleted by the poster and I deleted my part relevant to that bit of the thread.

A long string of "deleted"s can, indeed, be frustrating to all. It's a pity the system leaves them in.

Derek

Thank you for taking the trouble to research a list of births in the relevant area for me. If I could find out whether one of them was the Evan Rees I am looking for then that would be marvellous.
What I really need is, as you say, information from his service records. This would give a lot of relevant information, but this avenue of enquiry is closed to me under the Data Protection Act.
Therefore, I have to hope to be able to tap into the memories of anyone out there who might know of him in their family.

n

nudge