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Contributed by听: CSV Action Desk Leicester
People in story:听: Reg Walton
Location of story:听: Berwick on Tweed
Background to story:听: Army
Article ID:听: A4478529
Contributed on:听: 18 July 2005

I joined up in 1943 and went to Berwick on Tweed to train. The very first day a sea mine hit the cliffs and blew all the windows out of the Nissan hut where we were sleeping. I thought if this is the army the sooner I'm out of it the better!

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