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Name:
Carl Shilleto
Email address: fallenheroeswebsite@gmail.com
Comments:
An excellent and fitting memorial website to Private George Hildred, and
his comrades from the 5th Battalion Black Watch, who paid the
ultimate price during the fighting in Normandy in 1944.
We are proud to be linked and associated with this wonderful tribute
at The
Fallen Heroes of Normandy Project.
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Name: Ken
Dutton
Email address: kenatsbc@hotmail.com
Comments:
Great piece of important work folks. Good to know the history of family
members who made the supreme sacrifice, even if distant relatives
and never personally known.
It also amazes me how the French
still maintain their memories of allies who passed through their
areas, and build important small monuments to very local incidents,
otherwise overlooked by history in the much bigger context of the
whole world war(s). Over the years touring in France I have seen
many such touching tributes to individuals or small groups who
passed through and liberated very small villages, and to those who
remained as fallen soldiers.
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Name: Stuart
Hildred
Email address: stewhildred@sky.com
Comments:
I was visiting Edinburgh Castle and I
came across George Hildred in the memorial book, I just had to find
more of this brave Son and I came across this site, George was very
brave, he gave all.
I don't know if
George was a relative, I would have been proud to know him.
God Bless
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Name: Patrick
Anderson
Email address:
Comments:
Ian an excellent website to remember
your wife's Uncle George a casualty of the famous 5th Black Watch of
WW2. My godfather was Brigadier James A Oliver, who formed the 5th
Bn BW in Arbroath in 1938 I think it was and by 1945 was Brigadier.
He took temp command when Major General Tom Rennie was killed
crossing the Rhine.
My namesake Uncle Lt
Patrick W Anderson 8th BW, 10 BW , 18 Sqn RFC /RAF died of wounds
after the end of WW1 so does not have an official war grave but is
listed on the Scottish National War Memorial Edinburgh Castle.
We will remember
them .........
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Name: Alaistair
Saunders
Email address: alaistairs@yahoo.com.au
Comments:
A very fitting memorial to a young man
who gave his life for his country, Rest in Peace.
LEST WE FORGET
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Name: Bob
Little
Email address: yapper@nbnet.nb.ca
Comments:
What a wonderful way to REMEMBER. I was
very interested because a very dear friend, the late Lt. Col. David
Currie won his VC while fighting in the same area at Caen.
Thanks for letting
me visit your site.
LEST WE FORGET
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Name: Sandy
Caird ex Black Watch
Email address: sandycaird@msn.com
Comments: A
very interesting site
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Name:
Phyllis
Email address:
Comments:
I cannot Thank you enough about Tom
Kirkcaldy, (I sent a photo of his headstone
after a recent visit to the cemetery - Ian) we met when I
was in Minehead in Somerset. He was my first boyfriend, I was in the
WATS and was a waiter in the officers mess. I have a vivid memory of
the walks we did together, Tom was a delight to know, I was taken by
surprise by this Ginger headed soldier in uniform, whom looked
really handsome. The timing of departure was very brief, he came to
say goodbye and it was very sad, he told my friend try not to fall
in love, I have to go to Cornwall, we are leaving and going
overseas. I am so sad as I love my girlfriend Phyllis.
I did hear from him
before he left England, he sent me a photo of him on a motorcycle,
but after that we lost touch. I have wondered constantly about Tom,
he has been on my mind all through the years, I prayed to God to
find out what happened to him before I die. And you are the one who
has made it reality for me, Ian I thank you for doing this. I was
very sad, but I believe in fate from the cradle to the grave,
although I did have a good cry.
A very big Thank you
Phyllis
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Name: Kay
Email address:
Comments: This
site is a fabulous way to honour the memory of George Hildred. I
myself was looking for someone whom served with George and, what
better way to never forget and let others know about the life of a
loved one. Thank you for all your help and good luck in your future
work on this site.
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Name: John H Allison
Email address: johna.rafa@talktalk.net
Comments: Until I got to know
Ian Scales through his Web Site building for RAF Association York
Branch, I was totally unaware of George Hildred. How very
interesting to read about him and the Memorial.
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Name:
Helen Robinson
Email address: arkvoxamp@hotmail.co.uk
Comments:
As I grew up there was always a picture of this handsome gentleman
in my Grandma's house and as the year's went on it eventually
adorned my Mother's bedroom wall. The picture was of my Uncle George
who never came home from the War. My mother spoke of him often but I
never really got an insight of what he was really like in the short
time he was here. This web page has given me an insight to how all
these men were so brave and fought not only for their Country but
for their families. It makes me so proud to know the man in the
picture is my uncle and one of the bravest persons I have ever met.
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Name: Mavis
Hildred
Email address: mavis.hildred@hotmail.co.uk
Comments: I
never knew George personally, to me he was just a young man in Army
uniform smiling down from a picture hanging in the front room of my
future in-laws home, and not much of his personal history was ever
given or asked for over the years, which is why I am so very
grateful that this website has been created and given me the
opportunity to have a 'living' picture of someone I would have been
proud to know as a brother-in-law.
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Name: Debbie
Robinson
Email address: jhonlonghurst@sky.com
Comments: He was also my Uncle, I
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Name: Jacqui
Scales
Email Address: jacqui@rafmtd.co.uk
Comments: Thank you for this site. For me it's remembrance of an
Uncle I never knew, but whom I have a great deal of respect for.
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