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329. Robert Holden BAXENDELL

Birth: Robert Holden Baxendell
Year of Registration: 1902  
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar  
DISTRICT: Ormskirk  
County: Lancashire  
Volume: 8b  
Page: 869

Baptism: 30 Mar 1902 St Paul, Southport, Lancashire, England
Robert Holden Baxendale - Child of Eustace Milner Baxendale & Margaret Neill
   Born: 12 Feb 1902
   Abode: 4. Albert Rd, Birkdale
   Occupation: Miller
   Notes: [Baptismal date entered as:] Easter Day
   Baptised by: F. Sinker
   Register: Baptisms 1883 - 1915, Page 183, Entry 1463
   Source: LDS Film 1849662

Marriage: UK GRO Jul-Sep 1925, Robert Holden Baxendell to Evelyn Mary Crook, Ormskirk 8b 1667

On 9th September 1925 at St Paul, Southport, Lancashire, Robert Holden Baxendell, aged 33, bachelor, a Miller of 25 Westcliffe Road, Birkdale, father - Eustace Milner Baxendell (deceased) a Miller, married after Banns, Evelyn Mary Crook, aged 23, spinster of 35 York Rd, Birkdale, father - George Harris Crook (deceased), a Cotton Spinner.
Witnesses: James Harold Hewitson, Joan Baxendell, Annie Crook, Margaret Baxendell


Robert Holden Baxendell was a flour miller and was born in 1902 at his mother's home at 4 Albert Road Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire.

Mr Baxendell spent his early years in business, following his apprenticeship in Ipswitch in the family flour mill, before becoming a director of David Baxter and Sons, of Cheadle Heath.  In 1925 he married Evelyn Crook.  He spent most of his life in Wilmslow before ill-health necessitated an early retirement.

He was a resident in Minehead since he had retired there in 1956.  Since going to West Somerset, Mr Baxendell had taken great pleasure in visiting local beauty spots.  His hobbies extended to gardening and photography, and he also took great pride in his seven grandchildren.    

Mr Robert Holden Baxendell, of Glenridding, Hopcott Road, died on 5 April 1969 at the age of 67.  He was survived by his widow, and one son and daughter.  He suffered a heart attack while shopping, and his grandaughter, Jane, had a local shop call the ambulance and he died after reaching hospital.


Reference: The Times - Friday October 17, 1969

Latest Wills  - Baxendell, Mr Robert Holden, of Minehead (duty paid 28,052 pounds) ....67,400 pounds.

Death: UK GRO Apr-Jun 1969, Robert Holden Baxendell, birth-12 Feb 1902, Exmoor, 7c 878

Probate Index:
BAXENDELL Robert Holden of Glenrlddlng Hopcott Rd
Mlnehead Som died 5 April 1969 Probate Liverpool
18 September. Pounds 68,637.

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362. Margaret BAXENDELL

Birth:  Margaret Baxendell was born on 30 July 1926 at 39 Waterloo Road, Southport, to Robert Holden Baxendell, a flour Miller, and Evelyn Mary Baxendell, formerly Crook.  Informant: Robert H Baxendell, father.

A major influence in Margaret's life was her nanny (Miss Mary Ann Bird), who due to her smaller than average height of 4'10" was known as Little Nanny.   Although small in stature Little Nanny was not to be trifled with and had a very strong Christian faith, which had a big influence on Margaret in later years.  Miss Bird was Nanny to the Baxendells for 45 years.

After attending Miss Fennel's Kindergarten School and then the Wilmslow Preparatory School in 1939, in true British fashion, Margaret attended boarding school from about 12 years old at Malvern Girls' College, Worcestershire. She was awarded the School Certificate in July 1942.

Margaret joined the W.R.N.S (Official No. 78582) on 9 August 1944 and served in establishments such as HMS Spartiate II and HMS Pembroke III.  The latter being on "Special Duties (P.V)".  This turned out to Bletchley Park from August 1944 to November 1945 where she was involved in the secret decoding of German messages with the Enigma machine. She was probably selected for the "enigma" role because she was familiar with the german language and could type. She left the W.R.N.S. on 10 January 1947.

