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VE day name a loved 1 you lost

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Prive Harry Gray a Chindit in the Lancashire regiment and was in Burma and his war went on for a few months more. But remember him Friday please.
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STELIOSBWFC wrote: Thu May 07, 2020 10:58 pm Prive Harry Gray a Chindit in the Lancashire regiment and was in Burma and his war went on for a few months more. But remember him Friday please.
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What a nice thought,we all need to remember these unsung heroes who gave their lives and all that fought and survived the war,without them God knows what would have happened
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At the Soviet Victory Day Celebrations the people carry photographs of relations and loved ones who participated or were killed in the the 2nd World War.

My uncle Jimmy, James Beckley of the Liverpool Kings Own Regiment was killed at Monte Casino; he was 19.

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Thought there might have been more comments on this posting,it is a special time after all,perhaps people aren't interested these days?
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V E Day was celebrated all over the UK, the Union Flag was flying from my house.

That said, my Dad's war didn't end until V J Day, so I will hang my flag out again and raise a glass to him and the rest who served. We must never forget, as they say.
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Firefly wrote: Sat May 09, 2020 5:38 pm V E Day was celebrated all over the UK, the Union Flag was flying from my house.

That said, my Dad's war didn't end until V J Day, so I will hang my flag out again and raise a glass to him and the rest who served. We must never forget, as they say.
My Uncle Charlie Hughes fought with the Liverpool Scottish Regiment. on the retreat across Burma to Imphal and Kohima in India and then helped drive the Japanese back to Thailand before the surrender in 1945. He was in Burma for nearly six years; it must have been horrendous.

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I perhaps owe my life the fact that the deliberation of Germany from the Nazis's took place finally. My dad was living in the final stage of the war two years in underground and hiding from home because the Nazis followed his family history book when he got married to my mum and they found out that in 1625 there was a forename "Abraham". He went straight on the Wanted list and if they caught him they would have shot him straight away. It was extremely dangerous for him to come back home from time to time with some food, either attacked from the bombs or from the Nazi bastards. One year after the end I was born, however my little sister died in the war due to lacking of medicine.

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Hi Max
Another of my Uncles. Alexander, was captured at Dunkirk in 1940. He was held prisoner at a Stalagluft Prisoner of War Camp in East Prussia. The camp was liberated by the Russians in 1945 and with the help of a Prussian girl he managed to escape from what is now known as Kalingrad to the West with her. They eventually arrived in the UK where they married in a double ceremony with my Mum and Dad.
As it turned out my mum, who had lost her brother at Casino and Ingaberga became lifelong friends.
My Dad was in Royal Navy Combined Oprations and was at D Day landing American troops at Omaha Beach in France, he never really spoke about it as he said saw things he didn't want to remember just as I'm sure your family felt.

You take care Max.

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