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This story was submitted by pupils of Ashby de la Zouch Church of England Primary School. -My grandad was in the northumberland Hussars, an anti-tank regiment in the 50th division which landed on Gold beach in Normandy on the morning of "D".Day (6th june 1944).He said "I was a driver mechanic driving a Bren-gun carrier pulling a six pounder anti-tank gun and one of a team of four."
A small but interesting little
story of his life after "D".
day invasion was during his division's dash across Belgium and Holland to relieve airbourne forces at Arnhem and Nymegan.In in this column he was driving a captured German lorry carrying the ammunition for four Sherman tanks with 17 pounder anti-tank guns.When they reached Hertogenbasch, crowds of waving and cheering people caused the tanks in front of him to slow down and stop, so he put his foot on the brake and nothing happened and neither did the handbrake work. His lorry slowly went into the back to the tank pushiing back the radiator causing it to leak and so of course he had to stop. The column went on leaving himself and a passenger alone in this town.He said "Some Hunns spoke to us and introduced us to a cigar manufacturer who spoke English and had a shop nearby where we slept that night.The above by the way is to explain how we came to be in this person's home. he told us the story of how the Germans had taken his son away to work in Germany and who he hadn't heard of or seen since. Tears came to his eyes as he produced a packet of Brooke Bond Tea which he said he was saving for the British. He said he knew we would go to Holland to help them."

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