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Continuation of story told by Rita Buckley about her husband Donald to Jemma Bellingham.
Story transcribed by Jemma Bellingham

"He served in Burma and he told hair raising stories of having to go back behind the lines because various members had left identity cards can you believe, had left all sorts of things in the trench so he was ordered as a company commander to take the troops through with him and go back behind the Japanese lines, and they had put trip wires with explosives and they had to feel their way and try and remember where they'd put the trip wires, eventually got back and recovered all the things they needed and got back.

He tells stories of seeing troops in front of him, the Gurkas blown to bits in front of his eyes because they were defending him, brilliant stories of these people. And of course eventually he was flown out of Burma to India and served in India and then he was posted, after he recovered was posted to Germany where I met him.

After serving in Germany we came home to England for a year and then we were posted back out to the Far East and we lived in Singapore for three years so we saw Malaya and the Prisoner of War Camp. Then of course we came back to England and he died three and a half years ago, but a wonderful story.

All of his uniform and all his things are in the Regimental Museum in Stafford because thats where his Regiment was, the Staffordshire Regiment. When he died, I took all his things and its just so nostalgic to see all this here in the Museum."

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