226644 Thwaite Jack John British Army Border Regiment My grandad John Thwaite was in the Border Regiment. He landed in the assault wave on Gold Beach on D-Day, 6th of June 1944. My dad has told me about the terrible things he saw when they hit the beach that morning. He landed with 231 Infantry Brigade. He also fought in Caen and finally in Belgium, where he was wounded while firing his Bren. He had been hit by either a German mortar or a grenade. He went deaf in one ear and was virtually paralysed on one side, but he still held his ground and managed to lay fire down on the advancing Germans. He was then sent home wounded.
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