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My great uncle (Joseph Smith) and aunt (Rosina Gertrude Checkley) ran the pub "The Wheatsheaf" during WWII. When my mother's (Jean May Ray) house on 2 Bk/42 Whitmore Street got bombed during the Blitz of WWII (November 1940), she and her parents (Edward John Ray and Violet Checkley) were staying...
My great uncle (Joseph Smith) and aunt (Rosina Gertrude Checkley) ran the pub "The Wheatsheaf" during WWII. When my mother's (Jean May Ray) house on 2 Bk/42 Whitmore Street got bombed during the Blitz of WWII (November 1940), she and her parents (Edward John Ray and Violet Checkley) were staying...
Private Edward John Ray (46267) with his family - 2nd and later 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. He is my great granddad.
Left to right are: Private Edward John Ray, Jack Ray (son), Albert Ray (son), Edward John Ray (son), Ellen Ray (wife; nee Grainger) and in mid center front Lilly Ray...