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Maurice Foulds along with brothers Norman, who was a mosquito navigator in the RAF and Alan, who was killed, were in the Second World War.

Maurice was sent to Burma with the Royal Signals as part of the code breaking effort. When they camped out in Burma they had tents in a circle facing each other. In the middle of this circle was a mongoose (which ate snakes) tied to a pole with a piece of string long enough so that it could reach the tents. In short the mongoose was there to get the snake before it got them.

Other times he faced animals in Burma were when he got up he had to shake his boots before putting them on because scorpions had often hid in them for warmth.

Once a tiger walked along the street and everybody was terrified and ran into their houses.

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