大象传媒

My story starts as I was 14 years old at the start of WW2 in 1939.I was then a Patrol Leader in the Boy Scouts the 27th Shoreditch East End of London.
Immediately all available sources were mobilised,and my patrol was dispatched to Shoreditch Town Hall for the assembly of civilian gas masks,where there had been a huge consignment of parts for assembling ie mask,goggles and filter, as we packed them into carrying boxes,panic had broken out and people were trying to storm the building to obtain the masks,and the Police had to hold them back.

I went through most of the early bombing of London, having all our house windows and doors blown in while we were sheltered in the Anderson shelter.

I volunteered and was conscripted into the Royal Navy where I served 3 1/2 years on several Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific, South Atlantic and later in the Med.

After having an operation in Glasgow and convalescing at Sir Guy Stewarts stately home, I was sent back to Chatham and drafted to Dover Castle, working in the armoury as a Qualified Ordanance going down to the docks and removing guns from Minesweepers and Patrol Boats,for overhauling and replacing.

I was on duty there when VE and VJ days were announced and missed all the celebrations. I was then sent out to patrol the Med ports for 8 months on another fleet
carrier HMS Ocean before coming home for demob.

I was one of the lucky ones.

When VE Day and VJ day was announced

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