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My mother.

Yvonne trained at Leicester army base and transferred to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Berkshire, England. She became corporal and acting sergeant. In the last few months of the war she served at the Kurhaus HQ of the Rhine Army, in Germany, working as the secretary to the 'direct secretary' in administration. After typing for some of the Nuremburg trials she was demobilised in Paris, and joined an O.E.E.C. Secretarial position. Yvonne was awarded a longservice medal and was presented a clerical award.

George Henry Wall	My grandfather.
George served in two wars, the Boer War and with the 1st Monmouthshire Regiment in World War 1. During W.W.1 he was injured twice, the second being gassed, and was nursed back to health by my grandmother to be, Alice van Puyvelde. Corps - Monmouth, Rank - Pte, Regd No. - 268062 Medal - Victory J/1/105B5, page 1545

Albert Leslie Brooks

My father.

Frank (as he is known) trained at the H.M.S. Collingwood Landbase in Portsmouth. During World War II he served as Seaman-Leading Torpedoman in submarines, and worked on minesweepers near Reykjavic, Iceland.
He spent 9 months in the North Sea where he received shrapnel in the leg, and 9 months in Ceylon.
In 1946 he was aboard the 'R.M.S. Andes' a luxury liner, returning British soliers of war to Southhampton, England. These P.O.W's were in the Kinkosaki Camp on the island of Formosa, now known as Taiwan. Frank received medals during W.W. II, including the Mediterranean, D-Day, Europe, and the Far-East medal.
Names of submarines: Virulent and the Telemachus.

My great uncle.	Frederick John Wall
Frederick was believed to be a machine gunner and thought to have been killed in the Battle of Somme, France in World War I.