I spoke to my father – Peter Desmond Wyles – today. He was born during 1943 in the middle of WWII! His father (my grandfather) – Alfred Wyles – was a soldier in the British Army between 1940-1946! As everyone at the time knew a ‘big push’ was coming from the UK, Canada and the US, my grandfather decided to have another child with his wife (Gladys Wyles – nee Kilmurray) just in case he did not survive what eventually became the D-Day Landings (which took place in mid-June – 1944). My father was born in Lincolnshire whilst his father was training in and around the canal system in the Devon city of Exeter. Why was this? It was because the Exeter canal system was similar to the canal system of Caen – Northwest France!
My grandfather was in the Ox & Bucks (1st Bucks Battalion) – Territorial (Light Bobs) – which landed on Sword Beach. They were given the task of fighting their way ten miles in-land to relieve D Company (2nd Battalion) of the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry (Professional) which were Glider-Landed in and around Caen. My father had just turned ‘1 years old’ in 1944 – when his father left for war! My father remembers all the war stories his Dad told him – and which he has told me. My grandfather’s Unit suffered terrible casualties fighting against fascism to secure the freedom we take for granted today! Luckily, my grandfather survived the battles liberating Western Europe from the thuggery and murder of the Nazi German jackboot! This is why my family – and millions like us in the UK – to NOT and will NOT support the Neo-Nazi regime currently in control of Ukraine! We also support Russia – our former allies – in their battle against this US-back Neo-Nazi threat to humanity!
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 