This war veteran had previously disclosed little or nothing about his experiences on Sword Beach during WWII, and it turns out he played a leading role.
"I recognise that beach," said Roy.And so, bit by bit, they began the unlocking of memories from Roy of his part at Sword Beach in the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, about which he had previously disclosed little or nothing.From Roy's accounts of those momentous events a story emerged of how he literally played a leading role, guiding a specialised landing craft to the beach's edge even before the main forces landed, to help clear a way for the assault force.
"His main job was as a driver of all kinds of vehicles – tracked vehicles, lorries, landing craft, all kinds of things. From what we understand from what Roy said he was the helmsman on a landing craft at D-Day – a Landing Craft Medium – launched from the landing craft mother ship HMS Cutlass. "He told us he lost a lot of his friends during the war. He was quite a retiring guy and didn't talk about it that much."He had a love of music and in particular going to the opera, and would go for instance to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, was a keen gardener, and a dog lover who delighted in visits by his close friends Eddie and Rose when they bought their dog along when they came to see him in the nursing home in the last part of his life.
Marianne said:"Barbara Hall, who was Uncle Roy's companion through the Church Stretton Coco organisation, which connects seniors to volunteers, told me the touching story of how his friend was killed in an air attack when they were on an Arctic convoy, his body being buried at sea and his shipmates’ comforting words. Her husband Laurence estimates Uncle Roy may have been on the Arctic convoy in 1942.
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