Hi, my dad was in Burma when he was 19. What a thought. Here is his medals, the Burma Star is second from the left.Y'know, my Dad has a Burma Star but I have never seen it.........it's wrapped up & put away in some cupboard...........he wont talk about his time in Burma at all other than to say "its the past". Dad was a Chindit & something in me says I should be very proud of my Dad (I am anyway, not because of this just he's my Dad & therefore I'm very biased) but I'd love to know more about what he went thru. You've got me thinking there Bernard.
We forget how brave these boys were. We owe them dearly, my dad was 19, when I was a kid I found his jungle hat along with other stuff in a box under the stairs.
A few more pics showing the Landing Craft (Guns) that my Dad served on. Whether they were taken in around Burma I don't know as he was also involved in the Italy/Sicily landings before being posted to the Far East.
I don't think that Dad took the pictures as he is featured in one of them. How he got them I have no idea.I imagine that an expert might be able to look at the burial image and decide which type of craft the men are on (it's almost certainly the stern of whatever it was). This would possibly determine dates. I'm pretty sure that other images - showing R458 and R398 - are of vessels which came too late for D-Day and the photos may well have been taken in the Far East.
I'm wondering what was the likelihood of a young man being equipped - and permitted - to take photographs on active service in June 1944. If indeed it was LCG 13, this is a rare photograph indeed.
Whenever it was, what experiences your father - and so many other lads of his generation - lived through.
Chris
I imagine that an expert might be able to look at the burial image and decide which type of craft the men are on (it's almost certainly the stern of whatever it was). This would possibly determine dates. I'm pretty sure that other images - showing R458 and R398 - are of vessels which came too late for D-Day and the photos may well have been taken in the Far East.
I'm wondering what was the likelihood of a young man being equipped - and permitted - to take photographs on active service in June 1944. (Also it does look as though it's tropical kit which is being worn). If indeed it was LCG 13, this is a rare photograph indeed.
Whenever it was, what experiences your father - and so many other lads of his generation - lived through.
Chris