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- Action Desk, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk
- People in story:Ìý
- Fred Newbold
- Location of story:Ìý
- England
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A5093381
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 15 August 2005
Fred Newbold
I joined the army at the age of 14 as a boy trumpeter with the RASC in Wrexham. I was sent to the 12th Training Battalion (for clerks and trumpeters) in Bulwer Barracks, Aldershot. It was for boys, most of whom came from Jersey, they had been sent to England before the German invasion of their island. We finished our training and were sent to different units, I was posted to Hadrians Camp in Carlisle to 10 Bn Driver Training School. I qualified as a driver and dispatch rider — riding a Matchless motor cycle. I spent time in the RASC platoon in Dover and then some time at Canterbury ACK ACK Command, delivering mostly ammo. I moved to 182 RASC Air Dispatch in Biggleswade packing containers full of supplies which would be dropped by parachute for our troops. Later I was posted just outside of Gaza in Palestine. A train was blown up on the Eguy Swing bridge. From there I went to various posting all over the world, serving 30 years in total.
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