Duncan Riddle
July 12th 04, 09:00 PM
One of my wife's relatives[1] is over here (England) studying for a few
months.
The subject of his great-uncle[2] came up. It seems that he has some
fame in Georgia - with various streets, blocks of flats and even a cargo
ship named after him.
It seems that his claim to fame was that he was a fighter pilot during
WWII. Now I've done a bit of searching the web, but all I've come up
with boils down to this:
Senior Lieutenant Garri Alexandrovich Merkviladze 270 IAP & 152 GvIAP,
15 victories (13 + 2 assists) and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
If anyone has any more information about him, or pointers to more info
that Google and Yahoo don't know about, I'd appreciate it.
TIA
Duncan.
[1] Wife's grandfather's adopted daughter's son - we're talking tenuous
relationships here :-)
[2] Paternal great-uncle, just to muddy the waters
months.
The subject of his great-uncle[2] came up. It seems that he has some
fame in Georgia - with various streets, blocks of flats and even a cargo
ship named after him.
It seems that his claim to fame was that he was a fighter pilot during
WWII. Now I've done a bit of searching the web, but all I've come up
with boils down to this:
Senior Lieutenant Garri Alexandrovich Merkviladze 270 IAP & 152 GvIAP,
15 victories (13 + 2 assists) and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
If anyone has any more information about him, or pointers to more info
that Google and Yahoo don't know about, I'd appreciate it.
TIA
Duncan.
[1] Wife's grandfather's adopted daughter's son - we're talking tenuous
relationships here :-)
[2] Paternal great-uncle, just to muddy the waters