What did your relatives do in WWII?

[Ms Macbeth]

whats a russis

 

A fairly obvious typo. I read it as 'russia'.

[phantom309]

My mum was in the Land Army when it started up as a lumber jack chopping trees down which was some achievement as she was only five foot tall and then she joined the Wrens where she met my dad who was in the navy and she came out to have me while dad did not finish in the navy until my 1st birthday after doing 9 years having joined up before the war.

[old tup]

My father was at Dunkirk when the first shot was fired,he was in Dover when the second was fired!

[Lady Star]

My mam's dad was in the navy, and seemed to spend much of the war in a boat off Malta - he wrote to my nan, who was about 16 at the time and who he met just before going over, that he never saw much action - although I have since heard that fighting did happen here over the years... My dad's dad was a miner in derbyshire, so reserved and didn't go to war... My mam's mam worked in various munitions factories up and down the country, as well as a few stints welding in tyneside and clippying on the buse, and my dad's mam did precious little but work in a shop part time and get a fair bit of reading in, as she lived in a derbyshire village so wasn't troubled by air raids too often...

[lazarus]

My Uncle was a runner for the 13th Mounted Foot Stanley Knives in France in 1941 and at the very first German barrage he started running and didnt stop till 1945!

[denlin]

My great uncle was Rex Warneford who was in WWI not 2 but was the 1st person in fleet air arm to be awarded VC. He also got French Legion of Honour same day for being first person to shoot down an airship with an aeroplane. He was killed a few days later in a freak accident while flying an American reporter to Belgium, the plane was made of wood and just fell apart (no parachutes in those days). He was 23 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery in London. He had state funeral such the likes of Churchill etc would have had

Edited May 23, 2011 by denlin

[denlin]

My Uncle was a runner for the 13th Mounted Foot Stanley Knives in France in 1941 and at the very first German barrage he started running and didnt stop till 1945!

 

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[DaveD]

My father was in the RASC (Royal Army Service Corp) and was posted as the the driver to an officer on the south coast near Arundel ..The officer was in charge of a group of 7 0r 8 locals and their job was to go underground (literally) in the event of an invasion an ait for the Germans to pass over and then come out and sabotage ...he was trained in this sort of thing and would have had to join them

[backwardben]

mi dad wer in the LDV. he LOOKED.he DUCKED. he VANISHED.

[cleanup]

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mi dad wer in the LDV. he LOOKED.he DUCKED. he VANISHED.