Joan & Donald Macey - a wartime romance

• Main Author: Their Finest Hour Project Team
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: British history; European history (excl. British; classical Greek and Roman); International history; Their Finest Hour; World War Two; Air Raid; Armed Forces; Armies; Army; Asia; Asian; BAOR; Battle; Battle of Britain; Battle of Dunkirk; Battle of Europe; Blitz; Bomb; Bombed; Bombing; Bombing raids; Bombs; Britain; British; British Army; British Army of the Rhine; British Empire; British Raj; Burma; Burma Campaign; Burmese; Civilian; Civilians; Commonwealth; Diaries; Diary; Dunkerque; Dunkirk; Empire; England; English; Europe; European; Fire Arm; Firearm; Flight; France; French; German; Lofoten; Macey
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25927735.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Joan_Donald_Macey_-_a_wartime_romance/25927735

My parents met in 1938 at an Army camp in Longworth near Oxford - my mother was volunteering in the camp shop and my father came in to buy some writing paper. These photographs show just how young they were and in 1939 my father was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) being s...