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I am an ancestor of an American G.I. in the second World War. If it wasn't for him, I guess I might not be here writing this today.

Back in 1945, when the War was coming to a close, a certain Maoro Rodriguez was stationed at Whittington Barracks, near Lichfield in Staffordshire. He was there from January - April that year. I don't know where he had been previously, but his regiment was now South Staffordshire.

My Grandmother met him at the Barracks during those months and, from what I have been told, affections grew very close. As with many people during the war, there was often a result of these type of love affairs. My Grandmother was then named Daphne Agnes Poulton, and at the beginning of 1946 she bore my own Father.

Very little is known of Rodriguez, whom I am trying to trace. It is the only side of my family that is not English-born. He never actually got to know my Grandmother that well, having disappeared in the April 1945, presumably to move to another station.

No-one, other than my Nan, has ever met this man. No pictures of him exist - at least not in the family. He could still be alive today. I have tried numerous ways of contacting him, to no avail.

If this story rings a bell to anyone reading it, please get in touch as I am desperate to trace this line.

Thanking anyone in advance,

Adam Garner.

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