Mollie McDonagh (WRENS) and Ian Millar Garrioch (Scots Guards) wartime stories
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posted on 2024-06-05, 20:00 authored by Their Finest Hour Project TeamMollie McDonagh was from Derry, Northern Ireland. She worked in the civil service in Liverpool before the war. She joined the WRENS and travelled to Wales. Mollie enjoyed the war and prided herself on her mathematical skills, particularly in relation to missile capabilities and specifications.
Ian Millar Garrioch was from Orkney. He was a forestry student in Edinburgh before the war. He joined the Scots Guards and was captured in Anzio. He was a POW in East Germany, working in a cement factory at Stalag 113 XIA. At the end of the war, Ian was picked up by the Americans in a plane.
Ian and Mollie met in London in 1957 and were later married.
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1. Ian Garrioch Campaign Medals 2. Ian Garrioch's Soldier's Release Book 3. Ian Garrioch's Soldier's Service and Pay Books 4. Letter to Ian Garrioch on his return home 5. Photographs of Mollie McDonagh in WRENS 6. Prisoner of War newspaper 7. Soldier's Record Book with POW details pasted in 8. WVS Civil Defence BadgePerson the story/items relate to
Mollie Garrioch (nee McDonagh) and Ian Millar GarriochPerson who shared the story/items
Donna Margaret WoodbyrneRelationship between the subject of the story and its contributor
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Shared at Dumfries Museum, Dumfries and Galloway on 13 May 2023.Record ID
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