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Description: | Jack Woolfe (1918-c.2001) grew up in the East End. During World War II he joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. After serving in Egypt, Jack was posted to Italy where he was seriously wounded - he was shot in the ankle at Monte Cassino and did not walk again for over a year. After the war, when he had recovered, Jack opened a wholesale butcher's. He worked into his seventies, supplying many Indian restaurants. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Jewish Museum, London | Rights holder: | Copyright holder unknown. | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | 1940-1943 | Source: | Jewish Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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