posted on 2024-06-05, 18:14authored byTheir Finest Hour Project Team
My great uncle Ern was in the Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment in action in Europe after D-Day. He wrote these letters to my father and his brother who were staying in a small farm cottage in Eaton Hastings, now Oxfordshire. My father remembers the American troops giving him chewing gum near the Coleshill Estate, and land girls working on the farm.
History
Item list and details
Letters and Christmas card sent by Ernest
Person the story/items relate to
Ernest Creighton
Maurice Hyde
Person who shared the story/items
Marcia Blackman
Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor
Maurice is my father. Ernest was his uncle.
Type of submission
Shared online via the Their Finest Hour project website.