Week 35: Scotty’s Little Soldiers

There are some times when it is so hard to stay on track.  I could not begin to tell you how many times I would do a search on a particular person and then find something of interest about a totally different person that turns out not to be related at all.

There are other times that I would find something of “Palin” interest that leads me in a totally different place and I “stumble” upon something else which could then lead to something else and so on and so on.

Then if I am lucky, I might find a missing piece to the puzzle and possibly a lot more than I was searching for.

A couple of years ago I found where a Corporal Mark Anthony Palin was killed in Afghanistan in 2011.  I had no link to Mark at that time and bookmarked the site for future reference.

Five years later while looking for someone else and I find another story about Corporal Mark Anthony Palin – but this one shows his father’s name and siblings and wife and child.

Is Mark’s dad in the tree?  I then searched for Mark’s father and found him in our tree and then added Mark and his siblings to the tree.

Then I went searching for Mark’s marriage and child as reported in that new article.  I then found another story that states that Marks wife was pregnant at the time of Mark’s death and due that year.

Then I went searching to see if I could find anything about the new baby and found a wonderful picture of Mark’s children with the Prime Minister for the lighting of the Christmas tree in 2014.

I continued to search to see if there was anything else about Mark and his family and found a charity organization that helps support the children of fallen soldiers in the UK.  What a wonderful idea!  The organization is called Scotty’s Little Soldiers.  They even had a great facebook page and while searching this organization I also found an where an Anthony Palin was going to do the Marathon des Sables in order to donate to this great Charity.  (no connection to Anthony as of yet – trying to keep on track)

War is never nice and you lose even when you win.  The biggest losers are the children.  I am thrilled to see that Scotty's Little Soldiers is there to help these children and wanted to spread the word.

You can find Corporal Mark Anthony Palin in the family tree here.