Showing posts with label Parachute Regiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parachute Regiment. Show all posts

Monday, 20 May 2013

Pegasus Bridge 1944



The old man told me that he was approaching 90. I asked him about the war. he was in a Northern Ireland Regiment- the Royal Innishkillen Dragoon Guards and the Earl of Kildare was his commanding officer. he was in D Day and was near the Pegasus Bridge. He told me about how bitter he was in the way the country had turned out.

A woman behind him she was in her late 40s told me and the old man about her father who in the Parachute Regiment and took part in a battle in the Ardennes which took place in January 1945. Incidentally that was where my father was. In fact he was bombed by a ME 262. The woman was trying to put the history of her father;s war together. He had died in 2002.

The old man and the woman embraced. I felt that it was a rather touching incident