Hidden treasures.

[gridlore]

I just found a treasure trove of stuff in an old storage box. The Chronicle Extra from the Loma Prieta quake. The San Jose News from the Apollo 11 landing. One of my father's photo albums from before he came to the US. My Great-Grandfather's military records. Amazing stuff. Need to get some of these photos scanned in. There's one of my father in his cadet uniform that I'd love to put up with one of my portraits from Infantry OSUT. Photos of my Great-grandfather taken during the Boer War (He fought at Elandslaagte and was one of the besieged troops at Ladysmith)... enough documentation to make ancestry.com sit up and beg. I'm going to get it all organized and entered, and see what I get from it.

Oh, and an autographed photo of Louis Armstrong.

Comments

[claidheamhmor]

Wow, that's really cool! Must be fascinating going through the stuff. I take it your great-grandfather was an English soldier during the Boer war?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Yup, with the 1st Devonshire Regiment of Foot. Sergeant-Drummer John Berry. Served in South Africa and India, and died shortly after retiring from what sounds remarkably like Hodgkin's Disease.

[claidheamhmor]

The military runs in your family?

The Boer War was quite a tough one for the Brits.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Back to my Great^4 grandfather at least, and by family legend back to the New Model Army and beyond. My grandfather was a Colonel who spent much of WWII as a liason officer to Patton's 3rd Army, dad served briefly in the post-war British Army before being demobbed in the general draw-down of the early fifties. I, of course, broke tradition by not serving Queen and Country and instead swore to defend the Constitution.