Name: BIGGS, WALTER
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Somerset Light Infantry
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 35
Date of Death: 18/11/1944
Service No: 5179460
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. 51.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY

 

Hello Rudd

I hope you are well.
I have managed to get the photos, i hope you recieve them in this email.
Well the photo by the bridge, my mother is the one with her back to the picture the lady with her i think is Tousse Van Der Bosch, they were the host couple when my mother and father visited Brunssum there address was
Mollukkenstraat
Nijmegen 224
The photo on the night out is of Mr and Mrs Van Der Bosch and  my mother and father.
The photos on the bench are  at Mr Cardinaals bungalow, the picture with the four people,  on left, Tousse, Mr Cardinal, My mother Rita and Hanny mr Cardinaals daughter, we are not sure if his daughter lived at the bungalow, she spoke good english, Mr cardinaal did not speak any english.  My mother seems to remember that mr Cardinaals bungalow was within walking distance of the cemetery.
As me Cardinaal was a senior wer sure that he would have now passed on, the youngest person was Hanny, although we think she was a little older than my mother.

Well i hope you find the photos of interest, the people in them hold a very dear place to my mother, she said there hospitallity was imense, they all welcomed them to their home..

I forgot to add this address, it is the address that Hanny wrote when she wrote to my grandmother, again wer not sure if it was the address of mr Cardinaals bungalow. ("Bungalow" Josef Haydenstraat - First house - right side - Source Mrs. Navest (Cardinaal) 1-4-2009).
Miss H cardinaal
Bodemplien 4
Brunssum LB
Holland

Hope to speak soon regard Toni

1-4-2009 Mrs. Hanny (Jannie=Real name)-Navest (Cardinaal)

Lives in Hoensbroek near Brunssum.

She's now 80 years old.

She still possesses the old wooden bench.

 

Hello Rudd

Many thanks for the update, also thank you for sending information regarding the nearest airports from the UK. We hope to visit in August, i will let you know the dates as soon as we book them. I am looking forward to visiting the resting place of my great grand father. My mother can not give you a photo of her father, as she does not have one, ive tried hard to  find a photo, but as yet my searches have not paid off.
My mother last visited the grave in her early 20s, she and her husband were escorted by a local family, i believe the mans name was mr Cardinal? he had a daughter whos name i think is Tousse, she was able to speak good english. My mother has a photo of them at mr Cardinals bungalow in Brunssum, i wonder if his daughter is still alive?

Well once again thanks for your help
Kind regards
Toni Fleming

Hello

I am looking for help, my great grandfather Walter Biggs would have been 100 this year, hid daughter would like to visit her fathers grave, as it was many years since her last visit when she was a young girl, we are trying to arrange  transport for the trip. Can you pease tell us of the nearest airport, she will be flying from the UK.

We hope you will be able to pass on any usefull information.

Many Thanks Mrs Toni Fleming