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- East Ayrshire Libraries
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- Army
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- 09 August 2004
This story was told to East Ayrshire staff at their tea party on the 11th June 2004 by residents of Torrance Lodge Nursing Home.
Bill was in the army in France for his 20th birthday (He is now 84). He was in the Royal Scottish Fusilier and went to India in 1945. He was called up aged 18 – his birthday was on the Sunday. He left from Liverpool in April 1945 – the journey took 31 days. He was there for 4 years. He came home with his cardboard box and his suit.
In Kilmarnock, a potato field was turned into a munitions factory and he remembers the girls having red hair from the chemicals. It is where the industrial estate is today.
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