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The War in Burma
- Thread starter Bernard67Arnold
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George hart
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Hello Rosie,my dad died in 1977,my dad would never talk about the war either,so in 2008 I requested his army records,the were very informative,he was in the chindits,which I never knew,so much info in the records,well worth it,good luck,regards George
Stevehanson
master brummie
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.
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Stevehanson
master brummie
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.
Stevehanson
master brummie
I don't know if I told anyone on this site that when I was a kid living in the back to backs in Pigott street off Bath Row, I climbed into our loft and found an army rifle, I since found out from by brother in law who was in the Britsh Army it was a Martini Henry dated in 1890s. What a find.
Some wounded returned from Burma in 1945. Viv.
paul stacey
master brummie
dirty forgotten war, mainly midlands Regts, like the East Anglian Regts captured and forced labour, not many came home, these were some of the lucky ones, bless em. !!!!
A bit of googling suggests that this type of vessel appeared too late for the Sicilian/Italian landings and so the images are likely to have been taken in the Far East, perhaps in 1945.
Wonderful material - this and the earlier post - and thanks for it. Several of them pose questions which will now never be answered. For example the burial at sea image - two unknown fellows and their comrades bidding them farewell, but who they were and what were the circumstances.....?
Chris
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jmadone
master brummie
Chris you may well be right I can't say for sure. Because this was amongst his photos I think that this may be the burial of some of his comrades a few days after the Normandy landings when his craft LCG 13 was hit by a shell fired from a German shore battery that landed in the Royal Marines' messdeck killing several young men.
A fuller account can be seen in my post on another thread
As there is nothing on the reverse of the photo, no dates , names etc. of course I may be wrong. I wonder if there is a way of finding out a list of crew members who were aboard at the time.
A fuller account can be seen in my post on another thread
Lucky 13 (LCG 13) The part they played at on D Day and in the Normandy landings
As there is nothing on the reverse of the photo, no dates , names etc. of course I may be wrong. I wonder if there is a way of finding out a list of crew members who were aboard at the time.
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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
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
jmadone
master brummie
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.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Maybe it is an official photograph ?
My uncle was with the first personnel to arrive at Belson. He had in his possession about 50 harrowing photographs. I enquired at the War Museum with the idea of donating them, but they said they had already many photos.
Eventually the brother of a contact picked them up in London and took them to Tel Aviv. There they were identified as official and copies were given to certain individuals. Although they were familiar with the pictures they stated their gratitude in the donation.
