Cymro Posted 30 November , 2004 Share Posted 30 November , 2004 I'm hoping to start some research soon on an American national (born in the USA) who travelled to the UK to join the UK forces as an o/r and was subsequently killed in action (Ypres). Are there any pitfalls of alternative areas of research I should look at in order to get the best result? Thanks chaps Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ian Bowbrick Posted 30 November , 2004 Share Posted 30 November , 2004 A US citizen who enlisted in an Irish Regt was SAD in 1918. I am surpirsed not a lot is made of this......................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeppoSapone Posted 30 November , 2004 Share Posted 30 November , 2004 A US citizen who enlisted in an Irish Regt was SAD in 1918. I am surpirsed not a lot is made of this......................... Wasn't another American, William Joyce, hung by the British after WW2? I think they said that "Lord Haw Haw" had lied to get a British passport, which made it ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ian Bowbrick Posted 1 December , 2004 Share Posted 1 December , 2004 I always thought he was Irish. Interesting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeppoSapone Posted 1 December , 2004 Share Posted 1 December , 2004 I always thought he was Irish. Interesting though. Some more details Ian: "Joyce was born in New York of an Irish father and an English mother on 24 April 1906, but when he was only three the family moved to Ireland, settling in County Mayo. Joyce was educated at a convent school in Galway - the College of St. Ignatius Layola. It was here that during a fist fight with another boy that Joyce had his nose broken. He kept quiet about the injury and his nose never properly set - giving him the nasal broken drawl so familiar in his later broadcasts from Germany." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ian Bowbrick Posted 1 December , 2004 Share Posted 1 December , 2004 Tony - Many thanks - you lives and learns! Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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