Some photos my Grandfather took during ww2

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Some photos my Grandfather took during ww2

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They aint so great but they were behind glass. If you zoom in a bit you can just read the notes . And yes that is "Monty " somewhere in north Africa speaking to the "chaps"
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Awesome. Look at those tracers!
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Really nice to have something like that which someone experienced first hand and recorded. Makes it more relevant than a history book somehow.
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Interesting stuff Hamish.
A few years ago the wife and I were clearing the house of her Uncle after he died. He was a major in the army in WWII and we found a framed picture of him escorting someone inspecting the troops. Eventually it dawned on us that the VIP chap was the king!
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Love the pictures , I have my grandads ww2 medals up on the wall . As they say we should not forget .
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Jasonmarie wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:36 pm Love the pictures , I have my grandads ww2 medals up on the wall . As they say we should not forget .
"Lest we forget"🙂
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Agreed. Got my great uncle Raymond Williamson and great great uncle Willy Williamson's WW2 and Great War medals on the sideboard. Also got this from Auntie Williamson which is quite intruiging, something to do with the OSI in Thailand during the Vietnam War, but due to the nature of the work, it's a bit of a struggle to find much out so far:

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Looks like maybe made out of an artillery shell? cool .
I have official copies of Grandfathers medals with some paperwork ......best find them 🙄.
We had a disaster ( depending on who you ask ) . My Grandfather left me his war photo album when he died . My mother hadnt seen the album since she was a kid so got a bit emotional, anyhows I said Mum should keep the album untill she " no longer needed it ".
So ,when visiting my parents my #ucking sis in law takes the album home and pulled it to bits ( yep , ripped pages out ) and took the ones she felt my brother was more entitled to (he was livid when he found out ). She even gave some pix to her father ( quite possibly the most usless #unt that ever walked the planet )and those are "gone ". I didnt find out about this untill I saw the remnants in the frame shown .
🙂I had a brief but "very stern " ( lost my shit big time )conversation with her ......quite frankly I frightened the shit out of her and she now wont stay in the same room as me unless someone else is there.......suits me just fine .
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I picked up this historical documentary film yesterday:

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I have a picture of my great grandad, he was a private in the Somerset light infantry WW1.

Also in the picture is his wife, my nan and her sister (both under 5 years old) so taken just before WW1.
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Mc Tool wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 8:32 pm So ,when visiting my parents my #ucking sis in law takes the album home and pulled it to bits
How unbelievably crass 😕
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This probly dont make sense but Im more offended that someone could do that, than I am about actually loosing the photos and the album
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Terrible. Like ripping up his journal or diary.
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My Father fought in WW2, some of the tales he told me and my brother were terrible and I suspect he did not tell us all of it.
He was on the Dunkirk evacuation and was told to blow up a fuel dump that covered the area of a couple of football pictches, he set the explosives and started walking as he knew he was unlikely to get far enough away before it went off, as he was walking he found a Geep idling so he jumped in and drove off at full speed, 5 mins later it went off and he felt the heat, D Day was a total blood bath and he lost a lot of good friends on that day. When he entered Berlin the pictures that are shown do not tell the hole story, apparently there was a strong smell of decomposing bodies everywhere and they found 100's of people who had commited suicide. There was not a dog, cat or wild bird anywhere, they had eaten them all.
A truly bad time in our history and hopefully we will never have to experience anything like it again.
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Both my mum's and my dad's fathers were in ww1. My maternal grandfather was in the merchant navy on Atlantic convoy work to Canada mainly. I still have his seaman's chest and medals. My paternal grandfather was in the Kings Royal Shropshire Light Infantry (he was a Shropshire lad) and was invalided out in 1917 after being gassed at Passchendaele. He then was trained as a driver and was a bus driver and later inspector for the rest of his short life. Both grandads died before I was born and both were only in their fifties.

Dad was too young to see WW2 service, he later was posted on conscription to Sennan in Cornwall as a radar operator. Living in High Wycombe with all the furniture factories around, mum was firstly on firewatch duty followed by working in a furniture factory making components for the Mosquitos for De- Havilland, who also ironically was a Wycombe lad!

Me in contrast, I was a lazy little c**t who did nothing to contribute to the safety and welfare of this country but I like everyone else sure owe all those who went before us through both wars and the other conflicts a huge debt of gratitude.

We shall remember them.
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