Drifting mist
We're probably moving away from softskins but I still find it all fascinating. One piece of fog clears to reveal another. In my searches I've found referenceces to P Officer F E Northover and perhaps his father Harry Northover was the man who invented both the armed motor cycle and the Home Guards' own artillery. It isn't that unusual to find families who drift back and forth from North America over the generations. My Lincolnshire grandmothers family seem to have done this ever since the little misunderstanding at the end of the eighteenth century, the last lot having arrived in Canada via Argentina! One member of a much earlier generation apparently having dined at the White House when the president was avoidably absent. To confuse matters I've found references to two! Northovers having won the Military Cross with a Winnipeg regiment in WW1 one a Major H R Nothover and the other a Lt A W Northover (a family business perhaps).
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08-10-05, 00:32
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