The Gosport D-Day Fellowship are seeking help deciphering some more writing from the Hardway Embarkation Board shown above.

They think it could read Wallace, J. – Rag Man or RAC Man from Smutford End, Smatford, E13

If anyone has any information on this name or any ideas on who may have signed their name on this document then please get in touch.

Penny Harris

Associate Researcher GDDF

Is there anybody who has 
a relative called James Baxter?

James would have been born between 1905 and 1925, probably lived in Edinburgh, Scotland  and in 1944 he was a Sergeant in the Regiment of Artillery and his military number was 891891.

He left England for Normandy in 1944 from the Hardway embarkation point in Gosport and signed the piece of paper mentioned in this article whilst in Gosport.

In Normandy he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery.

Please make contact if you think he is part of your family

Penny Harris

Associate Researcher GDDF