Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Sitting on the shelf in my studio are four stamp albums. Three of them belonged to my Dad and the other belongs to Helen. He gave her these albums and I have them all for safekeeping. The post’s called loose leaves because in Dad’s ‘swops and to be included’ album are a few Kenyan stamps... Continue Reading →
When we were in Iceland in 2013 we couldn't find any mention of the cargo vessel Sonja Maersk running aground in Reykjavik Bay. I had a picture of it which my father had taken but there was no indication on the harbour display. You can see the pictures in Alfred Fox, Iceland 1940-42, first connections. It's a... Continue Reading →
Once I got back home to South Africa there were still a few puzzles about Dad's time in Iceland that were left to be solved. They have nagged at me for quite a while and it's only now I've resolved them that I have been able to put these posts together. The first one: where... Continue Reading →
The big problem with trying to follow Dad’s footsteps in Iceland is that I really had no idea where he had been. I had plenty of pictures of him outside Nissen huts in the snow, with his leg in plaster, on a motorbike etc but usually no clue as to where the snaps were taken. ... Continue Reading →
Dad's regiment in World War Two was the 1st/6th Duke of Wellington's (the Dukes) which was based in Skipton. He had a tough time during the war since they were part of the rearguard defending the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk and then saw action in Normandy in 1944. In between times the Dukes sailed... Continue Reading →
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