taff edwards
A Fixture
Hi all
Well getting to the final stages of the busts for the school in Normandy and trip over with my dad , just waiting for the 2nd Monmouthshire Badge off ebay will put that on front and name plate have copied a battle map of the area that was were my dad fought around the school did some washes on it , .
The dog tags are the ones that my dads Platoon Sgt wore his name was "Jock " Johnstone he was a jock in a welsh regiment dad said he was ,
" A raw boned Scott who used to love to tease us welsh lot , but kind and fair minided, during the Normandy campaign he was going back behind the lines he was going back having been given LOB which was a term for getting some rest Left out of Battle for 24 hours ,on the way back with two other guys a shell landed very near them killing his two mates and he lost a leg and arm , his war was over but his battles had only just began ,he was 20 years old
Jock stayed in touch with dad and he used to come and visit he suffered from diabetes but I never heard him complain ,I once asked him if he felt bitter the way the card had fallen he said hell no I could have been blinded .
Jock had in total throughout his life 54 operations and in his late 70s he lost his other damaged leg to diabeties .
This will astound you he now only had his one functioning arm he was assessed by the what is now DWP after they had given him his other false leg and they said he was now walking better therefore consequently cutting his disability money by half .
I will hasten to add that my father and other Veterens including Edward Chapman VC BEM took up his cause went to MP s and even lobbied Prince Charles and Tony Blair ,his money was reinstated , after much heated and angry correspondence .
Jock had worked all his life in between operations as a civil servant ,he died 5 years ago and his daughter sent his dog tags to my dad as they had been such pals , I am making some copies of the dog tags to go on the busts for the school which i think is only fitting for a truly lovely man who my dad misses so very much .
Thanks for reading
Cheers Chris
Well getting to the final stages of the busts for the school in Normandy and trip over with my dad , just waiting for the 2nd Monmouthshire Badge off ebay will put that on front and name plate have copied a battle map of the area that was were my dad fought around the school did some washes on it , .
The dog tags are the ones that my dads Platoon Sgt wore his name was "Jock " Johnstone he was a jock in a welsh regiment dad said he was ,
" A raw boned Scott who used to love to tease us welsh lot , but kind and fair minided, during the Normandy campaign he was going back behind the lines he was going back having been given LOB which was a term for getting some rest Left out of Battle for 24 hours ,on the way back with two other guys a shell landed very near them killing his two mates and he lost a leg and arm , his war was over but his battles had only just began ,he was 20 years old
Jock stayed in touch with dad and he used to come and visit he suffered from diabetes but I never heard him complain ,I once asked him if he felt bitter the way the card had fallen he said hell no I could have been blinded .
Jock had in total throughout his life 54 operations and in his late 70s he lost his other damaged leg to diabeties .
This will astound you he now only had his one functioning arm he was assessed by the what is now DWP after they had given him his other false leg and they said he was now walking better therefore consequently cutting his disability money by half .
I will hasten to add that my father and other Veterens including Edward Chapman VC BEM took up his cause went to MP s and even lobbied Prince Charles and Tony Blair ,his money was reinstated , after much heated and angry correspondence .
Jock had worked all his life in between operations as a civil servant ,he died 5 years ago and his daughter sent his dog tags to my dad as they had been such pals , I am making some copies of the dog tags to go on the busts for the school which i think is only fitting for a truly lovely man who my dad misses so very much .
Thanks for reading
Cheers Chris
