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Due to my experience at setting up a fire station I was transferred and promoted to section leader at a salary of 拢300 per year. The fire service then set up a training centre in Drill Hall and I was selected and sent to the Fire Service College for about six weeks and I passed the Instructors course. I then returned and was promoted to Company Officer and started the Training School in Bristol. Later a company of Canadian Fire-fighters came to Bristol and were stationed at Stoke House in Stoke Hill and I was requested to take charge of their training. At their farwell dinner they did me the honour of presenting me with their lapel badge, this is only presented to those Canadians who were serving overseas in the United Kingdom. Special permission was obtained and I was granted permission to wear one.

I attended the Board of the Crown Agents where six persons were interviewed only one was selected to have the post of Fire Officer for the Gold Coast; I was fortunately the one and was offered the position. In November 1944 I went to Liverpool by train to the landing stage to board a four-funnelled ship bound for the God Coast. We went across the North Atlantic in a convoy, when we were about 36 hours from the Labrador we turned south and left the convoy on our own. We went down the eastern seaboard of the United States and down to the South Atlantic. Somewhere of the coast of Brazil we turned east to cut across the South Atlantic set for the Gold Coast, landing at Takoradi. The journey having took just over three weeks to cover 4000 miles or so.

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