Exercise walk this Friday will be routed to take in a couple of cemeteries that have CWGC burials within. Personal choice, but more appropriate for me than any pomp and circumstance. I'm eternally grateful to all those folks in the ground all over the world that didn't beat the clock, and paying my respects to them, while still able, will always be an essential journey. Kind regards, have a good one folks, always, Jim.
Here is a blog post on VE Day from our site which references some of the losses in our town of St.Helens:- http://www.sthelensrollsofhonour.co.uk/home
During the Victory parade through Paris a Storch flew over it. Storchs were built in France and after the war a re-engined version was built and sold under a French name.
1945. The Nazi Surrender to Field Marshal Montgomery "Bill Downs broadcasting from Lüneburg, Germany on V-E Day, May 8, 1945 (Photo by Dennis Allen of the British Second Army)"
Just a small part of the cost of Victory in Europe. 5th Camerons casualties from October 1942 to May 1945. Total 1869.
A few bits that may be relevant, no idea on the first photo - a tipsy artistic squaddie and some parachute flares maybe
My dad's souvenir. I'm not sure that it quite compensated for being classified 'Far East 1' . It didn't stop a grateful government from calling many 'Duration of Emergency' servicemen back to fight in Korea either.