REMEMBRANCE: Fond Memories

Annie Foulds, whose son John Foulds was serving in the Royal Marines, is pictured left sharing a joke with two soldiers she was putting up at her home in St Ann’s during the Second World War.

Granddaughter Linda Rutter shared the photo with us as part of a collection of wartime memorabilia which also includes a leaflet printed by the Advertiser calling on readers to “Free the Seas of Fritz” by funding a battleship.

Of the photo of her grandmother, Ms Rutter said: “I just think it’s a bit of light-hearted fun — it’s great.

“I think it’s a fabulous photo.”

Mr Foulds, who lived in Sheffield and then Whiston, served in the Royal Marines in Italy, North Africa and Scotland but rarely talked about his military service, his daughter said.

She added: “The only thing he mentioned is when he was discharged he remembered walking home from Sheffield station in the moonlight, which sounds quite romantic.”

Pictured right is John Foulds (back row, left) with comrades in Italy.