R.W. Reid, D. R. Langford and Winthorpe Halls A4222333 Chapter 2b George Bennett shows naked ambition...
Names Reg remembers from those far-off days are Privates George Bennett, Pete Underwood, Will Wright, Stan...
Early one Sunday morning at Winthorpe Hall, George Bennett cast a joiner's eye on the heavy wine cellar...
He suggested that Stan went along with his brother in law, yet another Smith at Langford Hall, and with Reg...
Her sister was going out with an Irish lad, a lorry driver intending to join the British Army. Friendships...
Luftwaffe night raids had hit London in September and October 1940 and his mam and dad wondered how safe...
Reg had landed on his feet again - or rather on his back, on a table, precisely, with nowt on, surrounded...
An Irish lad, `Paddy', a driver in `B' or `C' platoon, the selfsame Paddy he'd met in Luton...
Lush suggested he hid Butch's handgun in his lorry - he'd got a pass and was going home to...
One day Butch noticed a RAF prisoner walking, staggering rather, with two full buckets across the square. A...
Brotherstone, Powell and Rumsey Williams, and `young sods' mates, drivers Wheeler, Warhurst and Petty,...
Falkirk - Butch and Cheesborough can't compete with the dancing Welshmen. Rice' Cheesborough...
So it was that, half an hour later, Lieutenant Errington, looking down from the second floor window of...
Amidst the increasing military activity Butch, Brotherstone and Powell did get time to go to the seaside;...
At the same time, German General Rommel arrived in Tripoli, in turn launched lightning attacks when the...
Churchill was satisfied though, since he wanted to ensure that the main focus of the American war effort...
Butch couldn't hold back: "'A' platoon under Lieutenant Errington were acting on their...
There were British, Empire and Commonwealth fighting troops there, French and American troops nearby, as...
Lieutenant Baker led `A' platoon in a convoy to the docks at Bone, an Algerian port near the border...
General Alexander ordered General Bradley II Corps to go for Bizerta, the British 1st Army, to take Tunis...
In the 7th century A.D. Muslim Arabs had conquered the Middle East and Egypt, then Okba, a companion of the...
Sousse: Butch joins workshops platoon, mends lorries and sells tea. So at the specified date and time the...
Frej, the lad who worked in the army cookhouse, heard that Butch and two friends had had couscous at the...
In Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, Butch met a friend of Ron Gregory's who thought it remarkable that Butch...
Butch and Workshops Platoon were made responsible for waterproofing the lorries, Austin pick-ups and jeeps....
The LDV then returned as fast as it could to England with Butch and the other pick-up driver, an...