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Professional fusser-overer of ancient monuments, almost guaranteed to have twigs in my hair… Views are my own.
Sep 22, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
My husband has been reading the war diaries of his great-uncle’s regiment and has finally found out the details of how the man our eldest is named after died, aged just 28. #thread #ww2 #familyhistory #militaryhistory 1/11 He was a pilot in the Air Observation Post, based on Italy during 1944 and flying a tiny Auster aircraft - lightweight and highly manoeuvrable but with little to no protection. 2/11