Excellent work as usual, Paul, but I think you need to correct your spelling of Hans Ruesch.

Cripes Tim, thanks for pointing that out, how did that slip through? Before I alter the memorial page, would it be correct to add an umlaut over the U or would Ruesch surfice? Also if that's the case, how can I type an umlauted U?

Try to copy this: Ü ü

Thanks a lot, memorial page amended. But there is a method to add an umlaut using the 'Ctrl' key. Another of life's mysteries.

Easy, especially if you grew up with DOS. For a lower case ü hold down the ALT key and type 129 on the numbers on the right of your keyboard. For upper case Ü do the same but type 154. Magic, and you can create several hundred other symbols and 'foreign' characters in exactly the same way, no need to bother adding an umlaut to a normal u or U, though this is quite simple as well. I expect there's a crib for all this somewhere on Google.

Thank you, the cut-and-paste umlaut worked a treat. I'll probably never need to use it again.

Rather than trying to memorise all those ASCII codes, just press "Start" - "Run" and type in "charmap". Then you can copy/paste to your heart's content ;)

Wow, thanks. Yet another piece I've learned in this vastly complicated and wonderful system.

Another alternative is what I usually do - write my post in MS Word, adding accents, umlauts etc via Insert > Symbol and then cut and paste the whole lot.

I'm still worried about the correct spelling of Ruesch, though. Should it have an umlaut or not?

Yes, Tim, it should, since it affects the pronunciation.

With an umlaut, it's two syllables - "rue-esh". Without the umlaut, it's a single syllable - roughly "roosh".

...and if it was reusch it would be "roish"

I'm still not convinced, I'm afraid. Obviously the presence (or not) of the umlaut affects the pronunciation of the name, but do we know how the name was pronounced? Googling on "Hans Rüesch" (or Hans Ruesch) produces the vast majority of results spelled without the umlaut. This book cover:

from one of his books, written in German and published by a German-speaking publisher, does not show the umlaut. Is there any solid evidence out there that he did spell his name with an umlaut?

Can I butt in here, although this may be a red herring. When I was in the Army, I was stationed at Moenchen-Gladbach. Now this could be spelt Monchen-Gladbach but the 'O' had to have an umlaut. Could it therefore be Ruetch or Rutch (but with an umlaut)? We need a German to answer this.

The NY Times obituary said how it was pronounced if that's any help. Don't think at any time have I seen an umlaut for his name:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/03/sports/0...a=y&oref=slogin

(about 4th paragraph down)

If, as the daughter said, the European pronunciation was Roo-esh, it must have had an umlaut.

In contemporaneous English printed sources, you'll almost never find umlauts. That's simply because English hot-metal presses couldn't print them. Another example from the same era is Walter Bäumer, who is almost always rendered Baumer in English books.

You're talking about Monotype and Linotype hot metal typesetting machines Vitesse, not presses, but you're absolutely right. Typesetters or Compositors to give them their proper title, could do it when setting type by hand, but they didn't always bother. Back in the days of metal typesetting, a surprising amount of composing was done manually, often even for book pages. One branch of my family were printers, and I often used to watch the men working. The speed at which these craftsmen could set type was truly remarkable, very few errors for the best of them, and everything had to be done 'mirror image' in reverse.

Photo: Paul Narramore

The grave of John Heath in St.Peter's Churchyard, Hersham, Surrey, who died as the result of a crash in his HWM during the 1956 Mille Miglia.

Yesterday I spent an hour-and-a-half at the local library going through microfiche films of the local (Kent) newspaper. I was looking for the story of former motorcycle racer Reg Armstrong's fatal road crash in November 1979 in Ashford. Of course I failed to find it and more research showed that he had an Opel dealership on the outskirts of Dublin and just a few miles away is the village of........you've guessed it........Ashford. Not just wrong county but wrong country. More delving then

Latest additions (usual links) -

Drivers - John Heath, A.F.P.Fane, Peter Aitken, Richard Shuttleworth, Luis Fontes, Tim Rose-Richards, Fay Taylour, Johnny Wakefield, George Robson.

Riders - Georg Auerbacher, Bud Ekins, Alan Shepherd.

