This is a photo of my dads Royal Marine platoon on arrival back in Britain from Burma.  For some reason my dad was ordered to remove his "Canada" flashes from his uniform before this inspection.  My father resented that to his dying day as he proudly served as a Canadian in the Royal Marines in Italy and Burma with his shoulder flashes proudly displayed.  My father is the marine behind King George with the X above his head, note no shoulder flashes.

Dear old dad and King George

HMS Illustrious enjoys a near miss from German and Italian dive bombers.  The ship was almost sunk but the crew did a fine job of fighting the ship and she was saved to fight another day.  The Illustrious eventually served in the Pacific with the British Pacific fleet in support of American landings at Iwo Jima and Okanawa.  She survived Japanese suicide bombers as well

HMS Illustrious in combat in Med

Canadian Jim Sellars 3rd from the right, second row standing.  Note this photo contains the names of the men and the ships they were assigned to at the bottom of the picture.  On the right side of the picture in light pencil are the names of 5 men in this picture that were killed and have known graves.  Some of these men would have gone down with their ship and have no known grave.