The D-Day Dodgers

[daval57]

Must go to the D Day Dodgers site and say hello too.
Going there now!

[Gaille]

Thank you for resurecting this post! I had never seen it before!

My grandad used to sing the 'D-Day dogers' to me when I was a child and I just remember loving the rythm of the song, the words meant nothing realy just then it was always just a song I loved grandad to sing to me.

Grandad died in 1977 and like a lot of others I heard it again when I went to a Spinners concert & remembered grandad singing it.

I never realised the significance of the words until years later - and Mum told me that grandad had himself been a 'D-Day Dodger' which is why he used to sing it.

Grandad was in North Africa & Italy, discharged in Italy at the end of the War - He was a Sapper in the R.E.M.E.

Gaille

[daval57]

Gaille -
Glad you appreciate the thread.

You will no doubt read through it but if it saves you time.....

try these...
http://ddaydodgers.proboards.com/index.cgi?
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Military/dday_dodgers.htm
http://www.d-daydodgers.com/intropage.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/d_day_dodgers_01.shtml

And, if you want a copy of the song, send me a message - I've got various versions of it.

Dave

[cein]

My Dad, now 90, was also a D-Day Dodger and very proud of that.  He was with the 24th Field Ambulance attached to the Canadian 5th Armoured Division.  I treasure that song.
Cein