236618 Frederick Henry "Blackie" Stockwell Air Raid Protection Cx Postal 548-E from:Isle of Dogs Fred Stockwell was my granddad, my mother's father by adoption. However his brother John was my other granddad, my Dad's father. So my mother was adopted by my Dad's uncle. There is a photo of Fred in his air raid warden's uniform on the back of Island at War by Eve Hostettler. He was also a lighterman on the Thames. My mother always told a story about him disappearing for a week and nobody, including his wife knew where he had got to. He reappeared and went straight to bed and never said a word about where he had been to his wife. Weeks later his wife found out he had taken all his barges which I presume were towed back and forth over the channel to evacuate the soldiers stranded at Dunkirk.
I hope you can use this little bit of my family history. As you can imagine I'm very proud of what Fred did.
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