It is a specific query that may help me to shed some light on Tom, so I start a new thread for it.
"Sometime in the war, while I attended sort of nursery school at Bishopsteignton House, I was taken into Torquay to scour antique shops for metal oakleaves, I heard my aunt telling the antique dealers, who seemed to know what she was talking about. that her brother (Tom) had been decorated and needed these to wear with his uniform. She found them in the end and, I presume, sent them to him."
Members thoughts would be most welcome.
