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Robert Derbyshire
Robert Derbyshire
Photo: Bernard Derbyshire
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Item #: 12473
Wartime picture, (no ships name on hat band) of Robert Derbyshire, Not sure where the picture was taken or what year.

Comment by: ol gal on 9th November 2009 at 01:02

No more than a child, all his life in front of him but willing to sacrifice it for his country, so brave for such a young man

Comment by: Keith on 9th November 2009 at 09:21

This must be the image that has stuck in my mind for the last 65 years, the picture of Kenneth Guy in exactly this uniform (aged 20) happily walking down Clarington Grove to see his then girlfriend Annie Brown (my mother's sister). Ken died a month later when his ship the frigate HMS Mourne was torpedoed in the Channel on June 15th 1944, by a German submarine with the loss of over 100 lives.

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