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After serving at Reading, was my father was sent overseas and below is a description of the journey to...
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At Derby we settled down to learn all the workings of the different army wireless receivers and...
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As Geordie readied his bayonet-tipped rifle, the instructor said quietly but passionately “Go on...
On the walk to the wireless office we would see liners used as troop ships, aircraft carriers and other...
Let's get the b******!" and off went the four dockers in pursuit down Finnieston St. brandishing...
This led to hardship for my family as my father was earning £4 4/- a week as a motor mechanic with the...
I joined in Greenock and had my medical in Glasgow where I wanted to be a dispatch rider but unfortunately...
I was told to report to Tullichewan Castle on Loch Lomond. Some of the girls were crying so I got up,...
No.. not serious ones but there was a few casualties there, there was a lot of incendiary bombs as well...
The office dealt mostly with the overflow of work from The Admiralty and other shipping companies such as...
At Greenock, the Tate and Lyle sugar refinery had already been bombed that night and the blaze was so...
The Wellpark West Church had a whole lot of things stored and that was to be for mothers and children if...
During my time in Glasgow there were sporadic enemy air-raid warnings and we had regular exercises where...
Stirrup Pumps were used by Fire Guards to put out Incendiary bombs dropped by enemy planes to cause fires...
We had an excellent view of the main Glasgow-Gourock railway line, and beyond that Scotts Shipbuilding...
The further east as we walked damage seemed to be heavier - the sugar house, as I have already mentioned,...
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