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Photos ‘Lucky Lucas’ – the
Scans of snaps that
offer insight to the past
Antiques and Doodlebug destroyer
objects
Show off your family heirlooms,
mementos and retro curios Nicola Lucas shoot German ammunition trains. The trains also
Letters from the past A number of remarkable stories contained civilians, women and children and, as
Old correspondence can hold a wealth of have come from my granddad’s his orders were to stop and disable the train, it was
historical info and fascinating stories service in the RAF during World inevitable that they would be in the firing line. He
War II. His name was Flight never got over that. His navigator at this time was
News clippings Officer Ronald George Lucas his good friend Ronnie Elvin, who died in 1944
Articles reporting on iconic events and he flew Hawker Tempests, aged 23. At the back of my granddad’s logbook is a
Hurricanes, Mosquitos, Tiger Moths and Typhoons page entitled ‘RIP’, on which there are 45 names.
Amazing stories to name but a few. One day Ronald walked into the mess and
Interesting or insightful tales passed Much of what I know has come from research someone was playing a beautiful piece of music.
down from your ancestors
and piecing memories together as, like a lot of Being a huge fan of music, he went to speak to
Eyewitness accounts people who fought in the wars, he didn’t talk the pianist. It was Richard Addinsell and he was
Did you witness a historic event in about it much. When my dad and his siblings were playing The Warsaw Concerto, the piece he had
person? Share it today children, he threw his service revolver into Poole written for the film Dangerous Moonlight. Another
Harbour to get rid of it forever. time, Ronald crashed into the latrines and dutifully
Family trees At the start of the war when he was 16 or 17, he recorded it in his log book with the note “s**t all
A chance to boast about famous or was with 151 Squadron. His job was to bomb and over the aerodrome”.
significant ancestors

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