[Leica] IMGS: My Father

[Douglas Barry]

They're excellent images, Tina. A brave man. A couple of questions that you 
may or may not be able to help with, what was the plane he's in and what was 
the camera used?

Douglas
whose uncle ran away from home in neutral Ireland to join the RAF at 16. He 
was cycling towards the border with Northern Ireland and the recruitment 
office in Belfast with a similarly inclined friend when he was stopped by 
the Gardai (Irish police). His friend's brother who knew of the plans had 
spilled the beans to his parents who immediately informed my grandfather. My 
grandfather also happened to be Chief Superintendent of the Gardai and head 
of the LSF during what we neutrals in Ireland euphemistically called "The 
Emergency" (others may better remember it as World War 2). He got on the 
phone and a couple of Gardai were detailed to wait unobtusively on the main 
Dublin Belfast road a couple of miles before the border to halt their 
gallop. He could have had them picked up earlier, but apparently wanted to 
"give the young fellows a bit more exercise".

Sadly, a couple of years later, my uncle left school, joined the cadets in 
the Air Corps (Irish Air Force) and was killed in an air crash soon after 
going solo in a Miles Magister in 1944. It badly affected my grandfather who 
forbade my mother from taking up a job as an airhostess with Aer Lingus.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=32912903&PIpi=14961843







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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: My Father


> PESO:
>
> My sister was Googling our father's name and came across some wonderful
> photos of him that we have never seen before.  Just in time for Father's
> Day:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163489790
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163489791
>
> He looks about 15 years old to me!!  He did run away from home, lied about
> his age, and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at 17, switching to the
> RAF later.
>
> I'm amazed to see these photos from long ago.
>
> Tina
>
>
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