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I was called up in January 1940 to the Royal Signals. I was an engineer dealing with telephone wires etc.
I was in Italy near Cassino held up for nearly six months. The Germans wanted to preserve the site. We struggled to get it, but then they brought the Ghurkas in. They got in and then the troops followed.
We couldn't cross our shoelaces when we were sleeping, because if we did the Ghurkas would think that we were german soldiers, and they would then kill us.
Cassino was badly bombed by the Americans. It has now been rebuilt. I haven't been back there myself, but my daughter went there after the war. She brought me a booklet about it.

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