大象传媒

I am writing this on behalf of my late Grandfather A Eccles. I myself am only 14.

My Grandfather was born in Salford, England, in 1923. At 18 was called into the Army by conscription. He trained at Catterick camps in Yorkshire in the winter of 1941/42. In the mornings it was often so cold there was Ice on the inside of the huts.

In 1942 he was sent by boat to North Africa. There was a large storm in the notorious Bay of Biscay and he hated it so much he would go out of his way not to travel by boat again. He went to Tobruk and drove a Tank which he would do for the rest of the war.He caught malaria and spent a long time in a British military hospital. Then he went to Tunis but I don't know about his time There.

Early on in 1944 my Grandfather went over the Mediterranean to Italy where he fought in the famous battle of Monte Cassino as a tank driver.

After the war was over many people were not allowed to come home because of the large unemployment numbers that would be inflicted on the British.Instead he wandered Europe (mostly Italy) in the Army. He was lodged in an Italian farm for quite a while.

Just before the Christmas of 1947 my Grandfather came home to England and went into business with his father as a private hire taxi company.

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