Bill Hutchinson, war veteran

Bill Hutchinson is 92. When he was 17 and a half he was called up and sent by the Durham Light Infantry to North Africa, celebrating his 18th birthday on the troop ship on the way there. He served throughout the Middle East and Italy, and for a time a tank and truck driver with the desert rats, his vehicle being hit by German fire three times. He survived although many of his mates didn't. After the war he worked in various jobs in the Durham Coalfield.
I photographed him today as part of a Durham Photographic Society project to build up an exhibition of prints of North East WW11 veterans. I've already photographed a lady who was a decoder at Bletchley Park and a merchant seaman who was on the Russian convoys, a well known photographer and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society Roy Elwood.
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