Sidney Cook - thank you
Among the hand-knitted/crocheted poppies along the railings at Winchester Cathedral are just a few private and poignant messages, left, I imagine by children, at least 3 generations removed from those who fought in WW1.
I also have a thought today for my dad spending four years away from home in WW2, three of those years in PoW camps in N Africa and Europe.
The diary he kept for the duration was very detailed and, interviewed about his wartime experiences by the Imperial War Museum when he was 61, he said:
"I haven't yet been able to get it published because it just contains the humdrum life in camp but maybe one day I'll be able to. I don't know."
If only he could know......
And thanks to Ian Douglas for his generosity of time and expertise in the publication, and to all my friends who have been interested to read it and have not found it 'humdrum':
'Till We Meet Again: Gunner Bert Martin': 1941 to 1945' (Amazon: paperback/kindle)
My parents married in March 1941 and my dad went off to war four months later. After his return home in May 1945 they enjoyed 40 years of happy marriage.
Sidney Cook - thank you
Among the hand-knitted/crocheted poppies along the railings at Winchester Cathedral are just a few private and poignant messages, left, I imagine by children, at least 3 generations removed from those who fought in WW1.
I also have a thought today for my dad spending four years away from home in WW2, three of those years in PoW camps in N Africa and Europe.
The diary he kept for the duration was very detailed and, interviewed about his wartime experiences by the Imperial War Museum when he was 61, he said:
"I haven't yet been able to get it published because it just contains the humdrum life in camp but maybe one day I'll be able to. I don't know."
If only he could know......
And thanks to Ian Douglas for his generosity of time and expertise in the publication, and to all my friends who have been interested to read it and have not found it 'humdrum':
'Till We Meet Again: Gunner Bert Martin': 1941 to 1945' (Amazon: paperback/kindle)
My parents married in March 1941 and my dad went off to war four months later. After his return home in May 1945 they enjoyed 40 years of happy marriage.