A Mystery Resolved


I seemed to have solved the little mystery regard-ing the two entries in the register for the unknown sailor buried in Oxwich (see last month’s issue of The BAY Exploring Swansea’s Graveyards). I made a phone call to the Commonwealth War Grave Commission, in Kent and it would seem that there was just the one burial. The curate must have been having some high jinks and entered the burial twice in the register.


Copyright – The Bay Magazine – Winter 2016

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Oscar Wilde

House Decoration IN my last lecture I gave you something of the history of Art in England. I sought to trace the influence of the French Revolution upon its development. I said something of the song of Keats and the school of the pre-Raphaelites. But I do not want to shelter the movement, which I have called the English Renaissance, under any palladium however noble, or any name however revered. The roots of it have, indeed, to be sought for in things that have long passed away, and not, as some suppose, in the fancy of a few young men - although I am not altogether sure that there is anything much better than the fancy of a few young men. When I appeared before you on a previous occasion, I had seen nothing of American art save the Doric columns and Corinthian chimney-pots visible on your Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Since then, I have been through your country to some fifty or sixty different cities, I think. I find that what your people need is not so much high imaginative art ...
Read more

Reader Feedback

Image
Following April’s article Per Ardua ad Astra , two readers have been in touch. Mary Johnstone contacted me via email regarding her father, Hubert John Lewis who served with the RAF Hubert was born in 1923 and was 16 at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. He was employed as an Apprentice Metallurgical Chemist and was living with his parents, Philip and Beatrice Lewis at 24 Elwy Crescent, Swansea. (Left) Herbert John Lewis (Right) With his crew and ground crew with kind permission Mary Johnstone Joining the RAF in 1942, 19 year old Hubert undertook his training at RAF Juby, in the Isle of Man. He joined the No 5 Bombing and Gunnery School where training was undertaken on the Handley Page Hereford aircraft. On completion of training, Air Gunner Sergeant Lewis was a Pilot Officer for a period of 6 months, which followed automatic promotion to Flying Officer. Hubert served with the 102 Squadron, based at RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire, which...
Read more

October 2017 - Reflections 2

Image
In the second reflections, “Blue Plaques of Swansea – Mumbles Lighthouse” , published in Bay July 2017 I wrote about the blue plaque commemorating the bravery of the two sisters, Jessie Ace , and Margaret Wright (Ace) , during the storm of 1883, saving lifeboat men from disaster. Both girls were awarded with a gold cross, blue medallion, and a copy of Sir Walter Scott’s book The Pirate (1822). With the ‘disappearance’ of Jessie , I set a question whether anyone knew of her whereabouts and that I would really like to hear from them. I was delighted to have an interesting response from Mr John Griffiths , of Swansea Harriers. He certainly had a good run with the results, let’s get on the starting blocks – we will get to the finishing line in record time! In 1885 there was a marriage between couples, Jessie Ace , Rose Wright , John Dunstan , and John Henry Morris . (If anyone does have this problem in their research, at least one of the couples would be listed on a l...
Read more