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This story was written and submitted to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ peoples war by Tom Hewson

After leaving Northern Ireland at the end of 1941-42, and after Normandy June 1944, we were eventually with other divisions trying to get through to the relief of the Arnham troops, but as history records we failed. At the time rations for the Arnham troops had been dropped in the wrong area so the British troops had to be given some German rations. One item was a soft cheese, which we did not realise, at the time, was Brie. The complaint about this ‘strange item’ was that we humorously said ‘it is no wonder the Germans are losing the ‘bloody’ war eating this rubbish’
It was only after the war did we realise that this ‘awful stuff’ was actually a French delicacy.

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