Anyone participating in isolation VE Day celebrations? Everyone in your street on their front lawns, Vera Lynn blasting out on the boom boxes, finger foods and alcohol being consumed, an inspiring speech from Winston Churchill and then the Queen being broadcast.
I'm not, I am doing overtime, but the rest of the household with partake.
Secondary part of the question, anyone actually having living relatives who served in WW2? My grandad died last year, so sadly my last contact with the war is no longer with us.
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comment by downsouf (U4095)
posted on 5/5/20
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 9 minutes ago
Downsouf
Do you know which regiment your grandfather was in in WW1?
Mine was in Post office rifles and London Irish rifles
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58th Infantry Division (Saxony-Anhalt) near Verdun, France in 1916 (we understand) but he didn’t speak much about it, palmers. Another conscript who would rather not have been there.
Oh dear 😗
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted on 5/5/20
Interesting
comment by Obers (U3904)
posted on 5/5/20
My grandad was an RAF pilot during WWII - sadly passed away last year as well
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted on 5/5/20
Obers
comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted on 5/5/20
My family history service is something I am proud of:
My grandfather was a captain in the cavalry in the 17/21st Lancers during WW1.
In WW2 he served as a medic in Malta.
My father was a soldier who started in the Lancers but then was transferred to the Royal Engineers.
My mother was a nurse (SEN) in the QAIMNS and for many years later in various hospitals and care homes.
comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted on 5/5/20
Post Office Rifles?
It's bad enough having to wait in the interminable queue without them threatening to shoot you. Are the Post Office one of the laziest organisations you have to deal with or is it just me? Exclude the DWP from all comments to avoid clogging up the site.
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted on 6/5/20
Heard were changing the name to Victory England day
comment by The Revenant (U21957)
posted on 10/5/20
What if someones' great grand parents were fighting for the Germans so they can end the British imperial rule and achieve the freedom?
comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted on 10/5/20
Then they should be embarrassed and keep their stupidity quiet. It is impossible to condone the attrocities that Hitler oversaw and promoted.
comment by The Revenant (U21957)
posted on 16/5/20
Embarrassed? Who? Their future generations?
As if the history of british and French imperial covered in all the glory?
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