Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2013 13:46:34 GMT
|
|
|
Post by jhedger on Mar 25, 2013 14:24:54 GMT
What an amazing account! I have a real interest in 'war stories and people' I do a lot of work on a Forces literary site and write on the subject myself - so this strikes a chord with me on both counts! Proud to have had an address in the same street as this man! Jan
|
|
|
Post by pedro42 on Mar 25, 2013 16:26:46 GMT
What an amazing account! I have a real interest in 'war stories and people' I do a lot of work on a Forces literary site and write on the subject myself - so this strikes a chord with me on both counts! Proud to have had an address in the same street as this man! Jan Hi Jan
My grandfather Alfred Bromley was stationed at Thorp Street at the beginning of WW1.He served as an ostler and reached the rank of sergeant. He served in France and I believe Italy during that war. There's much info, uniforms, medals etc for the Royal Warks at their museum in Warwick. Well worth a visit.
Also, you might find this site very rewarding for your research work
www.1914-1918.net/
In WWII, My Dad was in the Royal Leicesters. He was captured in North Africa as one of the Desert Rats. Although he wasn't an officer, he ended up in Colditz having had his appendix removed (without anaesthetic!!). He told me some wonderful, but traumatic, stories about life as a POW prior to his death in 1996
"The Barbed Wire University" by Midge Gillies makes good reading on this subject
Regards
Pete
|
|