A Londoner in the 51st Highland Division: Jack Drinkall’s Story by Mike Drinkall
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Overview: A true story of a volunteer WW2 soldier Jack Drinkall written as a tribute by his son. The story begins at the time of Jack’s birth in Southwark, London in 1919. With the aid of family knowledge, digging deep into local archives and including many photographic images the author describes his father’s early life growing up Southwark, London in the 1920s and 1930s. He deals with the economic and the struggles the family faced with sensitivity. Although school days were not his happiest times Jack didn’t lack ambition and joined an acting school – Italia Conti Academy Theatre Arts Training School. But war intervened.
Jack’s war experiences were collated from his personal recollections, army records, letters, archive material and published and unpublished sources. The main part of the story is the action he was involved in France in 1940.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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