256449 Pte. George Harry Porter British Army Gordon Highlanders from:Glasgow, Scotland My dad George Porter enlisted on the 16th of October and served with the BEF in France from 19th of April 1940 to the 12th of June 1940. He was captured at Valery-en-Caux, France and was marched through France, Belgium and Holland. Then in the holds of barges down the Rhine to Emmirch, from there loaded into trucks and made the journey to Thorn, Poland. No food or water for days. Then onto Danzig then later transferred to Marienberg, Poland. Where he remained until January 1945 when his camp was liberated by the Russians. He finally made it back to the UK by the end of March 1945.
My dad didn't talk about the war, or what happened to him. A few years prior to his death in 2004, he wrote his memories down and handed me the diary, told me to not ask any more questions as he just wanted to put that in the past.
I typed these out and also applied for his war medals, but he would neither look at the newly typed document or accept the medals, telling me to give these to his grandchildren.
My dad was my hero.
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