Howard MEEK of Drybrook (General)

by m p griffiths , Monday, October 11, 2010, 18:24 (5162 days ago) @ sidhalemm

On Ancestry there is 50 images of a

Howard MEEK - Hazel Villas, Drybrook - who enlisted 7 June 1915 (age 19 years 2 months on the 27 January 1917 - Schoolteacher) -

father : (next of kin)

Frederick MEEK, address: Onslow Street, Huntly, Wackato, New Zealand

This is handwritten letter by Howard MEEK - on Ancestry (Military records) dated 1919

Hazel Villas, Drybrok, Glos.

To Officer IC Repatriation

Sir,

I was demoblished on April 4 and I claimed repatriation to Auck, New Zealand, under Group 45 (A)

Since that dated I have received no news whatsoever. Please could you give me any information when to get my passage. An early reply will oblige.

Yours faithfully

Howard MEEK

Pt 97562
3rd Batt M.G. B.E.F.

These are quite a few handwritten letters by Howard MEEK to the Army and their typewritten replies - Howard was getting very frustrated, not having a date to sail to New Zealand.....

He did however Board the SS Bremen and sail 6 December 1919

? FOD records

Frederick MEEK - age 22 (father Obed) married Elizabeth Sophia BRISCOE - 25 November 1897, Drybrook