Holy Island in World War II
From the Yorkshire Post. Describes how the Islanders are providing men for the Services. Home Guard members, some of them fishermen, Corp. Tough; Corp. G. Yetts, Jimmy Clinch; William Wilson; lifeboat coxswain John Markwell; George Allison. Only casualty so far among servicemen is Chief Stoker Walker; died on HMS Hood. Also mentions Dick Douglas and Thomas Kyle. Section on the continuation of the Island as a destination for holidaymakers and pilgrims,
Date of creation
1 July 1942Date of coverage
1942Place
Holy Island, NorthumberlandCopyright
DepositorReference number
HOL/040/011Storage location
Holy Island Reading RoomFormat
Newspapers clippings (94)
Subject
Fishermen (31)
Life on Holy Island (172)
Lifeboats (153)
World War II (11)
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