As November 1942 progressed, Sidney was heading towards his second Christmas as a POW of the Germans. Sidney managed to send three more postcards home before the month was out, one to his sister Barbara, who was working at the Children's Hospital in Bradford and two to his parents. In both of the postcards written on the 22 November Sidney mentions that football is now finished as the pitch is under water. In the bottom postcard, dated the 30th November, Sidney mentions that they had a Bridge tournament and that they were putting on Aladdin for the Christmas panto.
Week 6 - Favourite Name
# 52ancestors Most of the forenames in my family tree are fairly similar, I have generations of John's and Richard's, with some Seymours on the Waterfall side. But I think my favourite forename has to be on my father's maternal line. It is the name of my grandmother Ilse Frankenbusch, so much so in order to remember her I have given the name Ilse to my daughter as a middle name. I have written about Ilse before here and here . I suppose my favourite surname has to be the Waterfall name as that is my name and I get a lot of comments about how unusual it is. This does help when I come to researching my family history as there are not huge numbers of Waterfalls around. It also makes a change from the Williams, Evans and Jones names that are on my maternal line.
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