After the W.R.N.S. Margaret went to the Manchester College for Domestic Economy and obtained a Diploma of Institutional Management in July 1949.

From August 1950 Margaret Baxendell was a junior assistant purser on the "New Australia" for three years and during this time met William (Bill) Scott who was a navigating officer on the same vessel.   Bill proposed to Margaret on one of their voyages whilst in Sydney and they married on 19 December 1953 in Wilmslow, England.

Marriage: On 19th December 1953 at Wilmslow, Cheshire, William Watson Scott, aged 29, Bachelor, Master Mariner of 63 Blairbeth Road, Burnside, father - Robert Scott, Company Director, married Margaret Baxendell, aged 27, spinster of 17 Carrwood Road, Wilomslow, father Robert Holden Baxendell, Company Director.
Witnesses: David Robert Baxendell, Mary Alison Bealtee Fotheringham.

From Press 1953
Ex-Wren Weds Man She Met On Liner - Met in Merchant Navy

Two young people who met on Board the New Australia were married at Wilmslow Parish Church, on Saturday. Miss Margaret Baxendell, who spent two and a half years in the W.R.N.S., was Junior assistant Purser on the "New Australia" for three years and her bridegroom, Mr William Watson Scott, was a Merchant Navy navigating officer on the same vessel owned by Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.
In addition to voyaging to Australia. Miss Baxendell; visited The Dutch East Indies, Japan and Korea. She was previously a member of the Parish Church Fellowship and the hockey team. Miss Baxendell is the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Holden Baxendell of Glenriddlng, Carrwood Road, Wilmslow, and was educated at Malvern Girl's College and Manchester College for Domestic Science.
Mr Scott is the younger son of Mr and Mrs Robert Scott, of 63 Blairbeth Road. Burnside, Glasgow. The ceremony was performed by the rector, the Rev. E. D. Reeman, and Mr Alton T. Dlggie played the organ. The hymns were "Praise my soul the King of Heaven." "O Perfect Love" and "May the grace of Christ our Saviour."
Given away by her father, who is a director of Messrs. David Baxter and Sons Ltd., Mersey Works, Cheadle Heath, Miss Baxendell wore a dress of white tie silk and a half length veil held in place with an orange blossom headdress.  She carried a white prayer book with a trail of flowers. Miss Mary Fotheringham and Miss Barbara Start, friends of the bride, were her attendants. They wore deep rose pink net dresses and caps with white fur capes and muffs.
The mother of the bride wore a dress of bronze grosgrain with a matching hat and bag a nigger coat and an orchid spray.
The bridegroom's mother's dress was of saxe blue with a matching blue feather hat and a fur coat.
Mr David R. Baxendell, the brides brother, was the best, man and Mr Stewart Wray and Mr John Travis were the groomsmen.
The wedding breakfast, attended by about 80 guests, was served at the Oakwood Hotel, Alderley Edge. Mr and Mrs Scott are spending their honeymoon in the south of England. For travelling, the bride wore a fur coat, a charcoal grey costume and cherry accessories.

Margaret and Bill moved from England to Australia on 1 August 1970 with Jane, Lucy and Helen, their three teenage or near teenage daughters. For the first 10 years in Australia they lived at Dundas and the family were actively members at St. Columbs Anglican Church, West Ryde. 1980 saw them depart for Thursday Island where Bill skippered the boat for the Australian Board of Missions around the waters of the Torres Straight.  They spent 5 years on Thursday Island which was definitely a very special time during their lives.

Margaret was naturalised as an Australian on 19 April 1985.  (BR8502305T)

Bill passed away in 1992 and in 1999 Margaret moved to Mowll village, at Castle Hill NSW where she was very happy until her death in March 2007.

Interview with Margaret Scott by her grandson Christopher Spalding in 1998.

