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Zoe,

Thank you so much for forwarding on this thread update. I will get in contact with Burnie Nitschke. I know him personally.

Joan xx

Patricia 17th June 2010 07:04

Someone has been looking for a long time (2000):
SALIGARI, Corporal Helen Elaine (née TRIGGS) 442031 WAAF
Served at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, 1944
Message logged 14 July 2000: Does anyone remember Corporal Triggs? She married an Australian airman, Flight Sergeant STANLEY JOHN SALIGARI in March 1944, but he was killed in action on 22 June 1944 with 467 Squadron, LL971 PO-N (Flt Lt LR Brine RAAF's crew) on the raid on Scholven-Buer.
Does anyone know what happened to Helen? There is an unconfirmed suggestion that she remarried after 1944. All attempts at making contact with her through official channels have proved unsuccessful. An elderly brother of F/S Saligari (who lives in Geelong, Australia) would be keen to know what happened to his brother's widow.
contact on his behalf to

Burnie Nitschke: bn AT luther.vic.edu.au <<<<<<


JOAN THE POSTER IS NOT WELL AT THE MOMENT
but I have sent her a good possible link in the UK


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Ronald

What is the point of your posting?

How do you expect the person you named to see it?

This is Genes Reunited........not Burnie's e-mail - whoever Burnie may be

Message for Burnie Nitschke

Burnie I tried to send you a long e-mail from London last night but it bounced. I believe the late Stan Saligari and his surving elderly Geelong brother Lionel E to be my half uncles. My father Victor James Sale was born a Saligari but my parents changed the name to Sale prior to my birth in Warragul Vic April 13 1944.

Please contact the lady receptioniste Bernice at the Luther College Croydon who provided her e-mail address as a substitute for yours that bounced.

Hope to hear from you in due course.

Regards

Ron Sale ronald.sale AT gmail.com

She wasn't in the Army - she was in the Women's branch of the Air Force, although the same criteria apply to availability of Records

info on how to get serivce records is on the veterans website
unfortunately you need to be next of kin and/or have death certificate ....which we don't have !

Oops!!!!


Forgot about one important piece of information....that Helen Elaine Triggs, I am pretty sure, served in the Women's Auxillary Air Force (WAAF's) in or near Sussex in 1944.

Can anyone help me there???? Service records etc????

Joan x

Quoy,

I will let you know when we get the certificate!

Thanks

Joan

Hi Joan
when the certificate comes will you let us know?
I cannot even find a birth for Helen E Triggs the nearest I have come to is
Helena M Trigggs 1923 Holborn London mm Triggs

I don't have her DOB or her father's name. Perhaps that's what I should do.....get her marriage certificate!!

Victoria,

I have Stanley's service record, and here's the tricky bit.....his next of kin is named as TRIGGS, F but doesn't give an address!!!

Oh Patricia.......yes, we have been searching for a long time!!!! It's driving us all nuts!!!

Joan x

if she was in the army need to check aremd forces marraiges....

Minnie........I have looked for a remarriage, but haven't found one. Found a Helen E Triggs marriage in 1991 in Essex, but thought she would have had to use her married name

still searching....

no sign of remarriage or death under maiden name or first married name

do you have the marraige certificate, with her dob / father's name

have you got Stanley's serivce record? you can get it online though Austrlain National archives... might have her last known address on as next of kin

Someone has been looking for a long time (2000):
SALIGARI, Corporal Helen Elaine (née TRIGGS) 442031 WAAF
Served at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, 1944
Message logged 14 July 2000: Does anyone remember Corporal Triggs? She married an Australian airman, Flight Sergeant STANLEY JOHN SALIGARI in March 1944, but he was killed in action on 22 June 1944 with 467 Squadron, LL971 PO-N (Flt Lt LR Brine RAAF's crew) on the raid on Scholven-Buer.
Does anyone know what happened to Helen? There is an unconfirmed suggestion that she remarried after 1944. All attempts at making contact with her through official channels have proved unsuccessful. An elderly brother of F/S Saligari (who lives in Geelong, Australia) would be keen to know what happened to his brother's widow.
contact on his behalf to Burnie Nitschke: bn AT luther.vic.edu.au

have you looked for a SALIGARI remarriage?

Victoria,
I have all the info you sent.....anything else....I am at my wits end!

Thank you for the info though...I really appreciate it

Joan x

marriage
Marriages Mar 1944 (>99%)

SALIGARI Stanley J Triggs Hove 2b 551
TRIGGS Helen E Saligari Hove 2b 551

Hove Sussex

SALIGARI, STANLEY JOHN
Initials: S J
Nationality: Australian
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Air Force
Age: 20
Date of Death: 22/06/1944
Service No: 434842
Additional information: Son of Victor John Stephen and Stella Laura Louise Saligari, of Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia; husband of Helen Elaine Saligari.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 23. B. 18.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Hi All,

I know you are such wonderful searchers out there and I was wondering if you could help me. Stanley John Saligari was born in Australia and served with the RAAF in WW2. He was trained as an airgunner and was assigned to 467 Squadron RAAF which was part of Bomber Command in Britain. Whilst he was over in Britain he met and married Helen Elaine Triggs.
Sadly he was killed in 1944.
When the war was over, his medals were to go to Helen his wife, however, she could not be found. His family in Australia wish to claim the medals, but cannot until Helen is deemed to be deceased!
Can anyone trace her anywhere?
I don't know where to start!!!
Thanking you in anticipation
Joan x