Rayleigh at War

November

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Rayleigh Through the Looking Glass has a selection of photos this month showing the town during WWI and WW2.

 

Here’s a couple of examples,? showing the 1/9 Kings Royal Rifles in WW1, and the Black Watch in WW2 standing where the clock is now:

 

 

 

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  • My Great Grandad is possibly in the picture of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps as he spent some time guarding German Prisoners at a camp near Makro on Rawreth Lane ,before he went to the Front. He was not from Rayleigh he lived in West Ham.

  • The second photo is of Manns Corner, where the clock is now. During the war my Mum lived there with her parents above the shop.(The pale building on the right). I’m told that at one time in the war soldiers were parading there and their sergeant was being so unkind to them that my grandmother stuck her head out of the window you can see in the picture and told off the sergeant. What the troops thought of it I can only guess…. 🙂

  • Martin,Mike Davies from Rayleigh Through the Looking Glass is very interested in speaking to you about your Great Grandad and the camp near Makro. Can you contact him please 01268 786657.

  • In 1958 i worked for a rayleigh builder and we had a job of converting the buildings on the rawreth camp into small factory units. This was for a local business man who also had a similar camp on canvey island

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