Veteran interview – Greg Lewis

September 8, 2019

D-Day veteran interview – What was it like saying goodbye to your parents to go to war?

Two children interview a D-Day veteran. His name is Ted Owens. He was a commando and a sniper. He almost died on D-Day and was wounded twice more in the Netherlands. I’ll be posting some of their clips over the next fortnight. Question one: What was it like saying goodbye to your parents to go

“How did you go to the toilet on the battlefield?”

If you have a tough question, ask a commando:

“That’s the only time I wanted my mum”: the toughness of commando training(video clip)

Just back from an amazing adventure with my friend, Ted Owens – a veteran of 41 Royal Marine Commando who landed on Sword Beach early on the morning of June 6, 1944. Together with my children, Evan and Caoimhe, I’ve been following Ted’s wartime footsteps for a new television series. The kids have been learning