User talk:KenBailey/Archives/2012/April

2/6th East Surreys
Hi Ken. Thank you for correcting my errors. I included the 2/6 East Surreys in the Normandy landings because my uncle was in the East Surreys and was invalided back from the beaches on D-day plus four. He's still alive so I'll ask him for official confimation. On perhaps the more important matter, I don't know how to edit, add references etc. Is there a simple guide somewhere? Thanks. Terry LearyTerryleary (talk) 19:12, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Terry. Thanks for the feedback. Obviously the lucky few that made it back from St Valery didn't just disappear and if you click through the "next page" links from Brading onwards somebody has clearly researched the battalion's commanders during WWII. Nothing there suggests they left the UK after St Valery as far as I read it.
 * I'm fascinated to learn you have a surviving relative, there can't be many now, and something, sadly, I lack. I went to a reunion of the 2/6th in north Richmond some time during the late 80's and spoke with some who had marched from St Valery to Poland to spend most of the war as PoW's in Polish coal mines. I, too, have family anecdotal evidence that former members of the 2/6th returned during the Normandy landings but, in "my" case this was not as part of the 2/6th as far as I know. We would be straying off Wikipedia's research rules to add this to the East Surrey article without a suitable independent published reference but that doesn't stop us talking about it here or on the article talk page.
 * As for general Wikipedia guidance there is probably too much :) As you've already added something you've already been bold and cited sources so just carry on and, hopefully, I've not bitten you so hard that I've put you off!
 * All the best --KenBailey (talk) 22:21, 8 April 2012 (UTC)