Details re Charles Grills updated from comments below
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 16 Oct 2014 14:44:24 EDT
Hans Bouman updates this photo
My father Joannes 'Loek' Bouman always spoke highly of him. Tough but fair and friendly.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Tue 14 Oct 2014 08:57:27 EDT
Photo updated
John Bisset identified by his daughter Anita
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Tue 14 Oct 2014 05:37:43 EDT
Photo updated
John Valentine Bissett (Jack/Jacky)identified by his daughter Anita Bissett Roberts
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Tue 14 Oct 2014 05:20:45 EDT
JL Bouman
Bottom lefthand corner is my father JL Bouman.
Posted by Hans Bouman on Wed 08 Oct 2014 08:11:18 EDT
JL Bouman
I recognise my father as the commando at the bottom righthand corner, looking towards the camera. My son now owns the very same beret as on this photo! It was given to him by commando veteran Jan Lempens during the funeral service!
Posted by Hans Bouman on Wed 08 Oct 2014 08:06:17 EDT
JL Bouman
Paybook number 8014 is also mentioned on the plaque I placed at the garden of remembrance! My father told me to put this number on the plaque 3 days before he passed away!
Hans Bouman
Posted by Hans Bouman on Wed 08 Oct 2014 07:54:50 EDT
Photo updated
Names of Sgt Leech and Clifford Hemp added, identified by his daughter Miss Delphine Hemp.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Tue 30 Sep 2014 05:56:39 EDT
Extra to above comment
My dad lost his eye whilst training up in Scotland. I notice he has both eyes in this picture and it is only the second I have of him with both eyes. Because of this accident, dad was not allowed to go on the D-Day landings but continued to serve as a driver mechanic. I have a letter from Lt Col C R Hardy dated 21 Dec 1943 in which he sympathises with my dad for his "bad luck" and he wrote an excellent reference for him. Suzanne Nicholas
Posted by Suzanne Nicholas on Mon 29 Sep 2014 16:39:03 EDT
I was browsing the internet doing some research and came across this picture above. My dad, Charles Grills, is in the picture 3rd row from the back next to the end. How I wish I could have shown him this picture!! Sadly, dad passed away last year aged 91. I have a poem which was published in the December 2012 edition of the Royal Marines Association magazine and I notice so many of the names listed under the photo. These all feature in the poem:
Ron Grant, Jim Chalmers, Macdonald, Ginger, Fagan, Joe Scouse Banks, my dad 'Grills the Reformer', Frank Bamford, Jack Kenna, Roxie Hart, Morris, Bill Burt, Joe Barton, Franks, Bill Lendon. The poem is entitled "The Men of Our Room" and I do not know who wrote it, but whoever it was, came from the north. Dad kept this poem all over the years in his wallet. If anyone would like a copy of the poem, please just ask and I will send it to you. I also have some photographs including an excellent one of G Davidson and his wife. Suzanne Nicholas Daughter of Charles ...
I was browsing the internet doing some research and came across this picture above. My dad, Charles Grills, is in the picture 3rd row from the back next to the end. How I wish I could have shown him this picture!! Sadly, dad passed away last year aged 91. I have a poem which was published in the December 2012 edition of the Royal Marines Association magazine and I notice so many of the names listed under the photo. These all feature in the poem:
Ron Grant, Jim Chalmers, Macdonald, Ginger, Fagan, Joe Scouse Banks, my dad 'Grills the Reformer', Frank Bamford, Jack Kenna, Roxie Hart, Morris, Bill Burt, Joe Barton, Franks, Bill Lendon. The poem is entitled "The Men of Our Room" and I do not know who wrote it, but whoever it was, came from the north. Dad kept this poem all over the years in his wallet. If anyone would like a copy of the poem, please just ask and I will send it to you. I also have some photographs including an excellent one of G Davidson and his wife. Suzanne Nicholas Daughter of Charles Grills
Posted by Suzanne Nicholas on Mon 29 Sep 2014 16:31:35 EDT