My dad, the quiet war hero

My dad, the quiet war hero

Add VE Day 80 to your watchlist My dad was born in 1916, the year of the Battle of the Somme, at the height of what HG Wells called “the war that will end war”. A stoic Scotsman, he was 23 when the Second World War broke out. He signed up without thinking, but with the feeling that it was the right thing to do. The baby of one war was a man of the next. Over the next five years, he was stationed in Damascus, India, Lebanon and what was then call…

Timex Reissued the Same Watch My Dad Wore in the Army

Back in the late 1970s, my old man was about to enter the military, and he needed a watch.  A recent college graduate with a degree in, ahem, theater — the apple, which has a degree in music, doesn’t fall far from the tree — he didn’t have much cash for this purchase. Turning to my grandfather, the old old man, himself a teacher and not a wealthy guy, kindly obliged by purchasing him a timepiece for use during his service. The watch? A base-meta…

Appeal to find relatives of local Second World War hero John Baskeyfield | Stoke-on-Trent

An appeal has been launched to find relatives of Burslem’s Second World War hero, Lance Sergeant John Baskeyfield.