Margaret, thank you for posting here. I too would like to offer you and your family my condolences in your sad loss. I should also like to endorse Steve's point about the importance of this thread and its contributors such as your Dad for the children of that amazing war time generation. Through your Dad and his fellow orators we learn something of what followed when called up for the "duration of hostilities"
Rest in Peace, dear Fred... "This is the happy Warrior; this is He that every Man in arms should wish to be."