Q. What do you remember when you just think of your life during the war?
Well, the year war broke out, we were on holiday in Whitby, and we had to go home early from our holiday, because it was coming into being, the war, you know, and we were all told to get our blackout curtains. So we had to dash home to get blackout curtains to put on the windows. That sort of event stands out in my mind.
I was thirteen years old when the war broke out and I was going off to boarding school. Because of the war, the school, which I was going to, was actually taken over by the government, and so the school had to go off and be put into country houses. It was divided into three different country houses in Somerset, instead of Worcestershire. That was just for the first year, and then the government decided they didn't want the school, so we all went back again.
I suppose, in a way you were sort of protected from the war.  We didn't have any food shortages, we did have heating shortages, and we were allowed two baths a week.  I remember, at school you could wash your hair every fortnight, because of the problem of heating water. But we were quite well fed at school, and I think did better than people at home in that aspect. We used to go home on holiday, and my poor mum would be scratching around to try and get enough food for teenagers to eat.
The food was rationed, and we all had a national identity number, and mine was LFXL1713, and we had our ration cards. I can't remember all the rations now, but we had a one pound pot of jam at school for the month, which was for afternoon bread and breakfast. I always had mine in marmalade if I could, because I liked it best. I think butter was rationed at about a quarter of a pound, no more that half a pound per week, sugar wasn't much more, tea was rationed, clothes were rationed, everything was rationed. Meat in particular was rationed, fish wasn't rationed but was hard to come by.

Q. What was the quality of the food?
Ah. Pretty grim really. The butcher would keep his liver and kidneys and things for his prime customers. If you got in with your butcher, you were able to get a little bit in the way of offal, which was not rationed, you see.
Everybody "dug for victory".  We had all our back garden dug up "for victory" and we grew a revolting vegetable called curly kale, which none of us liked. It was a green leafy thing, which was really quite awful. Mum also kept chooks.  As we lived in the country it wasn't so had. Two eggs a week, were allowed on ration, and I can't remember what milk was a day, but it wasn't very much. But when you think about it, an awful lot of people in Britain in the poor areas were really much better fed than they probably ever had been in their lives, and I think that was when school dinners started during the war, and free milk, so that children got their vitamins and milk, and things. Then there was the black market which people bought off, which I didn't know much about. I remember food loomed large in those days, and you remembered all the nice bits of food which would come your way.
After the end of the war, I was re-mustered, as they say, and was put into a clothing store in Somerset, and the clothing store worked alongside the department which did the food, and we used to have these great churns of milk stuck outside our clothing store, where we could go and skim the cream off the top, which wasn't available in Britain during the war, and make our morning coffee with cream and therefore I was a rather chubby teenager.

Q. You mentioned that clothes were rationed.  Now how did that work, and what were the clothes like?
I can't really remember how it worked, I only know that you got coupons for clothes, and you got coupons for household things, and sometimes people would buy curtain material and use it for a dress, or something if they needed it specially. Your great granny Scott made dressing gowns for people out of rugs. Fashion went a bit by the board, and you had a lot of make do, and mend so that everything could last for a long time. You had all these little pamphlets on how to make your dress last longer, or renovate your hat into something stylish.

Q. Do you think much of that stuck, or do you think that as soon as they could, people rushed out, and bought more reasonable clothes?
I think they probably went out and bought them. They were not very exciting after the war, and wages weren't very high.

Q. What do you remember about how the war changed life, such as customs people got used to, and things people had to give up?
It changed a lot really. Britain was a very stratified society, so that if you were just ordinary middle class, you nearly always had someone to do your garden, and someone to come and clean and somebody else, living in to do something. These people were all were taken off to the war, so everybody had to do their own things, unless you had extenuating circumstances, like illness.
I think it was a liberating thing in some ways, especially for women because they went zooming off to do things in munitions and the forces and the land army.

Q. How long do you think the effects of the war lingered on?
Well, some food was still rationed in 1953 when I got married.

Q. Like what?
Meat, and butter and sugar. It was a bigger ration portion than during the war, but you still got your coupons. When I was first married, I worked as a temp in a typing agency, and there was a girl in the office whose husband was a docker.  He was always going on strike, and when he went on strike, she used to give him his ration card, and tell him to come home when he'd finished striking, because she thought that was the best way to deal with the situation.

