Mingay Island

Mingay has always been an interesting name and we are unsure where it came from, there appears to be a Mingay Island, near to Islay in Scotland. And Wikipedia believes that Mingay is Old Norse, which would give our family name a new twist...

The Guild of One-Name Studies believe that it is from Breton, France, as there is a Mingay who was a Breton tenant in Essex in the Doomsday book.

Clarence Road, London

This is Henry and Kitty in the conservatory of what appears to be Clarence Road, however I can not work out whether it is Richmond or Chiswick, both have Clarence Roads and who knows what they looked like before the war.

35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion

35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, circa 1939

Pauline Mingay

34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Pt 2

34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion

James Henry Mingay

34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion

Mabel Mingay

34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion

34th (The Queen's Own Royal West Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion

Mabel Mingay (Centre) with two gals (see back of postcard)

Mabel Mingay with mallet

35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, circa 1939

35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion / 35th Searchlight Regiment, RA (First Surrey Rifles)

Pauline Mingay, back row 6th from right

Paper Snippet

A snippet from a paper during the Second World War.