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February 1939, Attended a social evening with the Youth Hostels Association in St Michaels Hall Lincoln and...
So we did that and about half an hour later, we heard a German officer doing a roll call just on the...
Unlucky Charlie, next Spring the War in Europe finished and we the victors, lived in the Hotel Germania on...
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When this bitter war is over and the guns have ceased to roar, And the gallant lads who fought and won are...
I thought it was a funny sort of undertaking for the army, but anyway, sometime during the following week...
Jack Watson played for Ayr Cricket Team... Jack Watson was slipping gently from life when one of...
Unlucky Charlie, next Spring the War in Europe finished and we the victors, lived in the Hotel Germania on...
The 6th Battalion was awarded France's highest military honour, the Croix de Guerre, for its gallantry...
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The 5th battery was in Tobruk. And it should have been the 6th Battery in Tobruk, but they switched the...
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