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Folks, I received this e-mail today. Can anyone help tracy? Please e-mail her direct (copy to the list if you want) as she is not a subscriber. -Nigel Forwarded message follows: > From tturner@xxxxxxxxxx Wed Feb 26 18:23:19 1997 > Received: from relay-9.mail.demon.net by smsltd.demon.co.uk with SMTP > id AA11713 ; Wed, 26 Feb 97 18:23:18 GMT > Received: from relay-9.mail.demon.net by mailstore for njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > id 856968070:9:00643:1; Wed, 26 Feb 97 14:41:10 GMT > Received: from ben.Britain.EU.net ([192.91.199.254]) by relay-9.mail.demon.net > id aa900484; 26 Feb 97 14:40 GMT > Received: from c2smtp.tuc.org.uk by ben.britain.eu.net via UKIP with SMTP (PP) > id <sg.27451-0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:40:26 +0000 > Received: from Connect2 Message Router by c2smtp.tuc.org.uk > via Connect2-SMTP 4.00; Wed, 26 Feb 97 14:40:37 -0500 > Message-ID: <F2F1253101972400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 14:39:00 -0500 > From: TRACY TURNER <tturner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sender: TRACY TURNER <tturner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Organization: TRADE UNION CONGRESS > To: njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Query for brass band mailing list > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > X-mailer: Connect2-SMTP 4.00 MHS to SMTP Gateway > Status: R > > > I wonder if you could post a query for me on the brass band mailing > list, details of which I have come across today on the www. > > I am seeking information on my great grandfather who was a musical > director. He would have been known as Arthur HOWE, Arthur Walter > HOWE, or Arthur Walter Curzon HOWE. (He seems to have used all these > names throughout his life - don't ask me why!) > > I believe he was born in 1880 in Bow London and served with the Welsh > Regiment in early life as a boy drummer, and subsequently in World War > 1 as Quartermaster Sergeant. > > He and his wife Elsie had some music hall connections at some stage, > possibly touring between 1911 and 1914. I am however particularly > interested in finding out about his career as a 'musical director'. > > It is said (although I have my doubts) that he was at one time > Bandmaster to Lord and Lady Willingdon. He is also said to have been > bandmaster for a number of well know colliery and other bands > (specifically in the Leeds or general Yorkshire area I believe). > Certainly, when he died in 1938 he was bandmaster of the Skegness > Excelsior Silver Prize Band. > > I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who could offer any > information on my great grandfather, or who could point me to any > other sources. > > I can be contacted at tturner@xxxxxxxxxx > > Many thanks, > > Tracy Turner > -- Nigel Horne. Conductor, Arranger, Band Tutor. Internet: njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fidonet: Nigel Horne @ 2:253/417.49; Packet: G0LOV@GB7SYP.#19.GBR.EDU; http://www.smsltd.demon.co.uk. Phone: +44-1226-283021. -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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