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My Father Charlie Gittins,served in this regiment from 1939 to 1944 when he was killed on 12th June 1944 at Bannerville. I was 7 when he died and can only remember seeing him once when he returned from Egypt fighting at El Alamein. My Mother received a letter in early June asking her to go quickly to London.Everyone rallied round my 4year old brother & I were looked after friends & my mother went off to London dressed very smartly wearing borrowed clothes from all the wives whos husbands were serving in the war. Everyone was very excited for my Mother.Somehow my Father managed to get out of the camp & my parents spent a wonderful night together dancing at the Hammersmith Palais.The next thing my mother heard on her return to Manchester was about the D day landings.That was their last night together as my father was killed on 12th June with many other young people fighting for their country. PEACE TO THE WORLD