Remembering Family Veterans

Peanuts said

GH Photography said

B17fan said

My dad was too young for WW2, but served with the Royal Signals during the Malayan emergency in the early 50's.

The two pictures are taken when he was a Territorial with the Inns of Court regiment. The first shows his reaction to his Dingo armoured car after it lost a wheel. As I remember it he commented that someone had lost a wheel as it overtook him, before the vehicle dropped onto it's hub.

The second shows him with his fellow "terrier" Sam, who worked on Film Photoplay magazine, which gave Dad a foot in the door to meeting many stars of the day, including Joan Collins.

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My dad had to go to Malaya in '56 to work on a Canberra, he always said he got his medal for being first in the NAAFI queue

usualy the standard response from those who saw  action no bragging no shooting a line just a calm humorous one liner  and move on .had  a Polish gentleman on my paper round lovely talkative old guy wasnt untill i spotted him at the local remembrance parade with other RAF members resplendent in his medals  that things clicked eventualy he told me he flew in 303 squadron from the battle of Britain untill his spitfire was brought down by groundfire post D-Day over France was very reticent to actualy talk about his war but always talked about his squadron members s heros 

There is a film out soon about 303 squadron

GH Photography said

Peanuts said

GH Photography said

B17fan said

My dad was too young for WW2, but served with the Royal Signals during the Malayan emergency in the early 50's.

The two pictures are taken when he was a Territorial with the Inns of Court regiment. The first shows his reaction to his Dingo armoured car after it lost a wheel. As I remember it he commented that someone had lost a wheel as it overtook him, before the vehicle dropped onto it's hub.

The second shows him with his fellow "terrier" Sam, who worked on Film Photoplay magazine, which gave Dad a foot in the door to meeting many stars of the day, including Joan Collins.

Edited by B17fa

My dad had to go to Malaya in '56 to work on a Canberra, he always said he got his medal for being first in the NAAFI queue

usualy the standard response from those who saw  action no bragging no shooting a line just a calm humorous one liner  and move on .had  a Polish gentleman on my paper round lovely talkative old guy wasnt untill i spotted him at the local remembrance parade with other RAF members resplendent in his medals  that things clicked eventualy he told me he flew in 303 squadron from the battle of Britain untill his spitfire was brought down by groundfire post D-Day over France was very reticent to actualy talk about his war but always talked about his squadron members s heros 

There is a film out soon about 303 squadron

seen the links am looking forward tom it along with the film about the st nazair raid thats in production lets hope both do their subjects proud 

I think every veteran I've met has played down their own service. They are generally most unassuming heroes, especially pilots who flew in the BoB.

Swifter Flight my dad is second from right on back row

My grandfather was in WW1 and was at the Somme before being injured on the next offensive. He never talked about the war. When asked about his foot injury his reply was I did it digging the ground. He was a landscape gardener before the war. sadly no photos of him remain.

Not family but this happened to me yesterday. On arrival home from the local remembrance service I found a notice stuck on my front window. It is very humbling to know that this man had lived in what is now my house for nineteen years before making the ultimate sacrifice.