A Few Words about
D-Day
D-Day. A Day In The Life Of The Kilted Tommy
D-Day, the 6th June 1944
It’s the 75th Anniversary of D-Day this year.
People are remembering the events on the coast of France and the sacrifices by so many men on the beaches of Normandy.
But what was happening to the people left at home?
What is happening on the home front with this news?
What were they doing on that particular day when the news came in?
How did they hear the news?
How did they react?
How did they feel?
Harry Kay, the Kilted Tommy, is now a civilian, married with children.
He was gassed at Passchendaele and declared unfit to fight again.
How is he dealing with this new war?
Is he missing the comradeship?
How is civilian life in wartime?
He is finding it different to being away and at war.
What sort of memories does this day stir in his mind?
How is he dealing with the fact that his son is somewhere in the middle of the D-Day invasion, a tank commander with the Royal Marines Commandos?
Come and hear the story of him and his family on this fateful day.
The event is being held on one of the actual embarkation beaches.
Have a look here for the details.