My name is Alf White Born 20th.June 1919.Trained as a Teacher specialising in Technical Subjects at Shoreditch Teacher's Training College,Pitfield St.,London.1936-1940.
Served with tha A.A.in the Royal Artillery at Bromley,South London during the Battle of Britain.Afterwards moved down to Poole,Dorset and Bristol until 1941 when I was transferred to the Army Educational Corps Stationed at Bognor,Dover and Oxford.
Transferred to 21 Army Group. Acting Entertainments Officer in Invasion Camp A.16 until D+2 at Fareham. Attached to H.Q.,9 L.of C.Sub Area at Rouen in France, Editing and Printing News-sheets.Moved to Macon and Marseilles for 'Operation Gold Flake'.Returned to set up Study Centres at Ostend and Tournai,Belgium.Release Leave ended in Sept.1946.
In Civilian Life Taught Technical Subjects at Earlsfield School,Spencer Park School and Bishop Thomas Grant School, all in South London until 1979 when I retired and moved to Aldwick,Bognor Regis.
 | 15 October 2014 |
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