david Lilley 1921 - 2015

  • 1940 battledress
  • Taken by a sergeant experimenting with a camera bought in Holland
  • 1942
  • 1940
  • 1942
  • 1942
  • 1942
  • early 1940
  • family: JGL, Dorothy, KML
  • 1939 Burnham Market 2nd/6th Bttn Essex Regiment Territorials: DL front far right
  • 1939 Burnham Market 2nd/6th Bttn Essex Regiment Territorials: DL back centre
  • 1939 Burnham Market 2nd/6th Bttn Essex Regiment Territorials Top far left Ernie Pickstay; front third from left Charlie Smith, DL far right
  • 1939 Burnham Market (DL back second from right; front centre Billy Wright postoffice worker who organised local football team and was exempt from service because of his leg)
  • Burnham Market 1940 1st Unit
  • DL at Burnham Market wearing respirator next to fire alarm
  • 1. Oct 1939
  • 1. October 1939
  • Technical Sergeants Mess REME in Ghent. Last unit David was in during the war. They came back to Aldershot and were demobilised. This photo taken at the end of the war.

1939-1945 Army Service and Pay Book

Postcard 1 October 1939 to Miss D M Lilley "Ashburne"


Dear Dorothy, We are leaving Burnham Market on Monday afternoon to go to South Raynham. I am writing this at 7 a.m. & I have been up an hour. It is terribly monotonous doing 6 hours guard at a stretch. I cooked some porridge last night for supper & it turned out very well. Love Dave.