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- Lancshomeguard
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- Bill Entwistle
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- Sailing from Liverpool December 1943
- Article ID:听
- A3958527
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- 27 April 2005
I was a guardsman in Grenadier Guards sailing in convoy from Liverpool to Egypt. First stop was Sierra Leon on New Years Eve 1943. The trip took 5 weeks, because of the rough weather in the atlantic I was so ill from seasickness for 4 days.
On New Years Eve we anchored in the Harbour at Freetown - a dance was organised for officers, warrant officers and A.T.S Girls. Some people who were not invited took exception to this dance and decided to take action by attacking the ships Sergeant Major and throwing the piano overboard!!
I was one of the 36 guards called to quell the riot and we escorted the ringleaders to the cells - they spent a few nights banged up.
From Sierra Leone we sailed to South Africa to Durban and then changed ships onto a Dutch Liner heading to Egypt onto Port Tewfic
We stayed a couple of weeks to get acclimatised and then went by road via Libya and stayed in Tripoli a couple of nights and then onto Mareth.
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