Charity shop ‘does its bit’ in unknown airman appeal

AS PART of “doing their bit” for the week when our war dead are remembered, staff at an Inverness charity thought it would be a nice touch to have in their window two old photographs of a mystery airman.

But it also got the workers at the Blythswood shop in Academy Street thinking about just who the young “Brylcreem boy” was, did he become involved in combat, and if so what happened to him.

The framed black and white photographs, which have been hand tinted, appear to be from around the time of World War II, but there are no clues as to the identity of the man other than “Andrew Paterson, Inverness” hand-written on the photograph mount, although this might be the name of the photographer.

Shop manager Wendy Scott of Dores said the photographs were left with other articles in a bag outside their door.

She added: “It would be quite nice to know who he was and what happened to him. I don’t think the photographs have any value apart from nostalgic value.”