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When D-Day finally arrived Ernie was to drive a Rhino fuel vehicle ashore on Gold Beach... Following D-Day,...
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I was the instigator of Operation Portals, which stands for “Presenting Old Railway Tickets at London...
George, who had been at Singapore when the Japs invaded, Peter a second mate from the Merchant Navy Malta...
I had to edit them most carefully as mother would often relate the activities of Edgar's wife Poppy and...
I remember that every Christmas we were promised a turkey dinner, but no turkey dinner ever arrived!...
These are a couple of extracts from an oral tape Eric Ellis recorded for the RH7 History Group Memory Bank,...
The truck was backed in and these young French lads helped my men get the bodies on to the ground... The...
The area was vital and raiders and flying bombs were around, and on one occasion a lone raider made our...
Two soldiers were billeted in the garage to man the pumps 24 hours a day for the convoys of army vehicles...
My other son the twin boy ended up chairman and complete charge of a computing firm in Melbourne... Their...
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It was a team of American engineers with electric welding equipment and they were going to weld steel bars...
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We listened as Kathryn Grayson sang ‘Daybreak’, and a more appropriate song to describe our...
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