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Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Harry Rowley. Year of Birth 04/04/1909. Place of Birth Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent (Manuscript)
1934-10-16
RSS/CC/P/41
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to William John Parsons. Year of Birth 1897. Place of Birth Stonehouse, Plymouth. (Manuscript)
1941-02-11
RSS/CC/P/164
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Einest Olive. Year of Birth 1905. Place of Birth Salford. (Manuscript)
1941-01-11
RSS/CC/P/160
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Maurice Raymond Welch. Year of Birth 14/09/1902. Place of Birth Pontnewydd, Monmouthshire. (Manuscript)
1940-10-17
RSS/CC/P/152
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 William Eyers. Year of Birth 1898. Place of Birth Glasgow. (Manuscript)
1934-09-20
RSS/CC/P/36
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to John Robert Simpson. Year of Birth 07/11/1916. Place of Birth Thornley, County Durham. (Manuscript)
1941-12-02
RSS/CC/P/171
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to George Albert Hawker. Year of Birth 1915. Place of Birth Cirencester, Glos. (Manuscript)
1943-07-11
RSS/CC/P/196
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Thomas William Boyle. Year of Birth 1909. Place of Birth Bradford, Yorks. (Manuscript)
1940-10-13
RSS/CC/P/155
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Thomas Atkins. Year of Birth 1904. Place of Birth Newberry, Kildare. (Manuscript)
1937-02-24
RSS/CC/P/88
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to George Dixon. Year of Birth 1908. Place of Birth Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire. (Manuscript)
1938-10-27
RSS/CC/P/124
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to James Sidney Knappett. Year of Birth 1908. Place of Birth East Dulwich, S.E. London. (Manuscript)
1939-02-15
RSS/CC/P/128
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Herbert John Howes. Year of Birth 1906. Place of Birth Norwich, Norfolk. (Manuscript)
1938-09-27
RSS/CC/P/119
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Herbert Melville Rice. Year of Birth 1901. Place of Birth Perranporth, Cornwall. (Manuscript)
1936-10-06
RSS/CC/P/79
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to John Urquhart Fraser. Year of Birth 1903. Place of Birth Edinburgh. (Manuscript)
1936-10-23
RSS/CC/P/81
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 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 Thomas Newman Mercer Year of Birth 1906. Place of Birth Tynemouth. (Manuscript)
1939-09-24
RSS/CC/P/135
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 Frederick Brewer. Year of Birth 1901. Place of Birth Notting Hill. (Manuscript)
1932-08-05
RSS/CC/P/18
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to Robert Ernest Gordon Gallant. Year of Birth 1908. Place of Birth Lowestoft, England. (Manuscript)
1940-09-24
RSS/CC/P/150
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 Harold James Bland. Year of Birth 1900. Place of Birth Northampton. (Manuscript)
1938-02-14
RSS/CC/P/107
Colonial Cooks Certificate issued to George Frederick Humphreys. Year of Birth 1903. Place of Birth Birmingham. (Manuscript)
1935-10-09
RSS/CC/P/61
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