STORY
This story and photos are shared by the Trust with kind permission from Mavis Williams, Researcher and Marc Dyos, author of From the Shores of The Moray Firth 84 Field Company Royal Engineers 1944 - 1945
Thomas (Tommy) Edmund Aitken was born in Bishop Aukland on 29 June 1924, the eldest son of Fred & Margaret Aitken (née Bollom), who had married in the September quarter of 1922. His father had served in the First World War with the 1/5th Welsh Regiment and then the Royal Engineers. He was discharged on the 12th November 1919.
