Wallet, photograph and story

Wallet, photograph and story

John Casey's wallet salvaged from a Stirling that he bailed out of near Normanton-on-Trent while training on 29 July 1944. Photograph of Rose who was an Irish woman who lived in the same digs as John Casey in Birmingham in 1941.

1944-07-29

One leather wallet, one photograph and one page document.

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This photo along with the wallet was salvaged from the Stirling we bailed out of. Five of us bailed out, five lost their lives. St crashed at Normanton- on- Trent; on the 29-7-1944. Sat night at 6.45.
Rose was an Irish nurse at Selly Oak Hospital. She lived in the same digs as me in Birmingham 1941
R Kearemy
8.11.41