Hi everyone I am new here and absolutely fascinated with your posts and discussions! I see by posting people are keen to help out and contribute to finding out more information about our families and friends who served in the war. I am looking to find out as much as possible about my late grandad Robert Steedman. I have posted a picture and his service record to this post and his summary record on paradata is here - Robert A Steedman | ParaData His service number is 7962412 I am lucky to own a copy of Para Memories but his name does not feature anywhere. If you have any info or leads of my grandad I’d be so grateful. He was lucky to survive the war and SE Asia but died of Parkinson when I was a young lad and I didn’t know about any of this. My late Gran told me that he had a chest in the attic full of documents and daggers covered in blood which she binned when he died! If only I knew!!! many thanks Si
Hi, Thanks for sharing his papers. It looks from the pencil annotations on the various B103 that you already have a good idea of where he served. Members will likely post the pages from the official casualty lists re his injuries. BTW Your medal display is not correct. The GSM with Palestine 45/48 and SE Asia 45/46 bars ought to be displayed after the 39/45 War Medal as they were earned post war. Steve
Cheers Tony, this is a wealth of information which I discovered on this amazing website last night. I'll be going through a print of this tonight
If you look at that link, at the top of the page, just under the title are 'tags', worth hitting them, i.e. 12 parachute regiment | WW2Talk
Loving that. Thanks, that's a great tip. I'll go back through some threads I've overlooked these tags.
UPDATE I've dug out more information of when my grandad was wounded. This was on 7th July 1944 at Le Mensil. I have an account of that day attached. It suggests he was in A Company of the Composite Rifle Company headed up by Mjr Bliss (Colin?). This ties in as I have evidence in a CV by him later in life that he was a "Platoon Sgt Rifle Co". Other names mentioned in the attached are LCpl O'Rourke, Capt Coates, Sgt Marriot, Lt Guy. Hopefully of interest to others doing research