Dear Elizabeth,
I hope you had a really happy birthday yesterday.
Love, Uncle Craig
Family
Stuff related to family. Pretty self-explanatory, don’t you think?
Seventy years ago today
On 7 June 1944 my great uncle, Corporal Leslie John King — of the 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, son of Fred Josiah and Lydia Ann King, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and brother of my grandmother Gladys Lydia Marshall (née King), later of South Africa — was killed in Normandy the day after landing on Sword Beach on D-Day. He is buried at the Bayeux War Cemetery in Bayeux, Normandy, France. He was just 24 years old.
Thanks to The War Graves Photographic Project I have photographs of his gravestone and the cemetery where he is buried. However, I hope to obtain and post my own later this year.
Happy Birthday Elizabeth!
Dear Elizabeth,
Happy birthday. It looks like I posted this a day late (again!), but this website uses the UTC time zone, so it was still your birthday in the Pacific time zone. 🙂
I’m sorry that you lost Poppa recently. It’s a real shame that your parents wouldn’t let you see him for the last years of his life, until it was too late and he was an emaciated old man on his death bed. 🙁
Love, Uncle Craig