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Guy Driscoll

Current Location:: Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
Birthplace: Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
Immediate Family:

Son of Melvan Driscoll and Private
Brother of Private

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Immediate Family

About Guy Driscoll

My YDNA haplogroup is R-S675 (subclade of R-M222, subclade of R1b) according to my father's DNA test. My mitochondrial DNA haplogroup is H6a1a according to my mother's DNA test. My DNA test was done by AncestryDNA in early 2018. It is also on MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch.
My profile on Wikitree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Driscoll-1025

Some Military History of My Family

Excluding relatives through marriage:

🔵World War 2, served in Egypt, Italy and Fiji, NZ Army:
Hercules Martin Driscoll (2 degrees from me)
🔵Second Boer War, served in South Africa in Mounted Rifles:
Samuel James Martin (3 degrees)
🔵World War 2, served in No. 40 Transport Squadron, RNZAF:
John Tarzan Martin (3 degrees)
🔵World War 2, served in the Solomon Islands in the RNZAF:
Sidney Claud Saward (3 degrees)
🔴World War 1, he was in the NZ Artillery but was discharged after being injured by a horse kick. He later re-enlisted but never served overseas:
Lloyd Upperton (3 degrees)
🟡Second Boer War, was a doctor attached to the Army, perhaps only in aftermath:
William Fowler Godfrey (3 degrees)
🔴World War 2, served in NZ Navy, including on cruiser Achilles, later served in British Navy post-war:
William Edward Thurston (4 degrees)
🟥 World War 1, killed in action in Europe, NZ Army:
Rfn. Alexander Floyd (4 degrees)
🔴World War 1, enlisted in the NZ Expeditionary Force in 1916 and was in the NZ Medical Corps (Army) within NZ. In 1917 he was discharged due to his health deteriorating and no longer being fit for ambulance duties. He had osteomyelitis of the left thigh:
Wilfred Floyd (4 degrees)
🟣Second Boer War plus World War 1, served in South Africa plus Europe, NZ Army:
Robert McKnight (4 degrees)
🟣World War 1, he was wounded in action in France in 1917 resulting in being sent back to NZ, being too disabled for military service at the time:
Frederick Gemmell McKnight (4 degrees)
🟣Second Boer War, served in South Africa, NZ Army:
Henry John Driscoll (4 degrees)
🟣Second Boer War, served in South Africa, NZ Army:
Francis Henry Driscoll (4 degrees)
🟣Second Boer War, served in South Africa, NZ Army:
David McKnight (4 degrees)
🟥 World War 2, killed in action in Egypt, NZ Army:
Alexander James Floyd (5 degrees)
🟦 World War 2, killed in action in Pacific, RNZAF:
Flying Officer Albert Norman Saward (5 degrees)
🟦 World War 2, served in the RNZAF in Europe. Became a prisoner of war in 1943. After the war, died flying a fighter jet off England in 1948 (Royal Air Force):
Pilot Officer Howard Charles Saward (5 degrees)
🟪 World War 2, was a prisoner of war for more than a year after being captured during his NZ Army unit's attack at the Second Battle of El Alamein (he reached safety after escaping a POW camp with his colleagues):
John McKnight (5 degrees)
🟣World War 1, served in Gallipoli and Europe, and afterwards stayed in the army until late 1930s, NZ Army:
Frederick William Driscole (5 degrees)
🟣World War 1, served in the NZ Army:
Albert Edward Driscole (5 degrees)
🟢American Civil War, served in the New York Cavalry and was wounded in the leg:
Richard Robinson Newton (6 degrees)
🟨 World War 1, died by gunshot suffered at the front near Arras in France, 1917 - British Army:
James Cue Monteith (7 degrees)
🟨 World War 2, killed in action. He was a bomb aimer with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was on a bombing raid when they crashed in Germany:
Alfred Rothwell Mark (7 degrees)
🟥 World War 2, mortally wounded by enemy mortar fire during the First Battle of El Alamein, NZ Army. Earlier in the war he had also served in Greece:
Lawrence Edward Ryder (7 degrees)
🟣World War 1, served in the NZ Army, then British Army, including after the war (until Nov 1919). Later he was an active officer in the Army during World War 2 (within NZ only):
Eustace Martin Gibbs (7 degrees)
🟨 World War 2, killed in action at Tobruk, Libya. British Army:
Alexander Duncan Goodall (8 degrees)
🟢World War 2, he was a private 1st class in the US Army:
Edward Joseph Newton (8 degrees)
🟢Died 1990 (in an accident) in the United Arab Emirates while serving with the US Navy during the Gulf War:
Brian Paul Weaver (9 degrees)
🟢World War 2, served in the US Army in Europe:
Raymond Banner Parkinson (9 degrees)

Relatives through marriage (by 1 degree):

🔴World War 1, served in Egypt and Palestine, NZ Army:
Leslie Grenfell Robb (4 degrees - grandfather's sister's husband)
🔵World War 2, served in Greece, North Africa and Italy with the NZ Army:
Kenneth Dudley Jack Kimber (3 or 4 degrees - grandfather's 2nd wife's 1st husband)
🟦 World War 2, in the RNZAF - his bomber was shot down over France and after time as a POW he escaped and reached safety in Spain:
Christopher Falcon Scott (6 degrees - grandfather's 1st cousin's husband)
🟢Korean War and World War 2, US Army:
Hilarion Joseph Mayette (9 degrees - great grandfather's 2nd cousin's husband)
🟢World War 1, he was a private 1st class in the US Army:
William Joshua Parkinson (9 degrees - great grandfather's 2nd cousin's husband)
🟣World War 2, enlisted in US Army in 1941 and was sent to Europe:
Nicholas Henry Joralemon (9 degrees - father's 3rd cousin's husband)

An extra:

🔵A British agent, one of the Allies most decorated servicewomen of the Second World War. By 1943 she was the Gestapo's most wanted person:
Nancy Wake
She is 10 degrees from me - the path goes though two marriages.

Key
🔴 Maternal grandfather
🟡 Maternal grandmother
🟢 Paternal grandmother
🔵 Paternal grandfather – biological always
🟣 Paternal grandfather – through his adoptive parents (and not biological parents)

🟥 🟨 🟦 🟪 Square means either: was captured and held as a prisoner of war or; died from injuries sustained in action during war (and the death occurring not long after the incident).