<p>Hotel Adlon Berlin   postcard   sent to Nottingham  102 Leslie road [perhaps student accommodation] 8 July 1937 
Unter den Linden 1. 
by  "Marlies Kloessing" a widow of Krausnickstr 24 [perhaps she worked at the hotel?] to Douglas Vincent Waddams, later Leading Aircraftman of the RAF Volunteer Reserve who died in in South Africa [cause unknown]
19 May 1943
Age 27
STANDERTON CEMETERY
Grave 1401.
South East of Johannesburg
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</p><p>WADDEMS, Leading Aircraftman (Pilot U/T) DOUGLAS VINCENT, 1150164, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 19 May 1943. Age 27. Son of Ernest Arthur and Eleonor Waddems; husband of Margaret Julia Waddems, of Claycross, Derbyshire, England. Grave Ref. Grave 1401.
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Margaret Julia Waddams remarried 1945, becoming Quail.
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