Did any of your relations fight in either of the world wars?

My granda on my dad's side wasn't fighting, but I know he was one of the folk that had to run about telling everyone to put the lights off when the bombers were coming in ww2. Some of his brothers were over there and I know one of my great uncles was shot but survived and lived til his 90s, met him a few times when I was very young.

 

My granda on my dad's side didn't fight in WW2 but he was part of the group of men involved in nuclear weapon tests on Christmas Island in the late 1950's. Died years later but the exposure to that * would have had a part in that.

Disgusting how those tests were carried out.

 

Couldn't think where else to put this, thought a thread in Celtic Chat might end up getting punted to HPR, didn't known anything about this until I saw it in the paper

 

My grandpa on my mums side started off with the Atlantic convoys in WWll,after that he was involved with the D-Day landings taking the Americans into Ohama beach with the landing crafts,finished off on the Arctic convoys supplying the Russians.My other grandpa was at the Anzio landings in Italy with the Highlanders,fought at Monte Casino.Both survived the war.

 

My Grandfather fought in the South Pacific in WWII. He was in the US Navy. When I was a kid he used to tell me some war stories. He was wounded twice: once from a Japanese gunshot and the other from when the Japanese blew up his jeep while it was in motion.

I was still pretty young when he passed away, but I wish I could have had more conversations with him about his service. Especially now that I am an *.

 

My grandfather was part of the Italian campaign and his brother liberated a concentration camp but not sure what else he did.

 

No way my grandfather was there too with the US

 

Apparently it was pretty brutal fighting,one story my grandpa told was they had an unarmed piper in a kilt leading the charge and the Germans thought he was that nuts that they never had the heart to shoot him.

 

That's crazy. I didn't know him as he died a few years before I was born but my mom said he never liked to talk about that one battle and it was really tough for him.

 

The German's thought it was bad luck to shoot a piper.

 

My grandfather was Polish and fought with a Polish regiment in the British army.
He escaped from the Siberian work camps after getting caught by Stalin and fought in tobruk.
He was a paratrooper and fought at Arnhem he got is finger shot off jumping out the plane.

After the war he left the the army and was allowed to stay because he and his family back home would be killed if he went home.
But the worst of it was he was treated like a second class citizen he couldn't find work for ages cause he was a pole and had to go the police station every Friday to sign a book and he wasn't allowed to March on V-Day.

 

My great great grandas brother (i think) fought in WW1 and cousin in ww2. Seen a picture of him in his uniform. will try and find it. My great great grandas other brother was pulled from his home in ardoyne all them years ago by the black and tans and hanged from a nearby tree. My great granda also helped keep the republican flame going fighting in the 50s for the old IRA.

 

my grandfather fought in france and messopotamia in WW1.He was a regular soldier having joined the HLI in 1906.He was sent home in 1915 with two gunshot wounds,one to the face and one to his elbow.He married my granny when he was home and was then sent back to rejoin his regiment after his wounds healed. there is no trace of his army record as the place they were being stored took a direct hit during the london blitz and over 60% of all the records were destroyed. i applied to the m.o.d. last year for my grandads returned medals and recieved two,i had to buy a replica 1914/15 star but at least i now have the three.
My father and his brother fought in WW2,my da was a gunner in a light anti aircraft battery,i know this because i applied for his army records a couple of years ago as ,like many other men of his generation he never spoke of his war service,according to his records he spent a lot of the war in england,he went to france in 1944 then onto belgium,holland eventually ending his war in munster in germany.he was demobbed in 1946.
My da's brother john fought with the argyle and sutherland highlanders.His unit was one of the last to leave dunkirk as they and a few other scottish regiments were left to hold back the advancing germans to allow for the escape of the rest of the allied forces from northern france. he was killed in 1942 and is buried in kohima in north east india. I also applied to the m.o.d. for both my fathers and my uncle john's medals last year and recieved the them within a few weeks.