Thanks again Jeff,

I am reading Caithness Archives now...

I have managed to get from my mother the MOD service record and attached it. The old veteran I mentioned before has told me he definitely went into the Greek island area ahead of the main force which I think he said was the 8th Army.

I cannot be sure from his records as I do not see anything obvious which points to this activity.

Some things I do have facts on and letters from M19 are only related to later in the war, see this link below about him meeting up with a British agent in the POW camp. Pat O'Leary & correspondence with Lt Colonel James Langley, the later wrote a report to the government about the battle of Crete and I believe he was awarded a medal in France. O'Leary was involved in the "Pat Line" the escape routes.

http://www.conscript-heroes.com/Art%20Message.html

After my dads repatriation he went back to Europe for 8 months, what could he have been doing? He was a fluent German speaker and told my mother he worked in a factory.

The veteran tells me he escorted German officers back to a camp in Kent somewhere where they were kept tightly under lock and key by the British military whilst being "talked to".

Chris