Blitz Kids (2012)
“He received a commendation for his brave conduct in the Merchant Navy. He later credited his traumatic childhood experiences with giving him the mental strength to successfully battle against cancer.
Peter Richards Former telegram delivery boy Peter (photographed in 2009) with the copy of the Selected Works of Karl Marx that he carried inside his tunic whilst serving as an infantryman in Normandy, 1944. The cover still carries the scar where it was hit by shrapnel.
Whilst working as a... telegram boy in wartime London, he wore motorcycle gauntlets with the communist slogan ‘Second front, Now’ painted on them. After the war he returned to the Post Office and remained a loyal member of the Communist Party throughout the post-war years, only leaving the party in the 1990s.
John Cotter DFC John (photographed in 2009) joined the RAF aged seventeen after a friend told him that he would be able to get sweets and cakes in the NAAFI.MoreLess
Peter Richards Former telegram delivery boy Peter (photographed in 2009) with the copy of the Selected Works of Karl Marx that he carried inside his tunic whilst serving as an infantryman in Normandy, 1944. The cover still carries the scar where it was hit by shrapnel.
Whilst working as a... telegram boy in wartime London, he wore motorcycle gauntlets with the communist slogan ‘Second front, Now’ painted on them. After the war he returned to the Post Office and remained a loyal member of the Communist Party throughout the post-war years, only leaving the party in the 1990s.
John Cotter DFC John (photographed in 2009) joined the RAF aged seventeen after a friend told him that he would be able to get sweets and cakes in the NAAFI.MoreLess
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