This is a list of all the references to to William Robert Lang in the NZ Gazette 4/3/15 | GAZ 33 | 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles | Sergeant Major William Robert Lang to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) supernumerary to establishment dated 11th February 1915 #5 20th JAN 1916 | H.E. the G has […]
When we arrived in NZ in 1949 we stayed with Auntie Heath and the nurse who had looked after Lucy Spencer at home. She had died not long before, and Auntie Heath had decided to continue with her company. The family had been looking out for a house for us, and had found one […]
16/12/53 My dear Margot, Here is a line to wish you all a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Your mother is in normal form. The Le Messuriers are a long living family and though she is now 70 68 years of age her hair is just as it was when you last […]
This post is a letter from Eda LeMessurier to Jean Lang (her granddaughter) describing the family history of some of their mutual ancestors, the Tourtels. In particular, Robert Tourtel (pictured), who was Eda LeMessurier’s uncle. The letters are transcribed below. TOURTEL Now we come to the country people, engaged mostly in agriculture, & later building […]
Albecq King Harry Lane St Albans Herts June 27. 40 My dear Alfred Here I am, an evacuee. I left home Tuesday by the night boat & arrived here at 2 p.m. yesterday. Hilda & Mary came over last week & is staying at home with her people. I hope Grenville will […]
This is an undated account of an escape under fire from Guernsey across the Channel to England after WWII started. The account was copied by Eda Stringer, and contains her additional notes. Possibly escape was August 1941. It is not clear whether this whole transcript is written by the same person, or whether it ‘morphs’ […]
Note from Eda Stringer at top of letter: Holme View, Aglionby, Carlisle 15.7.40 Failure to evacuate more completely must have been due, as he says, to the Guernsey authorities. It looks as if they had not asked for sufficient boats, so I don’t think the Cabinet can be blamed! Father had been told, you remember, that […]
Letter found in envelope addressed to A.T. Le Messurier, 27 Aston Hall Lane, Hawarden, Chester. Here is a link to the wikipedia article about the Guernsey evacuation. Eda Stringer also copied the letter to send on, and annotated it, so there is the original letter from Edwin, and a copy by Eda. Her annotations have […]
Monday Dear Margot Here is a link to the wikipedia article about the Guernsey evacuation. The latest news is that 2000 Germans (two thousand) landed in Guernsey alone. This comes from the Waymouths. Father was away during the whole of Sunday – 9 am to 7 pm – dealing with the children. Someone, he forgets […]
Note at top of letter: You know the two big posts at the gate, with the ramblers. Father pruned them severely this year, & they are perfectly gorgeous, huge clusters of blooms as big as your head – the clusters, not the blooms. Saturday. Dear Margot Here is a link to the wikipedia article about […]