St Mary's Church

WWII: Did Duddington Possess a Home Guard Platoon? (19.10.2023)

I keep a website dedicated to my paternal (‘Wyles’) family name – centred on the Northants village of Duddington – where my family lived for at least the last 500 years (and perhaps longer). Although my last direct relative left around 1906 – and that I live in South Greater London – we have visited Duddington around ten-times for research field trips since March 14th, 2009, and have amassed a large dossier of historical data! This can all be accessed at the above link. I am still researching whether Duddington possessed a Home Guard Platoon during WWII – and as of yet – this puzzle has NOT been solved!

Neo-Nazi Ukraine: City Commemorates Local Member “Mykhailo Mulyk” of Hitler’s SS Galicia Division (Again)!

It should be noted that the “Unveiling” took place on the Eve of Victory Day (May 9th in the Slavic lands) – where the unveiling of this SS Monument was designed as a cynical INSULT to the memory of more than 30 thousand Jews who were murdered in Ivano-Frankivsk city by members of the SS Galicia Division during the Nazi German Occupation!

Holocaust Chronicle Entry [1933]: Homosexuality as Sexual Degeneracy in Nazi Germany! (11.6.2023)

During 1938, Trotsky fabricated what he referred to as the ‘Fourth International’ – through which he called upon his worldwide following to align itself with the Catholic Church and to support any international ‘Fascist’ attack upon the USSR! He also encouraged Soviet citizens to carryout ‘terrorist’ attacks upon the infrastructure of their own country so as to weaken it from the inside and assist this potential invasion! This was just as the USSR (and the International Working-Class) was moving toward its own defeat during the last years of the Spanish Civil War! Trotsky thought that the tide of history was on his side – but just wo-years later he would be ‘dead’ and the Trotskyite cause firmly disempowered! This happened because the capitalist West went to War with Nazi Germany and allied itself with the Soviet Union! After WWII, and the Soviet Union had lost 41 million men, women and children, the capitalist West reverted to its usual policy of demonising the USSR! From the late 1940s in the UK, the incumbent Labour Party requested that the arch-Trotskyite ‘George Orwell’ to compile a list of British intellectuals that he thought were sympathetic to ‘Communism’!

German Authorities ‘Allow’ Neo-Nazi Ukrainians to Attend Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial! (11.4.2023) 

The actions in memory of multinational Concentration Camp prisoners are NOT “racist” and cannot be made to appear so! Anything can be called “anti-democratic” today – often distorting the very essence of the definition of “democracy”! And yet this is what we have been told, “We have carefully studied your web pages and social media channels and have come to the conclusion that statements that contradict the goals of our Foundation regularly appear there,” the Buchenwald Administration stated as a reason for the refusal. Of course, this is just a “front” – with the real reason being that the “German-Russian Brotherly Souls” has resolutely maintained its good relations with Russia and has not bowed to international pressure to pursue an opposite path! It would seem that it is this “Solidarity” between Germans and Russians in the face of US pressure which is frightening the Authorities at Buchenwald! 

China: Japanese Tourist Asks for ‘Directions’ in Nanjing! (8.2.2023)

By and large, this Japanese tourist is treated with respect and consideration from the average Chinese person – many (if not all) local to the Nanjing area. The young woman concerned speaks in very good Putonghua – if a little slower than normal. The full video can be seen by clicking the link above – but I include a short clip of two elderly Chinese men – both of whom lived through the Nanjing Massacre as young childrem. One explains that her Japanese ancestors carried-out a terrible act – but that it is good that she possesses the moral courage to pay her respect to the ‘Chinese’ victims of her ‘Japanese’ ancestors!

Monument: Water-Trough and Cross – William Francis Gamul Farmer (1812- 1860) – BellGate Entrance – (East) Nonsuch Park [Cheam] (11.8.2022)  

Willian Francis Gamul Farmer married one ‘Matilda Farmer (nee ‘Wilkinson’) [1815-1889] and produced eleven children with here – seven boys and four girls. The names of his children were William Robert Gamul Farmer, Thomas Allix Farmer, Matilda Frances Farmer, George Lancelot McLean Farmer, Margaret Anna Farmer, Emily Mary Farmer, Charles Edward Farmer, Revd. James Edmund Gamul Farmer, Henry Lowth Farmer, Catherine Augusta Farmer and Francis Colebrooke Farmer. He inherited from his grandfather when aged 26 years old (in 1838) and again from his father – William Meeke Farmer (1778-1840) – when he was 28 years old in 1840! This is why he lived the care-free life associated with the landed gentry. Willian Francis Gamul Farmer was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey before reaching the Office of High Sheriff of the County of Surrey – when he received his appointment in 1849 (when he was around 37 years old). Indeed, so important a person was he – that an oil painting was commissioned to record this important event – which seems to show him around 37 years old (although I cannot find any verification for the date or the name of the artist, etc).  

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