Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year journey through World War II.
By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards
Bob Metcalf enlisted in the fourth battalion, the Green Howards in December 1935. He saw action in France in 1940, where he was wounded. Subsequently, he served with the sixth battalion, the Green Howards, and the western desert, in Sicily, and was part of a British increment that fought with the fifth United States Army in Italy. After the war, Bob lived in Canada and became a Canadian citizen. He wrote his memoir in the early 1970’s.
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France and Flanders – The Scotsmen story
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D-Day Operation Overlord facebook page
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Assn of Dunkirk ships
https://www.facebook.com/DunkirkShips/
https://www.adls.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/culturevannin/photos/a.421476987984802/2655215381277607/?type=3
Isle of Man Culture Vannin Facebook page
for the Manx Heritage foundation: taking Manx culture forward
https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/videos/world-war-two--the-isle-of-man-411483/?fbclid=IwAR1DGg6OnFOGCNd1evVKIBIUuliCuwI7vT-v5xDUcN44-bE5hSJ-kG1myjI
Reddit Stories about WW2 heroes. Sgt Carbonero:
https://reddit.com/r/ww2/s/7zhCVvj7sr
Friends of Normanby Village Facebook page – 4th Green Howard story. Albert Edward Mead.
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