“The photo shows my mum, dad and sisters Margaret (9 years), Patricia (4 years) and Rosemary (2 years) at Chessington Zoo with large slides in the background. I did have a fourth sister, Ann, who sadly died at the age of eight in 1940. They were living in West Molesey.
“My dad went to France with the British Expeditionary Force in 1939 and was taken off the beaches at Dunkirk 1940. We think this photo was taken at Chessington Zoo around 1942, before he was sent to Egypt with the Royal Engineers as a Sapper. He did not return till late 1945. My mum must have been pleased to see him as I was the result in September 1946.”
Rob, CDRA executive committee member