Pictorial recollection of wartime Malta

Anti-aircraft gunner Stanley Fraser has donated his photo and film collection of wartime Malta to the National Archives to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Mr Fraser said he was probably the only person to take amateur photo and film footage of Malta in the early 1940s.

Stationed here during some of the heaviest aerial bombardments, Mr Fraser documented the everyday life of a soldier from the heavy night-time raids to Christmas plays. He documented parts of everyday life as well, making the collection a priceless piece of Maltese heritage.

Archivist Charles Farrugia said the donation will greatly enhance the photo and film collection of the National Archives.

Mr Fraser's journal, The Diaries Of Stanley Fraser, has just been published. The book includes Mr Fraser's documents and records of his army career between 1939 and 1946 including the Normandy landings, the London Blitz, Malta, France and Egypt.

He lives in Colwyn Bay, North Wales with his wife Peggy.