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218453 John Hodgson British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from:Matlock Jack Hodgson was my dad. He served with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He was only a young lad when he crossed the channel on DDay. He made a couple of trips driving tanks onto the beach to unload them. He was very frightened along with everyone else. He spent a night in a bomb crater and remembered listening to a couple of German soldiers chatting above him and seeing the light of their cigarettes in the pitch dark, they didn't see him..... and that was the first time he thought he may just survive to return to his family. He was picked up by a Canadian unit and stayed with them until he found his own. This 70th anniversary of DDay makes me again remember what a wonderful man my dad was and how proud of him I am.
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