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- Wolverhampton Libraries & Archives
- People in story:听
- Bill Murray
- Location of story:听
- Bovington, India, Malaya, Singapore
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A3288323
- Contributed on:听
- 17 November 2004
In May 1943 I volunteered to join the Army. I was accepted to the Royal Armoured Corps and trained at Bovington Camp in Dorset. After training I was posted to East Anglia to join the 1st Lothians and Border Yeomanry with whom I went to Normandy. In Normandy I was a wireless operator in a mine clearing tank. At the end of the war in Europe I returned to the UK to attend Officer Cadet Training in Kent, from there I was sent to complete my officer training in Bangalore, India. I then joined the Seaforth Highlanders in Malaya and Singapore where I stayed until September 1947 when I came home to the UK for demobilisation. After this I joined the Territorial Army and served in the Cameronians and also the Royal West Kents.
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