Hello From Northumberland 2

**Riverkilt** · 25th November 07, 10:26 AM

Welcome,

My father was stationed at Milfield - Wooler in 1942 as a Flying Sergeant with 59th OTU. A Montana boy in the RAF.

Ron

**McGurk** · 25th November 07, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Welcome,

My father was stationed at Milfield - Wooler in 1942 as a Flying Sergeant with 59th OTU. A Montana boy in the RAF.

Ron

I know that area quite well, several of my relitives lived around there!

**Riverkilt** · 25th November 07, 01:09 PM

Well hey McGurks,

Dad wrote home on 8/15/42

"Don McMahon[later shot down and killed in Italy] and I were invited to dinner the other night at the Marshall's in Milfield. They run the post office and general store - very nice people. The Marshall's home is a great gray stone building over a hundred years old. The outside walls are three and a half feet thick, the inside ones are two feet. Today it looks as good as new and likely shall for several hundred more years. I know the local hostel does, and it's upwards of three hundred years old. We visited long after blackout before a large fireplace (hearth, cat, tea kettle, and all) learning much of the local history and surroundings."