I am Brian French and I am pleased to present the 'war diary' of my late father in law Charles Simms of Sheffield, a medical orderly in the RAMC who landed on D day in beach division No 10, went to Caen with the Canadians and was in Paris for the liberation. It is entitled from 'D-Day to demob: The memoires of a linseed lancer'.
Charlie went back for the 50th D Day reunion in 1944 and died in the October of that year.
Please see Charlie's war; Memoires of a Linseed
Lancer submitted 16 June
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