206413 Alfred "Taffy" Williams British Army 56 ME. Royal Engineers from:Anglesey Alfred Williams first disembarkment with the Royal Engineers was in the Azores. He landed in France June 18th 1944 on`GOLD` Beach and later volunteered along with his sergeant to drive their bulldozer through the mine fields into Caen. He rode shotgun, the sergeant, whose bulldozer was bigger, was awarded the French cross of honour. He was also one of the unfortunate men to be working clearing the thousands of dead bodies at Belsen concentration camp and told me in his later years that he could still smell the rotting corpses.
Post war he played football for a local German team and was sent to the 'glass house' for assaulting two Germans.
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