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I E Mailed apac enquiries on 3/3/09 and 4/3/09 I received this reply,
I have searched from 1904-1908 in our Indian Birth/Baptism records but sadly we do not hold a record of your mothers birth.

the saeforth hgihlanders battle honours relevant dates

1878 - 1890 Peiwar Kotal, Charasiah, Kabul, Kandahar Second Afghan war

1882 - Tel El Kibir The revolt of Arabi Pasha

1882 - 1884 First Sudan war

1895 - Chitral. Chitral Campaign

1896 - 1898 Atbara, Khartoun, reconquest of the Sudan

1899 - 1902, Paardeburg, During the Boer War

1914 - 1918 Marne 1916, 1918 Ypres 1915, 1917, 1918, Loos, Somme 1916, 1918, Arras 1917, 1918 Valenciennes. Palestine 1918, Baghdad. during World War One

1939 - 1945 St Valery-enCaux, Caen, Rhineland, El Alamein Akarit, Sicily 1943, Anzio Madagascar, Imphal Burma 1942, 1944.


india may still have been a posting for them

evelyn
phone the british library tomorrow on the number grumpy has given and see if they can help.
then let us know what they said please

no i am not really grumpy only sometimes but this is a lesson to us all to get as much information however small write it down and keep it, i only started this after my mother died and she was the font of all wisdom and knowledge but it was all in her head, i remember her as knowing everybody and now i know nobody but i am working on it and i have a long suffering wife for her troubles to support me.
oh for a tardis?????

Thanks Grumpy,
You are confused, I have lived with this puzzle for 76 years I also am confused. You are not Grumpy really are you?
Evelyn

no date of birth,
just what was on dianes m.c
only a prob area and that is all summise

evelyn you haven't upset me i am just trying to get my head round it all so i can help,
vivienne, iam just checking under mcleod now,
do we have a date of birth for robert?
p.s. didnt find medal card on ancestry?

MICK

edit;
Not found what you are looking for?
The Reference Services staff of the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections at the British Library might be able to help you. Contact:

Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7873
Fax: +44 (0)20 7412 7641
Email: [email protected]

SORRY. I seem to have upset Grumpy, I assure you it was not intentional, just ignorance, I am old and not very conversant with the computer or the rules of the site but Vivienne and Evie Beavie together with Ann of Green Gables are teaching me , now I dont feel quite so ignorant and hope soon you will understand me
Kind Regards
Evelyn

Diane leslie macleod/mcleod circa 1906/08
birth place unknown ,but prob abroad as no records in the british isles
states father ,robert mc/macleod ,seaforth highlander on her m.c
diane told evelyn that he was a captain/major,high up anyway,,and she never spoke of her mother as far as i know from evelyn ,so no name for dianes mother.
any help mick?

hi grumpy,thanks for that
did you try under mcleod as well?i know ,cheeky!
i went through most of the find my past ones before for both spellings ,but no joy.
think we may have to move to SA or egypt as suggested
well i would try there, but idont know how or where to start

with 5 pages of posting here and x amount of threads can someone summarize where we are with this e.g.
fathers name, robert macleod (no middle name?) dob ?
mothers name? dob ?
name diane leslie macleod? dob? place of birth?

although this is totally wrong i found this
RUNDLE, HENRY MACLEOD LESLIE, Major, was born at Newton Abbot, Devon, 6 January 1856,
he became a sir, major-general kcb
but can you see the confusion?

edit, i am trying to be helpful honest?

although not complete there is no record of diane leslie macleod

http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/

Thank you Vivienne, fingers crossed

I have sent messages to the three people on ancestry that have Ishbel and family in their trees,now we just wait and see if we have messages back,with or without news of Diane or her father

WW1 records will be on Ancestry or at Kew. The regimental musuem would be unlikely to have anything on individual men,apart from some basic info. You need to look on Ancestry, and depending on surname and rank, if not there, you may need to go to Kew.

My sincere thanks to all of you for your help especially Vivienne Ann of Green Gables and Eviebevie, I have tried most of the suggestions you have sent me but if I had not known her personally I would swear Diane Leslie Macleod never existed. I look forward to information of tree with Donald, Kate and Ishbel on. I am off to bed now Goodnight and God Bless

i think you also owe the teaching thanks to at least ann of green gables and eviebeavie too,
who i am very surprised at in the patience dept!

and i see that many people have put in a lot of work that really needs to be printed off,if you can,and then follow up some of the suggestions.

we will still be here when you have tried some of them.
but make sure you come back to this thread and dont start another one as this holds too much info to be lost.

i will send a message to the people that have ,,uncle donald,aunt kate and cousin ishbel in their tree on ancestry on your behalf
sorry i forgot to do it earlier,first thing i do on the puter tomorrow!
gotta go now
viv

Yes I have been to the museum at Fort George, it was very interesting but they were no help to me with records as they told me that all the relevant documents had been destroyed by fire. The Fort itself was interesting to me as my mother had mentioned it on several occasions and I found things that she had described, I was particularly taken with the chapel

The Highlanders Museum
( The Seaforth Highlanders ),
Fort George
Ardersier
Inverness-shire
IV1 2TD
Tel: 01463 224 380

By the sounds of it you may have already been in contact with them,

I never saw a passport for my mother and in my lifetime she never went abroad, the first time I saw a passport was when I got one in 1962 so I could travel to Australia,I travelled on the Canberra, she caught fire in the straights of Messina, but thats another story. With refs to replies you said I would get there in the end, you are a good teacher, thank you.