The Orkney Image Library
No: 23429 Contributor: Bill Miller Year: 2010
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One of the numerous message boys who took supplies to the herring drifters during the herring fishing season in Stronsay.
Picture added on 16 February 2010 at 22:58
my uncle jim, dads brother, lost at sea 1941, the son of my lovely granny flo, good to see a picture i had not seen before. Jennifer
Added by Jennifer Rowley on 03 March 2010
Jennifer, could you please take a look at photo 17333 in case the Davy Chalmers in photo is related to you? He seems to have been a friend of my Maxwell forebears in Kirkwall but I don`t know any more.
Added by Clare on 15 March 2010
This actually is a photo of my great uncle Jim,son of David Hulme Chalmers and Janet Cormack Slater (frae Sanday ).They lived at the Storehouse Whitehall. Jim was killed when his ship hit a mine on his twenty seventh birthday on the 3rd August 1944, he was serving the minesweeper HMS Gairsay
Added by James Taylor on 25 November 2011
Hi James yes Bill Miller corrected me, my uncle was also lost at sea at a young age,in, 1941, he also had connections with Whitehall Stronsay. My mistake.
Added by Jennifer Rowley nee Chalmers on 26 November 2011
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