Harry Woolacott’s letters to his family

Here are the two letters I have found.

One is written in 1940, before Dad was called up, when Mum had gone to stay with Auntie Peg, Dad’s sister and Terry’s Mother, In Leamington Spa.  That’s when she went to get away from the bombs in Southampton and arrived just in time to see Coventry going up in flames.

Letter from Harry Woolacott 26.08.40 p1

The other was written to my grandparents in September 1944 when Dad seems to have heard the War will soon be over, from his ship HMS Kilmacolm:

Letter from Harry Woolacott 3.09.44 p1

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