Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website



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Donald Harris

Bevin Boy

My brother-in-law, Donald Harris, was born 9 February 1926 at Stockwell and educated at the Farningham Home for Boys, Kent. Don was called up for Service in December 1943 but was balloted into the Bevin Coal Mining Scheme. After training at Chesterfield he worked at the Newstead Colliery. After a few months he was injured in a hauling accident underground and spent the best part of two years having treatment and skin grafts to his right hand at Mansfield Hospital. He recovered sufficiently to be employed again at the mine but in the telephone exchange underground. After the war he returned to live with family in Battersea. Donald passed away at Wimbledon on 14th September 2009. He never married.



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