Namaste
All,
>
> This is the day to remember the other victims of war...the
servicemen.
>
> Many members of my family served and in fact volunteered, as they
> weren't called up, being Irish.
>
> My late father volunteered for Abyssinia and served in the Indian
> Army as an officer on the North West Frontier, and in Egypt.
>
> My Uncle Mick was on the first group to hit the beaches in Normandy
> on D-Day, he was a sergeant in the Irish Guards, and is in his
> nineties to day, still has the wounds. Other uncles fought all the
> way through Europs.
>
> Part of my family was living in England at the time and her partner
> or fiance was killed and I remember this well and how it affected
> her, my mother's sister,for she
helped raise me.Search VC Basil Weston on wikipedia
>
> His listing in the Victoria Cross is here.
>
>
> Tony O'Clery.
