What Did You Do In The War Daddy? by Brian Hulse

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 1 (Chapters 1 and 2)

My Battery of the Beds Yeomanry had its Headquarters in Ashburnham Road, Bedford which wasn't far from...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy -Part 2 (Chapter 3)

In charge of the party was a Sergeant and so secret was the equipment that not even the Troop commander was...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 3 (Chapter4)

I got there in the late afternoon only to find that my Troop were occupying a gunsite, equipped again with...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 4 (Chapters 5 and 6)

A number of London tailors had taken over a parade of shops and it was here that we spent the grant we...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 5 (Chapter 7)

And if this sounds tight which it certainly was, the officers were very well housed indeed compared to...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 6 (Chapter 8 first part)

The bit we knew was certainly arid and nothing whatsoever grew there other than the odd patch of camel...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 7 (chapter 8 continued)

A particularly memorable day was when we got stuck in soft sand on the edge of the Qattara Depression, a...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 8 (Chapter 9)

Chapter-9- ‘The Nile Delta’ and ‘Port Fouad’ Then, I was detailed, as still the...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 9 (Chapter 10)

Such was the importance of this commodity that it was with real resentment that we learned that the British...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy -Part 12 (Chapter 12)

Starting at Villach, which lies at the other end of the Worther See from Klagenfurt, near where I was...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 13 (Chapter 13)

A ‘Quad’, by the way was the name given to the vehicles designed to tow 25pounders though why...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 10 (Chapter 11 first part)

By this time the main army had crossed to the mainland of Italy and as the Allies had gained almost...