247856 Gdsm. Robert "Big Rab" Smith British Army 1st Battalion Scots Guards from:Glasgow, Scotland. My father Robert Smith was called up on the 19th of June 1940, he served in U.K, Egypt, Syria, Middle East, North Africa, and Italy. he was awarded the Africa Star, Italy Star, British War Medal and was demobbed on 21st of September 1946.
My father became very emotional when he sang The D-Day Dodgers out in Italy, around New Year time for friends and family. I am now an old man and I also become emotional when I think of those parties, and watched him sing. Luckily, I had an old cassette which I had converted to C.D, so I can hear him sing at a party when he was 61 at the time.
My dad died in 1979.
Needless to say, I am very proud of him.
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