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Post recruitment. During the war Mary worked as a teleprinter operator for the ATS, moving to France with the Americans SHAEF in 1944. She was amongst the first lot of women to go to Paris after the Germans left.

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Mary Tootill was a member of the bakery family who lived on Church Street, Mytholmroyd. Her brother was Slater Toothill who served in WWI. She died in 1953. See also ALC00690

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Edith was born at 40 King Street, Hebden Bridge on 6th May 1920 and died in Halifax in 2003. Edith and her brother Maurice both joined the army soon after the start of WW2 and, like many other people at that time, had their photographs taken at Aliceā€¦

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Possibly Private Herman Beverley

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Was thought to be Frank Charnley, but corrected to Arthur Sutcliffe, from Pecket Well. (See HB Times 22 and 29 Nov 1918)?

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Unknown lady and Charles Dewhirst, Yorks and Lancashire Regiment

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Postcard, the reverse of which says: 'To Mrs Walton from Annie'. The badges indicate 1st 6th Btn Lancashire Fusiliers, so this young man was probably from Todmorden.

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Ref: AT209. Postcars. On back ' To Mrs Walton from Annie'

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Albert Greenwood, Spring Villa, Springside, Todmorden.
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