The photograph shows Michael's father, John Few, who was in the Royal Signals, sitting on some stone steps with a large group of children aged between around two to seven years.
Michael thinks that his father's duties may have included acting as a caretaker at a school in Katapahar, and is keen to learn more. If you can throw further light on the photograph, please e-mail TACA. Incidentally, all my mother's family were Roman Catholics. In , my mother and her children were evacuated to South Africa; my father stayed in Egypt. We were all reunited after World War II. I have five sisters, including: Valerie, born near Cairo, Egypt ; Leonora, born in Palestine ; and Christine, born in Alexandria, Egypt ; the last two were born in the UK.
We returned to the UK in After docking in Liverpool, we stayed in a hostel on Lime Street Station in transit. After that, we were sent to the Isle of Sheppey in transit. We married in Singapore in and we had four children. My birth certificate and marriage certificate are both army forms.
We have been living in Altea, Spain, since my husband's retirement in He enlisted in , as a starving miner, after the General Strike. He served in Palestine and India where my sister, Brenda, was born in Poona, in ; Alan, my brother, was born in He rose to be a lance sergeant in the Warwicks' signal platoon heliographs and semaphore, a few new-fangled radio sets? He was severely injured at the start of World War II, but was kept on as 'medically downgraded' in extra-regimental work, away from his beloved regiment, until, eventually !
I was born in Taunton in November I remember Northern Ireland vividly, where we lived in the country, near Carrickfergus. There were no married quarters there, so the family β Mum and three kids β lived up a ladder in a farm barn.
