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Eric and Ivor Neale. Eric Neale joined the 2nd Battalion of the Northamptonshires in 1943. He served in the Italian campaign until the fall of Rome. Following Rome he went on to the Middle East and was in action in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine (Israel) and then returned to Italy moving on to Marseille and then into Germany until the end of the war. Ivor Neale served in the Sunderland Squadron in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where he was one of the earliest radar mechanics working on the Shorts Seaplanes manufactured in Rochester, Kent.
Cyril Whitehead. Cyril served as an Infantryman in Egypt at the end of the North African Campaign and was then engaged in action in the mountainous region of Northern Italy in 1943. He was promoted to Corporal and stationed in Austria until the end of World War II in 1945.
Mike Revitt, Clive Barnett, Albert Howarth and his daughter Rita Childs. Mike was in the Navy operating on North Sea Atlantic Convoys from the beginning of the Second World War. He was later in Singapore on a cruiser, which was bombed and hit by the Japanese. The cruiser limped on and managed to reach safety in the USA. Clive was a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm operating mainly in the East Indies and Burma. He spent the last two years of the Second World War in Burma piloting Seafires and Helcats. Albert was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Singapore where he was a Prisoner of War for three and a half years.
John Kent. John joined the Royal Air Force in July 1941 and undertook wireless and radar operational procedures training at Manchester University and other colleges before joining Fighter Command 9 and 13 Groups commissioning VHF operational communication with air to ground radio. He was with the Spitfire ground crew and undertook Night Fighters operational service and maintenance in North Africa, Sicily and France up to 1944. John was then stationed in Burma in the Far East and was the RAF, NCO representative in Madras, India. He was finally demobbed in July 1946 but suffered with bouts of malaria on a monthly basis until 1957.
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