Top: Beryl and Jack Chalkley, Margaret Lewis (Chotie's brother and sisters)
Middle: Beryl, Chotie's father, Margaret and ? with cats and dog at the Hollies
Bottom: Chotie's father, ?, ?, Chotie and Dick with Jack in foreground in 1943.
Dick and Chotie met up for the first time since December
on 7th to 9th August 1943
at Chotie’s home, the Hollies in Parkstone, Poole.
Left: Margaret Lewis and dog, at the Hollies in Parkstone in 1943
Right: Mr William Chalkley and Mrs Elizabeth Chalkley, Chotie's parents
11th August 1943 – the Germans organise an effective retreat from Sicily across the Messina Straits, eventually evacuating 110,000 troops. (From ‘The Second World War’ by Antony Beevor, published by Weidenfield and Nicolson 2012
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