- Contributed byÌý
- actiondesksheffield
- People in story:Ìý
- George Theaker
- Location of story:Ìý
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A6877119
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 11 November 2005
Photograph shows Frank Theaker’s father George Theaker, the soldier on the far left, being transported in a rickshaw by a Zulu in Cape Town, South Africa when on his way to India and on to Burma to serve with General Wingate’s Chindits. George had undergone training in Ireland.
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