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Scattered here and there were several Jerry red-cross vans, but we were not to be deluded by this petty...

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Letters Home - August 1944 - Part One

We then assembled them onto a road just outside Lewes in Sussex; ready to proceed to an embarkation Port...

Letters Home - August 1944 - Part Two

You Londoners think you have taken it, but you have had nothing compared with some of the French people. I...

Letters Home - September 1944 - Part Two

I can quite understand the rumour arriving from Belgium that the Germans had signed an armistice. It is...

Letters Home - September 1944 - Part One

You may be astounded to know that your Public Enemy No 1 of Germany is NOT Hitler. This man would even...

Letters Home - September 1944 - Part Two

The latter originated in the last war, and was a nom-de-plume for our ‘Tommies’- often they...

Letters Home - December 1944 - Part One

Once again I'm back with my Belgian friends, the people who sheltered the airmen from the Hun. It was...

Letters Home - December 1944 - Part Two

Xmas eve I was on duty all night with Dennis, after a while we were asked by the Officer to go to...

Letters Home - December 1945 - Part One

Friction is still latent amongst the French speaking ‘Walloons’ and Flemish speaking...

Letters Home - December 1945 - Part Two

At this stage of the journey we were in the Russian zone and heading in the direction of Berlin, it was...

Letters Home - December 1945 - Part Three

Often Russian lorries ‘intrude’ into the English zone in an effort to find a solitary...

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