Q. Do you remember any events from during the war that affected you?
There was a girl at school and we were all told at assembly that this girl's brother had returned safely from the battle at Dunkirk. There was someone else's brother who had died there. I sort of wafted through the war as I was only a giddy teenager.

Q. Do you remember much what the public opinion was at that time?
I can remember my father listening to the news, every news that ever came on, but I don't think I paid a great deal of attention to it all. I do recall a radio show, Tommy Hanly and Itmar. It was lampooning, the whole war.  It was making a joke of what was a serious thing but was very popular, and every body listened to it. It lifted morale.

Q. Was there a gloomy atmosphere to the country?
I look back and I see those war years as kind of grey. Although people had their fun still, things still went on, life went on, despite the war. There was a great feeling of togetherness, and people helping each other, which doesn't happen now. But over all, I look back, and remember them as looking grey, kind of grey days. That was the blackout because you didn't have any street lighting or any sign posts.  That was so that if the enemy invaded, they'd all be confused. Before the air raid sirens went, you'd hear the dogs barking as they always heard the aircraft before the air raid sirens went. I wasn't near many bombings. Where I went to school, we weren't all that far from Coventry, and the night Coventry was bombed, and it was bombed very heavily, we all had to go into the cloakrooms, which were in the basement. We could hear thuds, and a bomb fell in a field, near where I lived, not that far from Manchester, when they bombed Manchester.
My father was an air raid patrol person, and he used to walk up and down the street, when there was an air raid on, just to make sure everything was all right.
It was just like a whole different era before the war, during the war, and after the war.  They were just totally different lifestyles. My own life was different too, being at home and school before the war, and at boarding school during the war, and then I went in the Wrens (W.R.N.S), in 1944.  That was a year before the war ended, and that was different, too.

Q. What were the Wrens?
The Women's Royal Navy Service. That was the first time I visited Scotland, and we had to have all these injections, and everybody kept passing out at parades. I was assigned to P-5 (H.M.S. Pembroke III)and worked at Bletchley Park, which was very secret in those days, and you signed a thirty year agreement, it was a place decoding German messages. To me as a teenager, I thought that was quite normal, to be sworn to secrecy about a thing like that. I think Bletchley Park has been preserved as an historic part of the war.

Q. What did you personally do?
I worked on the decoding machines. I did that because I was a typist. Everybody else had to organise how you decoded it, and then you popped it in the machine, and I typed away the message which had come through, and hopefully, it would make sense. They were mostly messages from naval ships that came in, mostly positions of ships. Bletchley Park was a foreign office department and another Wren and I were put in there because we could both type, and knew what German looked like, even though we couldn't spell it. This was on the enigma machines. People used to say "what did you do?" and I used to say I painted the white tape red, because you couldn't tell them. We used to work shift work, and that was dreadful. You worked from midnight until eight in the morning and then worked the following day from four at night until midnight, and then eight to four. I was always tired. The first time I went on leave, I slept for nearly twenty-four hours, and my mother thought I'd died.

Q. So you were typing in the coded messages, and the machine decoded them.
Yes.

Q. What was the machine like?
I can barely remember it really, you'd have to find a picture of it somewhere. It had a keyboard of course, and a couple of cogs and wheels. The enigma coding device looked like the top half of an upright piano.  It blocked the view of the people in front of you. It had between four and six wheels on the front to choose the setting. You had to set it up on a certain setting, each day, and there were people who worked on what the settings would be. You can read all about it in a book called "The Ultra Secret" by F. W. Winterbotham.  We weren't really supposed to know what was happening and so I didn't bother.
A friend of mine, who lived around the back, she didn't just want to go into the Wrens, and just become a dry land sailor, so she went into the foreign office, and ended up at the same place as I did, and she stayed on in the foreign office, and made a career out of it. I stayed in several places while I was in the Wrens.

