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During the war, my Father was a signaller in the 6th Battalion of the Royal Lincolnshire regiment and was in North Africa, Italy, Greece, Austria and the Middle East.
At the beginning of June this year a relative emailed me a clipping from her local paper (Burton Mail) all about a library book returned to Dymchurch library in Kent, after 62 years, by an ex soldier. The letter accompanying the book was signed signed 'Slow Reader of Memory Lane'.
Together with the post office, the paper had traced the sender to a town in Derbyshire and were appealing for more information.
The culprit came forward and offered to pay the fine! The paper interviewed him again and published a follow-up story and a rather excellent photograph.
My Father has a strong sense of humour but also has fond memories of Dymchurch where he was stationed in 1941 before being posted to North Africa. Finding the book one day, he decided to return it to it's rightful home.
He never realised that it would generate so much interest.
Enter my involvement -
Originally my Father sent the book to Dymchurch Parish Council because he didn't know whether Dymchurch library still existed (it does and it is in the same building)
He gave me permission to contact the leader of Dymchurch Parish Council and put him in the picture and also to act as an intermediary. This is because although my Father has a quck mind and a good memory, unfortunately, he cannot hear too well over the phone and is also partially sighted.
As a result of this I was emailed by a Kent reporter who apparently was the person who first wrote up the story in the local Dymchuch newspaper.
Finally I was invited to present the book and the letter on behalf of my Father, to a representative of Shepway Libraries and it was there, at Dymchurch library, that I was introduced to the 大象传媒 ww2 web site!
My Father's contact has apparently contributed to the piecing together of what Dymchurch was like at that time, as he was able to tell them the whereabouts of his billet and guardhouse, and through me, other information such as where they had their meals and how the army used the little Dymchurch railway to get around.
He has many stories to tell and hopefully,with his permission, I may post some of his other war time memories.