| |||||||
| Portal | Forums | Watch Videos | WW2 Radio | Register | Arcade | Gallery | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Mark Forums Read |
| General Topics Cant find anywhere else? Put it in here. |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
27-10-2007, 08:30 PM
| #1 (permalink) |
| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2
You're Top Poster: #122  | Gold Beach Landings Just been to Gold Beach while we were on holiday as my dad's father landed there, and that got me interested! I know he was in the Hampshire regiment that landed there but I don't know anything much about it all. Can anyone tell me more? Thanks! |
|  |
|
27-10-2007, 08:43 PM
| #2 (permalink) |
| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
Posts: 4,936
You're Top Poster: #1  | Hi freddiestewart, welcome to the forum. Your father would have been a member of the 1st Battalion then. Here's a bit of reading to get you started: http://www.goldbeach.org.uk/english_...hampshires.htm However, the best bet is to get a couple of books that detail their involvement and activities. The best two are: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Beach-B...3517780&sr=1-3 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Hampsh...3517693&sr=8-1 I have the first one and will scan a few snippets for you tomorrow, and post them here.
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
|
| |
|
28-10-2007, 02:20 AM
| #4 (permalink) |
| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 3,187
You're Top Poster: #3  | Welcome freddiestewart and hope you can get all the info you want. Glad to have you aboard. Tell us a bit more about yourself.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
| |
|
28-10-2007, 09:17 AM
| #5 (permalink) |
| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2
You're Top Poster: #122 | I don't know much about him, as he died a long time before I was born, but he did survive the war and went on to have two children, one of whom is, of coure, my dad. He was called Frederick John Stewart (the same name as me!) And thats about all i know about him |
|
| |
|
« Previous Thread
|
Next Thread »
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
Linear Mode
| |
All times are GMT. The time now is 10:16 AM.
