Green Card.

And before anyone asks, yes he was in the British Army!

Did it on horseback too.

Andy

I'm certain that's how they want to remember it but a large part of France was Vichy and collaborated. Petain personally congratulated Hitler for repulsing the Anglophones at Dieppe.  They conveniently forget that as many French as British were rescued at Dunkirk but most refused to join De Gaulle and went home to live under the Germans. At the same time we were sacrificing the 51st Division to try and save those French who were fighting.

The first people the Americans fought in WW2 were French in N Africa, that surprised them!

My grandfather apparently got 14 days in jail in WW2 for shooting a French Colonel in Syria. Never found out the details on that!!!

Interesting. Do you know what unit he was with? My Grandfather was with the HQ troop of the Yorkshire Hussars. Part of 5 Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry division. 

To only get 14 days for shooting someone suggests an accident or some element of deserving it. Failing to use a safety catch territory, not shooting a prisoner etc.

My Grandfather got 30 days in the Citadel in Cairo (and busted of course) for punching a machine gunner who got over excited during a live fire exercise and hit his section. The film "The Hill" was apparently toned down!

Every Frenchman was in the Resistance after August 1944! You wouldn't find a single Nazi in Germany after May '45 either, or any criminals in prison!

Andy

He was RASC. Actually a protected trade as a bus driver.  Went to Leconfield (I believe) to train Army drivers and didn't come home for 5 years.  That was the story.

True about the French.  Some Germans I met were less hypocritical.  There was both the fact that joining "the party" was often necessary for employment and certainly promotion and the admission that everyone likes to belong; especially if that means the problems of the past can be lain elsewhere.