Custom of me and my Grandfather

[tintinlostsnowy]

Your welcome, I did look for a cap badge then I thought you may mean a shoulder flash with it being on a background.

[Andy1672]

Your welcome, I did look for a cap badge then I thought you may mean a shoulder flash with it being on a background.

i thought it would be easier to upload the pic rather than try to describe it.

I will have to try and find some info on the Eastern Command to get a bit of insight.

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

[tintinlostsnowy]

My Dad's cap badge and a picture containing his shoulder flashes and 2 pics.
Second pic is not for the squemish.

[Andy1672]

Nice pics, nice to have some memorabilia ( cant spell )

cant quite make out that second pic .... are they bodies ?

[tintinlostsnowy]

Yep They were my Dad's mate's you can see the legs sticking out from the cover they put over them before burial I will tey and get a better pic later. If you want to see all the photos I still have they are on photobucket and I will p.m. you the password.
http://s301.photobucket.com/albums/nn77 ... ?start=all

[Andy1672]

Thats pretty horrific ... did your Dad take the pic ?

[tintinlostsnowy]

Yep my Dad took it, It probably has their names on the back of the photo but it has been sealed for over 60 years so I can't check it out.
Like his other photos some have names on and where they were killed, or un p.c. names written on the back mentioning the local population.

[Sundance]

my one grand-dad was unfit for service and helped build Mosquitos in the war as he worked in a furniture factory as a French polisher in peace-time.

dunno what paternal granddad did.

i know he wasn't in the RAF or SOE or anything exciting so i dun' really care. never knew him anyway.

[Thundershot]

That's a bit harsh Sundance, just about everybody had a part to play during W.W.2, no matter how small or mundane, it all helped the war effort..
My Grandfather was a farm worker, so wasn't drafted due to being an essential worker, but he served in the Auxilary Fire Service, long nights on fire watch after a long hard days work, so no he may not have done anything very exciting or gone into combat..but soldiers & the country needed food to fight.

[humby248]

My Nan repaired lorries for the army. Up unitl the day ashe died she could still remember how to remove the engine and strip it down! My Mothers Father was a gunner with Costal Command on the Sunderlands and then later became the skipper of a rescue launch. His cousin was Air Vice Marshal Sir Anthony Selway. Phil Selway the drummer with Radiohead is my cousin.