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- R.A. Gnr. Norris Alfred Trout
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- From Bishop Aukland to the The Middle East
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- Army
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- A3195812
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- 28 October 2004
R A Gnr Norris Trout
September 12th 1940
Bishop Aukland, driver training regiment
December 1940
Nottingham, joined 276 HY A.A. BTY R.A. On to Southend for tropical kit. One week Christmas leave (the one and only for the whole war)
February 1941
To Liverpool, embarked on S.S. Northumberland. Missed convoy. Up Clyde to Greenock, 4 days Pollock Camp, Glasgow. Re-embarked S.S. Northumberland 鈥 joined convoy 鈥 Cruiser Birmingham + 3 destroyers
March 鈥 April 1941
Called at Freetown 鈥 Sierra Leone, West Africa. Disembarked Durban, South Africa 鈥 4 days Clarewood Camp. Re-embarked on the troop ship City of Canterbury
April 鈥 May 1941
North to Red Sea. Ship broke down in Red Sea off Eritrea (convoy proceeded without us). Arrived Suez 鈥 through canal to Port Said. Disembarked 鈥 cattle trucks to Tahag Camp
July 1941
In action, static gun site at Canopus Point west of Alexandria. Mobile site Suez. Trip to Palestine 鈥 taking 3.7 guns to the Australians
August 1941
Battery re-equipped with 3.7 guns. Transport GL equipment (radar) 鈥渦p the blue鈥 (NAT 鈥 15cwt Morris truck with Bren gun 鈥 Tommy Smith)
September 鈥 December 1941
To Mischefa via Mersa Matruh and Sollum Pass. 30 miles in desert from coast 鈥 railhead 鈥 Christmas 1941. Despatch driver
January 鈥 July 1942
Fort Capuzzo 鈥 Gambut 鈥 Bardia 鈥 Tobruk. Hospital at Tel-el-Kebir. Evacuated to Palestine to hospital in Tel Aviv by train across Sinai
November 鈥 December 1942
Back to Almaza base depot, Cairo. After 2 months posted 105 A.A. Def H.Q 鈥 Zamalek. Was there until the end of the war in Europe
July 1945
Returned home S.S Otranto
July 1946
De-mobbed
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