L/A/C Lidster and Miss M. Fitch The wedding took place at St Luke’s Church on Saturday, August 30, of L/A/C Harold Lidster, R.A.F., eldest son of Mr and Mrs Lidster. of Rugby, and Miss Margaret Fitch eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Fitch of 13 Clarence Rad, Bickley. Canon Hassard Short, Vicar, officiate. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of ivory ninon with a long veil held in place by a pearl head-dress. Her bouquet was of pale pink roses and white heather. The…
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The Lock Brothers
Here the Bromley & District Times celebrated another band of brothers who served on the Front Line during WW2. Their mother, already a widow, must have been beside herself with worry that she may lose them all to this awful war! Three members of the Lock family, late of Bickey, are now of 36 Saxon Road, Bromley, are serving in H.M. Forces. They are sons of Mrs. and the late Mr. Lock William Lock, aged 26, is serving with the Queen’s Royal Regiment. He formerly worked for ten years as a…
Private Patrick Joseph Reynolds, Bickley
Private Patrick Joseph Reynolds of the Royal West Kent Regiment, was reported as missing in the Bromley & District Times newspaper in 19th July 1940. After this report it transpires that he became as prisoner of war and was reported as having died 14 months later in October 1941. Private P. J. Reynolds Private Patrick J. Reynolds of the Royal West Kent Regiment, second son of Mr & Mrs J.P. Reynolds of Bickley Crescent, Bickley, has been officially reported missing since May 20th by the War Office. He first joined…