We were contacted via Facebook by Chalky White, whose father was Lance Corporal Noel White. Noel wearing his pal's Piper uniform He had a couple of photos of his Dad with his mates and wanted to confirm if one of them was Private Mark Tucker. Chalky said, "Dad was a Bren gunner and they came under fire and were pinned. My Dad got himself into a bit of trouble so Tucker ran to help him, he was killed pulling my Dad to cover. My Dad never got over that, ever". Since his Dad's p
For those that are interested in the process of researching our 1st KOSB veterans, I wanted to highlight one in particular that is close to my heart. Exhibit A: 'Unknown, undated Wedding photo of 1st KOSB piper' Many years ago (most likely the 80s) I went through my Grandad's photo album with him and scrawled a couple of dates/place names on the pages. I hadn't done it with this photo so knew nothing about it. My only clue was that the piper is also in my Grandad's Wedding Ph