- Contributed by听
- Age Concern Salford
- People in story:听
- Horace Chapman
- Location of story:听
- Egypt, Italy and Austria
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A4028159
- Contributed on:听
- 08 May 2005
I was abroad for 4 years in the Royal Tank Regiment and the first battle was the Battle of the Alamein in Egypt.
My job in the Army was a tank driver - it was a Churchill tank with a flame thrower attached. The flame thrower was made up 75% petrol and the remainder was liquid rubber and the heat of it would burn people alive.
If you were taken prisoner by the Germans, you were shot, and likewise.
I was one of the few that came out of the war without a scratch
From Egypt we were sent to Italy and landed at Naples and from there travelled up the East Coast into Austria, a place called Grasz, where the war finished.
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