Q. What was it like working in a secret department?
You went to work and you did your work, and came back, ate and went to bed, and got up and went to work. You weren't supposed to talk about what you did to anyone at the place, even. There was a house in the centre, which people went to, for cultural activities, but you didn't talk about work out of your office. Everyone was billeted all over the place. There were army people and there were navy people and there were civilians.
I can remember the day the German war was declared finished. It was too late to go and do anything, and in any case I was on duty. We had a special service of thanksgiving at Bletchley Park.

Q. Do you think what was actually happening really hit home to most people?
I should certainly think it hit home to most people older than I was, and I should think children who were really disrupted in as much as they were evacuated. We had two evacuees at our house, but they went back soon after nothing much happened, which sort of gave people a false sense of security. It must have been terribly frustrating for the housewife, because we were forever having power cuts, and we had gas in our house, and you couldn't cut the gas off, but it would go so low that if you wanted to boil a pot of potatoes for lunch, you would basically have to put them on at breakfast.
I think the war just really changed the whole way of life for a great number of people. I think overall, there weren't as many restrictions. Although it's harder to gauge as a teenager during the war, and an adult after.

Q. Do you remember much about the politics during the war?
No, not really.

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363. David Robert BAXENDELL

David was educated at Terra Nova and Oundle.

Death Notice Knutsford Guardian
DAVID ROBERT BAXENDELL On 18th May 2017 died peacefully in his sleep at home in Knutsford. "Mr Bax", aged 86 years, proud father of Ric, Toby, Henry, Marcus and Jos, father-in-law of Angela and Lucy and grandfather to twelve. A Service of Thanksgiving to be held at St John the Evangelist's Church, Toft on Friday 26th May at 3.30pm following private committal.

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Jillian Florence CLAYTON

Birth: UK GRO Apr-Jun 1934, Jillian F Clayton, mother - Tomlinson, Stockport, 8a, 167

Jill was educated at Macclesfield Grammar School and a Paris finishing school.

Death: Jillian Florence Baxendell
Birth Date: 25 May 1934
Death Registration Month/Year: May 1997
Age at death (estimated): 63  
Registration district: Manchester  
Inferred County: Lancashire  
Register number: J57B  
Entry Number: 68

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331. Muriel Gladys BAXENDELL

Birth: GRO Jan-Mar qtr 1906 Baxendell Muriel Gladys, Ormskirk Vol 8b 883

Baptism: 13 May 1906 St Paul, Southport, Lancashire, England
Muriel Gladys Baxendale - Child of Eustace Milner Baxendale & Margaret Neill
   Born: 26 Feb 1906
   Abode: 4. Albert Road, Birkdale
   Occupation: Corn-Miller
   Baptised by: F. Sinker
   Register: Baptisms 1883 - 1915, Page 224, Entry 1791
   Source: LDS Film 1849662

Marriage: UK GRO Oct-Dec 1942 Baxendell Muriel G., Kershaw, Southport Vol 8b 1481
                Oct-Dec 1942 Kershaw Geoffrey J., Baxendell, Southport Vol 8b 1481

Death: Muriel Gladys Kershaw
Birth Date: 26 Feb 1906
Death Registration Month/Year: Apr 1986
Age at death (estimated): 80  
Registration district: Stockport  
Inferred County: Cheshire, Lancashire  
Volume: 39  
Page: 980

Probate Index:
KERSHAW, Muriel Gladys of Flat 3 Clysbarton Ct Bramhall
Stockport died 14 April 1986 Probate Manchester 29 July
Pounds 139,728 8351909843C

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Geoffrey James KERSHAW

Birth: Geoffrey James Kershaw
Year of Registration: 1903  
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar  
District: Ashton Under Lyne  
County: Cheshire, Lancashire  
Volume: 8d  
Page: 570

Marriage: UK GRO Oct-Dec 1942 Baxendell Muriel G., Kershaw, Southport Vol 8b 1481
                Oct-Dec 1942 Kershaw Geoffrey J., Baxendell, Southport Vol 8b 1481

