blood! It is the Russians we should be respecting (and supporting) once again as a nation! Hurrah! May the Victorious Russian Army CRUSH all Ukrainian (Neo-Nazi) Resistance in its path! Hurrah!

My paternal grandfather – Alfred Gregory Wyles (1916-1976) – served in an Anti-Tank Platoon during WWII (1940-1946).
blood! It is the Russians we should be respecting (and supporting) once again as a nation! Hurrah! May the Victorious Russian Army CRUSH all Ukrainian (Neo-Nazi) Resistance in its path! Hurrah!
Our paternal grandfather was a frontline British soldier during WWII whose regiment stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day – and landed in Caen in wooden gliders just before the beach landings of June 6th, 1944. We are proud of his service in the fight against fascism!
As a working-class family with many surnames and ethnic strands, we have been proud of our ancestors who served in the British Armed Forces and
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.
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.