‘D’ Company

The men of “D” Company, LDV (Local Defence Volunteers or Look, Duck and Vanish); the Home Guard as they would have been known in the Second World War.

Back row: Albert Downs, Fred Butterworth, Dennis Pinkney, Wilf Harcourt

Middle row: Eric Davidson, Jim Husband, Gus Swales, Herbert Stevenson, Stan Butterworth

Front row: Fred Chapman, Bob Goldby, Jack(John Ernest) Metcalf, Jack Hyde, T Wicks (later Major Wicks), Cyril Lynford.

Angela Cockburn tell us: ”John Ernest Metcalf (my grandfather) owned a bakery in Carlin How in the 1960s.”

Thanks to Derick Pearson for many names, also Angela and Bob Dunn for the update on names.