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- actiondesksheffield
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- Jack Allen
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- Army
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- A7895488
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- 19 December 2005
The Photograph shows him beside a lorry, as he was a driver during that time. He would have put ‘B¸é±«²Ñ’ on the front radiator to represent his home town of Birmingham. The caption on the back of the photograph says “Blimey it aint arf bloody cold. I have just had a cup of tea and cakes in the café on the left.â€
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Roger Marsh of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Carole Cooper and has been added to the site with the author’s permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
My uncle Jack Allen was a Desert Rat in the 8th Army during World War II.
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