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I'm hoping to get in touch with someone living in Dehra Dun, India.

This weekend I had lunch with my grandparents and heard a new story they never mentioned before. My grandfather, was captured as a civilian POW during WWII, while en route from Australia to Italy.

During his imprisonment at a POW camp in Dehra Dun, India he was shot and killed. Why? Story was he was shot sneaking from the Missionary camp back to the Italian camp late at night. He was a carpenter and fashioned guitars, violins and cellos, etc and was delivering one to another prisoner.

Well, he was buried in the Dehra Dun Cemetary all those years ago. Apparently those missionaries thought so much of hi, they bought a tombstone for him and everything.

Nothing in the world would make my grandmother happier than to have a picture of that tombstone. I'd love to give that to her.

I scoured the internet, paid for access to information record sites...nothing. I was hoping someone knows someone or know a site with a forum or an email address or any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

The only thing I can think of would be to contact the nearest US embassy there and see what they could tell you.

Maybe try an india photo/travel website, find someone who is, or will be going to take pictures?

http://www.indiamike.com/

Maybe get a florist there to deliver flowers and take a photo for you?

http://www.dehradunflorist.com/index.htm

Call Dell Tech Support.

Arb's idea is good if you know the cemetary and that there's a headstone for sure. A little extra $$ might get a flower delivery person to take picture.

Arborealus wrote:Maybe get a florist there to deliver flowers and take a photo for you?

http://www.dehradunflorist.com/index.htm

Holy shit. Great idea Arbor. Thank you. I just emailed them.


Very funny Winnow.

Have you tried BACSA? http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/bacsa.htm

All India Florist (xxx@hotmail.com)
To: (xxx@hotmail.com)


Subject: Re: Dehra Dun Cemetery




Yes we can I will find out and get back to you

Thanking you,
With kind regards,
Sunanda.
00-91-989-706-4001
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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 7:28 AM
Subject: Dehra Dun Cemetery


I wish to purchase flowers for delivery to a specific grave in Dehra Dun Cemetery and for a few pictures of that grave site. My great grandfather is buried there and my grandmother would love to see where her father is buried. It would mean the world to her. His name is Nello Bovani and was buried there in 1944 or 1945 we believe. His grave is a traditional Italian style where it is a marble out of the ground burial. Do you have the means to take a few pictures with a digital camera and email them to me? and how much would you want for this service?

I look forward to your reply.

Thank you very much,

Things are looking good and fast. Thanks again.

Woo hoo! I can now call you on the phone whenever you post something that annoys me! (J/K)

Grats on your findings! GL with the pictures.

Edit: I'd recommend editing out your email addy so the spam bots have a harder time telling you about herbal supplements.

god that is one italian name you have sir!

best of luck though.. hope it works out.

Excellent.

Thanks whoever edited the emails. Much appreciated.

Soreali wrote:god that is one italian name you have sir!

I said the exact same thing when he first told me his name.


Nello Bovani is a pretty awesome name too.

Nicoli Tosconi...ftw.

Man that would be crazy if they can find it and send you pictures. Amazing what we can do with a world wide network. Best wishes on that stuff. Nifty.

You're a wop? How do you sub-humans find the time to be racist against anything?! Hey, weren't the italians sided with the nazis in WW2? (this question is rhetorical) Maybe he was a guard at an Axis POW camp and he got clobbered by some real americans or brits trying to escape.

kyoukan wrote:You're a wop? How do you sub-humans find the time to be racist against anything?! Hey, weren't the italians sided with the nazis in WW2? (this question is rhetorical) Maybe he was a guard at an Axis POW camp and he got clobbered by some real americans or brits trying to escape.

Hmm I smell Stalker!

This coming from someone whose country is only renowned for being fired upon by friendly troops

Did you guys know that Wop stands for WithOut Papers? Because when Italians immigrated they didnt have any paperwork with them for some reason. FASCINATING.

Actually, wop is a derivative of the Italian word guappo, loosely meaning "thug", but referring to an organized crime syndicate called Guapperia o Camorra, from the Napoli (in inglese: Naples) region in Italy.

yeah youre right. fucking saw that shit on the history channel too. son of a bitch

I never found the reason to be offended by such words. They don't pertain to me. They might have been relevant to my grandfather who came to America in 1955 with my grandmother and my mom who was 3 years odl at the time. I'm not sure if they called him names. I don't think he would have cared much either. He just worked his balls off every day and made a life for himself, until he fell 8 stories on a job site back in 1975. Tough SOB. He's still around. He has a 5th grade education and is as liberal as the day is long, but he is my hero. Wop or not

Midnyte_Ragebringer wrote:I never found the reason to be offended by such words. They pertain to me. They might have been relevant to my grandfather who came to America in 1955 with my grandmother and my mom who was 3 years odl at the time. I'm not sure if they called him names. I don't think he would have cared much either. He just worked his balls off every day and made a life for himself, until he fell 8 stories on a job site back in 1975. Tough SOB. He's still around. He has a 5th grade education and is as liberal as the day is long, but he is my hero. Wop or not

I am also a wop. My grandpa is also the typical hard working Italian (Sicilian, actually). He just turned 90 this past December and he still mows the lawn, has a very large garden and a greenhouse (which he uses to get veggies for the fam, and for his other wop friends that own Italian restaurants around the area) and works on his car when there is something wrong with it, he is the IRL energizer bunny.

Funkmasterr wrote:

Midnyte_Ragebringer wrote:I never found the reason to be offended by such words. They pertain to me. They might have been relevant to my grandfather who came to America in 1955 with my grandmother and my mom who was 3 years odl at the time. I'm not sure if they called him names. I don't think he would have cared much either. He just worked his balls off every day and made a life for himself, until he fell 8 stories on a job site back in 1975. Tough SOB. He's still around. He has a 5th grade education and is as liberal as the day is long, but he is my hero. Wop or not

I am also a wop. My grandpa is also the typical hard working Italian (Sicilian, actually). He just turned 90 this past December and he still mows the lawn, has a very large garden and a greenhouse (which he uses to get veggies for the fam, and for his other wop friends that own Italian restaurants around the area) and works on his car when there is something wrong with it, he is the IRL energizer bunny.

Very cool man. My Grandmother is even more of a hard worker. I can only hope to be a tenth of the example the immigrants from that generation were to us.

Italians need to be independent. Not even the niggers will do anything for one.

i mean, am i rite?

I don't think the ball's rolling in this thread, Kyoukan.

Ok, one for the road... Speaking of road, did you hear about those new Italian tires? Dago here, dago there, when dago flat dago wop wop wop.