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This story was told to East Ayrshire staff at their tea party on the 11th June 2004 by William Jamieson, who served in the RAF, as a driver in motor transport.

I volunteered in 1940 and was one of the first under-21s to join. Called up in May 1941, I went to Blackpool for my training, although I already had my driving licence. Three months after this I was transferred to Catterick. In the October 5 drivers went off to Tiree on a job. We left Oban at midnight on the 鈥淟och Earn鈥� and sailed for about 12-14 hours and someone suggested we were going to America. After this length of time I thought we were past America. However it was too rough to land on Tiree and we returned to Oban.

After landing I was recalled back to Yorkshire but were two days late going back after getting drunk in Edinburgh! We were too late for a posting to Singapore and so the next week we were sent back up North to Benbecula where I was stationed for the next 18 months during the Battle of the Atlantic.

After various moves around Britain I was sent to France in August 1944 and was involved in Airfield Construction. After Victory in Europe I went to Singapore and was their for a year and ten months where I was involved in the re-burying the bodies of prisoners of war. This area is now part of Changi Airport.

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