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Hi Janey.....

They were talking about this on the TV News tonight.....

Some of the things that have been reported and some of the photos of the Saddledome have been proved to be fake.....

The big thing is that the water supply is OK and there is no need for bottled water.....

My family has lived in this area since the late 1860's after being run out of the United States for selling guns to the Indians and my Grandson is the 7th Generation born here in Calgary..... I have to say that I have never seen so many people go out of their way to help so many strangers, I am Proud to say that I am a Calgarian.....

Mike

Janey,

What is the name and number of your maternal ggf? We can look up his clasp entitlement for you.

Kind regards
David

Mike - it really did make no sense, did it? I'd wondered whether the problem was in some more isolated area, but for sure, why would someone in Calgary need bottled water?!


djb - right; I should just do that.

Two, if I may beg.

McCock, R. M., Private 7th Company., 4th Batallion. I.Y., 23627

Coke, P.K.H., Major 6th Batallion. I.Y. (Percy Knight Hale Coke)

(Percy had two children, neither of whom married or had children, so I'm kind of taking him on too. He was my gr-grfather's sister's husband's brother, uncle of the other fellow.)

(These Cokes are not related to the various other high-ranking Cokes found all over A-B War records, who came from the distinguished Norfolk line; mine are Scottish originally.)

Thank you! And of course if anybody ever runs into their medals anywhere ...

edit: this is the record of the sale in 2004:

www.artfact.com/auction-lot/militaria-7t...-clas-1-c-mj2dmqn7ot

McCock is shown on WO100/121 pages 188 and 196 as entitled to Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal, from the main roll and South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 from their supplementary roll.
Coke is shown on WO100/131 page 54 as entitled to Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal with a note in the remarks column "I received a blank medal which is herewith returned"

Aha, so I was right to be suspicious about that Rodesia clasp -- thanks very much!

Percy's is a tad odd. The medal should have had his name on it and didn't, if I'm understanding that correctly? I wonder what happened next!

(My own grandfather waited until he had left the military in the mid-1920s, and was safely in Canada, to return his medals and demand that they be re-issued in his real name rather than the fake name he had re-enrolled in after being tossed out in 1908 at the age of 16 for fencing stolen goods.)

Percy was at home in England in the 1901 census, identified as what seems to say
Capt Reserve officer Major Imperial Yeomanry
(which doesn't really make sense?) and seems to have been in SA after the census -- I may have found a record at this site of him returning home in August 02:
www.angloboerwar.com/other-information/8...ing-records-aug-1902