Lt J.O.Alexander
The legacy of two badly broken legs in 1937 (after being run over by a wheat-laden wagon) did not keep my grandfather out of WWII. A doctor in Queensland in 1944 looked at some X-rays of J.O.'s legs and found it hard to believe that he'd ever been allowed into the army. The doctor brother-in-law may have known something. The truth of the matter remains a mystery.
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Cpt Dr W.J.Hull
This is a war story I know little of.
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Some great-uncles volunteering.
Uncle Wal served very briefly in WWI. Uncle Victor was a bit too young. They lived well inland in the the Riverina region of NSW, Australia. No buzzbomb ever disturbed their slumbers, as far as I can tell.
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I have mentioned this elsewhere but this entry from the flying log of Flying Officer W.J.Henderson always intrigues me.
'Oct 31 1944. Day ops -- Gestapo HQ at Aaarhuspa, Denmark -- Refuelled at Swanton Morley before & after. Light and medium flak D.C.O.' This mission was flown in a Mosquito (of RAAF squadron 464). The navigator was W/O Jack Hawke. |
 My grandfather's hand. |