Young Soldier's Memories of D-Day

The contributor shared the wartime experiences of his parents, Irene and Jack Huskisson. The contributor told that Irene worked in a factory that made various components for the war and, at 16, Jack volunteered to join the Home Guard. The contributor explained that in 1942, when Jack was 17, he joined the Royal Army Service Corps. Jack had 6 weeks of training in Carlisle, and the contributor advised that Jack was subsequently sent to Chester, then Cambridge, then New Forest with thousands of troops from various places.

The contributor stated that Jack was sent to Sword Beach and eventually moved to a transport unit that was very strict. In this unit, Jack travelled though Belgium and Germany before being granted compassionate leave due to his father falling ill. The contributor shared that Irene remembered Jack returning home and his father dying, and the contributor considered this a blessing as Jack was not sent to Burma. Jack was then sent to Shrewsbury, by the prison, and then to Lichfield. The contributor highlighted that Jack remembered having to keep the guns dry when he disembarked the landing boats on D-Day, as Jack was not very tall, as well as how nice the ordinary German civilians were.