Willie's War

Willie and his colleagues in uniform (and out of it).

WRR023 BFS176
1940 ?
 

1939 Join the Royal Corps of Signals and see — Harrogate.

BFS141
BFS141R

BFS142

BFS144
"Sherman, Enery Ribton, Duncan, Queenie, Mgt, Me"
 

WRR022 BFS146 : Photographer - S.E.Taylor, Cornwall Studio, Station Square, Harrogate
(= ALD835)
 
BFS147 BFS145 WRR020
location not known

 

Christmas 1939 in Hull.

BFS173
"Hull" (Willie seated 4th from right)

On the reverse, the men are numbered.
No names but some were captured in Libya and one was torpedoed and drowned.

BFS173R

BFS174
(Willie seated 3rd from left)
 

Meanwhile, back at the farm (or, more accurately, at the back of 2045 London Road)

BFS172 BFS175

Willie with James (Miffy) McKinlay of Glowerin' Laun, Kilbirnie.

(Miffie was called up at the same time as Willie.)


 

BFS200
Willie & Johnny Jarvis 1944?
 

1944/45 - Somewhere, Sometime, Italy, Sicily, Austria and maybe other places.

BFS197 BFS198
BFS199 BFS201
BFS202 BFS203
"At the time of Yalta"
 
BFS204
"Some team, some where - Willie at RB"
 

BFS215
"Kiff Landon, Macclesfield, with wife, parents & baby" 1947
 

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