- Contributed by听
- Grimsby
- People in story:听
- Lewis Raymond Haddock
- Location of story:听
- Normandy Coast
- Article ID:听
- A2373220
- Contributed on:听
- 02 March 2004
THE LION HAS LANDED
This contribution has been submitted on behalf of Raymond Haddock at Grimsby Central Library. Mr Haddock was born in County Durham and during the War was a wireless operator with the 52nd Heavy Artillery.
Full of apprehension we approached the Normandy Coast, twenty innocents on a landing barge. D Day 1944. The crossing had been rough by our own non nautical standards. Some faces were green, others various shades of grey; not knowing what was in store but all wishing to get ashore.
Bang!! 100 yards out we struck a mine and furiously bunged the hole up with wooden blocks some smart chap in the Admiralty had thought up! My comrade (a butcher boy from Sedgfield, Co. Durham) gave a final reach and the effort dislodged two perfect sets of false teeth, top and bottom, into the English Channel.
Yes I thought, the lion has landed. Sans teeth.
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