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Ashton, Cyril Carlton of South Yardley

H.M.S. Courageous, an aircraft carrier, was torpedoed just off the coast of Ireland on 17th September 1939 just 3 days prior to this picture being taken.
 
He was quite possibly in shock/trauma at the time of the photo then. The very sad thing is that I believe not many survived Courageous (over 500 lives lost) and he’d have been back in action around a week later. So I do hope he survived the War. Viv.
 
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