Remembered

[Ianp66]

Thank you to all who fought so bravely and gave us our freedom for the last 75 years ❤️

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Here, here!

[jeanjeannie50]

Great post Ian. My dad was one of them. Part of the 8th Army and fought in North Africa and Italy.

A here, here from me too.

Jean

[Seawalk]

Here here, my dad was in the fleet air arm on the HMS Belfast protecting the North Atlantic Convoys. Then he when to the Far East on another ship that brought prisoner of war home so he wasn’t home for VE. Speechless at what they through.

[Finvola]

My father was one of them, together with his two brothers, in the Royal Warwickshires. Only my dad survived.

[BobD Volunteer]

I think our generation all had family members in WWll . My Dad spent six years enjoying himself driving Queen Mary trucks for the RAFafter he finally got out of France in August 1940. Most of the RAF missed Dunkirk and many perished in The Lancastrian bombed in Brest harbour but as usual he was late and missed the boat thereby surviving. Lucky me.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning.

[irene75359]

Heartwarming to see this. Remembering my mother, in the ATS, driving partially assembled lorries (without a windscreen and with a liberal coating of vaseline on her face) to where they were needed.

My father, Gordon Highlanders (51st Highland Division), the eldest of eight children, who was captured two weeks after Dunkirk at St Valery-en-Caux and spent almost five years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland. He then endured 465 miles of 'The Long March' in the midst of winter in appalling conditions, and was flown home in a Lancaster bomber weighing 6 stone.

And all the others who didn't make it.

'Lest we forget'