Toby Jug

Every year on the 11th March, their wedding anniversary, my Mum gave my Dad a Toby Jug (or what she called a Toby Jug - strictly speaking they are Character Jugs). Sometimes they were just random selections, sometimes they related to something that was happening in their lives at the time and others to something in my Dad's life. This one is "The Airman" because my Dad served in the RAF during WW2.

When Dad died we inherited his collection. I picked this one today because I've been doing a lot of research recently into the dead of WW1 and it just makes me grateful that both my grandfathers survived the first world war and my Dad the second.