Death: Geoffrey James Kershaw
Birth Date: 25 Feb 1903
Death Registration Month/Year: May 1984
Age at death (estimated): 81  
Registration district: Sefton North  
Inferred County: Merseyside  
Volume: 37  
Page: 394

KERSHAW, Geoffrey James of 30 Dunkirk Rd Southport died
7 May 1984 Probate Liverpool 4 July Pounds 53,067 8451706932E

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364. Michael John KERSHAW

Birth: Jul-Sep 1946 Kershaw Michael J, Baxendell, Southport Vol 10f, Page 1010

Marriage: UK GRO Oct-Dec 1970, Michael J Kershaw, Frances M Osborne, St Marylebone, vol 5d, Page 1640

Michael did history at Cambridge University and then went on
to study Medicine.

Death: Michael John Kershaw
Birth Date: 21 Aug 1946
Death Registration Month/Year: Dec 1997
Age at death (estimated): 51  
Registration district: Kingston Upon Thames  
Inferred County: Surrey  
Register number: C68  
Entry Number: 148

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332. Winifred ROBERTSON

Birth: Winifred Robertson
Year of Registration: 1904  
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun  
District: Lewisham  
County: Greater London, Kent, London  
Volume: 1d  
Page: 1191

Lancashire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911
Winifred Robertson
Birth Date 13/04/1904 (13 Apr 1904)
Baptism Date 12/06/1904 (12 Jun 1904)
Parish England Southport, St Paul Lancashire
Father Robert Macfadyen Robertson
Mother Hilda Margaret Robertson
Register Type Parish Registers Reference Number Pr 3368/1/2

England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1984-2005
Winifred Robertson
Registration Date 07/1926 (Jul 1926)
Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district Bromley Kent
Spouse Samuel V Greig
Volume Number 2a Page number 1549

1939 England and Wales Register
Winifred Greig
Gender Female
Marital Status Married
Birth Date 13/04/1904 (13 Apr 1904)
Residence 56 Inner Park Road Wandsworth London England
Occupation Wife Unpaid domestic Duties
Line Number 4 Schedule Number 124 Sub Schedule Number 2
Enumeration District AXXL Borough Wandsworth Registration district 24-5
Inferred Spouse Samuel V Greig
Household Members
Marian M B Borratt Age 60
Samuel V Greig Age 39
Winifred Greig Age 35
Bertha Jones-Clark Age 22

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Winifred C Robertson
Death Age 44
Birth Date 1906
Registration Date 07/1950 (Jul 1950
)Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district Bromley Kent
Volume 5b Page 128

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Samuel Victor GREIG

In 1939 was the Manager of David Greig Ltd, Buyer and Supervisor.

Probate Index:
GREIG Samuel Victor of 56 Inner Park-road Wimbledon London
S.W.19 died 25 September 1642 on war service Probate Llan-
dudno 25 February to Alfred Beall Stevens nurseryman and
Margaret Jean Robertson spinster.
Effects Pounds 25,616 18s. 7d.
Reswom Pounds 26456 6s. 7d.

UK Commonwealth War Graves - Gibraltar, Azores, Canary, Madeira, Potrugal, Spain
GREIG, Maj. samuel victor, 142535.
R.A.S.C. 25th September, 1942. Age 42. Son
of David Greig and of Hannah Susan Greig
(nee Decock); husband of Winifred Greig, of
Wimbledon, Surrey. Plot 2. Row E. Joint
grave 4.

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365. Victor Stuart GREIG

England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
Greig
Registration Date 04/1929 (Apr 1929) Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun
Registration district Wandsworth London
Mother's Maiden Name Robertson
Volume Number 1d Page number 966

England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Victor S Greig
Registration Date 04/1955 (Apr 1955) Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun
Registration district Kensington London
Spouse Marion Broome
Volume Number 5c Page number 2027

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Victor Stuart Greig
Death Age 66
Birth Date 07/04/1929 (7 Apr 1929)
Registration Date 08/1995 (Aug 1995)
Registration district Lambeth Greater London
Register Number C58 District and Subdistrict 2411C Entry Number 120

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