ANDY Ingham from Huddersfield is writing a book on the history of 127 (F) Squadron RAF during World War Two and is appealing for information about one of the pilots.
He says: "One of the pilots who served with the squadron between September 1944 and May 1945 came from Sheffield.
His name was
Lawrence Hyland and he was born in 1922. Post war he left the RAF and returned to his home town. It is believed that he died in 1988.
"I am trying to locate and make contact with any friends or relatives of Lawrence Hyland."
•Contact: Andy Ingham, 11 Kenyon Bank, Denby Dale, Huddersfield HD8 8TD, email
andyingham@talktalk.net or call 07771 671038.
IAN Greaves is looking for an old school friend from Thornbridge, Julie Calvert, from around 1971.
•Contact:
iangg@hotmail.com DAVID Smith from Scotland is looking for help to trace his late father's family.
He writes: "My father, son of
Edward Smith and Mary Hill, was born in 1928 at Motehall Road, Sheffield. He moved to Scotland after the war with my mother, Sylvia, and me as a baby. I know he had a brother Percy, born in 1920, who died in 2000 and a sister whose name I do not know."
•Contact: David Smith at 9 Elm Grove Larbert Stirlingshire FK53LP, email
liz@melvorge.fsbusiness.co.uk or call 01324 553331.
ANN Libby would like to get in touch with anyone connected
Richard Maguire who married
Margaret Chapman in 1872 in County Durham.
They were her great grandparents.
•Contact: Ann Libby at 15a, Prestwood Close, Benfleet, Essex, SS7-3LD, email
Ann.libby@talktalk.net or call 01268 743127.
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