Stan and Chris in the war: As described in their letters
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posted on 2024-06-05, 18:11 authored by Their Finest Hour Project TeamStan and Chris were nineteen-year-old lovers in 1939. Stan joined the Navy in May 1941 and they married in August. Stan served for eight months in a destroyer as an Ordinary Seaman before being made a Lieutenant RNVR and joining the 22nd Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla patrolling the North Sea. He was based in Occupied Germany during 1946.
They wrote to each other every day they were apart and 1200 or so letters - from both sides of the correspondence - survived.
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A copy of the edited volume of their lettersPerson the story/items relate to
Stan and Chris Pickard, their wider family and friends, and the officers and men of the 22nd MTB flotillaPerson who shared the story/items
Jeremy PickardRelationship between the subject of the story and its contributor
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