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I lived in Bermondsey before the war. My dad was a tailor. When the war came I was sworn into the R.A.F. at Uxbridge. I was a storeman. First of all I went to R.A.F. Newton near Nottingham. I was there for about a year.
Then I went to R.A.F. Tangmere - that got bombed. While I was there I was billeted at Goodwood Racecourse. I was allocated a horse-box: there on the wall was a plaque saying "Hippogram was stabled here". Hippogram was a famous racehorse who had proved a winner for my dad!
We lost a lot of Spitfire pilots from there. I used to cry when that happened.
From there I was sent to Scotland - Turnhouse near Edinburgh, and Castletown. I went to Earlsham Wells near Grimsby: I was taken off a draft there. But eventually, from R.A.F. Blackpool, I was posted to the Far East. I spent a long time in India - moved about a lot - Bombay, Karachi, Cox's Bazaar, Madras, Bangalore - I liked Bangalore , I'd liked to have lived there for a bit. I was convalescent for about four months in the Nilgiri Hills - just run down, I wasn't injured. Then on to Ceylon, and finished up in Singapore. I was demobbed in Lancashire.
I liked it in the R.A.F. - travelling, meeting different people. I wanted to be sent to Japan - I don't know why I never went. I still miss it very much. I wouldn't have missed that time.

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