Today, a padded envelope arrived containing ‘five’ 50 pence pieces (or ‘coins’) commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British D-Day Landings at Caen and Normandy.
Category: OX & Bucks Light Infantry – 1st Battalion – WWII
My paternal grandfather – Alfred Gregory Wyles (1916-1976) – served in an Anti-Tank Platoon during WWII (1940-1946).
Alfred Gregory Wyles (1916-1976) – (WWII) War Record 1939-1946 (Military No: 5117194) 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion (LightBobs) – Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Territorial Army)
Military records are precise and concise and convey very little about the reality of war. As a family we do not subscribe to the notion of imperialist war, but we are proud that our grandfather volunteered to join the British Army to fight fascism in the 1940’s.
THE SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 