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- CSV Media NI
- People in story:听
- Paddy Crane
- Location of story:听
- Berniere-sur-Mer (Juno beach), Normandy, France
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A8683969
- Contributed on:听
- 20 January 2006
This story is taken from an interview with Pat Moorhead, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The interview was by Walter Love, and transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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My mother鈥檚 2 brothers fought in ww2. Her Uncle won the VC in the Boer war, and was also decorated in ww1. But my uncle [on my father鈥檚 side] Paddy Crane was a British Army chaplain and he was awarded the MBE for his services. He landed on D-Day.
I have all his original letters to my grandmother, describing D-Day.
He often told me that on the morning the ships went in - He landed at Berniere-sur-Mer, which is on Juno beach - He was offered a full English breakfast by his Batman, before they disembarked into the landing craft.
He describes in his letters to his father that there was no fear, that they just jumped out of the landing craft. I believe he lost several men before they hit the beach.
He was in Germany until 1946 when he came back to Dublin.
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