To mark VE Day, we asked for your family stories about WW2. Here are a selection of photos and memories sent in by parents.
From Jenny, mother of Jasmine W in Year 7.
“This is a photo of Leonard James Lancelot Fennell. His rank in the army was a Quarter Master hence he was known to all as ‘Q’. Jasmine is his great granddaughter.
“Grandad was a Quarter Master with King George VI Royal Horse Artillery, otherwise known as The King’s Troop. He was serving in Egypt before WW2. In 1940, The King’s Troop became part of the British Expeditionary force, in France.
“When the French surrendered at St Valery, Grandad was captured and marched to Poland to be incarcerated in Stagluft 3C, prisoner of war camp, for the remainder of the war, until VE day when they returned to freedom.
“During his time as a POW, grandad received telegrams from his family one of which is shown here, from his father (Pop), informing my grandad of his sister’s death and siblings’ health.”
Victoria, mother of Seren and Gwyneth N, sent us these remarkable photos and stories about their relatives.
George Hughes (great grandfather) – Earl of Carrick’s own Ayrshire Yeomanry 151st regiment field artillery.
Victoria, mother of Seren and Gwyneth N, sent us these remarkable photos and stories about their relatives.
George Hughes (great grandfather) – Earl of Carrick’s own Ayrshire Yeomanry 151st regiment field artillery.
Arnold Ernest Davies – 1922-1942 (great uncle). He was training for night flying up in Lossiemouth Scotland which is where he was stationed. The plane crashed into a golf course due to an engine failure and he was killed. Three of the crew survived. Rank Sergeant (RAF volunteer reserve) Navigator in the 20 operational training unit bomber command.
Lisa, mother of Molly T in Year 11 and Daisy T in Year 9, sent us this lovely photo of her grandparents during the Second World War. Her grandad was in the Army Medical Corps and spent time in Burma. Her grandma was a nurse.
This is Charles Long, Immy P’s great-great grandfather. He spent the whole of WW2 in the Royal Navy, serving as an Engineer on a number of ships all over the world including China, the Mediterranean, and the Baltic sea.
In 1942 he took part in the Arctic Convoys transporting supplies through conditions described by Winston Churchill as “the worst journey in the world”. In May of that year his ship, HMS Edinburgh, was torpedoed and sunk in freezing waters. Charles survived to serve the rest of the war on other ships.
