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I am writing this for my father who is 90,I asked if he would like to contribute an account of his War after I had shown him some of the stories on this site. He gave me this list of places he had been to but did not want to elaborate on his experiences, like many men who served in the War his memories are such that he cannot share them.

My name is Frank Oldfield, I was named after my uncle Frank Kelly who was killed in the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916, he was in the Yorks and Lancs Regiment.

I joined the army in March 1940, before this I had only been as far as Cleethorpes, and camping at Lathkill Dale in the Peak District. My journey through the War took me to Catterick, Aldershot, Liverpool where we boarded ship to Bombay,the British Mhow Barracks, Allahbad and Calcutta.

I crossed rivers the Irrawaddy,Sittang and Salween when I was attached to the 17th Indian Division, 14th Army.

My journey took me to Maymao, Meiktila, Toungoo, Pequ, Rangoon, Moulmein, Malaya. My journey home began with the Transit Camp - HMS Staffordshire across the Indian Ocean to Port Said and eventually back to Liverpool where I arrived in May 1945 to then return home to Shefield.

In the rising of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

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