Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 04 Mar 2013 05:09:17 EST
My Dad is front row number 2 SGT David Hendry McIntosh
Thanks Phyllis...photo now updated... Pete R
Posted by Phyllis Yakas on Tue 10 Jul 2012 08:58:27 EDT
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3rd row number 2 is David Hendry McIntosh my Dad
Thanks Phyllis...photo now updated... Pete R
Posted by Phyllis Yakas on Tue 10 Jul 2012 08:56:26 EDT
These Comments by Roy Martin Smith transferred from main gallery page to this photo
Roy Martin Smith comments "My uncle is in this photo, he is fourth row back on the extreme right.
He is Plyx106635 Corporal Roy Montague Smith of 'S' sugar section killed on the 18th april 1945 and buried in the Ravenna war cemetry.
I have a box of photo's, letters home, and a 1 reichsmark note that he sent home while on active service.
I have a photo of sugar sec with the names of the men, maybe some of them are still out there.
Mne Hayatt, Hayward,Elliot,Davies,Archibald,Fowle,Johnson.
L/cpl V C Barker his close friend.
Cpl Sam Hardwick, Williams,
If anybody has information about the above or would like to see some of these photo's please get in touch."
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 17 May 2012 18:42:48 EDT
Photo updated
Having spoken with the contributor of the photo I have now amended the names to reflect the comments by Kathryn Walker
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sat 28 Apr 2012 05:21:34 EDT
Senior NCOs 43 Commando
I am new to this site and have found it invaluable/interesting as I am transposing my father's diary into a document to pass on to his grandchildren/greatgrandchildren. So I am very grateful for the photos, to put faces to the names he mentions.
His name was C/Sgt Norman Leach and he was friends with Tansy Lee and Bill Thoday(?).
The photo of SNCOs has a name missing from the top row as my dad is 5th from the left. Also I am not sure that Sgts Lee and Thoday are in the right order, as I vaguely remember meeting Tansy in the 1950s. I also remember the Xmas cards we used to get.
I would be interested to know if anyone out there has any anecdotes or stories about my dad, or if I can help anyone else in any way.
Posted by kathryn walker on Wed 25 Apr 2012 13:01:16 EDT
43 commando A troop
My dad, Tommy Carroll of Glasgow Scotland is 3rd row from the bottom on the far right
Posted by heather carroll on Tue 10 Apr 2012 19:32:25 EDT
Dave Losban, RM.
** Photo updated: Mike please contact me via the Contact Us page if you have an additional picture of your father for our gallery **
My Dad, Dave, is pictured (2nd row back/ 5th from the left)on the steps in Putignano, with the others of 'A'Troop, 43rd RM. He was seriously wounded in action near Argenta, on 19/4/45. I believe that he was shot during the last half-hour that the 43rd were in during WW2. I feel such a sense of honour to have had a father like mine; a true gentleman with a great sense of humour.He was a paraplegic due to his wounds and indeed, when he died, his death certificate stated 'gunshot wounds', even though it was 48 yrs on from his wounding.
'All that we have of freedom
All that we use or know
This our Fathers bought for us
Long and long ago'
Rudyard Kipling.
Posted by mike losban on Fri 11 Nov 2011 08:41:30 EST
