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My father was a Band Sergeant and during the war took on the duties as Quartermaster Stores. His younger brother Bill was also in the East Surrey Band and was in France at the same time, often seeing my father when he was distributing the rations. With the evacuation taking place at Dunkirk neither brother had any knowledge of the others wearabouts. Coming back on the boat my father was lucky that his gas mask caught the shrapnel, but his companion at his side died from his wounds. On the beaches back in Britain Bill started a search for my father,you can imagine the joy when he found him and that they had both come through the horrors of Dunkirk safely.
Arriving back in Aldershot my father and a friend walked to Ash Station and made their way back to Ham, near Richmond Surrey, to my grandmothers house. A telegram was then sent to my mother, who was at their Army house in Chelmsford,to let her know they were safe.

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