Percy Pritchard's album

Servicemen wounded or suffering from frostbite at Gallipolli and other warzones in the eastern Mediterranean, recovering in one of several large hospitals set up in Malta during WW1. Added to the Vintage Photos Theme Park events and celebrations weekly theme.

The location and date are written on the back of the photo. Percy Pritchard was at the back, in front of the shop's doorway. The caption is mine.

The negative must have had some damage as the print had black and white areas on the left of this shot.I have rebuilt the left side of the dog's tripod and patched up the lower parts of the dog. I don't know when this was taken, but judging by Percy's appearance I guess it is just before WW2.

I wonder if the kink in the starboard wing was damage or shows where the structure was jointed for folding for transport.

When the Second World War came, Percy's glider skills saw him commissioned in the Royal Air Force and posted to train assault glider pilots.

Marjory's Douglas and Percy's Harley Davidson seen together. There was room for the photographer on the pillion of the Harley, I guess!

Muriel is my late mother. The car is a 19 litre Mercedes Maybach tourer, which Percy Pritchard owned in earlier years and which formed part of his funeral cortege. The noisy aero-engined car needed special permission from the Hereford Cathedral authorities before it could enter the cathedral precincts.