posted on 2024-06-05, 18:17authored byTheir Finest Hour Project Team
My father was a pilot who was training in Rhodesia. He qualified just before the war ended and therefore didn't see active service. I have quite a few photos of his time out there in the RAF. He was very sporty and played a lot of football during his lifetime and whilst in Rhodesia. After his death, we found a beautiful hand-drawn poster of a football match between an RAF team and a prisoner of war team. It's unusual because the date on the poster is 9th April 1947. I'm sure my father had been de-mobbed by then and started his banking career. He was a prolific goal scorer so we can only presume he was asked to join the team. We never saw the poster during his lifetime and he never spoke of it.
History
Item list and details
A photograph of the poster
Person the story/items relate to
Denys Daniel O'Brien
Person who shared the story/items
Sue Hill
Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor
He was my father
Type of submission
Shared online via the Their Finest Hour project website.