- Contributed by听
- ambervalley
- People in story:听
- Thomas William Whittle McRoy
- Location of story:听
- Alfreton, Italy and Egypt
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A2815661
- Contributed on:听
- 07 July 2004
Me in Uniform
Whilst on active duty I saw quite a lot of 'well known' people.
Whilst in Egypt Winston Churchill and General Montgomery came out to see us on seperate occasions.
There was Stan Cullis a Manager and centre half for Woverhampton Wanderers, Wilf Mannion who played for Middlesborough, they had a full team out in the middle east. Miller from Northanpton, Jimmy Connor, a Scottish football international and Halford from Spurs we played a football
match on the welfare grounds at Alfreton. A Major Wiems, who was cousin to the Queen Mother was also stationed at Alfreton Hall. Major Leg was president or chairman of the Wimbledon Tennis.
I was in Italy when I saw Joe Louis boxing in a cinema. In Cairo there were lots of cinemas they were called 'Shafto's'
There was also a famous trumpet player, I forget his name, who was also stationed in Italy.
At Cairo I saw Josephine Baker who did a striptease for thousands of troops, my friend who was a military policeman got the job of lifting her down from the stage, he said when he lifted her down that she was not a patch on his lass.
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