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CAN WE HELP?
As we were growing up, Dale and I were always very aware of our father’s roles in the second World War. Dale is in fact a War Baby and a natural spinoff from the undertaking of a trip as militarily significant as this one is to think about the difficulties experienced during the war. It has stimulated him to try to locate his biological father.
His name is Jean Baptiste Malfaison (born in Antwerp, Belgium) and as a young Free French Merchant seaman he met and married Dale’s mother in London in 1942. The marriage didn’t survive the war and in due time Dale’s mother met and married another former seaman, Cyril Oliver Barnard.
Great help was given to us last year by Tracey and the team from the ABC “Can We Help” programme to attempt to find the whereabouts of Jean Baptiste Malfaison. We didn’t find Jean, but we did find a person by the name of Rene Malfasion from Belgium whom we are looking forward to meeting up with in France.
As we were growing up, Dale and I were always very aware of our father’s roles in the second World War. Dale is in fact a War Baby and a natural spinoff from the undertaking of a trip as militarily significant as this one is to think about the difficulties experienced during the war. It has stimulated him to try to locate his biological father.
His name is Jean Baptiste Malfaison (born in Antwerp, Belgium) and as a young Free French Merchant seaman he met and married Dale’s mother in London in 1942. The marriage didn’t survive the war and in due time Dale’s mother met and married another former seaman, Cyril Oliver Barnard.
Great help was given to us last year by Tracey and the team from the ABC “Can We Help” programme to attempt to find the whereabouts of Jean Baptiste Malfaison. We didn’t find Jean, but we did find a person by the name of Rene Malfasion from Belgium whom we are looking forward to meeting up with in France.
Photo shows Myriam and Rene at the Arctic Circle in August 2008
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