Who Do You Think You Are?

‘DAD SURVIVED A TORPEDO ATTACK'

CELEBRATING YOUR DISCOVERIES

During the Second World War, romance often blossomed between British women and overseas servicemen stationed in the UK. However, the love story of Bruce Barnes’ parents worked in the opposite direction.

“My dad Arthur Thomas Barnes, known as Tommy, was born in 1913 in Cottingham, near Hull,” Bruce explains. “My mother Vola Fulmer was Canadian and was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1916, although she grew

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