- Contributed byÌý
- Genevieve
- Location of story:Ìý
- Long Mountain, Shropshire
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A7011181
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 16 November 2005
My wife’s uncle’s brother had got a pair of Zeiss binoculars and had taken them up to the Long Mountain to go bird watching one day. Later that day her uncle Joseph had a call asking him to go and collect his brother from Welshpool Police Station… he’d been arrested because they thought he was a spy!
I think there was a bit of a mania at the time because we were expecting paratroops and we were expecting this and that.
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Ron Gamble and has been added to the site with his permission. Mr Gamble fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
See more of Ron's stories:
- 1) My Brother and I
- 2) The Totty Sisters
- 3) To have loved and lost
- 4) Jack’s last letter
- 6) It was a strange time really…
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