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My Uncles Stanley and Donald Thomson, the two on the outside of the group I don't have names for but suspect they may be their cousins.
Uncle Donald (second right) was called to war service and crossed the Firth on his 21st birthday, you can imagine the worry the family felt as he had been named after his uncle who gave his life in WW1. Donald saw service in many places much of it in heavy fighting and survived. After demob he joined the Customs and Excise Service and was for a time based in Stronsay and later in Kirkwall where he worked for the rest of an all too short life, Donald died from cancer at I think only 54 years of age.
Stanley (second left) worked at Lyness throughout the war and later with Arthur Nundy on salvage work in Scapa Flow, and later was employed on the Hoy Head serving the South Isles. Stanley is also now dead a number of years.
Does anyone know who the other two young men are ??.
There is strong evidence of Mither wae her "sellotape" on the edges o the photo!!.
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Picture added on 09 May 2011 at 16:27
Hoy and Walls
