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.

A Three Generation Tower

Top: John Vernon Mingay
Middle: James Henry Mingay
Bottom: Reginald John Mingay
Kew Gardens
Circa. 1920s / 1930s

When I saw this photo for the first time I gasped. My Grandmas casually turned to me and said "oh the one with them on each others shoulders?", as though it was just another day...

Mr & Mrs Mingay, Westcliffe Beach

James Henry Mingay & Mabel Mary Mingay (nee Hencke)
Westcliffe, Kent
Circa. 1920s