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I was called up January 1940, taught to drive by RASC in Luton. First posting Ch.ipping Camden (The Eight Bells Pub). Sent to France in March 1940, manning a Lewis gun. We escorted ammunition and petrol to front line troups on the Belgian border.
When the Panzers came through we were hopelessly outgunned. We were all, whatever role, put on the slopes above Abbeville, with Lee Enfield rifles, to try to stop the tanks. I had never fired one in my life at this stage.
Once back in England, I was sent to Mansfield, where we regrouped and I did a lot of training in Northern Ireland, Cornwall and Wales.
I was commissioned in the beginning of 1944, as Lieutenant. I had hoped for transfer to RAF, but they had too many in Canada, so I went into the artillary, Bofors Guns.Posted to Newhaven, firing Bosfors Guns against the Doodlebugs. I had to confirm when to open fire. Three weeks in London waiting for a boat to Nigeria. In Nigeria I was involved in training for the Burma campaign with Kings African Rifles, 13th Battalion based in Kaduna. From there I was posted to Egypt on Garrison duties, very close to the great Pyramids of Egypt. I was demobbed in May 1946, after 6 1/2 years in Uniform.