Canadian 80th Militia Motorcycle 1908

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

My father in law who passed away in March aged 81, was FREDERICK ERNEST NORTHOVER, who of course landed in Canada in 1942 under the Empire Scheme and then passed out as a Pilot Officer. His father was in WW1 and Fred showed me his father's Bisley trophies for shooting! He died about 30 years ago aged 90 or 91..HARRY NORTHOVER was his name. After WW1 he was in charge as a civil servant of the Solent forts off Gosport, living in Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire. He might have been in the Home Guard in Gosport..Fred was before he volunteered for the RAF when he was a bank clerk [yes, a case of Pikey from Dad's Army!!].