A. E. Stacey
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. Essex Regiment
A. Stacey served with the 2/5th Essex Regiment in WW2. I have very little information about him but in researching my father's war time service and the photo album he created of his time in the war, there is a photo of 5 people at Nathanya, just north of Tel Aviv, Israel in 1941.
The listed people were from a range of units which were 4th RNF, 543rd RASC, D.L.I., 3rd LOC Signals, 2nd/5th Essex (A.E.Stacey). This was in mid 1941 as my father was on detachment in Damour in September which was just after the fall of Damour and Beirut. There is another photo of a George Stacey and I wonder if there is a nickname or a mistake in the initials of the first photo. This photo album I have donated to Brightlingsea Museum and am currently trying to write a precis of the wartime years adding the few anecdotes he imparted to me. I am confused as to why there are so many different units in the same, what looks like a Nissan Hut, in Nathanya. He did say he volunteered for something different and he was appointed to the B1 Special Signals Section and posted to the Middle East, arriving in Cairo in March 1941.
