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My father,Edwin,was in the Royal Army Service Corps during World War 2. He wanted to be a driver, but there was a shortage of bakers, and my Dad had been working for his father in a small family bakery.
After his training, Edwin was stationed at a field bakery in the north of England. The bread was made by machinery, but Dad had the opportunity to demonstrate his baking skills when the machinery broke down one day, and he was one of the few soldiers who knew how to make bread by hand.
Later in the war, Edwin was sent to a field bakery in Egypt. Some of the baking was done by German and Italian prisoners of war under the supervision of the British soldiers, and Dad said that the Germans were the fastest workers.
During his occasional visits to Cairo, Dad remembers being upset to see young children begging. The children's faces were usually covered with flies that they made no attempt to brush away.
Edwin lost some close friends during World War 2, but he was one of the lucky soldiers who survived the war without injury, and who did not lose any close family members during the conflict.

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