what did your relations do during ww2

[daveindales]

As someone with quite an interest in Military history, I Just wondered how many of you out there have relations who fought during ww2. For starters: my grandfather drove an armoured D8 bulldozer, through France. (spent around a month in Caan as the allies got bogged down there) Went through Holland and into Germany. (Got shot through the shoulder during Rhine crossing at Wesel). Met up with the Russians at Lubeck. Later he was posted to Palestine and helped clean up the damage when The King David Hotel was bombed.

[penfold]

my grandad was a driver in london during the blitz and then became an ambulance driver in africa sicily and italy.

[Matthew Arnold]

My dads Grandad was on the HMS Belfast on the Arctic Convoy. He just got his medal for it.

[gensetsteve]

Wifes dad was a rear gunner but not turned up much info as the war office had a fire and lost the records. 51 squadron swift and sure. flying Halifax bombers. Did the maximum missions.

[kev7937]

 

 

My partners grandad flew this bad boy and has a few medals to show for it, one of my grandparents was in communications and the other was in dad's army so not so heroic unfortunately

[eagleye]

granddad essentials service worked in Deptford power station

grandma worked in Woolwich arsenal

[theflyingscotsman]

Wifes dad was a rear gunner but not turned up much info as the war office had a fire and lost the records. 51 squadron swift and sure. flying Halifax bombers. Did the maximum missions.

 

My Great Uncle from Suffolk flew Lancaster bombers in the war

[daveindales]

Some very brave men mentioned already. I just hope the youth of today are taught about these men (and women). Part of the reason I posted this over the xmas period.

[Rich2484]

My grandad on my mothers side was a desert rat.

 

My dad's dad was frontline infantry, not sure what or where as I never got to find out, he passed before I was old enough and I don't have contact with my dad to ask. Just what I remember.

[felixthelogchopper]

Paternal grandfather was Territorial RASC(got called up during the family summer holiday at Margate in August 1939), got out of France a couple of days before Operation Dynamo then was delivering ammo to AA sites all around the country until he was posted to the RWAFF (Royal West African Frontier Force) in Nigeria where he trained truck drivers for the Burma front. Maternal grandfather did a short stint on minesweepers(HMS Speedwell) towards the end of the European war including a stint during the D-Day invasion. I also had one uncle in the RN in the Far East and another in the Royal Marines doing dock clearance in Europe.