229006 Jock Cowie British Army Royal Artillery My dad joined up in 1939 and was captured on Crete after defending it against the German landings. He used to talk of Suda Bay and watching a famous British battleship being sunk off the coast. He spent the rest of the war as a POW in Oflag 8b. He used to tell me a fantastic story of what happened after his liberation - one particularly nasty German guard was executed for his crimes. Dad and his mates used all sorts of transport to get back home - a horse and cart, a Russian tank with no steering and a double decker bus.
When Dad came back to England he ended up in Old Park Barracks in Dover and met my Mum who was working in the NAAFI. Dad became a parachute jumping instructor and taught Boys Battery RA whilst stationed in Oswestry. He finished his career (22 yrs) as a WOII.
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