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During the War, I volunteered for aircrew as an air gunner/wireless operator. After training I was crewed up and posted to Malta and after a while, I was commissioned. During this time on operations, we were shot at and damaged (fortunately no real casualties) except I was hit and as a result was grounded because of this occurrence. I was made welfare officer but my squadron was posted and I was left behind in Malta.

After a while I was offered a posting to Sicily to run 17 Rest and Leave Camp at the Hotel Timeo, Taormina as the C/O. I naturally accepted. It was a really wonderful posting. The Rest and Leave Camp were very popular with officers and crews in that area, particularly from Malta. Also, as I was a professional dance band musician in Civvy Street, I was able to offer entertainment for the visitors at our weekly dance nights. After about a year, and at the end of the war, I was ordered to close the hotel down and I returned to England where I was welfare officer at Uxbridge until my discharge from the Air Force.

I am now 92 years old, and looking back I consider myself very lucky to have reached this age.

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