Pam Ince and Eileen Raff at Pam & Chas’s Golden Wedding do in 2009:

See the caption on the adjoining photo. This is actually the sequel to the other, evidently, as Eileen is looking at the cameraphone shot being taken then. My shot is taken with a telephoto lens from another table at some distance, using my Pentax. (Added 23.2.16): This shot is added in February 2016. Pam and Eileen’s youngest sibling, sister Anne, is the last (of six) siblings remaining. The three girls all chose military men, with the differences that whereas Eileen went back with her G.I., Albert Raff, to live in the US, Pam met Chas Ince (an RAF pilot) en-route back to the UK from visiting Eileen and Albert in the US, and they (Pam and Chas) married in Oxford in 1959 and lived in the UK ever-after, as far as I know. Anne, like Eileen, chose a US soldier, but they never went to live together in the US, and Anne and her son Peter, grew up in Oxford somewhat ‘solitary’, with much practical input from ‘Grandpa Arthur’ Archer - my father Fred’s elder brother, though sadly, we (the ‘Fred Archer family’) were not much-if-at-all aware of all this at the time.


qaa© Philip B Archer 2014