SirToppam,
Some years ago I worked with a chap whose father was a regular NCO with a West Country Regiment serving with the BEF in France. Following the retreat from Dunkirk his father was posted missing, as a small child his memory is being immediatly evicted from the Married Quarters in Exeter with his mother and other children. Some weeks later his father surfaced and made his way back home, the family were then permitted back to the Married Quarters. This left him with a life long jaundiced impression of the Military.
Rather a thread creep, the Merchant Seamen serving on the Atlantic convoys during WW2 had a raw deal, if their ship was sunk, the pay stopped immediatly, this meant any time in hospital or recovering was unpaid.
Best regards,
om15
Last edited by om15; 6th Aug 2007 at 13:41.