Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Henry Chantler

Air Raid Protection

from:Liverpool

I’ve been finding out bits and pieces about my Granddad's Military Service. Harry Chantler started out in the Liverpool Regiment then the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and finally the Machine Gun Corps. I only know bits of family history. I know he was shot, got shrapnel in his eye and couldn’t eat greasy food because of effects of gas. He was invalided out at some point and sent to Scotland where he learned how to embroider but he went back.

He was a very funny, nice and humorous person, always telling jokes and liked to watch boxing matches, always had minty sweets in his pockets for us all when he visited us. He wasn’t very tall, probably about 5”7 something like that.

In WW2 he was an Air Raid Protection. I’ve some photos of a couple of soldiers, I presume were friends, but I don’t know who they are. None of him in uniform. I don’t know where he fought and I’d like to find out and maybe visit to pay respects. He had a little cry in front of the telly every Armistice Sunday, I think he lost quite a few friends.



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