Hi all, my uncle served in the Manchester Regiment from 1938 to 1954, he was with the BEF in France at the outbreak of WW2, after the Dunkirk evacuations he went to Burma from 1942 til the end of the war, then in 1945 was posted to Germany (BAOR) then was posted to Malaya, he was 3530513 L/Cpl John Whitehurst.
After demob he worked for British Rail for 30 years then retired.
The reason for my post is to try and get him some more recognition, he died in 1988 and his grave has never had a stone placed on it, him and my aunt, who is still living, never had any children and the whole family knew very little of him, he was never really discussed by my aunt.
I decided to research him and obtained his military records, I cant understand, and never will, why he did not claim his WW2 medals, only his GSM for Malaya.
I have now set the wheels in motion to have a military style headstone made, Ive obtained permission from the MoD to have the Manchester Regiment Crest on his headstone, the order is now placed and just waiting for all the other red tape to be dealt with.
I thought it would be nice if a bit of a remembrance was arranged for him once the headstone has been erected, nothing fancy, just a few of his comrades and maybe a bugler?
Thanks for reading, Tony