Post
Box
The object of the Post Box is for visitors to the Web Site to make comments and perhaps to try to trace former comrades in arms or squad mates from the past.
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Are YOU
interested in joining the
GRENADIER CAMPING AND CARAVAN
CLUB
Then you should contact the
Chairman of the Club, JOHN BLAY
at 01444 451215
Subject: Support for Nijmegen 1944 research needed
This letter has been received at Association Headquarters and has been passed to me for inclusion on the Association web site. If you can help Peter Vrolijk with his research then his email address is shown at the end of the letter.
Dear Sir,
I do hope you can help me in some way. My name is Peter Vrolijk, age 47 and I am living in The Netherlands.
I have been doing research about operation Market Garden (September 1944) for about 30 years.
Some time go I started an almost forgotten part of Operation Market-Garden: the capture of the bridges at Nijmegen by the 1st and 2nd Battalion The Grenadier Guards and elements of the US 82 Airborne Division.
Although I realize that their number is diminishing I do hope you can bring me in contact with veterans of the 1st and 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards who fought at Nijmegen, or can help me with placing an appeal on your webpage, or can pass this mail through.
Any information about the actions of 1st and 2nd Grenadier Guards (personal accounts, parts of books, photographs, information about missing or men killed in action) will be most welcome.
I really hope to hear from you and may I thank you in advance for any information that you can give me in this matter,
Yours sincerely, Peter Vrolijk peter.vrolijk@planet.nl
1st Battalion in Palestine.
(09/09)
Anyone Remember George Short
(09/09)
The funeral of Posh Price.????
(07/09)
Roy Manser - 3rd Battalion 1944-49
(06/09)
Roy Manser (2625993) is a member of the Sussex Branch and
is currently in a nursing home in Hove suffering from the effects
of cancer. He is 83 years of age and a group photograph of him
with his fellow comrades has pride of place.His son is asking
if any of his former comrades remember him would they please
send a message to him, through his son Lee. Lee writes that his
father would be overjoyed to hear from anyone who remembers him.
Send any message direct to: leemanser@hotmail.com
UPDATE. I am sad to report that bRoy Manser died on the
morning of Wednesday 5th August and his son has asked me to pass
on his thanks to those who emailed him with the messages for
his father . Roy's cremation will be at a12 noon at The Downs
Crematorium, Bear Hill, Brighton on Friday 14th August.
3rd Battalion in Malaya and HMS Consort
(06/09)