Submarine on which Dick Sutton served.
Categories: World War II
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Harry Gaskell
Enlisted 24th October 1940. Trained at Bulford. RASC. Driver. Was on board ship heading for Malayaas Singapore fell. Reported missing probably POW but ship had been diverted. Wife received latter from Durban saying safe. Spent war in Ceylon. Mrs Gaskell had to inform War Office that he was safe. Based in Candy in Ceylon. Born 1910. Attended St John’s School. Worked at HL Slaters. Married Ada Thorley. Lived with mother on Lord Street but moved into Fairfield Avenue before the war.
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Joyce Williams, Evacuee
Evacuee from Richmond, Surrey. Evacuated 1944 in face of V2 rockets in London, although had stayed in London through the war. Picked up from East Sheen station and arrived in Macclesfield in afternoon. Taken to rest centre at St Paul’s, then to St john’s in Bollington. Placed with Mary and Frank Mayers, 23 Shrigley Road and stayed for 15 months. March 1945 mother came to collect her. Married in London and had 4 children. Paid some infrequent visits but in 1978 came to the Golden Wedding of Mary and Frank Mayers. Then divorced, she met Len Davenport of 39 Shrigley Road and they marries in 1979. Later moved to Irwell Rise.Len died 1992. Joyce worked for charity, WVS, Youth Club etc.
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Wedding of Len Davenport and Joyce Thrush(nee Williams)
28 April 1979 at Registry Office Park Lane. Joyce had been evacuated from Surrey to Bollington in 1944 and met Len when she returned for the golden wedding of Frank and Mary Mayers in 1977.
