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lesrae · 11-05-07, 01:41 AM

Like Sailor Steve, my dad was too young to fight in WWII (born in 1930) but did National Service in the RAF.

My mum's dad worked at a cipher/signal intercept establishment somewhere near Edinburgh. In the lead-up to D-Day he disappeared for a week when they weren't allowed to go home - when he eventually got home my granny nearly brained him, she thought he was having an affair!

My mum's grandfather was killed in the trenches at Loos: http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=1768050

My dad's dad was a WWI dispatch rider at the front line, until he was invalided home after being gassed. He was never fully fit again and died before I was born, from a related illness.

11-05-07, 01:41 AM	#33
lesrae Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somerset, UK. Posts: 932 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Like Sailor Steve, my dad was too young to fight in WWII (born in 1930) but did National Service in the RAF. My mum's dad worked at a cipher/signal intercept establishment somewhere near Edinburgh. In the lead-up to D-Day he disappeared for a week when they weren't allowed to go home - when he eventually got home my granny nearly brained him, she thought he was having an affair! My mum's grandfather was killed in the trenches at Loos: http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=1768050 My dad's dad was a WWI dispatch rider at the front line, until he was invalided home after being gassed. He was never fully fit again and died before I was born, from a related illness. __________________ DOLPHIN 38 Last edited by lesrae; 11-05-07 at 07:02 AM.