My father's Second World War photo album

My father, Bernard Victor Coldwell, served with 165 W/T Section, he was a radio operator in the Army. They served in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. They called their radio truck Alice. He was a keen photographer and documented his time in the Army in a photo album. The photo album starts in 1940, and then jumps to 1944, but I'm not sure what he was doing between these years. In October 1944 he was in Holland, with 165 W/T Section. I believe he developed the photos himself, he had a dark room in the loft. My father was at Luneburg Heath at the time of the surrender. We believe he passed... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Their Finest Hour Project Team
Dokumenttyp: Text
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Schlagwörter: British history / European history (excl. British / classical Greek and Roman) / International history / Their Finest Hour / World War Two / Aeroplane / Aircraft / Airplane / Armed Forces / Armies / Army / Australia / Australian / Belgian / Belgium / British Empire / Commonwealth / Dutch / Empire / Ensign / Europe / European / Flag / France / French / German / Germany / Holland / Letter / Letters / Military / Naval / Navy / Netherlands / North West Europe / Photo / Photograph / Photographs / Photos / Plane / Standard / The Netherlands
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My father, Bernard Victor Coldwell, served with 165 W/T Section, he was a radio operator in the Army. They served in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. They called their radio truck Alice. He was a keen photographer and documented his time in the Army in a photo album. The photo album starts in 1940, and then jumps to 1944, but I'm not sure what he was doing between these years. In October 1944 he was in Holland, with 165 W/T Section. I believe he developed the photos himself, he had a dark room in the loft. My father was at Luneburg Heath at the time of the surrender. We believe he passed his camera to a more senior colleague who was present when the surrender was signed, and they took that particular photo. The album also includes pictures of Field Marshal Montgomery. My dad's radio truck took the radio message about the surrender, and he retrieved a copy from the bin. He didn't really speak much about his time in the Army, he never spoke about being in action.