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Hi Duckman and Johan,
Thankyou for your tips. I have tried all day to login to the National Archives again. I was on there last night and found my GGF Service Record, which was very exciting. But I want to do that search you suggest, no luck yet. I'll keep trying.
As for details in the war-diary, unfortunately not. I think he wasn't a very educated man since his diary is very simple and full of spelling and grammar mistakes and not a lot of explanations. He only refers to the areoplanes (as he writes it) and flying machines and the "Taubes". No nationalities, no nothing. He doesn't even have a year on the diary, this I had to work out from his service record and the historical account of the Third Battle at Ypres.
I have no doubt that Perelkock is an anglicism of a true name and I'm still looking. Hoek is an option but I was wondering whether Bullecourt may even be close. It's a very hard one. I'll get there. Poelcapelle is also a possibility since Capelle and Kirche are both German for chapel/church. I'm not holding my breath of that possibility, though.
I'll try looking up those royal residences, thanks. But would mere privates be able to wander around the grounds of a royal residence or perhaps it is a building commandeered for the war effort or abandoned?
Thanks again.
LyndaA
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