L/Cpl. Francis Kitchener Sweeney
British Army 33rd Transport Coy. Royal Army Service Corps
from:Chelsea, London
Our Dad, Frank Sweeney, served in the 33rd Transport Company, Royal Army Service Corps in the Second World War. We understand he landed three days after D-Day, and spent a lot of time driving through France, Germany and Poland, carrying supplies and troops to the front line. He drove a number of vehicles including at one point a scammel tank transporter and a six wheeler Bedford trucks.
Dad was assigned to support the liberation of Belsen concentration camp. Although he talked a lot of his experiences in the war it was the one area he was reticent about. He did have some photographs but unfortunately these were lost. He was also attached to the Grenadier Guards at one point transporting prisoners of war from the front to POW camps. He used to say that although there were between 20 and 40 prisoners in the back and only he and a guardsman in the front, he was never worried as the Germans were so demoralised at the time.
Dad died in 2006 at the age of 90, leaving six sons, three of whom were born between 1939 and 1943.
