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Lost Photos - WW2
with information
original photographs are not my property and are not
available 102 ULSTER HEAVY
REGT -
F. Blok,
Schiedam - ARP Holywood
and District - A.T.S.
- Sailors Galore
- ?
- Anti-Gas War Course - John
Lindsay - Ormeau Bakery Home Guard -
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176 BATTERY
RA 102 ULSTER HEAVY REGT. ROYAL ARTILLERY
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F.
Blok
 
F. Blok, Schiedam, 5th February 1941 Belfast
any ideas what this inscription means, I know Blok is a Dutch name and
Schiedam is a place in the Netherlands?
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ARP Air Raid Precautions - Holywood and District -
Casualty Service 1944 - on back - photograph taken at Sullivan
School, Holywood
Top Row: Miss A. Taverner
Miss J. Stevenson A. Evans L. S.
Phillips Miss M. Robson Miss M.
Shannon Mrs. E. Blunden Miss E. R.
Wilson Miss O. V. Wylie Miss M. McKay
Miss J. Smeltzer J. N. Meneely R. Brennan W. C.
Galway J. White R. T. Maxwell H.
Stevenson B. M. Savage Miss K. Boyd
Miss D. Boyd Miss B. Beggs J. J. Duffy
Third Row: Miss M. Gordon
Miss L. Crawford W. Wallace Mrs. H.
Shannon Miss M. Rowe Mrs. W. Morrison
Mrs. W. Robson C. P. McCullough Mrs. J.
McClelland T. Collins S. Gault R.
McWilliams
Miss S. M. McCarthy Miss S. Gracey Mrs. M. E. G.
Bingham Miss A. Graham Miss B.
Franklin Miss E. M. Wilson Miss D.
Thomas Miss E. Millar Mrs. W. Millar
L. Harris
Second Row: Miss F. M. Heyn
Mrs. O. Morley Mrs. L. S. Phillips Mrs. W. J.
Henderson Mrs. L. McKelvey Mrs. T.
Matthews Mrs. A. J. Haslett Mrs. M.
Johnston Miss E. Geddis Miss D. C. Lowry
Mrs. J. McMurray Miss A. Edgar Miss J.
Shaw J. B. Cowan A. E. Barker Miss G.
D'R. Carr A. B. Manning F. Ballagh
Mrs. W. W. Palmer Mrs. T. H. Barrett J.
Conkey W. Stevenson
Front Row: Miss M. Crawford
Mrs. W. A. Bigger J. H. Curphey F. A.
Robinson Mrs. C. L. Gaussen Miss O. K.
Neill Miss K. T. Neill Miss A.
Drennan J. H. McKay Dr. H. L. Donnan
Miss M. E. Boyd
Miss M. T. McAleese Mrs. G. D'R. Carr K. R.
Dunlop H. Shannon Mrs. D. A. Tait
Mrs. E. M. Mawhinney Mrs. H. C. Randal Wm. Millar
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A.T.S.
newspaper clippings, Belfast News Letter 1941, sketching and USA shoe
token, all found together at auction
  
Mrs. Jean Knox, youthful Chief Controller of the
A.T.S., who arrived un Northern Ireland yesterday, inspecting a guard of
honour formed by members of the Service at a reception depot.
 
signed
Gracey U.S.A. Shoe Purchase Certificate G. M. Godfrey, A.T.S., W/93765 Rank:
W.O.II (CSM)
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Can anyone identify what ship these men would have been
serving on?
This
was possibly taken in
Portsmouth
or
Southampton
at the time out he outbreak of WW1. The small sallow skinned man
seven from the left is James Patrick McCann born Randalstown Co Antrim
1888 died 3 November 1940 on the HMS Patroclus. He was my
father’s uncle (my grandfather’s brother). There were four boys
and one girl in the family and their mother had died young and their
father either couldn’t or wouldn’t look after them so the family was
split up. James tried to enlist in the navy in 1900 when he was 12
but was too young. In 1903 (aged 15) he stole my grandfather’s
baptism certificate and somehow made his way to Portsmouth where he
enlisted under my grandfather’s name giving his age as 18. He
served in WW1 including the Battle of Jutland. In 1920 he joined
the RNFR and went to work on passenger liners. At the beginning of
WW2 he re-enlisted and because of his age (51) he was offered a desk job
but asked to go back on the boats. He was lost on the HMS
Patroclus. My grandfather received £2 10 shillings compensation.
- Seamus McCann
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on back R.A.C.K. third Row L to R 4th framed by
John Gilbert, 120 Patrick Street, Cork
on back 46 (F) lqdw/2/38 Boots Picture Framing
Department
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No. 45 Anti-Gas War Course -
- framed by Edward Walker & Co., Coleraine
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John Lindsay M.V. "Empire
Attendant"
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Ormeau Bakery Unit - Ulster
Home Guard
Sitting: Sgt.
Bittles - Sgt. Ruddell - Sgt. McCullough - P./Sgt. Magill - P./Sgt. Kinnin -
Lt. Montgomery - Lt. Burrows - Capt. McCaw - Lt. Quigley - Lt. McCartney -
P./Sgt. Dodds - Q.M.Sgt. Stephens - Sgt. Coils - Sgt. Neill - Sgt. Mollan
First Row (Standing):
Cpls. McDowell - Dickson - Hartley - Maxwell - Vols. Herd - Stoops - Storey
- Doherty - Morrow - Cousins - McBride - Adams - Maxwell - Swindell -
Stephens - Cpl. McConnell - Vol. Wright.
Second Row (standing):
Vols. Saunderson - Johnston - Harris - Wigston - McKee - McNeice - Scott -
McCracken - Sloan - McComiskey - Frazer - Forsythe - Bingham - Hutchinson -
McKittrick - Elliott
Third Row (standing):
Vols. Irvine - Brown - Davidson - Stewart - Shilliday - Armstrong - Hall -
Allen - Lepp - Coburn - Murray - Alexander - Anderson - Farmer - Mateer
Top Row: Vols.
Currie - Daly - Pearson - McDowell - Baxter - Simpson - McConnell - Anderson
- Tedford - Farr - McCoubrey - McHenry - Brelsford - English - Singleton
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