- Contributed by听
- A7431347
- People in story:听
- Bill Horn, Jean Horn (Nee Masters)
- Location of story:听
- Persian Gulf. Sutton Valence, Kent
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A7440536
- Contributed on:听
- 01 December 2005
We worked flat out for a year in The Persian Gulf; assembling a hundred lorries a day and towards the end two hundred. Then we spent eighteen months driving them to Russia. We left there and came down into Egypt, clearing the tanks and repairing the British Army Vehicles.
In the meantime, my girlfriend, Jean Masters, who I'd been at school with, was at home in England. Now, I'd gone out there in 1943 and in January 1944 I wrote home to her and proposed marriage. It used to take two weeks to write and get a reply. So I was waiting for her reply and then I would write to her parents and my parents asking for permission to marry.
But the reply got back to me within a week. She'd accepted my proposal and my parents and her parents had been together. They'd arranged the engagement for March 4 at 4 o'clock on the Sunday afternoon in 1944. I was told this so I knew that at 4 o'clock my father would be putting a ring on her finger. But I never saw her 'til April 1947. We were all that time apart.
The disappointing part for me was that she'd accepted my proposal but everything had been fixed. I didn't have to fix anything. But having said that I got my prize.
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