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In the darkness vehicles became so hopelessly mixed that trucks and men of different units travelled...
On May 11th 1941 a bomb landed in Mrs Gamlin's road, killing a girl and her father....
We became friendly with a few of 鈥榚m and we used to get all the news from them, because some of them...
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This combined initial intake to the two RE OCTU's of 86 young men represented the Royal Engineers...
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