248268 Walter Reginald Wightman ARP from:Leicester My father, Reg Wightman was on the HMHS Letitia during WW1. He was in France to begin with but must then have been transferred to the ship. He finished the war in Thesselonica.
I have pictures of the Letitia. My father's barbers shop, the stage of the sports club 'after well' deck 1916, the ship docked in Alexandria with some of the crew swimming and men relaxing on deck. I have been trying to find out what the ship actually did. My father had postcards of Constantinople, the Dardenelles and Alexandria. He was obviously fond of the ship as he named two of the houses he lived in Letitia.
As I was a young child in WW2 and only saw my father in ARP uniform I didn't really question what he did in the Army. His records were destroyed and I only became interested when it was too late to ask.
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