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Due to my experience at setting up a fire station I was transferred and promoted to section leader at a salary of about 拢300 per year. The fire service then set up a training centre at the Drill Hall and I was selected and sent to the Fire Service College for about six weeks and I passed the Instructor's course. I then returned and was promoted to Company Officer and started the Training School in Bristol. I was involved in the Pembrokeshire Docks fire which called for members of the Fire Service from all the surrounding areas.

Later a company of Canadian Fire-fighters came to Bristol and were stationed at Stoke House in Stoke Hill and I was requested to take charge of their training. At their farewell dinner they did me the honour of presenting me with their lapel badge, this was only presented to those Canadians who were serving overseas in the United Kingdom. Special permission was obtained and I was granted the right to wear one.

I atteneded the Board of Crown Agents where six persons were interviewd only one was selected to have the post of Fire Officer for the Gold Coast. I was fortunately the one and was offered the position. In November 1944 I went to Liverpool by train to the landing stage to board a four funnelled ship bound for the Gold Coast. We went down the eastern seaboard of the United States and down to the South Atlantic. Somewhere off the coast of Brazil we turned East to cut across the South Atlantic set for the Golden Coast, landing at Takoradi. The journey having took just over three weeks to cover 4000 miles or so.

I had the honour of taking King George 6th and Elizabeth around the bomb sites of Bristol.

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