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My father, Richard Leese was, I think, a motorcycle messenger. At some point he was run over by a tank, which broke his collarbone; luckily he was pressed into mud which prevented worse injury. The interesting thing is that I didn't learn this from him. He never talked about his wartime experiences. I and my brother knew he'd been to war only because some of our cutlery came from Germany (presumably looted), and we had german binoculars and a camera, probably obtained the same way. He would only say of people who had European holidays in the 60's and 70's - "I wouldna go. I went all through there in th'war". He did not seem to realize that he was there at an unfortunate time and that things would be different now.

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