260360 Sgt. Henry Frank Foot British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Known as Frank to his friends, Henry Foot was called up in 1942 having been in the reserved job of Teacher up to then. Following training he was posted to the South Coast of England where he served with Canadian soldiers, all along the South Downs over-looking the English Channel. This included Dover and he remembered clearly how they dived into the tunnel there when the air-raid sirens went off. Frank's job in R.E.M.E was to service the radar equipment which was in its relative infancy. Two of the pylons which he serviced, along with Canadian soldiers, are still there to be seen inland from Dover. The day before D-Day, when many of the Canadians would have been sent off to France, he received orders to go up to Scotland! When the war ended he was kept on to help resettle soldiers coming back from the war.
Frank's daughter, Janet, was born the day he was to be conscripted, so he was allowed one week's leave before he joined up. This information is written by his son Richard, who was conceived on one home leave in 1944.
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