A Bailey Bridge at Deventer

I have brought in a plaque presented to my father, John William Roustone, by the Mayor of Deventer on behalf of the Managing Directors of the Netherlands Railway at the end of 1945. My father was a Major in the Royal Engineers and after landing in Normandy worked on many reconstruction projects during the war. John was born in 1913 in Sheffield and started working as a Junior Draughtsman on the LMS Railways (his father had been a Senior Draughtsman and got him the job). He joined the Territorial Army before the war. Shortly before mobilising to France, John got married after meeting his fiancé... Mehr ...