What a fascinating thread.

I have tried on 2 separate occasions to find the final resting place of Tazio Nuvolari.

The lady at the Tazio Nuvolari museum in Mantua was a bit evasive when asked and although I did find a Nuvolari tomb in the cemetery at Castel d’Ario (his birthplace) I am not convinced it was his grave.

This year I searched in Mantua but without success.

Can anyone help?

I am new to this site so forgive me if it has already been listed.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...n&GRid=7423168&

Tom
Go back through the thread and click on one of the links in my updates. There are hundreds of similar memorial pages of racing drivers and motorcycle racers.
Paul

Thank you Paul and keep up the good work on this thread.

Kind Regards,
Tom

Photo: Frank Martens

The grave of Wolfgang Kalauch, passenger to World Sidecar Champions Helmut Fath, Klaus Enders, Rolf Steinhausen and Siegfreid Schauzu, in a cemetery in Waldbrol near Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, who died on 14 February 2007.


Photo: Frank Martens

Dick Seaman isn't the only racing driver at rest in Putney Vale cemetery. So is Kennelm Lee Guinness.

His KLG spark plug factory, later acquired by Smiths Industries, was next door, but sadly now it's just an ASDA supermarket.

Photo: Heiner Vester

The grave of works BMW rider Walter Zeller in his family plot in Hammerau, Bavaria, Germany.

paul could you do a *large* version of this please?

Let's try this. Oops, the picture quality isn't too good.

never mind,thanks paul

I've just be told that the Zeller family grave is in the Friedhof Ainring, near Freilassing, Bavaria.

I'm currently searching for the grave of Dario Resta, killed at Brooklands on 2 September 1924. This one-time Indy 500 winner seems to have disappeared without trace. His death was recorded in nearby Chertsey and he was living in Silverdale Avenue, Eastbourne with his wife at the time. There is no record of him being buried in the Eastbourne cemeteries although he may have been laid to rest in a churchyard. As he was Italian born, his body may have been returned to the place of his birth.

Another mystery is Ulrich Bigalke, whose Junkers Ju88 crashed in the English Channel on 12 August 1940 after bombing Portsmouth. His body was washed up on the German-occupied French coast and was buried in the sand dunes by German Coastguards. Presumably this was later re-buried in a military cemetery, but which one? A German friend has searched the German equivalent of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, www.volksbund.de but has not succeeded in finding his name.

Any ideas please?

Having been born and bred in Eastbourne, I'm staggered that Resta lived in Silverdale Road. Do you know what number? Zilwood Milidge was in Eastbourne, as was Goldie Gardner, but never have I heard Resta was as well. As I mentioned before, I'm sure I read that his car ended in the sewage works at Brooklands, and was never extracted!

Steve
The Times article on the inquest mentioned Silverdale Avenue not Road although when I did a search, I couldn't find it on a map, so they may have made a mistake. No number was shown. The car was recovered, and a Google Images search shows a picture of it. The car was thoroughly examined to discover what had caused the driver to lose control and go through the stout trackside fencing backwards.
I should have added that neither the Brooklands Society nor the museum have any idea as to his funeral arrangements. I also had my search placed on a message board of an Eastbourne newspaper but go nowhere, and he wasn't buried in any of the town's cemeteries. Perhaps a church burial? Perhaps Italy?
What became of his widow and were there any children?
Paul

There are several smaller cemetaries around Eastbourne, and I have a vague recollection of a grave in Jevington, that featured a broken steering wheel, I'll check when I get home.

I found Reg Armstrong's death notice. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Patrick's Church in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow on Wednesday the 28th of November 1979.
Press reports suggested that the Gardai (Irish police) believed he may have had a seizure before hitting a tree in the descent into the village of Avoca, Co Wicklow on his way back from a shooting contest held there on Saturday the 24th of November 1979. As a matter of coincidence I was working at that shoot that day.

Here is information and a picture of the Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enniskerry

Pat Kenny

Thanks Pat. I look forward to getting a picture of his grave too.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...r&GRid=22818620

RE Dario Resta: his wife was USAmerican, maybe she took the corpse back with her to the states???

