Talk:Edwin Swales

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I added a cleanup tag today. This article has a lot of good stuff in it but its totally unwikified and needs some serious help. I'll try and wikify when I can.

Unless anyone objects, I'm going to remove the copyright info. By submitting to wikipedia all of this is covered by GNU now. At the most we should cite the origional source article. --circuitloss 23:30, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Contents and Scope of Article

Should this article really include so many different accounts of the paticular raid he was involved in? Shouldn't this be the subject of a seperate article specific to the events themselves? Please enlighten me. My vote is to cut the whole section about the RAF account of the raid. --circuitloss 01:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

The information should stay in this article. There is now a detailed account of the Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II but his part in it will always be less than is needed in a biography article. --Philip Baird Shearer 13:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Research

My research, has shown that in 1958, the British Air Ministry wrote to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission informing them that the South African Air Force authorities had confirmed that at the time of his death, Edwin Swales had in fact held the rank of Major. Indeed, the front page of the program for the opening of the S.A.A.F. Memorial in Pretoria on 31 May, 1950, Mrs. Olive Swales (who opened the Memorial) was described as being the “mother of the Late Major Edwin Swales, DFC, VC”.

I have altered this but who is MY as it would be useful to credit the research to someone as a footnote. --Philip Baird Shearer 13:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Dear Philip; - The "My research" refers to me, David Richard Bennett, Durban South Africa. (david@burvest.com). I am the original author of the Swales article (under the user name IGS1895). Since that time - about 2002/2003 I have done further research of Swales, togther with the local Chairman of the S.A. Military History Society - Natal Branch - Paul Kilmartin, who is an expert on Swales, and has done massive amounts of work of Swales. All the facts in my submission have been checked by Kilmartin. My interest in writing about Swales was two-fold: There was not a specific internet article on the Life of Swales, nor of his VC action; and secondly, both Swales and myself attended Durban High School - he, of course, about 35 years before I did. - David Bennett, Durban. 30 May 2006. P.S.: I think that the "Layout" changes made to my orignal submission to make it more "Wiki - friendly" are excellent. These changes seem to have been done mainly by yourself and "Circuitloss", for the better, I should add !!