My brilliant Granddad, George Beswick was born in the East Yorkshire village of Burton Fleming in 1916.
In January 1940 he was drafted into the Royal Army Medical Core (RAMC).
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| George William Beswick, 1941 |
The 6th August 1940 saw George and his comrades of the 15th Casualty Clearing Station (15CCS) sail from Gourock in Scotland aboard the Troopship Franconia. They were heading for Egypt, a trip which would take them 7 weeks and see them visit Freetown, Cape Town and Durban in South Africa before arriving in Egypt on 30th September 1940.
I remember him, enjoying his retirement whilst recording his memories in poems and collecting together old photographs, his way of remembering and honouring.
I thought it would be fitting to show some of these photos here; taken by unknown photographers who were documenting their WW2 story.
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| Bath time! |
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| Tobruk bombed hospital |
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| Major Rogers, George Beswick and Ron Welband |
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| On the train Geneifa |
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| Sandbagging |
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| Taffy's Crew George far right. |
