Royal Navy

My Grandpa served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War 2. He trained in Scotland and Hamble and commanded an infantry landing craft. He sailed to France on D-Day. He had kept a photographic record of the shore line of the beaches in the area where he landed, this had been collected by submarine. Unfortunatly he lent it to somebody, after the war was finished, and it was never returned. For many years after the war he helped many ex-service men through the Royal British Legion and other Naval organisations. He was always very proud that he and a group of colleagues were in a photograph that was displayed in the Imperial War Museum.

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