Keep digging for info, it's out there so don't give up.
You might try contacting Tony Chapman, Official LST and Landing Craft Association (Historian/archivist)
[email protected].
Good luck!
SP.
Sadly the late Tony Chapman
D-Day Landings
by
The late Tony Chapman, archivist/historian for the LST and Landing Craft Association (Royal Navy).
Keep Moving
Keep moving lads ...
keep moving
Don't huddle on this beach
Don't make yourselves a target
For those guns up there to reach
Keep moving lads ...
keep moving
There's the seawall ... over there
Keep moving lads ...
keep moving
Don't falter ... or despair
Don't look ... at comrades falling
Around you ... everywhere
Keep moving lads ...
keep moving
We can take this ... on the chin
Keep moving ...
and keep praying
Before those guns ... they zero in.
A Quiet Place
It's quiet here ... so quiet
Standing on this hill
But if I stand here too much longer
My eyes with tears will fill
Looking down ...
I'm there again
On that beach ... just down below
Far different ... to that morning
That I remember so
That beach ... it was a
hell on earth
Where no man ...
should ever go
I remember
I was down there
I should know
Don't cry now ... dear old soldier
That was many years ago
The Coxswain
There are forty of us waiting
In this little LCA
We sailors ... and these soldiers
We're taking in today
They came aboard our mother ship
Now several days ago
They're growing very pale
As the strain begins to show
They're only boys ... the most of them
Eighteen to twenty three
For some of them ...
tomorrow
Is a day ...
they'll never see
I can't promise we'll all make it lads
But I'll do my best ...
you'll see
I'll remember you young soldiers
This day ... in Normandy
God bless you lads ... and keep you safe
We'll meet again ... one day
This is it then lads,
keep your heads down
AWAY ALL BOATS ... AWAY.
I Stand Here Now