Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I'm heartened to see so much interest in these old events, and glad that my dad recorded some of his memories for posterity.

Wessex, please feel free to post the photo from last Nov. 11.

I recently came across an internet posting from 2004 by a Walter Jenkinson, inquiring as to whether anyone knew about his father, who was killed at Moerbrugge on Sept. 10, 1944. Today I sent him an e-mail and a copy of my dad's article, but haven't heard back from him. Have any of you been in contact with him? I'm not sure his e-mail address from 2004 is currently operating.

Just before V-E Day 2005, I came across a news item about Capt. Ivor Martin's son being present at a ceremony in Ontario honouring his father. Capt. Martin was standing about 20 feet from my dad in St. Lambert when he was hit by a German shell, and he died shortly afterwards. This event and Capt. Martin's bravery in taking out a German machine gun single-handed are mentioned in my dad's article. I exchanged messages with his son, and it turned out he had met my dad a few years earlier.

Hearing about these sons who lost their fathers makes one realize how fickle fate is.

Kieran