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We would like to thank the extended family for their contributions
and for joining us on the website
More images greatly appreciated |
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Phyllis Ellen 1898 - 1982 ( 2 portraits ) |  |
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Sarah Elizabeth Childs 1900 - 1987 |  |
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Doris Lillian Childs 1904 - 1996 |  |
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Violet May Childs 1916 - 1976 |  |
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Hannah (Joseph's wife) with baby Dora |  |
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 | Percy as a
young man |
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 | Family likeness?
A member of the current generation
Charles Childs' side (great grandson)
See Genetics Page ...CLICK |
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Violet's Wedding |  |
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 | Joseph Gill Childs
John Childs ( Percy's son )
Elsie Dora and Violet
The family spent many holidays in a rented cottage
at Borth North Wales |
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 | Gilbert Patten (Agnes' husband) Joseph Gill Childs, Maurice Hinton (Dora's husband)
Dora holding son Giles, Ronald Douglas Childs, Sydney Dabbs ( Bessie's son) |
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 | Taken at Borth on Holiday including
Ronnie, Doris, Dora, Elsie, Phyllis
John, Hannah, Violet, Sydney |
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 | Dora, Gilbert and Hannah |
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Hannah & Mabel |  |
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From left
Robert Henry John Childs ( Harry ) Doris Lilian, Doris Lowe
Ronald Douglas (Ronnie) ,Violet May and Gillian |
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Dora Childs |  |
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Robert Henry John Childs |  |
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Ronald Douglas Childs |  |
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WW2 |  |
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Ronald ( Ronnie ) won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Art, but the war intervened
He was one of the first to release in mates of the POW camps and because of his artistic talents he was asked to draw the prisoners and camps for the records
This affected him for the rest of his life and he just would not discuss the matter |
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Sidney Dabbs Jnr |  |
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Sidney Dabbs jnr son of Bessie Childs, he was a great friend
of Ronnie and they must have enlisted about the same time |
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Harry in the bottom left hand corner with his Battalion. He was injured during the war
and eventually married one of his nurses |
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James Lewis Hope |  |
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Doris Lilian Childs married James Lewis Hope
Here he is in his Flying Corps uniform in WW1
He ran away at 16 years of age but was sent home as being too young.
Not to be deterred however he did the same again the next year and managed
to get himself posted to India with the RFC |
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Planes he was involved with |  |
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