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... honeymoon in Richmond Surrey but the day they returned the Battle of Britain started For five and a half years during the Second World War Laurie served in the marine craft section of the RAF From 1946 to 1968 he served at the retained Fleet fire station and ...
... to keep me busy and I wrote every day to Jack and he wrote every week to me” she said Right: Mr Topping sitting on a Second World War gun Behind him from left are Mr Shailes Brigadier Reed Mrs Topping and Mrs Shailes Below: Mr Topping and the brigadier ...
... The red-brick gabled house has weathered 360 years of natural and man-nude storms from the blast of German bombs in the Second World War to the hurricane winds of 1987 And yet this structure which was during the Stuart period remains a hive of activity In ...
... Margot became the Matron-in-Chief of QARANC between 1964 and 1968 She had been honoured for her gal-lentry during the Second World War When Col Somerville met her she was a very junior nurse at the Cambridge but Norrie Burnett outside the in his father’ ...
... stamps as tribute to the valour shown by brave military personnel and civilians who did so much for Britain during the Second World War THE Victoria Cross Britain's highest decoration depicts a lion on a crown with the inscription “For Valour” This motto ...
... should quicken as veterans come to remember the 45th anniversary of D-Day and the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War Major boost for training scheme HYEWAY the youth training scheme run by the Hampshire Council of Community Service has ...
... change was that the dinghy outside the barn Villages’ midwife dies at age of 78 MOST of babies born in Tongham during Second World War years were brought into the world by nurse Clarice Mullins who has died in hospital Portsmouth at the age of 78 From ...
... still a member of the naval reserve he is now first officer on Dan Air 727s out of Gatwick Norman also owns his own plane Second World War Harvard trainer based at North Weald Essex He is a member of the five plane Harvard formation team along with pop star ...
... where good practice is recognised promoted RAE chalks up a world lead LEGEND has it that night fighter pilots during the Second World War were encouraged to eat carrots as an aid to seeing in the dark But fighter pilots of today and tomorrow can vary their ...
... 8175 Austin 20 hp Hearse 1 930 Entered by Mr A Gooden Chessington Surrey Commissioned by the Armed Forces during the Second World War and then returned to A B Quant and Sons of Dawlish Devon where it was used for funerals until 1967 Restored after 10 ...
... Fordson 7V Engine 1942 Entered by Mr J Broom Molesey Surrey This appliance was one many supplied the Home Office during the Second World War This example has very low mileage has a 900 gallons per minute Tangye and fully equipped and restored to National Fire ...
... when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 She eventually returned home via Gibraltar just before the outbreak of the Second World War Canteen After that Olive stayed in Ash living with her widowed mother and used to help in the canteen run at the Methodist ...