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- L Jackson
- Article ID:听
- A1113931
- Contributed on:听
- 18 July 2003
An account by my father, Jeffrey Jackson, of his time in Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and Syria with No.2 Mobile Anti-Gas Laboratory, Royal Engineers:
'I'm afraid that I annoyed my commanding officer, Major Leonard Kent, by writing anti-army articles for the unit magazine, the Bullfighter, which was edited by Bob Tongue, a fitter from the Black Country.
We now had a doctor, Major Curwen, with us to deal with the medical aspects of the trials being carried out on volunteers. He was related to a member of the Crazy Gang, and with the aid of our composer, Bill Churchill, and poet, Noel Wilkinson, put on two excellent shows, to which selected locals were invited.
The Italian capitulation of 1943 was followed by a riotous night in which Tommy Tucker, our cockney cook, broke his arm, but didn't realise it until the following morning - he was too drunk to notice.'
-- Read all L Jackson's edited contributions about her father's service
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