- Contributed by听
- ShetlandCharlie
- People in story:听
- Charles William Cook, Hughie Crooks, Arnold Batey
- Location of story:听
- Lerwick, Shetland
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A3280619
- Contributed on:听
- 15 November 2004
As a youngster I was fascinated by my father's stories of life in the Shetland Isles during WW2. As with many other things in life, it is only since he has died that I wish I had asked more detailed questions and taken a keener interest in the things he did say.
Father was called up in 1942 and was eventually posted to the Royal Army Ordance Corps detachment based in a camp at Gremista, Lerwick, Shetland. He was demobbed in 1945.
I visited Shetland in 2000, but found there was nothing left of the camp. I also scoured the local museums and library and have since written to local newspapers and societies, but without tracing any photographs or anyone who served at the same time as my father.
I would love to see photographs of the camp and hear recollections of others who were there. It would fill a large hole in the information I have about my family's involvement in WW2.
Other names I remember being mentioned are Hughie Crooks and Arnold Batey.
If anyone has any memories of this camp and the RAOC involvement in particular I would be very pleased to hear from them.
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