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My maternal gfather was CO of No 1 Port Construction & Repair Company RE, and was built Mulberry B at Arromanches - I think he was 2 i/c of constructing the whole harbour under Brigadier Bruce White.
On the other side of the family my father left school in summer 1943, went to OCTU, then gunner training after commissioning and was posted to 6 RHA. He was on his way out to the far east when the war ended, so stayed in India until 1947.
His two sisters served in the WAAF and ATS. The husband of one was a captain in the RASC, and was one of the first british officers into Belsen when it was liberated. The husband of the other served in the Abyssinian campaign in 1941 as a major in the Devonshire Regt.
My paternal grandfather served in WW1 as a Lt-Col i/c an infantry battalion, and enlisted in the home guard in WW2 as a private.
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