Remembrance Day 2007 approaches. This year the 11th November falls on a Sunday, so church services and family recollections will be all the more poignant.
I wanted to start this blog with thoughts of two of my relatives who died during World War 2.
Edward Geoffrey CURTIS,
First Lieutenant, 48th Royal Marine Commando
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Known as Geoffrey, my uncle was the only brother of my father Richard Kenneth Curtis.
Geoff was killed on D Day, 6th June 1944. The 48th was a short lived Commando, being established within months of D Day, landing at one particular section of Omaha Beach. The Commando was disbanded less than two years later. He was 24 years old.
William 'Billy' WHITEHEAD
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 218 Squadron, RAF
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My uncle's cousin (Their mother's were sisters), Billy was an air gunner in Lancaster bombers when we was shot down over Europe on 20th June 1942. He was 22 years old.
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