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Pte. James McColl
British Army Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Hounslow
My grandfather James McColl married my grandmother while he was stationed at the Albany Barracks on the Isle of Wight. She was a local girl.
They moved to the mainland and my grandmother had four children.
Then Grandad was captured when the 51st Highland Division surrendered at St Valerie during the Dunkirk evacuation.
Nan managed during the war with being bombed out and evacuating to Scotland to stay with granddad's famiy.
When granddad was released he stayed for a while in St Peters Hospital Chertsey and then went home. He could not settle down although Nan had two more children.
He left the family again but this time for good. I met him briefly when he was in a retirement home for soldiers when I was at college near where he was living. This was about 35 years ago.