- Contributed byÌý
- Surrey History Centre
- People in story:Ìý
- Harry Kaine
- Location of story:Ìý
- Normandy
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4539378
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 25 July 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site at Surrey History Centre on behalf of Mr Harry Kaine. It was has been added to the site with the author's permission, and he fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
We were told that we were to go to the embarkation in March, and that we would be going up ‘Mike’ Beach but have not heard that that beach was used. I cannot remember the number of the platoon, only that it was an RASC Unit attached to a regiment of RA to supply all their needs. I went from Normandy to meet up with the Russians. At the start of the War I was 15 years old, and had been living in Woking since my birth. When the War ended in Germany I was to go to the Far East in the RASC boats to clear up islands, but the War in Far East was over. I was then sent to Palestine and was in a unit of transport that covered the whole of the Middle East. The unit was the last in Haifa. The company was 258 Coy. RASC. I was finally demobbed in May 1947.
['Mike' Beach, which with 'Love' and 'Nan' Beaches made up Juno Beach, which was where the Canadians (and some British) landed. SHC]
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