260270 L/Cpl. Robert Charles "Nobby" Cable British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps from:Sydenham (d.23rd May 1940) My father, Robert Cable, was at the Battle of Calais in May 1940 with the 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He had been a regular soldier with the 1st Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps from 1931 to 1939 in India and Burma where he had passed exams for Veterinary First Aid and Animal Hygiene.He was on reserve when he met my mother and at the outbreak of war they married in November 1939. My mother, Lucy, was two months pregnant with me when he was reported missing in June 1940 and she didn't find out that he had died until two years later in March 1942.
My mother did not remarry until 1966. I have the last postcard that my father wrote to my mother from Calais on 22nd of May which was full of love for her, "hope to see a second Lucy at Christmas" (me), and telling her not to worry "the devil looks after his own".
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