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26th June 1944, Normandy - the foreman patroll were sent out to engage with the enemy by Leftenant Broughton. As we were going out, we passed three patrols of Germans but we didn't engage until we came to a hill. Broughton went up to scour the scene and saw the tanks coming up.
We sat very still and in the end the Germans withdrew.

The password that night to get back to camp was "salt and sugar". That evening we reported to Colonel Wood. He instructed us to set off again at 5am that morning. My number two was wounded straight away and I was soon to be in the same predicament. I lay wounded in the field for 2 hours before being taken to first aid and put in an ambulance. To my surprise I discovered that the driver was my uncle.

As for Leftenant Broughton, we didn't lay eyes on eachother until 1946 at York. We decided to go for a drink to celebrate being alive.

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