No longer is he just ‘a picture on the wall’, article published in Dorchester Reporter

“No longer is he just ‘a picture on the wall’” By Tara W. Merrigan, Special to the Reporter
August 12, 2010

Read the full article at https://www.dotnews.com/2010/no-longer-he-just-picture-wall

Before Judy Armour and Janet Sambuceti met Roy Weaver, their most tangible connection to their uncle, Staff Sgt. William Lynch, of Dorchester and the United States Marines, was a portrait that hung in their grandmother’s living room.

“It was almost like my uncle Billy was nonexistent,” says Armour. “It was very hard for my grandmother and mother to speak about him.”

Lynch, a Dorchester resident, joined the Marines in 1937 and was stationed in Shanghai and then the Philippines during World War II. When the U.S. commander in the Philippines surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, Lynch became a prisoner of war. Read the full story on Dorchester Reporter