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243208Mjr. George Alwyne Fyson MID.
British Army Royal East Kent Regiment
from:London SE9
My father, George Fyson, was in the Buffs and no. 3 Commando. He was in the Lofoton Islands raid on the Vaagso raid as a Corporal. He was Mentioned in Despatches. He was not at Dieppe as he had been sent for officer training, which my mother said saved his life as his platoon was wiped out. He finished the war as a Major.I also have a number of regimental photos which are not titled, often with my father front and centre as the officer. He was shot in the leg during house to house fighting; unfortunately I don't know where or when, and was saved by his batman. He appears in a photo I have seen several times online of soldiers returning from the Vaagso raid on HMS Leopold. Whilst training in Scotland he lay on barbed wire for men to cross over him, and acted as ski instructor as he was the only person who had skied before the war. The officer asked 'Anyone skied before?' My father said he had. 'Right, you are the instructor' said the officer! These are the very few things that I learnt from him before he died at the age of 59 in 1977. Two brothers died in WW2: PO Jack Fyson in RAF and Lieutenant Don Fyson RNVR.
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