206643 L/Bdr Edward Joseph Daly British Army Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers from:Glasgow My father, Edward Joseph Daly, served, I think, with REME, in 1945. He was at Nijmegan at the beginning of March 1945, was near Brussels until about mid March, moved to Vilvoorde 18th March, then onto Weeze, on 23rd and then Honnepel. He crossed Rhine on 30th March North of Rees, waiting to go into action on the 1st April and was on recce near Bremen on 3rd April. From this point on it seemed to be some heavy action until about 20th April. He went to Wildenshausen and then Delmemhorst and on to Osterholz and Otterberg. At the begining of May he was at Breddorf and then Wilstedt and somehow ended up in Norway, talking about going to Denmark and back to Germany.
I took this information from a very small diary, I was given after my father died in 1996. He never really spoke about the War, I have seen photographs of him in Nijmegan and I remember I overheard him speaking to a friend about Belsen and how they were not allowed to give food to anyone, in fear in might kill them.
My father talked about army buddies Fitzs and Wynn, I think that Fittz is John Fitzimons from Edinburgh, I am not sure who Wynn is. There is a name and address, Mr and Mrs Walpole 19 Powell Street, Clayton, possibly Manchester, he may have been billeted there. I would like to know a bit more about the Regiment, he was with and if anybody knows anything please contact me.
|