WW2 – Fraggle's Otherverse

D-Day

June 6, 2020Posted in France, Fuji X100F, History, Personal History, Photography, travel, UncategorizedTagged Arromanches, D-Day, Fraggle, France, Fujifilm X100F, History, Mont-Saint-Michel, travel, WW216 Comments

Today is 6th June and 76 years ago the D~Day landings happened, and it is seen as the beginning of the end of WW2. Back in May last year Phil and I went to France and as well as Mont Saint Michel and Conde, we visited some of the places, museums and cemeteries around the Normandy Beaches. Whilst I’ve been off work die to the Corona thing, I’ve been compiling a book of our travels there, and got it finished this week. I’ve uploaded the PDF version here. A couple of the pages are double spread pictures which get broken up for single page viewing, but the rest are OK. Feel free to have a scroll through!

Click to access france2019.pdf

Day 359

December 24, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, Christmas, FujiX-T2, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, Christmas, day359, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, History, WW221 Comments

Phil has got all his Mum’s wartime correspondence, a great treasure. His Mum Ethel, her sisters Maureen and Betty, went off to Aldershot to work in the N.A.A.F.I and later Ethel did her nurse training and became a Sister in the Queen Alexander Royal Army Nursing Corps. Betty met her husband Walter, a Canadian, while working in Aldershot, and they got married and ended up in Canada after the war. In 1944 Walter was on his way to Italy, and sent Sister Ethel a Christmas Airmail, which Phil still has. 🙂

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