Hi Bradeley - if you want to email it to [email protected] we can add it for you. Regards, Jamie Mackay
I have an image from what I can make out of boat no.536. My grandad was no.3 commando and special service brigade but its landing at Sword beach not Juno.
Sadly i can't post a picture on the comment thread here.
I am looking for the CO’s of LCI(S) that landed on Juno Beach carrying 48 RM Cdn
The ships were:
525
515
533
513
539
540
The next two ships below were carrying HQ’s 4 SS Brigade, RM and I have the names of these vessel CO’s:
526 - Lt BSB Lingwood
536 - Lt Laidlaw
The Senior Office was LCdr G Timmermans, and I believe he was aboard 525 (but I do not know if he was the CO of this ship
Any assistance would be most appreciated
Hi there,
A visit from relatives from the US has prompted this post. My Grandfather (my relatives father) served on LCI S 503 as coxswain on D Day. His name is Alfred William Edwards. By coincidence I have the same picture (wallet size) that is posted along with 3 other photos of the landing including 2 taken of my Grandfather (we always assumed) at the bridge and another of the Commandos disembarking. I also have a larger side view of the 503 fully loaded and moving at speed. I once emailed the UK Landing Craft Association and got some good information that he was at Sword with 6 Commando. My relatives always thought he was at Gold Beach. Coincidently my own father Eric Reginald Smith was also a coxswain but of an LCT and at Gold Beach. I hope this would be useful.
My father was in the British Royal Navy (Tony Girling) deceased 2010. I found some small very old photographs he had from the second world war of LCI's heading for the 'Beach' as he called it, on or about June 6th 1944. I was amazed to find that I have an original photograph of the D-Day photo you have in your 'Articles' section D-Day On the back of the photo it states - Aboard the 516 on the way to France - and dated 5/6/44. I also have another original photo that I would say is about the same day that states -521 and crew -. I also have two other originals, he wrote on the back - Hell let loose the Beach D-Day 6/6/44- (this might be from the 516 or 521) and another that states on the back - Jerry gun port view from bridge of 516 6/6/44.
My father would tell me how he ended up in the sea a few times that day and how another LCI would haul him and a few mates out of the water.
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