"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message
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Well after watching the Ken Burns series THE WAR ad naseum ad naseum,
I thought I'd come into the group today with one of my curious questions.

What did your parents, family, etc. do in the big WWII.


Dad was orphaned when his father was killed at Esnes France (1914) within
days of getting there and his mother was killed getting off a tram so he
joined the Royal Tank Corps asap (1932) and spent time in the North West
Frontier of India as it was then.

On leaving the service (May 1938) he joined Manchester Fire Brigade.

He was recalled in December 1939 to the Royal Tank Corps but they found
out he was a fireman and transferred him to the Army Fire Service
which he was very unhappy about at the time (losing his beret).

He was Officer Commanding 151 Army Fire Company in North Africa in 1943,
then appointed Staff Captain (Fire) Algiers Sub District in 1944.

He was transferred to the Staff Pool at Allied Forces HQ C.M.F. (Italy) in
September 1944, promoted and moved to 15 Army Group to act as
Deputy to ADAFS then in 1945 he assumed command of Army Fire Services, CMF.
He was MID in May 1946 and was returned to the U.K. in August 1947.

On return he was appointed Command Fire Officer, Western Command and Officer
Commanding 852 Army Fire Company then In 1952 he was posted MELF as Chief
Inspector of Fire Services (Egypt, Cyprus, Malta). In January 1954 he
completed his service with H.M. Forces.

This has been gathered from his records as, like so many, he was reluctant
to say terribly much about WWII.

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Reading other peoples replies and thinking of the numbers of people from so
many nations it concentrates the mind on the debt that everyone owes to
every single person involved, directly or indirectly.

It is also true that we continue to owe so many people who are still
operating to maintain our freedoms.

--
Andrew

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.)