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My father’s Army Service September 2, 1939 to October 9, 1939 - Part 1
By
Eileen Daisy Walmsley

My dad was only in the army for a few weeks as shown in his discharge papers.
Hardy Pick the company for whom he had worked, before he enlisted in the army, wanted him back for the essential war work that he did for them.

I was only seven at the time that he had enlisted, and I can remember plainly standing at the end of the passage, as he was going down the road, crying my eyes out. I didn’t want him to go.

He was sent to Bridlington and mum took us there to see him, hence the photograph with buckets and spades.

I wrote the note to him while he was away, my eldest sister was Beryl, and my youngest sister was Marjorie, dad kept this note in his wallet all his life. It is a bit fragile now.

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