Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - wallace11

Pages: [1]
1
World War Two / Re: My fathers WW2 Army file ?
« on: Friday 30 September 16 11:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi Drew, thanks for info on ox & bucks diaries but I do have most of them ,I just wanted to chat to other ox & bucks families and pass on or get other info. It may be nice if anyone's father knew mine . I know he had a friend that lived in Hastings e.sx when I was a child in the late fifties /sixties as we used to visit him he had 2/3 girls I think his name was mick or Mack but that is all I can remember. also we use to visit his old reg.sergeant major at the tower of London. I believe he then ended up in the Chelsea pensioners home. My father was Sidney William Hussey. not to be confused with the Hussey that was an officer that was killed and is buried in salerno. 
regards
Freda   

2
World War Two / Re: 7th Batt Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry - WW2
« on: Thursday 29 September 16 15:35 BST (UK)  »
 Hi
my father was in the 7th batt.Ox and Bucks. he served in N.Africa and Italy fighting at enfidaville .the battle for tunis. then to salerno naples.caserta volturno crossing where he was wounded then on to camino the first battle for cassino along the garilgliano line when they retreated of a 1000 men only 60 returned my father being one of them they went back to eqypt to refit. they then fought on the gothic line and coriano ridge then to gemmano next the rimini line he was injured for a second time  on the 22nd september 1944 when he returned on the 29th sept ,there were not enough of the ox & bucks left to form a battalion and he was seconded into the queens royal reg.
he fought in some of the fiercest battles of italy he was wounded for a third time in march 1945 somewhere around the river senio and sent home I belong to to italy star assoc. and there met a grenadier guard who fought at camino they went up the mountain first and were almost wiped out then the ox & bucks went up he said it was worse than cassino because they had no where to hide it was bare rock and they were sitting targets plus it was very wet and bitterly cold many suffered frost bite. have not heard of any ox & bucks veterans still alive are there any out there?

Pages: [1]