WW2 Homefront - mostly Burnley

[James Pickering]

Originally Posted by Neal

No worries James, will do it shortly.

It is done -- thank you Neal! We are on our way out to visit relatives and evening dinner right now (2:00 pm). I will post to the Talk Britain Forum when I return. Because of our eight hour differential you will be asleep by then so I will catch you in the am. TTFN

James

[James Pickering]

My own grandfather Pickering had great stories about his Army service in Egypt & France during WW1 as a soldier in the East Lancashire regiment. He also had a nice collection of photographs, army accoutrements and medals. The stories were never recorded and his WW1 effects were thrown out by my grandmother, as was the fashion in those days, when he died in 1943. The same thing happened with my father's and uncle's WW1 memorabilia -- all lost to succeeding generations forever.

Unfortunately much of the memorabilia I saved from WW2 was thrown out after the death of my father in 1963, including his medals and Home Guard accoutrements -- how sad! I composed my WW2 British Home Front pages and Unsung Allied Heroes of WW2 pages in an attempt to rectify that and preseve our WW2 heritage and record precious historical information.

James