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• William Smith (iii)
  ...was the Lerwick postman and [[Lerwick Town Council]]lor until his death in 1942. [[Category: 1942 Deaths]]
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• William Hamilton
  ...land Army and saw action in the North African Campaign. He was captured in 1942 and became a prisoner of war in Germany. Despite several escape attempts, h [[Category: 1997 Deaths]]
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• Thomas Sinclair
  ...hen later following the death of [[William G. Smith]], he was elected in [[1942]] until [[1945]]. He later served from May to November in 1946. ...ent of the Lerwick Workmen's Club, and President from November 1935 and by 1942 was secretary of the same club. In later years he was an avid writer of let
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• Robert Sutherland
  ...therland''' (b. 4 March [[1870]], Deepdale, [[Sandwick]], d. 21 December [[1942]], Sand, [[Sandsting]]) was a ploughman, farmer, merchant and [[County Coun [[Category: 1942 Deaths]]
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• Robert Bruce
  ...try of Economic Warfare, on whose behalf he spent a month in Washington in 1942. In 1943 he was recalled to the railway, and appointed manager of a line in [[Category: 1983 Deaths]]
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• Peter Robertson
  ...irst wife was Ann Brown, a teacher by occupation, and they were married in 1942 by the Rev, George Smith, UF Church Lerwick. Ann died in 1967. Peter rema [[Category: 1997 Deaths]]
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• Magnus Shearer (ii)
  ...t Lerwick Central Public School,and the Anderson Educational Institute. In 1942 he was called up to the Royal Navy, serving in the North Atlantic, at the D [[Category: 2007 Deaths]]
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• John Sutherland
  ...st South seat in the [[Unst South County Council By-Election December 1942|1942 Unst South by-election]] and the [[Aithsting County Council By-Election Feb [[Category: 1959 Deaths]]
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• John Small
  '''John Small''' (b. 17 June [[1855]], Dunfermline, d. 9 July [[1942]], Lerwick) was a solicitor and [[County Council]]lor initially for [[Yell [[Category: 1942 Deaths]]
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• John Gear
  ...a telegraph messenger he later became a sorting clerk and telegraphist. In 1942 he was promoted to Orkney, becoming postmaster at Lyness, the office for Sc [[Category: 1992 Deaths]]
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• Henry Hunter
  ...], Baltasound, Unst) was an estate factor and [[County Councillor]] from [[1942]] and [[1949]]. *[[Unst South County Council By-Election December 1942|1942 County Council by-election]]
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• Grace Halcrow
  ...by others due to her disability. She arrived back in Shetland in February 1942, helping to organise the call-up of women during WWII. [[Category: 1999 Deaths]]
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• Erling Clausen
  In 1942, he was appointed to the rank of Pilot Officer in Thurso Air Training Corps [[Category: 1984 Deaths]]
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• David Walker
  Walker was married to Ruth Naomi Robinson (28 Feb 1942) and had 3 children, Paul, Naomi and Miriam. While in Shetland they lived i [[Category: 2006 Deaths]]
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• Arthur Laing
  ...r Laurenson Laing''' (b. 22 May [[1858]], [[Gulberwick]], d. 19 February [[1942]], [[Lerwick]]) was a pharmacist and founder of A. L. Laing, a chemist whic [[Category: 1942 Deaths]]
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• Andrew Irvine (i)
  ...]]'''|'''Member for<br>[[Unst South (Constituency)|Unst South]]'''<br>1938-1942|Succeeded by<br>'''[[Henry Hunter]]'''}}{{Template:UnstSouthZCC}} [[Category: 1989 Deaths]]
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• Andrew Halcrow
  ...rred to Customs, as a coast preventative officer, a position he held until 1942. Latterly, he was an enforcement officer and warehouse inspector for the Mi [[Category: 1955 Deaths]]
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• Adam Halcrow (i)
  ...H.M.S. Marigold, was sunk west of Gibraltar Strait on the 9th of December 1942 - on what would have been his father's 70th birthday, had Capt. Halcrow not [[Category: 1940 Deaths]]
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• Fair Isle
  ...th lighthouse]] was attacked twice in the winter of [[1941#December|41]]/[[1942#January|42]]. On the first occasion the assistant lightkeepers wife was kil ...use|north lighthouse]] was also attacked twice in [[1941]], but luckily no deaths resulted.&lt;br&gt;
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