Three WW2 photos next shared by Penny Robertson. Her father William Sprott taught flying during WW2 for the RAF and is pictured in the first photo at a desk. There is a publication called “Australians at War” and this photograph is featured in a chapter on the Empire Training Scheme. W.Sprott (aged 22) who was […]
“Bomb Girls” is a book which tells the intimate and unforgettable personal stories of a group of women whose hard work and quiet courage helped Britain win WW2. They are the unsung heroines of WW2, the wives, mothers and teenage girls who worked in munitions factories to make explosives, shells, bullets and bombs. One such […]
My friend Alex Rochead has been looking at the lives WW2 soldiers who are buried in Blantyre Cemeteries. Men who fought and died for the freedom we have today. James Brown Fowler (service no. R/136319) was born on 8th February 1911 in Bothwell. His parents Joseph Fowler and Mary Brown who lived at Cemetery Walk […]
World War II followed which must have seen a slow down in local work. Upon the outbreak of war, many of the county’s housing construction projects were shelved indefinitely. Craters to the North of Crossbasket were subject to local rumours that the Nazi German Luftwaffe had tried to bomb the Castle on their route […]
This extract is taken fro the 1940’s from a Blantyre Gazette. I’ve transcribed it out here listing out the brave Blantyre heroes who had died in WW2 up until that point when it was published. Its hoped people will remember some of these name, or were related to them. Royal Navy I.T Robert Hendry, 24 […]
The Hamilton Advertiser of 13th May 1942 told of how a few local men were saved from a sunken ship in WW2. Thank you to Wilma Bolton for sharing here. “LETTERS were received on Wednesday conveying the glad tidings that, after some weeks on anxiety, three local young men who were on the cruiser “Edinburgh” when […]
Occasionally, I read about organisations that were short lived in Blantyre, or set up specifically for a cause during a short time. One such example of this was during WW2, when a women’s group was formed in Blantyre for the purposes of assisting with war efforts. I absolutely must include such commendable wartime actions […]