Photo: Carin Olofsson

The grave of Gunnar Nilsson in Pålsjö Municipal Cemetery, Helsingborg, Sweden, and not the Allerums Kyrkogard Cemetery as shown on Find-a-Grave.

The inscription reads -

My Beloved Son
The Racing Driver
Gunnar Nilsson
b.1948 d.1978

Photo: Bernd Bouillon

Georg Auerbacher's grave in Bad Worishofen, Germany.

That pic Paul of Georg's resting place squares the circle for me,one of my all time heroes as you know

FELICE NAZZARO
I started a thread a while ago on the Italian driver, Felice Nazzaro, who drove for Fiat with great success pre-World-War 1, his greatest year being 1907 when he won all three major races including the French Grand Prix. He came back to win the 1922 French Grand Prix. I had asked on my thread if anybody knew where he was buried, with no success.
I have come accross your thread by chance and wonder if anybody can help? He was born in Turin in 1881 and died there in 1940, but seems to have disappeared without trace. I would love to know the location of his grave and see a picture of it....I do hope somebody can help...
Noel Stokoe

Just a reminder of Murray Barnards thought provoking memorial site to fallen riders -

http://www.ozebook.com/gpwin/gpmem.htm

i asked murray to include *eric piner*in the list.
it took him a year but he came thru in the end.
eric now has a place,rip mate.

Ben Drinkwater was killed during the 1949 Junior TT on the Isle of Man. Today, and completely unexpectedly, I received an email from his daughter Doris Drinkwater. It's responses like this that makes me feel good for the day.

"Thank you for the entry that you posted on the cemetary search web site for Bacup. I am Ben Drinkwater's daughter and am living in Australia. When I visited Bacup cemetary about 10 years ago I could not find my fathers grave. It was a long shot as I only had an hour to look. I was taken by a friend and I was saying in Rochdale. I also went to see my late fathers shop which was still selling motor cycles at that time. I was only 6 years old when my father died and I was not allowed to go to the funeral. My mother remarried and the family migrated to Australia in 1958 when I was 15. I have not been to visit England again (mainly due to financial constraints). I have wondered if the grave is marked and what condition it is in. Thank you for taking the trouble to visit the grave. He was a hero to the family and I believe he died because he avoided running into a rider that he was lapping and that resulted in the crash or so we were told. I also visited the Isle of Man and went to the spot where he was killed. I was just running a search on the internet and found your entry by chance. I hope you have a happy Easter. It is Good Friday here and so I thought of the sacrifice in our family, that is what prompted my search of the internet. The memory never goes away. Thanks again Doris Drinkwater.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?G...&GSmid=46601741

You should be justfiably proud of that

Back to Dario Resta, his residence in England may have been a temporary one. The Bridgeport Telegram of Bridgeport, CT reported on Sep 4 in 1924 the following:

Latest additions - Christian Lautenschlager, Jimmy Stewart, Ralph DePalma and Paul Frere. This list now numbers 262 fallen drivers.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...csr&GSvcid=4821

Latest additions - Walter Zeller, Reg Armstrong and Walter Villa. This list now numbers 78 fallen riders.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...csr&GSvcid=4823

When I started compiling these two lists a couple of years ago, it was with the intention of keeping to Grand Prix drivers. Well, as you can see, this has expanded and I now include any driver or rider as they all deserve to be remembered. If anyone has anyone they feel deserves to be on the lists, please don't hesitate to let me. I should state however that whilst I have lots of names, it's their funeral details which are especially difficult to discover, especially for the lesser known drivers and riders.

Don't know if Larry Crockett is already mentioned, but I found this in the National Road Traveler of Cambridge City, IN on March 24 in 1955:

A couple of pictures I was sent of Sir Malcolm Campbell's grave Chiselhurst

Last week I received an email from Miranda Kelly, the daughter of Lance Macklin, who told me that after a cremation at Charing Crematorium, his ashes were interred in the grave of his father, Sir Noel Macklin, in All Saints Churchyard, Bisham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The headstone is in the form of a clenched fist with an index finger pointing upwards but the inscription has eroded and is now barely readable. Searching for their grandfather's grave proved very difficult for the family.