Norman Gradwell's experience from D-Day+9 with the Black Watch regiment

My dad Norman Gradwell enlisted in the Black Watch regiment in 1943. After training he embarked for the continent on D-Day+9. After vicious fighting through the Falaise gap [pocket], he was wounded, eventually being sent home. After convalescing he was back in the regiment. He fought through Holland into Germany. He was wounded again on the Holland-Germany border in February 1945. He was transferred from the Black Watch to the Imps, the Lincolnshire regiment after VE Day. He was then transferred to the Warwickshire regiment and was on duty for six months at the Nuremberg trials. He was demobbe... Mehr ...