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My Grandfather Thomas Joseph West was serving during the second world war.
Unfortunately, he passed away when I was 6 years old, so I was unable to hear all of his war stories first hand.
My Grandfather was a very keen photographer, and I have in my posession a number of photographs taken while he was serving, and there is a bit of information with each picture, so I will describe the events happening in each photograph, from the notes my grandfather jotted down on them...

Photo 3)Maadi in Egypt. 399 transmitter received. Borrowed from the Yanks 1945

Photos 5-7) Embarkation Port Tewfik Egypt 1945.

Photo 8) Sea shore. Japan 1945.

Photo 9) Hiro ((Honshu) Japan.

Photo 10) Hiroshima Railway Station 1945.

Photo 11) Shrine (Shinto) Kyoto

Photo 12) Fire at Kure Barracks 1945 (My Grandfather then wrote that he lost all his kit and photographs in the fire)

Photo 13) Shrine at Miya-Jima 1946

Photo 14) Festival at Hiro (Japan)

Photo 15) U.S.S. Fall river. Kure. 1945

Photo 16) Grace Burns (My Grandmother) 1946. (They met after the war).

Photo 17) My Grandfather.

Photo 18) Kintaihashi bridge (Approx. 1600)

Photo 19) Brian Hereborn (Australia) Roy Davenport (Reddish) Jock Kerr (Glasgow)-In Hiroshima

Photo 20)The aftermath of the barracks fire (Kuri) 1945-see photo 12

Photo 21) Piccadilly Club. Tokyo. (BCOF)

Photo 22) My Grandfather. Kuri. 1946.

Photo 23) Hiroshima 1945. (remains of a small lab. All machines still appeared to be working, despite intense heat)

Photo 24) Monuments in Hiroshima to war dead.

Photo 25) Smudger Smith and my Grandfather in Kuri Barracks 1946.

Photo 26) Cruise around the islands in small outboard Iwakuni.

Photo 27) Traditional dress. Hiro. 1946

Photo 28) Homeward bound! Shanghai. 1947

Photo 29) Shanghai Harbour 1947.

Photo 30) Centre Of Hiroshima 1945.

The Final photograph is my Grandmother Grace Burns (Thomas West's future wife) with her brother Daniel Burns.

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