John Rawlinson

I'm after some advice/guidance please @Sweepers3945 what is the best way to find individual ship/shore records? I have list of locations that a relative served on in WW2 as a PSSG - see below any advice will be really helpful. Thanks

Royal Marine folks, what would an S2 on board a Landing Craft Gun actually be in this instance? Is it a rank? @johnRM1664?

Here is a Royal Marines quiz for my Royal Navy-minded followers: I already know the answer, but I’d never come across this before, so I thought the Bootneck fans among you would appreciate it. Which WW2 Royal Marines wore a blue tombstone behind their cap badge instead of red?

So no @USMC Marines took part in D-Day I hear you say? Well who would like to read the diary of them landing on Sword Beach with the @RoyalMarines Commandos?

So now that I’ve finished #NormandySailors #DDay reading for a while I’ve challenged myself to read some books which have been on my shelves for FAR too long without being read cover to cover. These were the first. It’s been an extraordinary, illuminating but grueling journey.

Having found the Perthshire Fencible Cavalry 1796 height/girth roll, I'm more than a little surprised to discover that 258 out of 261 rank and file would be considered overweight under current UK health guidelines. Anyone got any ideas as to....why?

#Orkney #WhiteOut

Or Warsprite? #LCT7074 visible in the first photo John.

In indescribable pain from toothache. Please send interesting D-Day tidbits. Thanks.

Yes, that's on the north side of Colleville. The hunting horn and delay while the strongpoint is cleared all fit in with accounts from other people and units. So right up to the mortaring Samain mentions, they're still north of the town.