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Albert Butler's Service in North Africa

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posted on 2024-06-05, 20:04 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

My step-grandfather, Albert Guy Butler, was born in London and worked in the docks. The contributor says that they were told that Albert signed up before he was of age to serve. Albert served in the Desert Rats in North Africa, and carried the objects that the contributor has brought in back from the war. The drawing of Albert that the contributor has brought in was done by a fellow soldier.

Albert had to wear very thick black glasses, but he didn't, and as a result gradually lost his eyesight. After the war, Albert worked in the HW Wills Tobacco factory (the contributor wasn't sure exactly when) in Glasgow and married Granny.

Granny was woken up when a blitz happened over the Clyde. Granny was sent from Glasgow to Ayrshire as evacuee.

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1 - Bells from North Africa, one made of shell and bullet 2 - Drawing and photo of Albert Butler 3 - Story written about experience of evacuation

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Albert Guy Butler

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Karen Brown Bowman

Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor

Contributor is Albert's step-granddaughter

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Shared at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh on 25 November 2023.

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108860 | EDI020

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