ww2 photo help needed

[Pete Keane]

I do believe - in all honesty - that it was one of your threads that I saw the information on.......

Next time I'm having all the glory

Cheers

Pete

[julieanne001]

dear scrimnet
thank you for that.
that's reasured us now.
thanks
julie

[julieanne001]

pete.

thank you for all your help.
all the information has been most useful.
julie

[scrimnet]

I do believe - in all honesty - that it was one of your threads that I saw the information on.......

Next time I'm having all the glory

Cheers

Pete

No probs! 

Pse do mate!

[Mickf1]

This is my Dad , I am his son Michael, he enlisted in the Army on 1st January 1934. His service no. was 5381486  He did tell me that he spent quite a few years in india prior to the outbreak of ww2 but I dont know if it was with the OX AND BUCKS, at that time , but I know he subsequently was in the OX AND BUCKS  light infrantry during the war and was shot in the foot during the D Day landings. As a boy I dont remember him saying too much about his service, so I hope with help of my neice Julie we can obtain his service record at some time in the future.

[scrimnet]

Hello Mick and welcome to Rootschat!!

His service records are with the MOD...

http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/service_records.html

2nd bn Ox And Bucks Light infantry were part of 6th Airlanding Bde, 6th Airborne Div. The went in by Horsa Gliders...And landed just after midnight 6th June 1944...

Their mission was to take and hold the bridge over the River Orne...Now known as Peagsus bridge...until relief arrived.

It was portrayed in the film "The Longest Day" with Richard Todd as the CO...

[scrimnet]

2nd bn Ox and Bucks were in India prior to WW2...in Uttar Pradesh..From 1934-1940

  1928 Calcutta   India
  1929 Maymyo   Burma
  1931 Rangoon  Burma
  1934.Nov Bareilly INDIA! 
  1940.July 31 Inf Bde UK
  1943.May 6 Airborne Div UK
  1944.June  6 Airborne Div NW Europe
  1945.Oct Palestine   
 

[Mickf1]

thanks scrimnet thats very interesting information. I have the film longest day and so I will view it again with renewed interest, as I remember, it does seem fairly authentic, and so I can imagine what my father must have gone through, it really makes you appreciate what men like him and thousands of others have done for us.

[scrimnet]

Richard Todd was actually there with the Ox and Bucks, he was playing his own CO!!!

The British sections had some very heavy input from the Vets...Mind you so did the Yank ones...It's just the so called "109s" that buzz the beaches that get me throwing things at the TV!!

There are ooodles of books on the Pegasus Bridge operation....DO look them up!