WW2 for the Bell family

The story begins with information shared with me some time after my father had a stroke early 1990s. A photo I had never seen as well as documents and photos I had seen were shown to me by my father. The story started with a 1937 photo of my grandfather Mark my father Sam aged 14 and his brother Robert. My father told me his mum had died 1932 of TB and his father brought 5 of the 8 children up with some help from his oldest daughters while working as a pit sinker travelling the coal mines of Northumberland and Durham. Dad's brother Thomas, who took the photo, was killed in 1941 when HMS Kelly... Mehr ...