218101 Pte. Frank Edward Maurice Weekes British Army Royal West Kent Regiment My father Frank Weekes was a dispatch rider. He escaped from France via Boulogne at the retreat. Later back in UK the West Kents were on the move to Italy though they did not know that. My father was riding in the column when a doctor came out of his drive and drove over my father. He spent 3 yrs in hospital, eventually losing a leg and that was the end of his war. Ironically not many came back from the Italian campaign so losing a leg but staying alive was maybe not such a bad deal.He didn't speak much of the war except to say he saw things that no-one should have to see.
I still have his riding helmet, gloves and goggles which will be passed down through the generations with his story. He died many years ago but I know he remained sad as to the loss of his friends from boyhood days spent in Higham Kent.
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