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Very cool story
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 2:05 pm
by c.rainford73
Here's a very interesting bit I found online this morning...
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/histo ... ook-it-out
Re: Very cool story
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 3:28 pm
by PainlessWolf
Good morning,
He looks like a 'take no guff' fellow who would also be happy to sit down and have a shot or two and regale you with war stories from back in the day. A Real Person.
regards,
Painless
Re: Very cool story
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 4:55 pm
by 43rdRecceReg
Must be a host of untold stories of 'Derring-do' out there, like the heroic eccentric antics of Captain Gorman; and it's important that they should be recorded and told. As the last of the WW1 Trench generation, who saw action in Flanders, left us in 2009 (Pte. Harry Patch). Sadly, it won't be long before the remainder of the WW2 generation will march off into eternity too...
My Dad and his brothers are already long gone.
Re: Very cool story
Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 6:31 pm
by jarndice
I would come home on leave and drive over to Harpenden to my Uncle Taff's and we would walk round his wonderful flower garden and he would talk of Trench fighting with Bayonets and pick axe handles and rats and comradeship,
It brought the filth of the trench's of WW1 to life that no book ever could,
It transpired that he never spoke about that part of his life to anyone else,
I felt privileged to be entrusted with his memories.
Shaun.
Re: Very cool story
Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 8:35 pm
by RobW
Son of a gun-ner wrote:My father only spoke of the humorous things, consequences of getting drunk on duty and playing poker with the over paid American soldiers lol.
He was stationed in North Africa in the royal artillery, became a corporal, he was also something to do with signals, cos I have his signals badge.
When he left Africa, he transfered to the navy as a gunner on support ships, I'm guessing cruisers. As a family, we don't know how to find out which ships he served on, I say ships, cos two of them sunk lol, only found out about the second one this year, and both times he was in England when his ships sailed, teaching new gunners, I believe he reached Sargent or the navy equivalent.
Mick
Could also have been the landing craft support ships - my Grandad was a gunner on those. However they were Royal Marines rather than army.