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The Japanese have effected a landing on the island of 'considerable' proportions, heavy fighting is...
I arrived at Colaba Camp, near Bombay, in September 1943 for the second time in my life — the first...
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I wrote to the recruiting office in Belfast and was enlisted into the Wiltshire Regiment, where my training...
I enlisted at Ipswich and reported for duty on July 19th 1940 getting myself to Euston Station by 12.30 to...
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CALLED TO THE FORCES Tammy McNeil and John Elliot are the two latest members to be called up. On the Sunday...
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However, after the six weeks, it was into the Durham Light Infantry that Private Danny Walsh found himself...
The next day I went to the Army recruiting officer next door to the Navy office and said I wished to join...
He explained that the Japanese senior officer, a full colonel, with his adjutant, plus an interpreter,...
We did an audition for George Black, a famous impresario of the time and we went into Stars in Battledress,...
We had sections, a Sergeant and so many NCOs in Cairo, Alexandria and Moascar to carry out police duties in...
14,000 Canadian, British and Indian troops attempted to hold off 60,000 experienced, superbly trained...
It was lovely to be back home again with Rene and Denis, but alas, the orders were not long in coming and...
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I was 21 and I went to Norfolk and I joined the 5th Battalion of the Royal Norfolks and I became the...
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