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Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Joseph Patrick Murray. Year of Birth 1908. Place of Birth Barrow-in-Furness. (Manuscript)
1939-12-18
RSS/CC/P/142
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Arthur Bown. Year of Birth 1907. Place of Birth Chesterfield, Derbyshire. (Manuscript)
1940-01-17
RSS/CC/P/145
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Clarence Sydney Ponton. Year of Birth 1912. Place of Birth Silloth, Cumberland. (Manuscript)
1940-01-15
RSS/CC/P/144
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to John Roughton. Year of Birth 1914. Place of Birth Bolton. (Manuscript)
1940-07-22
RSS/CC/P/147
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to George Lowe. Year of Birth 1908. Place of Birth Mansfield, Notts. (Manuscript)
1940-02-09
RSS/CC/P/146
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Robert Law. Year of Birth 1910. Place of Birth Lochwinnoch, Renfrew, Scotland. (Manuscript)
1940-07-14
RSS/CC/P/148
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to William Charles Dowe. Year of Birth 1906. Place of Birth Finchfield, Staffs. (Manuscript)
1939-07-27
RSS/CC/P/131
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Joseph Knight. Year of Birth 1912. Place of Birth Finchfield, Staffs. (Manuscript)
1939-07-14
RSS/CC/P/130
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Thomas Newman Mercer Year of Birth 1906. Place of Birth Tynemouth. (Manuscript)
1939-09-24
RSS/CC/P/135
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to James Aloysius Duffy. Year of Birth 1909. Place of Birth Drogheda, Co Louth. (Manuscript)
1939-10-02
RSS/CC/P/137
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Herbert Sidney Norton. Year of Birth 1910. Place of Birth Hull. (Manuscript)
1939-10-04
RSS/CC/P/138
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Bernard Toolin. Year of Birth 1904. Place of Birth Edinburgh. (Manuscript)
1933-12-12
RSS/CC/P/32
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Edward Jenkin Hitchcock. Year of Birth 1901. Place of Birth London. (Manuscript)
1934-09-27
RSS/CC/P/37
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to William Eyers. Year of Birth 1898. Place of Birth Glasgow. (Manuscript)
1934-09-20
RSS/CC/P/36
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Albert Frank Templeman. Year of Birth 1901. Place of Birth Taunton. (Manuscript)
1934-09-27
RSS/CC/P/38
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Patrick Lawrence Lenihan. Year of Birth 1907(?). Place of Birth Marylebone, London. (Manuscript)
1933-07-18
RSS/CC/P/21
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Redvers Thomas Tyler. Year of Birth 1902. Place of Birth Woodbridge, Suffolk. (Manuscript)
1933-09-24
RSS/CC/P/24
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Horace Stanley Stringer. Year of Birth 1900. Place of Birth Kettering. (Manuscript)
1933-10-03
RSS/CC/P/26
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to George Ellwood. Year of Birth 09/11/1903. Place of Birth York, Yorks. (Manuscript)
1933-10-03
RSS/CC/P/25
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Albert Beanland. Year of Birth 1891. Place of Birth Nottingham. (Manuscript)
1933-10-13
RSS/CC/P/29
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Eugene Daniel Andrews. Year of Birth 1903. Place of Birth Sheffield. (Manuscript)
1931-09-25
RSS/CC/P/9
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Wilfred Charles Vincent Bamford. Year of Birth 1900. Place of Birth Walkley, Sheffield, Yorkshire. (Manuscript)
1931-06-26
RSS/CC/P/1/4
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Cyril Mead. Year of Birth 20/12/1908. Place of Birth Dunstable, Beds. (Manuscript)
1932-07-29
RSS/CC/P/13
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Harry Worms. Year of Birth 14/05/1909. Place of Birth East Ham, London. (Manuscript)
1932-07-29
RSS/CC/P/12
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