A personal recollection from when he joined the Grenadier Guards in 1938 up until his evacuation from Dunkirk at the beginning of June 1940. I do recall that as a young child, probably about 9 years of age, whilst rummaging around in the attic I came across two red notebooks about A5 size. Written inside, handwritten by my father, were his recollections of the BEF and Dunkirk. Obviously, the books were quite small and didn't cover a great deal of detail and he'd written them just after landing back in England in June 1940. It was quite a number of years later, into the 2000s that he actually decided to use those notebooks and to write a better explanation, a better recollection of all the events that led up to Dunkirk. Sadly, he never really made a record or ever told me or other members of the family his experiences after Dunkirk. D-Day, of course, was 6th June 1944 and at that time and by that time my father was in what was called the Guards Armoured Brigade, which was the Grenadiers Goldstream Irish/ Welsh Guards who were combined under Montgomery into an armoured battalion "¦tanks and infantry. He was actually sent to France after D-Day by Montgomery in order to clear the Germans from the city of Cahan. One of the few things I do recollect my father telling me was that he and his colleagues were stationed on a hilltop overlooking Cahan when it was subjected to the enormous bombing which completely flattened the city because the Germans wouldn't retreat. That is one of the few things I learned from my father about the post-Day battles and struggles. An article my father wrote for his regimental magazine - I can't remember the timescale, but it was probably in the 80s or 90s. The article is called "Why Pont-a-Marq." Pont-a-Marq is a village in Northern France fairly near to Lille. My father and some of his colleagues were diverted from the advance to Belgium. They were diverted to this village to clear some Germans who were following their policy of destroying everything as they retreated. A small battle ...