NextBackMy brother Ernest was in the Worcestershire regiment and he was killed in the desert at El Alalmein.
''His mum never accepted that he had been killed because she never received any personal items. They sent her his identity disc and his medals but nothing else. Ernest had been in the Provisionals, he joined for the money but, of course as soon as war broke out he was called up. He had worked at Harris and Walfords, the printers in Littleworth. He was very athletic, in the local football team and he used to go on long bicycle rides. We had a look at the war memorial outside St Stephens to see if his name was there and it was although the army had got it wrong. They had put it as Samuel E Robins and his real name was Ernest S Robins.
'He left a daughter aged three and a son about twelve months old. The son joined the forces and when he was about 18 he got killed in Germany in a row outside a pub. They never found out who had killed him. There was a lot of ill-
