- Contributed by听
- Total_Recall_Farndon
- People in story:听
- Jack Tranter
- Location of story:听
- Chester
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A3131281
- Contributed on:听
- 14 October 2004
This is a story that was featured in the Chester Obsever about Jack Tranter's experiences in the middle east in 1942.
The story reads:
Dodging Through the Morters
Boughton man's experience in the Middle East. How an Army Film and Photographic Union Officer and his driver tried to single handedly to dislodge an enermy trench mortar nest. Driver Jack Tanter was driving Captain D Knight of the AFPU towards Mersa Matruh. When they saw an enermy trench mortar nest. "We thought we had been sighted so we both used machine guns to wipe them out." driver Tranter told the correspondent. However they musthave seen us. First we have just opened up when they started lobbing mortars in out direction. We ceased fire and afterwards tried again but it got too hot for us and we decided to wait for the Bren Carriers. We stayed the night there and eventually got through the following day. Driver Tanter joined the army in August 1941 and arrived in the Middle East two months later. He became a public relations driver in Feb 1942 and drove a AFPU representatived throughtout the desert campaign up to Ffax. He sends his best wishes to his wife and also to his parents living in Oldfield Road Ellesmere Port.
This story was recalled by his son Johnaton William Tranter Junior who was born in 1939.
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