W.A.A.F. VOLUNTEER MEDICAL SERVICE (CH 14195) Original wartime caption: For story see CH.14194 Picture (issued 1944) shows – 20 year old Joyce Beresford, a clerk of 24 Spenser Road, herne Hill, London and Flight Officer Eva Robson of The Vicarage, Spittal, Berwick- on-Tweed, helping Sergeant Jack Orlando to compose a telegram to his home in the United States. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205453504

I came across this photograph on the Imperial War Museum website having done a search for the key word of Orlando for my One-Name Study. To be honest, I did not expect any results, and therefore I was happily surprised to see this.

From a genealogical perspective there is little data to here, but a photograph is an excellent addition to the study. I hopefully will, with some patience and perseverance, establish who Sergeant Jack Orlando was, whereabout his family was located in the United States, and what happened to him after 1944.

The image is used here under non-commercial-licence https://www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/policies/non-commercial-licence and the direct link to the photograph is https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205453504.