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CJ Frederickson

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In my work on genealogy to date I’ve focused mostly on my maternal grandmother’s family: her parents and eight Corry siblings. But one figure that looms large in my life is my mother’s father, Clarence John Frederickson (everyone called him “Fred”). Recently I’ve come across a couple of tidbits online that are worth sharing here. [...]


Last summer, Radiohead‘s Harry Patch (In Memory Of)—download it here—got me thinking about my great uncle Percival Archie Corry, who was killed in Belgium in December 1915 fighting in the First World War. I remember him every November 11, but there is something about this track that evokes the time: I think the instrumentation, composition, [...]