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I have this photo (attached). I was told it was the inaugural committee of the Comrades Club when it was first founded. I only know one person on it, my uncle, and I recognise some of the faces but do not know any of their names.
Can anyone help? I have also attached a picture with numbers for each person to help record any names. |
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Comrades
Hi, Parsonx.
Good to hear from you. Do you have any information about the Comrades and is your dad in the photo? |
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Hi,
I also attended Red Row school, infants and juniors, and also left in 65. The story goes that my Uncle John was one of the original Committee that set up the comrades so I am just looking for some confirmation, or otherwise, as to the truth of the story. My dad didn't go to the comrades much, he was a 'Buffs' man, and I can't remember my mother ever going to the Comrades or the 'Buffs', she wasn't a drinker. I do remember going the comrades a few times, when I was home, to see some of the concerts that were on. |
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I think this would be the Comrades Club about 1950. Dan Mackenzie Centre, Evan his son behind over his left shoulder, Ernest Tweddell holding child
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Arthur Knox
Anyone remember my Uncle Arthur from Hadston, Think he played drums and worked as a special constable.
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Number 11 is Glad Hardy, Red Row, former PoW
Number 19, Jim 'Daddy' Common |
John, thanks for the information.
Is Glad an actual name or an abbreviation? |
Hello Geoff. Glad was Gladstone, former WW2 PoW. He would have lived at Red Row in your time... He was named after Gladstone Hardy kia 1915. There was another Gladstone you might remember, lived at the top of Simonside Terrace? My Grandfather's brother.
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I was told that the original Comrades club was a wooden hut, procured by veterans of WW1, from the former training camp on Alnwick Pastures. 'Rodder' Mitchinson, latterly lollipop man at Red Row, was one of the original members, you might have come across him Geoff?
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Thanks for the information. I do remember the 'lollipop man' at Red Row but I don't recall ever knowing his name. Was the old hut moved to Red Row from Alnwick Pastures and if so do you know where it was located? |
I couldn't say for certain where the original hut was, I always assumed it was on the same site as the Coms, but could be wrong. Jack Mitchinson was the son of Rodder and he told me how he and other veterans brought the hut down from Alnwick with a horse and cart. Rodder was wounded at Ypres in April 15, I don't think he went back to the Western Front. Great to hear from you Geoff, good memories of your family down Chevington Drift.
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1938 club officials
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McKenzie photo
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