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American Troops in the Rhondda

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Linda

Linda Report 9 Mar 2009 20:12

Can anyone tell me anything about the American troops who were billeted in homes in the Rhondda. In Particular in Ferndale. My Auntie lived in Maxwell Street in Ferndale and i am trying to find the father of her son.

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 9 Mar 2009 21:10

I don't know how much it will help, but a search on Google shows that someone called Bryan Morse has written a book about American troops in the area.

Gwyn

Linda

Linda Report 10 Mar 2009 19:02

Thanks Gwyn

The book is on order from, Amazon as we write. i was hoping to hear from some of the older members of our community who may have had first hand experience of this as I beleive that my uncle was the result of meeting an american who then became a POW.

Looking forward to reading the nook

Vicci

Vicci Report 11 Mar 2009 05:15

you can get to American records including WWII draft regristration through ancestry.co.uk

if he was a POW did he survive and any idea where he was prisoner

Coud do a search for you but you haven't posted name

Researching:
Lashmore, Lines, Smith, Reilly, Mendus

Vicci

Vicci Report 11 Mar 2009 05:26

Aslo have a look at this

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/expats/nostalgia/2008/01/18/us-troops-warm-valleys-welcome-91466-20365606/

Researching:
Lashmore, Lines, Smith, Reilly, Mendus

Linda

Linda Report 11 Mar 2009 23:00

Just received the book and eager to read it. Whilst i don't think it will tell me about Bernard Hughes' dad, it will give me an insight into something that happened in my home town that I knew nothing about until recently.

Brought up in the Rhondda and this was never mentioned, strange.