ww2 PHOTO Gallery - World War 2 army

Just after Dunkirk, with my two pals, 1940. We had been through an awful time. I was 22. (Editor's note: Not sure who pals were - could have been Ivor Castor, Les Blowers, John Ryan or others named in the autobiography).

Aug 1944. At Dundee Royal Infirmary, wearing my Eighth Army ribbon. I am leaning to one side because of the wound in my other leg. L to R: Top - Peck, Allen, Hunter, Rogers, Underwood Bottom - Broughton, N Fowlis, Turner

Mrs Margaret Jones, from Fairwater, Cardiff. This is one of the ladies who befriended me when I arrived at Cardiff from Dunkirk. She sent me a small Methodist hymn book when I was stationed at Southwold.

The Dochart in Spate, Killin, Scotland. after leaving Dundee Royal Infirmary, I was sent here to recuperate.

Mrs Jones, on the right, with her father and sister.

The Dochart in Spate, Killin, Scotland.

Tea and croquet, Highcliffe, July 1940. Jack Cargill (pictured) and I were invited here by these ladies after Dunkirk. Jack went on to become a methodist minister at Stockton. He was a good pal. I remember during the retreat he opened his mouth too wide to yawn and his jaw locked!

Aug 1944. Auchmore House, Killin, Scotland, after leaving Dundee Royal Infirmary.

As above. The nurses knew we were about to leave so one day called us all out to take snaps.

Highcliffe Castle as it looked in 1940 not long after the war started.

Southwold, England, right on the coast. We were billeted here before D Day in requisitioned private hotels on the edge of the small town.

As above.